Monday, January 30. 2023

Pitch Preparations

Summary: In which a computer issue complicates both backup and blogging; audio work is done for now; the design-doc sees updates; pitching-text is started; a pitch-deck is in the works; and publisher-sorting is begun.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows a very work-in-progress start to a "pitch-deck" for Moons in Crystal!



As you may gather from the above, the week just past was a departure from those before: no longer primarily an audio-week, but instead one primarily given to pitching-related matters, as I recall:

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Monday, January 23. 2023

Effective Audio

Summary: In which various audio-effects are made; attendant implementation is done; the list of audio to be made grows a bit; and some effects prove tricky for me.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot is... well, it's a waveform of a sound-file: The work of the week just past remained primarily given to the game's audio. As such, I fear that this week I don't have a visual change that makes for a good screenshot! (But I didn't want the post to go with no screenshot...)



As noted above, the week just past was once again pretty much an audio week, with just a few other things being done besides:

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Monday, January 16. 2023

Making Noises

Summary: In which a new year is begun; an enemy is switched from melee to ranged; audio-work is attended to; and the game's design-doc is updated.

Greetings and salutations--and happy new year! ^_^

Welcome back to the devlog for Moons in Crystal! I hope that you had some rest over this preceding period, and come into the new year stronger. ^_^

This week's screenshot shows an upgrade to the basic skeletons found in the Ossuary Moon: Their attack is now a projectile one--albeit with somewhat-limited range:



The week just past was a bit of an odd one for me! Between family events and scheduled power-outages, time was a bit more limited than usual, and, confessedly, I was rather tired for a fair bit of the week.

Still, things did get done, both in gameplay (as seen above) and in other matters:

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Monday, December 12. 2022

Fixing and Finishing

Summary: In which a demo is completed; an NPC is animated; two codex-entries are become acquirable; in-game text is written; a splash-screen is added; a planet gains topography; points of interest are placed on planets; a planetary puzzle is made; a map gains icons; an ability-icon is polished; linear-traps gain dust-puffs; and a bunch of bugs are fixed.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows a (demo-)point-of-interest on the surface of a planet!



The week just past was... a busy one! A week of polishing, and of bug-fixing, and of finishing:

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Monday, December 5. 2022

More Healing and More Damage

Summary: In which levels are completed; fossils adorn terrain; text is written; as is level-logic; the use of a quest-item is finished; a miniboss sees changes; solar systems heal; a new trap is made; a holiday is announced (with bearing on the next blog post); and a seasonal well-wish is given.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot(-excerpt) shows a fossil discovered in the "Halls of the Ancients" region of the Ossuary Moon:



The week just past was perhaps somewhat of a miscellany-week, a week of various and varied bits of polish and finishing:

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Monday, November 28. 2022

Bones to Show

Summary: In which a level gains polish; decorations are composed of parts; a level is lit; a quest-item is given an appearance of its own; the use for said item is begun; spawners are tweaked and added; some level-logic is put in place; and artefact and upgrade texts are added to the codex.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows a scene previously shown--but now with more decoration, and with lighting!



The week just past was once again primarily a week of decor and polish--although while primarily in visual elements, not exclusively:

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Monday, November 21. 2022

Giving Shape to Stone

Summary: In which level-polishing continues; a different aesthetic task usurps said polishing; healing is separated from utilities; the tutorial is then revised; and level-polishing resumes.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows the "Hall of Flow" in the Vertical Slice Moon, now with a bit more "depth" to its walls!



The week just past was... for a change, not primarily a level-polish week. There was some of that, and other things besides, but one particular task arose to call me away:

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Monday, November 14. 2022

Skeletal Art

Summary: In which levels receive polish; lighting is tweaked; and a mist-effect likewise is tweaked.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows progress on the polish-pass of the "Bone Galleries" level of the Ossuary Moon:



Naturally, it was such polish that occupied the majority of the week just past, I believe, with a few other things besides:

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Monday, November 7. 2022

Decorating the Dark

Summary: In which a level gains polish and finish; the same is started for another level; special effects may be placed in levels; special effects may be pre-defined; breakables may reference said pre-defined effects; walls are given "depth"; and shadows are tinted.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows a location within the "Dismal Halls" of the Ossuary Moon, now decorated:



The week just past was, once again, a level-building week--albeit again with a few other things besides:

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Monday, October 31. 2022

Traps and Gems

Summary: In which another level's first-draft is (pretty much) completed; a start is made to the next pass over the Ossuary's levels; some textures are touched up; linear traps become more prompt; linear traps further become more indicative; an enemy now stops short; the interaction is tweaked between mana crystals and an enemy that takes advantage of them; and some performance issues are addressed.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot comes from the "Dismal Halls" level of the Ossuary Moon, now a bit more filled out:



Naturally, the week just past was once again a level-building week for the most part, albeit with a variety of other tasks besides:
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