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Progress updates for a spooky farming RPG called Hallowed Crossing.

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Hallowed Crossing Game @hallowedcrossing.bsky.social · Jun 12

Sir Vincent was many things: a Keymaster Reaper, an avid gardener, a researcher, and your grandfather. Two years after he vanishes, you are summoned to execute his will. Pulled into the strange and spooky town of Hallowed Crossing, the keys to his disappearance lie in recultivating his gardens.

Screencap of a pixel game: town in late autumn, the black trees are barren of leaves.

Screencap of a pixel game: shopping interface in tarnished brass featuring basic farming tools.

Screencap of a pixel game: the formally dressed NPC Viryn states "These gardens have gotten so unruly. Someone should tidy them up before Sir Vincent returns."

Screencap of a pixel game: inside a manor with dark green walls and fancy stone flooring.

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Hallowed Crossing Game @hallowedcrossing.bsky.social · 2d

looking into it a bit more, gml compiles to c++, which i don't think has a random .next built in, but there is an advanced random library available. www.geeksforgeeks.org/cpp/random-h... is re-seeding causing performance issues?

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Hallowed Crossing Game @hallowedcrossing.bsky.social · 2d

np! it might also have a .next method, which should force a new number from the existing seed. weirdly it looks like the game maker docs page for loops uses random, so you'd think it would work...?

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Hallowed Crossing Game @hallowedcrossing.bsky.social · 2d

in unity, random will pull from a seed based on the timestamp, so if its being run multiple times within a millisecond itll repeat itself. i think if you re-seed it during the loop that would help

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Hallowed Crossing Game @hallowedcrossing.bsky.social · 4d

What's a game without fishing?

#HallowedCrossing #PixelArt #Gamedev #indiedev #fish

Pixel art of 18 fish and other aquatic creatures. First row: koi, rosefish, matano crab, lavender dartfish, shubunkin goldfish, flower stingray. Second row: blue dragonfish, cherry shrimp, clown trigger, lionfish, pufferfish, ribbon eel. Third row: axolotl, cactus pleco, mudskipper, purple sea urchin, tadpole shrimp, yellow bass.

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Hallowed Crossing Game @hallowedcrossing.bsky.social · 12d

Over the weekend, I released version 0.3 to my playtesters. Key features for this update include the Grid Info window (in the top left of these screenshots), as well as furniture!

#HallowedCrossing #FantasyFarming #FarmingSim #FarmingRPG #IndieGame #GameDev

Pixel game screenshot. The player in a garden on the Tropical Retreat map, inspecting a growing Pineapple plant. A banana slug lounges nearby.

Pixel game screenshot. The player in a garden on the desert-themed Succulent Sanctuary map, looking at a Festive Bloom plant.

Pixel game screenshot. The player in a field on the thorny Rose Garden map, inspecting a growing Lavender plant.

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Hallowed Crossing Game @hallowedcrossing.bsky.social · Aug 2

Today I pixeled a wisteria lattice for the witch's cottage.

#HallowedCrossing #PixelArt #wisteria #cottagecore

Pixel art of a wisteria plant growing on a wooden lattice.

Hallowed Crossing Game @hallowedcrossing.bsky.social · Jul 2

I decided to include flint corn instead of sweet corn in Hallowed Crossing as a nod to the First Nations people who are the original and continuing stewards of the land on which I live.

#HallowedCrossing #FlintCorn #PixelArt

Pixel art of a cob of flint corn, yellow red and black, with a beige-to-rust husk.

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Hallowed Crossing Game @hallowedcrossing.bsky.social · Jun 26

Over the week I've added 36 new items to Hallowed Crossing, including the first round of desserts!

#HallowedCrossing #indiedev #pixelart #pixelfood #fantasyfarming

Pixel items: lemon thyme cookies, lemon pie, strawberry tart, chocolate bar, two types of mixed chocolates.

Hallowed Crossing Game @hallowedcrossing.bsky.social · Jun 17

Today's feature is the warp menu! Now that I have more locations, it was becoming a necessity.

#IndieGameDev #HallowedCrossing #FantasyFarming

A travel menu with a tarnished brass interface. Locations: Player Room, Mines, Forest, Rose Garden, Tropical Retreat, Succulent Sanctuary.

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Hallowed Crossing Game @hallowedcrossing.bsky.social · Jun 12

Today I was mostly working on items, especially from the mines.

#HallowedCrossing

Screencap of a tarnished gold inventory interface. The cursor is hovering over "Tiger's Eye. Remember that you are always being watched."

Hallowed Crossing Game @hallowedcrossing.bsky.social · Jun 12

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Hallowed Crossing Game @hallowedcrossing.bsky.social · Jun 12

I still need to write a proper summary of this game but I've been working hard on it. Here's a screencap of progress from a month or two ago.

#HallowedCrossing #gamedev #indiegames #farmingrpg

Screencap of a pixel art farming game. A character in a grey sweater waters plants in a field. Outside of the field, there are trees overgrown with thorns and two peacocks.

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