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Foxtale Devlog 03.05.26

Update: After about 3ish years of development, I have changed engines from Unity to Godot! I honestly should have made the port sooner (around the time of the whole Unity scandal), but alas, the sunk cost fallacy had me by the throat. Nevertheless, upon the poking of a friend, I realized if I was ever realistically going to finish this small game by myself, it would have to be in an engine I actually enjoyed using and fully understood.

The attached video shows what I've already reconstructed in Godot: character movement and scene transitions. Actual scene transitions this time. In Unity, I had issues reliably saving data between scenes, both in-engine and when building the game, which was a MASSIVE headache. This led me to use a workaround I saw in another devlog (shoutout to Golembert): have all the locations in the game constitute the same scene, and just black out the screen to hide the teleportation. I don't have this problem in Godot and can change scenes as expected. This does involve some resource loading, and so I have added a simple loading screen to the game that didn't exist before.

Most of what has been carried over at this point is visual, and the only functionality that has been reimplemented is what is needed to move between rooms and keep things from looking janky.

The real test of this port will be seeing how long it takes me to redo the dialogue, inventory, and quest systems, which I had already completed in Unity.

Starting with Dialogue, I believe this should be a relatively easy and much cleaner process than the Unity version of the game, as I intend to use Dialogic 2, a free dialogue system add-on.

I haven't posted about the game in a while, primarily because I've been working on back-end stuff and there isn't much visually interesting to show with that. Hopefully, I can hit the ground running with the port and catch back up to where I was before in no time.

If for no other reason, moving to Godot has reinvigorated my drive to work on the game. I could feel myself slowing down and coming back to it less and less with all the problems Unity was giving me.

Here's to hoping! -Kanmi

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Clanky

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-Foxtale Devlog-

Currently working on Background Art

I don't remember how much I've blogged about this project (assuming I have at all) but I'll give an overview just to be safe.

Foxtale is 2D hand -drawn narrative adventure game. It centers around a fox's first day at his new job as things go less than ideally. It's going to be a cozy, quirky, and hopefully comedic little romp through a dull office with very colorful animals.

Inspirations: Animal Crossing & Zootopia for their animal designs, Röki for its game design and structure, Hollow Knight for its hand drawn art.

Right now I'm batch sketching all the environment art for the game and it's going pretty well

I'll add some of the progress below 👇🏽

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I had to do some fanart. I’m so happy I can finally play this game.

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Early prototype for a coin collecting stealth game I had an idea for.

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📚 A List Of Useful Websites When Making An RPG 📚

My timeloop RPG In Stars and Time is done! Which means I can clear all my ISAT gamedev related bookmarks. But I figured I would show them here, in case they can be useful to someone. These range from "useful to write a story/characters/world" to "these are SUPER rpgmaker focused and will help with the terrible math that comes with making a game".

This is what I used to make my RPG game, but it could be useful for writers, game devs of all genres, DMs, artists, what have you. YIPPEE

Writing (Names)

Behind The Name - Why don't you have this bookmarked already. Search for names and their meanings from all over the world!

Medieval Names Archive - Medieval names. Useful. For ME

City and Town Name Generator - Create "fake" names for cities, generated from datasets from any country you desire! I used those for the couple city names in ISAT. I say "fake" in quotes because some of them do end up being actual city names, especially for french generated ones. Don't forget to double check you're not 1. just taking a real city name or 2. using a word that's like, Very Bad, especially if you don't know the country you're taking inspiration from! Don't want to end up with Poopaville, USA

Writing (Words)

Onym - A website full of websites that are full of words. And by that I mean dictionaries, thesauruses, translators, glossaries, ways to mix up words, and way more. HIGHLY recommend checking this website out!!!

Moby Thesaurus - My thesaurus of choice!

Rhyme Zone - Find words that rhyme with others. Perfect for poets, lyricists, punmasters.

In Different Languages - Search for a word, have it translated in MANY different languages in one page.

ASSETS

In general, I will say: just look up what you want on itch.io. There are SO MANY assets for you to buy on itch.io. You want a font? You want a background? You want a sound effect? You want a plugin? A pixel base? An attack animation? A cool UI?!?!?! JUST GO ON ITCH.IO!!!!!!

Visual Assets (General)

Creative Market - Shop for all kinds of assets, from fonts to mockups to templates to brushes to WHATEVER YOU WANT

Velvetyne - Cool and weird fonts

Chevy Ray's Pixel Fonts - They're good fonts.

