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The gorgeous visuals of Bionic Bay that Juhana Myllys calls Painterly Pixel Art

PreMortem.Games

The game started as a demo shown on Reddit, but picked up momentum when Badland art director Juhana Myllys offered to mix and match his distinct artwork with the gameplay. Back in 2019, I was wasting time on Reddit and came across a short clip from a demo in r/indiegaming”, says Myllys. “I

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Want to make a great game trailer? Optimize it for social media

PreMortem.Games

Kings is a cutdown of a larger trailer for a tweet saying: ‘Hey, check out the demo at Steam Next Fest’. This is really all you need when people are quickly looking through stuff to find demos to play. It could even be one clip if there’s enough interesting stuff happening consistently.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #21

Astral Clock Tower Studios

The last time we met, we were right in the thick of preparing an early, pre-demo build of Kristala for unveiling at the PlayNYC virtual convention. The Nisarga clan is the only clan that will be featured in the Kristala demo. Here's a look at one of the revamped swamp houses that will be featured in the Kristala demo.

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Year of quarantine

The Art of the Game

Or I could tell of the year of the pandemic; how I was set to be interviewed on the radio, or about to show my demo to the largest audience yet at the Cleveland Int’l Film Festival – and how having those things yanked away because of lockdowns just wrecked me. on the curtains.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #17

Astral Clock Tower Studios

We're officially in the final development crunch for the vertical slice demo of Kristala! WE ARE OFFICIALLY IN THE FINAL DEV CRUNCH FOR THE KRISTALA VERTICAL SLICE DEMO! He also programmed the functionality for throwing consumables in the Kristala demo. Wait, wait, wait. clears throat*. We got yo' back, friends.

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Soft Body in Godot 3.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

I've used the Platformer Demo to create this demo, that you can downoload by clicking here , or from the Godot Asset Library. Almost done, just add the Player Kinematic Body to parent collision ignore of SoftBody to avoid clipping: Hit Play and (if it all went right) you will obtain the following result: Extra.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #32

Astral Clock Tower Studios

With the updated armor sets handed off to our 3D modelers, James then whipped up a few fresh concepts for some of the remaining items in the Kristala demo that needed to be replaced with newer models, including: Keys to unlock various gates and doors. Welcome signage for The Dalamase, the level featured in our demo.

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