My game's new enemy, and how my phone tried to ruin my birthday
Meet the slime
I thought I'd animate a slime as my first enemy type because they're fun to draw. Here's how they looked when I first got them into the game:
I'm pretty happy with how they turned out, and I love their hitstun pose! I thought it was too silly at first, but I like silly things so it's fine. Let me know if you like them too! I could always use more assurance that I'm not making a mistake by keeping this ridiculous hitstun pose.
This week I've been adding lots of little bits of visual polish that will be shared with all the other enemies. Things like animating enemies falling into holes and flying off the screen if they get KO'd, and telegraphing their attacks a bit better so you're less likely to get hit by an enemy that you didn't see.
And now I've just started designing and animating the player character! They're not ready to show on this newsletter yet, but I'm really happy with how they're turning out! I hope you'll like them too.
1 hour left in my birthday sale
My birthday was on Tuesday and I discounted my games to celeberate. It ends in an hour, so if you know anyone who wants to buy my games on Steam or itch.io at a discount, let them know!
Fun fact: I woke up on my birthday feeling old, and then I started thinking about a shmup I've been playing recently (Sisters Royale) and wanted to see if I was missing any strategies that top players were using. So I grabbed my phone, searched for the game on youtube, and what I saw made me want to immediately go back to sleep:
I'm still recovering from this mental blow. I can't believe they would do this to me on my birthday. I swear I'm not that old...
On the bright side, I had a great day overall and the game is fun! But why would my phone betray me like this???
I'm sleepy
One of my goals for 2023 is to track my vacation days, and I'm about 5 vacation days behind where I should be. I'm reaching the point where I'm almost too tired to work on my game, which really drives home the fact that I should have taken some more time off already.
So I'm taking next week off work! It will be nice to catch up on all the videogames that I want to play, and I'll be able to get much more work done when I'm fully rested.
And that's all I've been up to! As always, detailed weekly dev diary updates are available on my Patreon. Thanks for reading, and I'll see you next time with more news on my new game!