#gubdev

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in researching various marine species to potentially base enemies off of, i discovered the humble chiton

i fucking love this model i made. 28 tris. texture size? 8 by 8 pixels. genuinely the tiniest texture i've ever made by hand. originally i was gonna rig this thing with a skeletal structure for animation, but i figured, why bother with all that when i can just squish the whole damn model?

look at them go!! took me forever to bite the bullet on it, but finally implemented boids flocking into enemy pathing, so they don't all clump up and chase u like its vampire survivors or smth. i had shorbs stacking atop one another and leaping over every wall and into the abyss, but with this in place i've finally got all that under control. was real worried about implementing it but it only took me a couple days

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the wonders of convergent evolution! i accidentally reinvented wasps.

y'all i promise im working on other aspects of the game... it's not my fault something stupid happens every time i touch the shorbs, its simply in their nature oka y

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extremely work-in-progress dialogue system with extremely release-ready dialogue

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recently i picked up that scurge hive clone project again after over a year of abandoning it in the hopes that maybe i can actually get more done with it this time and let me present you with my greatest creation ever:

SHORB

i love this stupid idiot. so goddamn muc h

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I MADE THE SHORBS FASTER AS A JOKE AND THEY'RE FUCKING TERRIFYING

this base speed is ridiculous for basic shorbs but i do wanna make this a variant. lurks in the shadows, and the moment it spots you it SCREAMS and GUNS IT directly for iso-chan's face. prolly defeated in one hit to counterbalance its power lmfao. the benefit of taking a component/modular approach means i can whip up that sort of thing very quickly! also cleaned up the rooms transitions here, they still feel kinda jarring so i'll have to work that out somehow... but i'd say it's a good start :3

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and with that dump completed that's enough existing publicly for like. a month. or two. time to go back into hiding wheeeeeeee horrendous mental health and uncertain future aside: thanks y'all for the love of this exoskeleton of a game. with any luck i'll actually be able to finish the damn thing for once. solo dev is just, very excruciatingly slow and often so painfully difficult lol

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among the many mechanics im shamelessly stealing from scurge: hive is the whole elemental damage system. take out an enemy with the element it's weak to, and it explodes into an elemental effect that chains to anything else weak to it, killing it immediately (but watch out, it can make other enemies faster and stronger)

chiton are simply Wet (water), so hitting them with Zap (electricity) makes them do... well, this. the system has been kind of hell to get working right and to further tweak the aoe, but goddamn does it make it satisfying to blast things. also shoutout to fresnel its goated for vfx shaders

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sry to send u gore of ur comfort character but—

yeeeaaaahhh so they explode now