CANON RPG

Canon is a Modern Gamemaker RPG with fighting game inspired turnbased-hybrid combat. Battles require tight execution, and lightning fast reflexes. Canon is about learning how to deal with the past in the midst of a fight for the future.

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yet another showcase of canon shit

but this time on youtube wow cool!!

check out how many new things you can spot :)

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Made a new "model" sprite for Leah

Old on the left, new on the right

OLD concept art (above) NEW concept art (below)

More design thoughts under fold

she started as a generic "subversive GIRL mechanic" redesign of another character character, but over time I kinda narrowed it down to "moé high femme grease monkey that can do no wrong"

technically THIS was her first design. Gwen's mechanic was gonna be a dude named Scott who didnt really have a personality. I redesigned him to be a girl (old Leah design) and then retconned Scott to be Leah's dad.

Shes super awesome. Also when i was looking for this concept art of Scott i remembered how much Leah x Gwen porn I drew lmao

here's some of that (censored for Tumblr)

this one is just in an unrelated model sheet lmfao

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ugh they look so fucking perfect next to each other im so happy!!

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very quick update post before i go to work!

those of us who experience time linearly are quickly approaching the one year anniversary of me starting the current iteration of Canon's development! For such an event I'd like to put out a small alpha demo for Patreon supporters!

I'm gonna try to have a medium-well polished build up to the combat tutorials and post-tutorial story exposition cutscenes. I think this is gonna be a great time for people to really get their hands on it and feel what the game is all about, be charmed by my hilarious writing, and become dazzled by my genius and perfect game design that will contain zero* bugs!

I would love to have it out by June 21st for epic story parity reasons, but thats not super realistic what with the fact that I have a full time job right now. As much as I'd love to say fuck everything and renege all my prior responsibilities, I do still have to go to school and pay for food and shelter unfortunately.

That being said, I have a LEGITIMATE FUCKLOAD to show off compared to the last public demo. You're gonna have whatever genital situation you're rocking blown smooth off your shoulders when you boot up this demo come the end of summer.

I await your return, warrior. -Lauren

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Sometimes you just need a new name

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Excited to show this off when its done

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Are You Sure?

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Visit Original Link

La Singularidad (WIP) - 2/25/2023

Combat tutorial theme that's made of an even older WIP remake of a song of mine that is like 8 years old. I like it but I'm almost definitely gonna update it further.

Am currently working through the combat tutorial for the game, and I wanted to give the two robot tutorial dudes a lame song each that would then combine into one song when you fought them both at once, which is what this is. (not gonna post the other ones)

The robots are very vaguely themed after mexican wrestlers hence the spanish title.

pic of their sprites above, and their concept art from 2023 below

As for how the games going, honestly its goin pretty well! ive fleshed out a lot of the scripting systems so I can actually make story moments happen, which is what I've been focusing on recently. If you wanna see me work on it you should follow me on Twitch where I've been streaming development :3 https://www.twitch.tv/sonyplaytation

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workin on some got dang houses

modelling some of the houses in Charlie's village after the Navajo pueblos in Arizona and Colorado.

when life gives you rocks you make rock houses. makes sense to me!

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Oh yeah this post was meant to be more than two images but tumblr was refusing to do that.

These guys are my combat tutorial dudes that i designed a few years back but just got around to adding to the game now. First pic shows their old and new sprites, big improvement imo.

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I am (not) dead

school is almost over, and then i am free

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Meet the Capitalist

quick vid of Nils meeting everyones favourite timeline-meddling extra-dimensional arms dealer: Jack :)

I also have a fun system where the shop exit dialogue changes between a few options within set categories that are based on what you did whilst in Jack's shop. It's a small thing but I think it adds a lot.

Check out the new shop theme mix on my main:

💬 0  🔁 16  ❤️ 14 · Dealbreaker (recent mix pass) Made a new version of this just to touch up the mixing. it was WAY too reverby originally

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diaoulge poartriats

many men can line up for conversation these days

i plan to add an animation for when they switch places but for now this is good enough

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Daaaamn man, this is what the dialogue system was like just a few months ago. Crazy how good it looks now comparatively (see my more recent posts for comparison)

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shoutout to women

made a like half-suit sprite for Gwen for a section of the game. Really like how it came out

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Sprites I did for a recent game dev stream. Been doing some every so often!

Follow my twitch and come stop by next time I do one :) twitch.tv/sonyplaytation

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Yet another post about my cool ass text boxes. Look at them now. How cool!

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Very proud of this. Its kind of hard to tell cus the background of the room is black but when you start dialogue now it goes into a letterboxed aspect ratio which looks fuckin fantastic.

Also shoutouts to the gamemaker discord for helping me with a shader for my character portraits, makes it so they have a little feathered edge at the bottom which is subtle but adds a lot imo.

And of course, the bouncing/stretching. Very fond of it! I think it’s definitely a lot, but it adds so much life to the dialogue.

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Yooo Canon got mentioned on the pages for GMRoomLoader

GMRoomLoader is a Gamemaker library by one Gleb Tsereteli that allows for runtime loading of room asset data, mostly for things like procedural level generation.

However, I’m using its screenshot function for this sic room preview for my debug room goto menu thing which I think is pretty sick :)

Thank you Gleb for the shoutout!

Check out GMRoomLoader:

GitHub - glebtsereteli/GMRoomLoader: Free & Open Source GameMaker library for loading rooms at runtime, nominated twice in the GameMaker Awa

Free & Open Source GameMaker library for loading rooms at runtime, nominated twice in the GameMaker Awards. - glebtsereteli/GMRoomLoader

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Yooo its been a while, have a little sneak peek at some new sprites i did for the combat today.

They really enhance the fluidity of the battle screen imo, very happy with them.

Btw i only spent like an hour total on the new ones and i animate with a mouse :3