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Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨

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kiwi game dev, making KOROMEKE wishlist now! s.team/a/3946400

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Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · Sep 16

A run in KOROMEKE lives and dies by how sweet your combos are. Check out what’s possible in the new gameplay trailer!

#gamedev

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Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 4h

That’s where the beauty is! All of the perspectives duke it out alongside your own experience to come to some kind of worldview. More diverse perspectives and experience offer you more resolve in the face of manipulation.

imo this is true of all art (and all other kinds of communication).

Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 4h

That’s the focus of some games. Others are more focussed on conveying the arguments of the designer in ways that are enhanced by the interactive medium. These kinds of experiences have reframed the real world for me, helping me to see it with more clarity.

You have to find the good stuff though.

Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 5h

That’s quite an open ended question! If you’re asking about games specifically then I would say that I view some games as works of art. Many of them have moved me, moved me emotionally and moved me to action, in ways that make me believe that they are a positive pursuit.

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Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 7h

I’m like 30 pages into Gravity’s Rainbow, is the whole thing about bananas??

Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 12h

Sure thing, go for it

Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 1d

Noodling on the live background for KORORMEKE. I'd like something that is more discrete and colourful, but it'll be difficult to get that without becoming too noisy.

#gamedev

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Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 6d

Just finished implementing the last of my ideas for board upgrades in KOROMEKE. Tomorrow I need to go on one of those loooong #gamedev walks to see if I can squeeze any more water from this stone of a brain.

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Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 16d

Places that would be trivial to reach in other games are their own tantalising adventures here. The levels are having a really playful conversation with platformers as a genre, and being able to pull off this level of delayed gratification in such a short game is wonderful.

#gamedev

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Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 16d

Finished @managore.bsky.social’s Leap Year recently and GOD DAMN it hit good

Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 18d

ordered a latte in Italy and they gave me a cup of milk, holding my L with grace

Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 18d

as long as its collapsed it can't hurt me

Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 18d

the lion does not concern itself with breaking up 1000 line switch statements

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Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 19d

Here's the number of upgrades added to KOROMEKE over the last few months.

Need to squeeze out a few more board upgrades before the art catches up, but then it's time to blast through all of the dice ideas I've been cooking up 😤 #gamedev

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Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 19d

if you ARE pure of heart you better smash that wishlist 👀

Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 19d

if you can't find the holy grail then you lose KOROMEKE, sorry to all my gamers who aren't pure of heart

#gamedev

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Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 20d

Prototyping #gamedev mechanics to keep the end-game compelling.

You can play the moving cups game before losing to get a second chance BUT each attempt makes the odds worse in future. Heavily inspired by the end-game in @colewehrle.bsky.social's Oath, one of my fav's.

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Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you! The bloom was actually a happy accident. I mistakenly applied Godot’s default bloom twice, but it made the colours so much more vibrant and neon that I’m keeping it for now 😅

(patent pending of course)

Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 22d

In #gamedev, spacial games (platformers, shooters, etc) have complex, rich, and intuitive relationships between entities (I have line of sight on this character, I am above this platform).

There's infinite design space outside of these intuitive relationship, but they're much harder to communicate.

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Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 22d

ASCII gavel is a great touch, the kind of gravitas I expect from an auction

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Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 22d

and it's only one click away 👀
s.team/a/3946400

KOROMEKE on Steam

Roll the dice, grow the board, beat the clock. KOROMEKE has simple rules and combo-rich situations that force you to think on your feet.

s.team

Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 22d

KOROMEKE just hit 30 wishlists!!! That is to say that wishlisting now gives you eternal bragging rights as a double-digit tastemaker

#gamedev

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Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 22d

they are very handsome to me

Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 22d

This is looking incredible!! Especially love the impact effect, so punchy

Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 22d

Oh that’s such a cool angle! I would love to add a second species of predator boids too that only prey on the Bison.

Is there somewhere that I’d be able to read the thesis? It sounds really interesting

Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 22d

This upgrade brings much more depth to the table than I expected. It adds some ripples to otherwise uniform boards, making the decisions a lot juicier. Calculating the best way to partition jewels to get the max return on a bear was a satisfying moment from my last playtest.

#gamedev

Jack ✨wishlist koromeke✨ @jackturps.bsky.social · 22d

Tonight's #gamedev introduces the squirrel upgrade! It stows all connected jewels onto a single tile which makes it best pals with the bear, who collects any jewels that are on their lonesome.

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