Quick demo of alt color palettes for #SuborbitalSalvage! Game won't auto switch over time as shown here, but is configurable in the settings. I'm open to palette requests as this is just a shader tweak 😄

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Bits of polish and balancing. Tho I can't decide if the pillaring that ends most of my runs is a design problem, or if I just suck at my own game 🤔 #FallingBlockJam

Day 3: 𝕧𝕚𝕓𝕖𝕤. Tomorrow....some difficulty balancing 😂 #FallingBlockJam

Woke up with some fresh ideas that I think have made a big improvement! Video is playing at 2x speed because this was a rather long session ⏩ #FallingBlockJam

Day 2: I think I have a game? 🤔 #FallingBlockJam

I'm not yet sure what kind of abomination I'm making for #FallingBlockJam but there are blocks, and they are in fact falling!

So begins the task of adding full mouse support to #SuborbitalSalvage for the Steam release. Normally an out-of-the-box feature I take for granted when working in an engine like Unity😅

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This is a game I prototyped a longgg time ago in Unity that I've been wanting to revisit. I feel like the Playdate makes more sense for the game because of the crank. Also Playdate needs more Roguelikes 😄

Decided to take a break from the Suborbital Steam release, and prototype a #Playdate game: a roguelike where you can only move in the direction you're facing.

#SuborbitalSalvage only launched on Catalog last week, but I've always had a stable desktop version playable at the same time. Here's a comparison video - standalone desktop on the left, Playdate simulator on the right. Video is at x2 speed to get under Bluesky's file size limits.

#SuborbitalSalvage is available MEOW on #Playdate Catalog!

Test your piloting skills in this endless runner set in a dystopian corporate future! Oh, and please try not to feed the fish - your supervisor won't appreciate the policy violation.

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HI! Hello? Right. Where have I been? Ahh playtesting #SuborbitalSalvage so much that most of my runs look like this 😎...😹

Launching on Catalog in one week on 02/11/2025 🚀

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Jumping ahead a bit to 9 months later on April 2023. I had been mainly focused on tools (specifically Playbit) so I didn't make much progress player-facing wise. But this was when I added the first iteration of the infamous fish!

About month later, I already had something that looked a lot like the final game today. Seen here is a "background" ship that I thought would be cool to make the background feel more alive, but after playtesting found that people were trying to avoid it.

Here we have the very first commit to the git repo back wayyy back on June 19th 2022. I haven't been working on the game every day since then, but its hard to believe its been ~3 years since I made this little prototype.

I've reached the point in development for #SuborbitalSalvage where I get to do cool polish features like a goofy launch animation🐟

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Fun fact: #SuborbitalSalvage uses a level editor I used back in my Flash developer days called Ogmo Editor. It's a bit clunky especially with alternatives like Tiled and LDTK, but too late to switch it out now 😅 Here's a timelapse of me adding new obstacles and building a test level with them.