QUILT: the game!

welcome!! i made this account to showcase the cool video game my friends and I are building :] it'll be more lively soon, I promise!! @quiltthegame on insta too!

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[ID from Alt: A promotional banner for QUILT the video game at Open Sauce. The text reads, "Come see us at Open Sauce! July 17-19, 2026," with the URL to the Open Sauce website at the bottom. The center is artwork of the video game QUILT. End of ID.]

QUILT is going to be at Open Sauce 2026! QUILT is a 2D rhythm-platformer with exploratory elements and a recoil based movement system. Come to our booth to play the demo of the first world— Crypt!

If any of that sounds interesting, you should also check out our active Kickstarter!

QUILT — 2D Rhythm-Platformer [Part 1 & 2]

Explore to the music, use your fireball's recoil to get to new heights, and start to uncover the history of the Wheel!

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Slopes are the worst thing for any game in any game engine. However, we persevere! This is a dramatized version of what we did to fix the most recent issue with slopes.

[Video Description: A video showcasing a development bug. In the first shot, there is text on screen that says, "So... we have a new problem with our game... It's with slopes." The in-game footage shows the player in the video game walking up and down a slope with ease.

In the next shot, it shows the Godot game engine editor. On screen it says, "If you move far enough from the origin (0,0) of the play area... (simulated here by moving the whole map)." The level in the game editor is dragged far away from the center of the screen.

The video then shows in-game footage after the change. The player's movement is very glitchy when walking on the slope, and the player get permanently stuck in the slope a few times. The on screen text says, "Slopes break. Whoops."

The next shot is of the Godot game engine editor. The scale of "Substratum Container" is changed from "1" to "0.125". The text on screen says, "What, amazing, super technical solution did we have for this, you may ask?"

The final shot shows the level in the game engine editor. After a moment, the background music abruptly cuts, and the entire level is scaled down in size. The text on screen says, "We just made everything 8 times smaller." End Video Description.]

(we're making a 2D rhythm-platformer with exploratory elements and recoil-based movement! if any of that sounds interesting, you should check out our active kickstarter!)

QUILT — 2D Rhythm-Platformer [Part 1 & 2]

Explore to the music, use your fireball's recoil to get to new heights, and start to uncover the history of the Wheel!

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Do you like silly video games? Do you like unique movement mechanics in your platformers? Do you like awesome music? Do you like queer characters?

Then you should check out the just-launched QUILT Kickstarter! It's a 2D rhythm-platformer with exploratory elements, and a recoil-based movement system. Below is a little teaser for the full gameplay trailer on the Kickstarter page. Check the page out if you're interested!

[Video Description: A teaser trailer for the video game QUILT. There is a count off before the background song begins, showing the main villain, Pyra, shoving the first main character, Phlo, off of a cliff.

The background song then starts. Various gameplay clips of the pixel art video game are shown. Most of the clips showcase the recoil of the player's fireball being utilized to move around the level. One clip shows the player shooting a fireball into a zipline and, once the fireball hits the zipline, the player teleporting to it. Then, there is a brief shot of Pyra again. The last clip shows the second main character, Quilt, having their mask set on fire, and them consuming the flame.

The final shot is a still frame with text on it. At the top, it says, "Full video on Kickstarter!" Below it, the text reads, "QUILT. Live on Kickstarter, Now!". End Video Description.]

QUILT — 2D Rhythm-Platformer [Part 1 & 2]

Explore to the music, use your fireball's recoil to get to new heights, and start to uncover the history of the Wheel!

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[ID: A digitally sketched comic that has four panels. It features three original characters: Phlo, Quilt, and The Writer. Phlo is a spirit made of fire. Quilt is a humanoid figure wearing a one-eyed mask, a long sleeve shirt, and a layered skirt. The Writer is a humanoid figure with four eyes, a fire in place of their head, and a halo tilted to the side. The Writer also wears a short jacket and a maxi skirt. Both Phlo and Quilt are drawn in black, while The Writer is drawn in pink.

In the comic's first panel, Phlo and Quilt are sitting on a bed, talking to each other with no written dialogue. The Writer stands to the side of Quilt, scribbling on a stack of papers with a pencil. An arrow points to The Writer that says the phrase, "writing them".

In the second panel, Quilt talks to Phlo. The Writer glances over at them, looks uneasy, and stops writing.

In the third panel, Quilt continues to talk while Phlo listens. An arrow points to Quilt that says, "being emotionally vunerable", with the words "emotionally vunerable" underlined. The Writer turns to fully look at them and tucks their pencil under their halo. They have a speech bubble that is just an ellipsis.

