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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · 3d

I KNOW this doesn't seem a lot different than before, but the intentionality and power of the tools I'm using now are something more than just random values XD. The Jackalopes are the first race to have a voice mutation system that I would even classify as beta.
#indiegame #gamedev #jackalope

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · 5d

More work on the voice system. Learned a ton about synthesizers, and slowly going through data that looks like this, reworking it into something much more sane... Hope to have something good to listen to very soon!
#indiegame #indiedev #synthesizers

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · 10d

Spent the last few days working on pre-cacheing assets to prevent places I had found where it would lag things visually... Not a lot of visuals to show from this unfortunately, but it will ensure the game is nice and smooth! Currently working on the New Game intro sequence...

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · 12d

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It would be a bit easier if I was more willing to make more ligatures for some of the letter combinations, but I have to limit how much time I spend on any one thing, unfortunately... Anyhow, this is what the curves look like for one of the characters for Overspeak!

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · 12d

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Working on the Zoccoli writing script for their interstellar language of trade, Overspeak. This is my first time trying to make more traditional letters, and a script font, at that! It's definitely a bit tricker than I had anticipated!
#indiegame #fonts #scripts #conlang

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · 15d

Finished the language font for The Congregation! I'm really happy with how this one came out! I kind of wanted to make it fully tessellating, with all of the characters fitting vertically into one another perfectly, but there's no good way to do that.
#language #indiedev #indiegame #conlang

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · 17d

Not a ton today! You can see that another working version of the new ship is in the game now, and I'm making more progress with controller integration/iconography, even if controls change, as I'm doing in the video.
#indiedev #indiegame #UI #UX

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · 19d

Preview image for a member of The Congregation! This is a race based on bees/ants, and I really think they're a lot of fun! The look you see here will be a little different in the game since they are an energy race, and will be slightly transparent...
#indiegamedev #indiegame #bee #ant

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · 22d

And the revamped Title Screen! This is by no means complete, but after some great mock-ups from Brendan and the new player ship he's made, this is way closer to a final for this screen! Very exciting!
#indiegamedev #indiegame #indiedev

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · 24d

There is a chance that She is not the final boss. There is also a chance that her ship is not the best ship. A possibility. She is, however, the lady that keeps popping up, no matter how much you wish she wouldn't...
#indiedev #indiegame #furry #hyena

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · 26d

More ship stuff! This is way closer to the finished thing! And I have been doing some serious redesigns on the Title Screen after seeing some solid ideas from Brendan. Excited to show folks that!
#indiegame #indiedev #space #rpg

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · 29d

So what if warp travel involved chasing a receding event horizon from the perspective of the traveler? Cool thought that might make it into the game... something I threw together which I think is neat here. ^^
#warp #indiegame #indiedev #transience

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · Sep 24

Not a ton today to show, just a cool glitch logo animation and better quality sound capture of the sound sample that plays with it. Lots more cool stuff in the pipeline, though!
#indiegame #indiedev #logo #darisadesigns

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · Sep 22

Ugh, who's ratty kitchen is this? At least the view is nice... and duct tape is airtight, right?

#indiedev #indiegame #space #GOMBONE

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · Sep 17

Minor thing, but a lot of people requested the ability to skip past startup animations for the game. This lets you do that either with Esc on mouse/keyboard or the south face button on controllers. Just a little convenience, tweak!
#indiegame #indiedev #UI #UX

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · Sep 15

The player ship is much farther along than a few weeks ago, when I posted some of the initial sketches! This is one of the mockups from a version with a general shape that I'm really happy with!
#indiegame #gamedev #spaceship #lowpoly

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · Sep 12

Ben revised the music for the title screen a bit, and I think it sounds a good bit cleaner now. Still need to tweak some of the slide in motions, and the ship itself will be updated sometime next week. After that, more work on the combat system to come!
#indiedev #gamedev #furry #rpg

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · Sep 10

Nothing big to today. Been working on a LOT of bug/polishing the last week. But I've done one thing that'll make a big difference! This is the dev view of voice mutation settings and phoneme counts for a race. More variety in conversation speech!
#indiedev #indiegame #bleepbloops #rpgvoice

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · Sep 8

Been refining voices a bit more lately! Since the last time I posted anything with the Y'tori, I've cleaned their speech up a lot, and put some work into better understanding the sound board I'm using to generate voices. As before, different moods affect speech.
#indiedev #indiegame #rpg #furry

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · Sep 5

The first look at Anne's Hynäe sprites! Not ready to reveal accesssories yet, and ship interior are still in the works... but say hello to Gombön! She is your rival (she is not your rival)! The main antagonist of of our story (she is actually quite empathic)!
#indiegame #gamedesign #furry #rpg

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · Sep 3

Got temporary mood tags put together, allowing me to swap out the displayed mood of a character mid-line. This is nice because it doesn't actually affect their real mood, which can trigger various things. Also experimenting with different fonts!
#indoedev #indiegame #furry #dialog

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · Sep 1

Please be patient with Sershel. It is so excited to finally get to do a good job for you. The last incident with the curse block was a fluke. This time will be great.
#synth #indiegame #indiedev #furry #ohnoitwasnotgreat #toaster

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · Aug 29

I know this seems incredibly basic, but due to how I put together the graphics manipulation and processing... it was not. I present character sprites and background sprites which can be... FLIPPED HORIZONTALLY! I make problems for myself please help me. ;_;
#indiedev #indiegame #synth #furry

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thank you! Brendan is doing a killer job, and we're already zeroing in on the final designs. Once the first are done and in place, I'll begin reworking some of the battle and flight mechanics. Excited to show all of that as well!

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Transience - A Story About Forever @transiencegame.bsky.social · Aug 27

We are redesigning the player ship, and these are some of the concepts for it! More of this to come as the process continues. We're trying to make it both true to the material that inspired Transience and distinct enough that it is instantly recognizable.
#3dmodeling #shipdesign #indiedev #indiegame

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