#porterminus

[bugbearstew]

actually i’ll take a minute and write a little bit about it. warning i might not have the best things to say and it will probably be really rambling...

i made porterminus when i was extremely depressed and in a terrible time in my life. aimless and not feeling good about myself or my work. somehow i made it all in like 2 months? i remember i worked literally every day on it for those two months. i kept an accountability journal. i dont know how i did that. its like i was one of those dwarf fortress dwarves who get possessed by some spirit to make a thing.

i made porterminus because OFF just came out. and everyone was making rpgmaker horror games. it has combat because off had combat. its black and white because OFF was black and white and junji ito manga is usually black and white. its about a girl with long black hair because junji ito manga is mostly about girls with long black hair. she has a baseball bat because OFF. and on and on and on and on....

its not very original or good i think. i could go down a list of every part of the game and say how i think its not very good but just, i think its very mediocre at best and mostly derivative and boring and bad. I honestly dont know why people like it or look at it fondly at all.

but all that said im glad i made it and that its here and i have no intention of deleting it or anything. it was my first fully complete thing after years and years of giving up on projects. while im not proud of it now, back then i was. I’m happy that people like it even if i cannot see the things they see. its an important part of my artistic journey and i’ll never forget it for that.

i’ve toyed with the idea of remaking it or making a sequel and i dont think i ever will or even *could*. I am a different person entirely, to my core, than i was 10 years ago. I have had so many highs and terribly low lows that I could never get into the headspace of julie and donnie again.

thank you for reading and enjoying my stuff. i hope i can make things like this someday again

-edit: i should note that i had some pretty rough news today so im not exactly in the best mood to be thinking about this so take it all with a grain of salt, i suppose.

[avielsusej]

Day 15 with Porterminus! I love the choice of a monochrome grey palette and the artstyle is cute! I also dig the monsters and story! Have some spooky overworld music https://goo.gl/c2biX3

[bugbearstew]

a post about Porterminus Remastered

You probably saw the trailer I posted yesterday for it. I thought it would be very funny to post on April fools day and it was! but i want to make it clear that i AM making this game! so heres a bunch of info on what I have so far and what went on with the trailer!

What I have so far: Not a lot. Very little in fact! but what i do have looks okay?

I spent practically all of march working on this and a LOT of time went into text. Mostly trying to figure out HOW i would want to do text. I felt like a big text box that shows up at the bottom of the screen just wasn’t cool enough so i wanted to try a speech bubble approach and after about a week i finally got it working pretty well!!

There are still some problems and features i want to add to it. I have to figure out word-wrapping and getting lines of dialogue to chain together. all the chained lines in the trailer were just connected thru very clumsy code that is not viable at ALL for a big rpg with a ton of text.

I also really really want to add text effects, bold, colored, shaking text, animated text, stuff like that. But I think the way it looks now is a pretty nice start!

another thing I spent a lot of time on that works pretty well is the Caterpillar Movement. 

I think it looks pretty nice! It was a pain in the butt to get to work right but i think the solution i came up with is pretty good for how bad i am at making games

the way it works is member1 has a Trail Spawner connected to the sprite and it spawns Trail sprites which have a variable that stores what direction member1 is facing! member2 has the same setup and it adds this kind of lag behind to member3 and it just looks really neat.

I struggled a while with getting the player and party member sprites to overlap correctly like they were in 3d space and after like a day of banging my head against a wall i finally figured out a really simple solution which was to just check their Y coordinates against eachother and whoever is lowest gets moved to the bottom of the layer and whoever is highest gets moved to the top! simple!

Now for the rest of the trailer.....

Pretty much everything else doesnt ACTUALLY work.... Let me take you behind the scenes for a minute.

The “cutscenes” that triggered in the trailer werent ACTUALLY cutscenes. Everytime the letterboxes closed in on the game that was just me pressing a key. and all the text that popped up was just me going to a specific spot and pressing the Talk button. The menus do nothing other than look pretty. even when she picked up the bat. All just made to LOOK functional

which i think is really funny! but its also a good place to start. because this game is gonna be pretty gosh darn big. and im a little intimidated to go deeper.

but i think doing this all helped. I hope you liked the trailer and I hope youre excited because i am. okay bye

[bugbearstew]

Here’s what I have been working on all March. It’s been a long time coming right?

I’ll be posting updates here and on my twitter as development continues so make sure to follow both!

[bugbearstew]

more random porterminus animations

[bugbearstew]

Three years ago today I released my first real game. Porterminus. To celebrate I made this, Julie and Donnie having a good time playing some video games. I wasnt able to fit the whole house in tumblr dimensions, check it here.

I’m also gonna reblog a bunch of fanart today

happy porterminus day

[tackyvillain-archive]

im like without internet right now but i finished up the last of my christmas gifts a few days back! here’s @supajackle‘s character julie looking considerably more villainous than i really intended. oops

[bugbearstew]

I love the SNK vs Capcom card fighters sprites so I made one for Julie!