VolatileCoder | Gold & Ruin

Corporate development manger by day, indie game developer of Gold & Ruin by night.

[VolatileCoder | Gold & Ruin @VolatileCoder]

Explosions in Gold & Ruin now emit smoke particles. Smokey!

Play for free in your browser now! https://t.co/2B5hf8K2Aj

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The ruins are more dangerous than ever! Enemies can now travel *between rooms*!

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This battle almost cost me my entire run...!

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[VolatileCoder | Gold & Ruin @VolatileCoder]

Going live at 7pm ET...

New Boss - Infernus!
New Tech Demo - Water!!
New Secret Project!!!

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Crabmen Cometh!

Working on the first of the water temple's enemies...

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@pretty_sarlin Get four rats and give them each each a sample from a different bottle of milk. Nobody said you could only use one rat. Parallelism, people.

[VolatileCoder | Gold & Ruin @VolatileCoder]

The water temple has a new color scheme, thanks to my wife.

The enemies are from the first temple and just placeholders until I can design new monsters.

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[VolatileCoder | Gold & Ruin @VolatileCoder]

Improved the behavior of the ripples around right corners.
Effectively I'm culling any echoed geometry if it lies outside the primary ripple. It's not perfect, but it's less distracting than before.
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Tech Demo: Water! (Work in progress)

The next temple will be water-themed, so I've been working on reflections and behavior.

Play for free in your browser now! https://t.co/2B5hf8KApR

#screenshotsaturday #16bit #retrogames #indiedev #indiegame #indiegames #Videogame

[VolatileCoder | Gold & Ruin @VolatileCoder]

Got polygonal pools completed today: the pools automatically size themselves to polygonal rooms..!

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Infernus Update. Takeoff and Fireball Casting Animations. Infernus is the next boss for Gold & Ruin.

Play in your browser now! It's free!
https://t.co/2B5hf8KApR

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Working on another boss for Gold & Ruin. I'm pretty proud of this rotation as I worked with zero reference material... #gaming #indiedev #IndieGameDev #indiegames #WIP #wipart #pixelart

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Infernus Update. Rotation and Fireball Casting Animation Test (Fireballs Not Included)

Infernus is the next boss for Gold & Ruin. Play now!

https://t.co/2B5hf8K2Aj

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MAXIMUM EFFORTZ! Muted the highlight, added an additional border, reduced the border between face and edge. Maybe I'm happy with this now?

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Worked on visual enhancements to the virtual controller (for mobile play). Old vs New below.

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...and now, with even more effort, how far the dpad "tilts" depends on how far you are away from the center of the circle...

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[VolatileCoder | Gold & Ruin @VolatileCoder]

Enemies can now venture into neighboring rooms...

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[VolatileCoder | Gold & Ruin @VolatileCoder]

A quick encounter with a Charcoal Golem miniboss. He *can* be defeated (as long as you stay away!) #screenshotsaturday #IndieGameDev #indiedevs #indiegame #retrogames #pixelart #pixelartist #progress