Andy

Hobby gamedev account, sometimes pixels

[Andy @remruts]

Here's the trailer for Witch Sisters' Sugary Dreams!
Take control of sisters Keet & Kat to recover the candy stolen by the evil Fersu on this arcade-styled game!
Available NOW on https://t.co/ijTXJ2P36z
#indiegames #gamedev #pixelart

[unlucky chloe @SuperBlizzard]

🏓10S FOREVER is now 1.0
this is the version that will go to steam
but please buy on itch if you can
- remade campaign
- new final level
- 2 player mode
- 4 difficulties
- massive OST upgrade
8 dollars now but on sale for 5
thank you so much for playing <3
https://t.co/cL35lLyYVz

[Andy @remruts]

@ondydev Happy birthday!

[unlucky chloe @SuperBlizzard]

well folks
10S FOREVER ARCADE EDITION
is now available for 5 human dollars
https://t.co/5UbL503zTD
please enjoy my first new game in 4 years <3

[unlucky chloe @SuperBlizzard]

hey everyone! long story short. ive decided to put the 5 game owch library on steam for 2025. so im running a final bundle sale of them with the goal of hitting the submission costs. it would me a LOT if you shared! theres a diatribe in the description <3

https://t.co/mQCBBRn7Pq

[Andy @remruts]

I'm also there idk

[Andy @remruts]

Because of that I mostly use a tetris bag to choose random stuff. Put every event in bag, shuffle, then choose between them, take the chosen one out, and repeat if the bag's empty.

[Andy @remruts]

Reading on game design, there was a chapter about randomness and probability. They talked about expected values. And I get all that, but I also think that if enough players play your game and you don't fiddle with randomness, there WILL be a player that gets the worst rolls ever

[Andy @remruts]

Well, there were other aspects of the work that didn't quite convince me: the artstyle, not being able to convey what I wanted with my art, enemy design, level design, etc.
But idk, maybe it was just a confidence issue

[Andy @remruts]

I stopped working on something a while ago because I thought its different parts didn't work well together. But now I'm not sure if everything has to be thematically coherent

[Andy @remruts]

Some day I'd like to make a game for Halloween

[Andy @remruts]

@konjak It's cool seeing you drawing more often again!

[Andy @remruts]

@ondydev Wow, congrats!

[Andy @remruts]

Today I looked at old Vogue magazines for reference

[Andy @remruts]

Though it kinda leads to overscoping, daydreaming is my fuel for game development

[Andy @remruts]

Got a little discouraged yesterday drawing, but coming back to the thing today it looks quite cool

[Andy @remruts]

Making collages without taking the pictures yourself must be a copyright nightmare

[Lily Valeen 😈 @ItsMeLilyV]

i love you, but words are difficult sometimes. so i made you a video game

[Andy @remruts]

Spent the evening obsessively coding

[Andy @remruts]

Don't know anything about level or enemy design, but I like the approach of enemies teaching you how to beat bosses

[Andy @remruts]

Of course, enemy movement code should be a bit more straightforward and have well-defined patterns. Then maybe the added randomness wouldn't feel like a surprise

[Andy @remruts]

One major complaint people had with wssd was that enemies were too random. Thus, it's hard to consistently score points or make chains.
I was thinking how to tackle this problem without taking out the randomness

[Andy @remruts]

Adding an arrow indicator to each enemy at the start of a level might help, but I think it's a bit ugly