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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · 7h

ty!! I also have Zerra's Adventure on mine. 🙂 I get the feeling you might have also been inspired by RPG Maker 2003. (I may be imagining things but I think I hear some of the RTP sound effects in your trailer?)

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · 10h

It looks great!
At a glance I'm not sure what is or isn't unlocked. You could almost get away with removing the "skill unlocked" confirmation message and juicing up the effect on the icon itself, having a lock shatter or something. Just some ideas, it's solid as-is already.

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Aug 29

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Preorders will ship with other goodies like scratch & sniff stickers and postcards!

Starless Umbra Amalia T-Shirt [PREORDER] - Alcuria Games's Ko-fi Shop

This is a PREORDER. Please read the description below carefully. Feel free to email me ([email protected]) if you have any questions. This design f...

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Aug 29

I've been excited to announce this one.
Preorders are open for starless umbra t-shirts! I'll drop a link below, thanks for looking. 😀

Image of a starless umbra t-shirt. Black shirt, with white ink. Features protagonist Amalia lying down with the text STARLESS UMBRA at the bottom.

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Aug 21

Congrats, guys! The talking animals remind me of SoulBlazer so much. Looks great!

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Aug 17

I like to do these periodic dream sequences, I feel they're a staple in the genre. Hopefully the parallax effect isn't too forced?

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #pixelart

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Aug 17

Congrats! I recognized your art straight away! 😀

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Aug 16

this battle music is so catchy!

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Aug 16

Ready for garbage day! 🫡

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Aug 7

Excited for this one! Good luck with the release grind.

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Jul 19

Love seeing 2k3 on my timeline! Looking out for this one. 👀

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Jul 13

(game looks cool and excited to see more tho!)

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Jul 13

There's definitely a beauty to pixel animations, this shortcuts it and breaks the pixel illusion/grid. Though looking at the rest of your screens you can probably get away with it, my preference for sprites this wonderful would be to hand-animate, though I realize that might not be totally feasible.

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Jul 12

I'm definitely a sucker for card games 🙂

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Jul 10

The game looks great! Limitations breed creativity and RM can do a lot, but breaks are also good. Looking forward to a demo. 🙂

Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Jul 5

update: (mostly) finished the cutscenes, here's village #2 's market area where you can find abilities and accessories for trade.

#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #jrpg #ドット絵

game screenshot of a 2d jrpg, starless umbra, featuring a forested village, a vendor, and train tracks.

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Jun 22

Procrastinating with mapping when I should be implementing a cutscene.

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #pixelart

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Jun 17

The fishing minigame looks cool! Good luck with this one.

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Jun 17

It has to do with the number of people with a vested interest in seeing the project completed. If you use a game engine instead of building one from scratch does that disqualify you from being a solo dev? At some point it's just splitting hairs.

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Jun 15

ty for reposting and your support!

Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Jun 15

Yeah absolutely happy to do a writeup for my next post! I added a vscode language extension for auto complete recently too, so other than data encoding (the scripts are just parsed as text files for the moment) it feels pretty robust.

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Jun 14

This is fascinating, pardon my ignorance, is this just GM -> twitch? (Now you have me wondering about chatbot type twitch -> GM functionality.)

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Jun 14

That's wonderfully kind of you!! I appreciate it. You may get a DM from me about normal maps. 😳
And yeah I ended up building rpg maker's "event" scripting system on top of gamemaker and leaning into rpg maker 2k3's general aesthetic. Will be following your project closely as well!

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Jun 14

Haha, thank you!! Trying to post here more often. 😃

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Starless Umbra @starlessumbra.com · Jun 14

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHYm...
Hi! I wrapped up my second devlog. This one ended up being more introspective than expected, but I enjoyed making it! (Still learning.) Thanks for looking! #gamedev #gamemaker #jrpg

Decades Later, Still Revising my RPG's Plot [Starless Umbra devlog 2]

YouTube video by zexyu

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