Contrast Checker - Stop making your text white when your background is lime green no one can read that shit babe!!!!!!

Visual Assets (Game Focused)

Interface In Game - Screenshots of UI (User Interfaces) from SO MANY GAMES. Shows you everything and you can just look at what every single menu in a game looks like. You can also sort them by game genre! GREAT reference!

Game UI Database - Same as above!

Sound Assets

Zapsplat, Freesound - There are many sound effect websites out there but those are the ones I saved. Royalty free!

Shapeforms - Paid packs for music and sounds and stuff.

Other

CloudConvert - Convert files into other files. MAKE THAT .AVI A .MOV

EZGifs - Make those gifs bigger. Smaller. Optimize them. Take a video and make it a gif. The Sky Is The Limit

Marketing

Press Kitty - Did not end up needing this- this will help with creating a press kit! Useful for ANY indie dev. Yes, even if you're making a tiny game, you should have a press kit. You never know!!!

presskit() - Same as above, but a different one.

Itch.io Page Image Guide and Templates - Make your project pages on itch.io look nice.

MOOMANiBE's IGF post - If you're making indie games, you might wanna try and submit your game to the Independent Game Festival at some point. Here are some tips on how, and why you should.

Game Design (General)

An insightful thread where game developers discuss hidden mechanics designed to make games feel more interesting - Title says it all. Check those comments too.

Game Design (RPGs)

Yanfly "Let's Make a Game" Comics - INCREDIBLY useful tips on how to make RPGs, going from dungeons to towns to enemy stats!!!!

Attack Patterns - A nice post on enemy attack patterns, and what attacks you should give your enemies to make them challenging (but not TOO challenging!) A very good starting point.

How To Balance An RPG - Twitter thread on how to balance player stats VS enemy stats.

Nobody Cares About It But It’s The Only Thing That Matters: Pacing And Level Design In JRPGs - a Good Post.

Game Design (Visual Novels)

Feniks Renpy Tutorials - They're good tutorials.

I played over 100 visual novels in one month and here’s my advice to devs. - General VN advice. Also highly recommend this whole blog for help on marketing your games.

I hope that was useful! If it was. Maybe. You'd like to buy me a coffee. Or maybe you could check out my comics and games. Or just my new critically acclaimed game In Stars and Time. If you want. Ok bye

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BASS

Modeled a bass

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Devlog - Boss Fight

In my first game demo, Lil' Damocles I got really frustrated near the end and rush through the final boss. I wanted to make sure I didn't repeat that this time. After fiddling for a long time I finally got the state machine working and all the functionality of the boss's moveset. All that's left is the phases of the fight and then the demo's endgame.

Here is the cool jump slammy slam attack

I have a bunch of game ideas I want to try. I want to explore 3D development and Godot 4.0 (I'm still using Godot 3 for now)

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Been a busy week, but here’s a Run Cycle tutorial!! Hope it’s helpful~ =9 

Hi-res version can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/run-cycle-8039633

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i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

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these are literally all SO COOL!!

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please reblog this i spent way too long on what was supposed to be a quick edit

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Hollow Knight gijinkas

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Mar 26, 2022

Bam, isometric character controller with followers (the followers aren't all that cool and I had to make compromises, but whatever)

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This stuff is so cool! It's so inspiring to see other people's process in developing mechanics. It looks so good! Great job.

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Devlog - Dust

Working on polish right now. Adding VFX and particle effects to the game. In this video, I show the dust particle and how it looks in-game. It was fun to finally get into particle effects and play around in this more niche part of game dev, and I like how the results look, so that's a win.

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DEVLOG - Attack FX

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Added Attack Effects (sound done in post hehe, can't wait to actually work on sound) Next, I'll play around with some particle effects

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Here they are the siblings, the children of the House of Hade. Characters for a Percy Jackson inspired Ttrpg a friend is running for me and a couple of friends, the game system is Demigods.

From left to right the characters are owned by

Morgan owned by me

L owned by @prettymuchavampire

Ash owned by @schizomi

Here's a closer look at my pretty boy reaper Morgan.

I love him.

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Monday Mayhem - House of Hades

A new Percy Jackson like campaign game ran by one of our friends. It was so much fun! I loved being Ashlynn and meeting all the other halfblood campers! I can’t wait to play next monday with

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