Rodwan | Pixel Formation

Please wishlist!

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

The Steam page was badly outdated, so I refreshed it with new screenshots, new descriptions and a quick gameplay showcase.
Wishlist if you feel like it, but you don't have to click through, I posted the same video here anyway: https://t.co/qKxxjlwlnL
Music by @JosephComposer really brought it to life.

Had to learn a bit of video editing on the way, another skill I didn't ask for. #indiedev

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

@MCubedStudioBE Thanks man, perfection is still far in my perspective but nice to hear haha.

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

New crew report scroll
-Shows every person under your command, recruited or under arms, each in their current state
-Hovering a sprite highlights its portrait, hovering a portrait highlights the sprite
-Every new game rolls your crew from the character pool, each with its own rarity, name
-Items, skills, health, additional multipliers easy to check.
#indiedev

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

@oldyzach

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

@GGGB572853 yes

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

"Let it at least be simple and unified." Horace

Foldable scrolls for aciton buttons and UI
-Useful with the growing number of functions
-Useful across diffrent UI scales and resolutions
-Small toggles let you reorder however you like
-Coloir coding per UI category, so you can tell them aprat when folded. #indiedev

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

@arcwrightengine I'm not there yet, probably y.

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

Nine sectors around the party position pushed me into adding more optional shortcuts:

-QEZC next to the usual WSAD, so diagonals are one key away
-Picking the formation’s next position this way turned out pretty comfortable
-All customizable in settings

#indiedev

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

@nexindie Those trees bugging me, was drawn for 2d side view not top down angles.

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

@ClaudioSonnet Yup, like pac man

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

In some context:

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

Drawing bouleuterion
Full decision making, first run, I have to stop somwhere.
#pixelartㅤ

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

@Arrrghonaut I don't know if its orginal but it was my own idea, probably it's not new.

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

I spent a lot of time picking the colours for this project. My two monitors sit at opposite ends of the colour gamut, and on the weaker one the game looked washed out.
Manual tuning always annoyed me, and not everyone has the eye for it.
So the game now detects your display’s colour range and compensates (contrast, hue, saturation and more) to keep the look I intended.
#pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #colours

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

@Finnicus2 @JosephComposer yup lol

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

“Famine makes greater havoc in an army than the enemy.” Vegetius

I dropped manual resource hunting on the map a while ago. Less micro, a small nod to the Settlers.
music: @JosephComposer

-Crew members walk out on their own and come back with the resource, or empty handed if the for ex hunt fails
-Food drains all the time, wood goes into building, gear, ammo and ship repairs
#indiedev

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

@przemysliciel Nope

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

@caspramio Windows have it on top of everything so I think no need.

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

@Necdilzor Thanks! The monitor reports its colour range in its EDID, and the game reads it through a Windows API. It then blends a correction I tuned by eye on both ends.

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

@TheBigLamboski @JosephComposer You can also buy food, or get it diffrent ways like fish while sailing. Lacking it won't end game or kill your crew only give debuffs

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

@MythThrazz Light hoplites have shorter spear so it works also like heavy javelin. Just 1.

[Rodwan | Pixel Formation @thepixelform]

I needed a few new icons for the heroes perks and their unique units:
-spear throw before the charge
-counter-attack after a hoplon block
-double pike strike during one hold ground
-piercing javelins making shield unusable

#pixelart