Patrick Brown

Working on "The Ladon Device" since... I can't remember

[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

Aw shucks, @elonmusk, you sounded so intellectual when you were posting in Latin about unblocking all the white supremacists. Can't believe that strategy backfired. I, like all of your advertisers, would now like to announce my departure from your dumpster fire.

[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

@PuddleheadC @IndieAoba Wow that is such a good (and subtle) effect that I had to watch it loop a couple of times to figure out what you were doing! It looks amazing.

[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

Haven't spammed these in a while...

You can play the game here: https://t.co/3sY9OKngwi
You can read the blog here: https://t.co/NwXPIO0z5V

There's still no dialog in the game or map or hints about what you're supposed to do, so it's still not much fun. Working on it!

[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

Need to get to the moon to blast some bad guys? Don't spend days flying there directly – take this convenient wormhole... if you can find it

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[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

@TanfreGames @KlownX3 Love the style. Dare I say, it looks a little like Studio Ghibli art.

[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

Trying that last video again, as a GIF

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[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

Wow, is Twitter's video quality really that horrible? This video looks like blurry garbage and it's a 2880 x 1800, high bitrate MP4. Guess I'll have to make everything into GIFs.

[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

No shmup is complete without the classic "rocket" weapon.

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[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

@ShaneJFilomena Thank you so much for the feedback! Some kind of map has definitely been the #1 request from early testers.

[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

I worked out a simple noise function that fills the whole map from the Sun to Pluto. Fun fact: it would take 5.1 years in the game to fly that distance.

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[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

I guess I could explain this better, ha... The noise function is what I'll use to place all the "stuff" in space like asteroids and space junk and enemies.

[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

Space is looking a lot more spacey

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[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

@Topsa @ThePixelSword Amazing! I love that there are two moons.

[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

Started using "IndexedDB" for savegames, seems too good to be true – huge amount of persistent storage space, built right into the browser.

Anyone run into unexpected problems with it?

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[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

@cinnamontoastk Who didn't? Well, people born after the 90s, I guess.

[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

Yet another thing I wish I had known before starting my game project. Sigh.

https://t.co/NwXPIO0z5V

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[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

I spent some time cleaning up nagging performance stuff and got the framerate back up over 200 FPS during normal gameplay. Also discovered that if you die, the game crashes. You say "bug," I say "feature."

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[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

Heard some wise words from a painter and it made me get all philosophical... If I actually survive making this game, will I still want to make games?

I hope so. I wrote a blog post about it: https://t.co/NwXPIO0z5V

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[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

Just realized that I called it a "spacial grid" in the menu... Should it be "spatial?" I thought I knew how to spell things.

[Patrick Brown @pat_level17]

The biggest complaint, so far, from the pre-alpha testers of my game is that it's too hard to tell which way you're moving. So, I added a big ol' grid.

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