Paranoid Cactus

Indie game developer based in Melbourne. I draw pictures and write code and compose music and stuff.

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Oxide Tracker, my new #chiptune tracker, is now available on @itchio for Windows, Mac and Linux.

https://t.co/WFKdWui84j

#musicproduction #gamemusic

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@kadoyan I can't help you with that. But it reminded me that I made this Pico-8 version of the music from All Night Nippon.

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Character for a sword and sorcery themed game.

#pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

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@taylor_wich They're 48x48 pixels each.

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I drew some four-colour #pixelart character portraits and I have no idea why.

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@gumnos Well, that's not supposed to happen. Should be an easy fix though, I know what's causing it.

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My #toyboxjam entry in done.

Jump about, do some light puzzling and battle a variety of enemies, including 2 boss fights, in Captain Neat-O in the Time Nexus for the #pico8 fantasy console.

https://t.co/TUrcbU0Tac

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@lseee_2 The art is what really attracted me to the original. Player movement was a bit plodding and the puzzles could be obtuse. Maybe because all the text in game just scrolled across the bottom of the screen and was really easy to miss. I still enjoyed it though.

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Mock-up of Gods for #pico8.

I toyed around with actually remaking it and managed to parse the map format but lost motivation. Figuring out the trigger/scripting logic and squeezing it all into a pico8 cart seems like too much time and effort.

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@eobet Thanks. That'll be a huge help. My attempts at googling for info on this kept turning up a lot of old broken links.

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@SocialBoothLLC Game dev is just a hobby for me at this point and I don't really have the time to be taking on additional work outside of my regular day job.

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I think my #toyboxjam game is done. Just a couple more run throughs to make sure there are no egregious bugs.

Sadly, I had to leave a few features on the cutting room floor due to time and tokens but it's ended being a pretty huge metroidvania-ish game anyway. #pico8

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@TheMattPrime Yes, the art style and animation are cool, but I didn't actually do it. Most of it was done by @TobyThePoser

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@georgebsocial Good idea. I'll add that in.

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@paloblancogames Yes, it's using the recently added extended memory space for the maps. The map data is all stored as metatile blocks so I can store several maps in a single cart.

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@georgebsocial Thanks George. I've just done a quick work around fix for this. Not perfect, but hopefully it'll prevent other people from getting permanently stuck for now.

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I've just put out a small update to my Captain Neat-O game to make boss fights more reasonable and predictable. This should fix situations where it was pretty much impossible to avoid being hit.

https://t.co/TUrcbU0Tac

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@FSouchu The map is stored as list of rectangles and I have some logic to how to fill them in. I haven't used any compression but it would be interesting to see how much would fit in if I did.

Using this is my map editor that I made this for Pyramid of Flames.

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@adesnos I did make a pico-8 version of this. It's on the BBS here: https://t.co/qbNooths33

[Paranoid Cactus @gamecactus]

Oxide Tracker, my new #chiptune tracker, is now available on @itchio for Windows, Mac and Linux.

https://t.co/WFKdWui84j

#musicproduction #gamemusic

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@adesnos Sorry, I'm not sure what you're referring to?