In the forth and final panel, Quilt says, "as a child—". The Writer interrupts them, shouting, "okay, that is enough emotional sincerity." The Writer's face is red and they squeeze Quilt by the upper torso and neck with a comically large hand. Quilt's body makes a squeak noise. Quilt finishes their sentence by shouting, "I was fine, and everything was normal." The word "normal" is underlined. End ID.]

Situation: my characters write themselves.

Pros: my characters write themselves!

Cons: my characters write themselves...

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[ID from Alt: A digital illustration of a character with a black, featureless head wearing a mask. The circular mask is white and has carvings in it. It also has a singular eye hole in the center. The character is wearing a striped grey scarf around their neck and a long sleeve red shirt. There are bright purple stars in the background. End ID.]

patchwork.

The final of the three main characters for QUILT! This character's name is Quilt, and they are whom the game is named after. They are a construct of a past age, from when before the world started to fall apart. They are found dormant in a crypt deep in the earth by Phlo, after Phlo gets exiled. Quilt gets awoken by Phlo, and helps them escape.

Quilt is able to use the voices of others to speak for themselves. Quilt can't speak on their own because, in their own words, they "lost their own vocal cords." They seem to mean it less metaphorically, and more literally.

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[ID from Alt: A digital illustration of a character with a head made of fire. They have four eyes, but two of them are shut and have a vertical scar along them. They wear a short pink cloak with a brooch in the middle and a dark red dress under it. There are bright light blue stars in the background. ]

exiled.

This is an illustration of one of the main characters from the video game we're making, QUILT! Their name is Phlo, and they are a young fire spirit from the Red Kingdom. They got exiled from the Kingdom by its ruler, Lady Pyra, and given a scar across their face.

They get quiet when asked why they were exiled, and try to move on to a different subject quickly.

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[ID from Alt: A digital illustration of a humanoid figure with blue skin. They have five light blue eyes and are wearing a dark red cloak. Around their head is a circle of green stars. End ID.]

familiar.

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There are a lot of different types of platforms in QUILT. So we added a gear to the lever platforms so players know that they are, specifically, lever platforms! We also added a line and end points so players know where they go.

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QUILT is made entirely in pixel art. I wanted to share my process for making character sprites!

First: Sketch / Outline the character.

Don't worry about the color, just make sure you know where the outline of the character is in the sprite. I usually just do this in black so I can make sure there's no parts where lines cross weirdly or are too close together.

Second: Fill in base color.

Fill the character in with the colors you want! Fill the outlines with a darker version of the base color. This will become the shadow color in the next step.

Third: Move the outline (shadow) over.

Most times I make the light come in from wherever the character is facing. So, for this example, they are facing to the camera's left. I make all of the outlines on the left side into base color, and then make the shadows larger on the right side.

Sometimes this will make awkward areas, however, like on the right hoodie sleeve. If the shadow was extended, almost the entire sleeve would be dark, which looks weird and ambiguous with the hoodie torso's shadow. So I didn't extend that shadow. But, I extended the right pant's shadow because there was enough continuous base color area to not cause that same effect.

And that's it! A character sprite done in three simple-ish steps.

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I've had the character Quilt for a long time now. Here's a timeline in art of how they've developed!

SUMMER 2019

FALL 2020

SPRING 2021

SPRING 2022

SUMMER 2023

WINTER 2023

FALL 2024

SPRING 2025

TODAY

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We basically have our completed state machine for the player!

A state machine is a system that confines what the player can do in each situation (or, in other words, each state). This makes it very easy to define that the player can’t, for example, jump during a cutscene, and that the player can only enter the wall jump state from the wall slide state. The video below shows how the character moves between states during play. See if you can find all eight of the states shown!

Slight trigger warning for flashing in the video. The text above the player flashes rapidly at some points in the video.

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Welcome to the Wheel!

Hi people! My friends and I are developing QUILT (a video game) and wanted to share it outside of our little bubble. We will be sharing art, devlogs, music tracks, and trailers here! What’s this mysterious QUILT game, you ask? Here’s the short description:

You– a young fire spirit– are violently exiled from the only land that you know. With no path back the way you came, your only chance at returning is circumnavigating the Wheel. You accidentally awaken a construct of a bygone age and team up for one shared purpose: coming back home.

QUILT is a 2D rhythm-platformer with a story-rich narrative. Explore its chromatic kingdoms, use your projectile's recoil to reach new heights, and uncover the ancient secrets of the Wheel’s past– and its characters’ intertwined relationships within its future.

The Wheel is losing its color. There’s no chance to turn back. The only way out is through.

I’ll be posting more about it in the near future, so feel free to follow along if you like indie games with lots of story! C: