With drawing being something that never really came naturally to me, the 1st real challenge I faced was animating the character. After 3 months of frustration, the idle and running animations took form. It was at this point that I started to crave the ability to control the character 4/10 - ThreadSky

grimclownjay.bsky.social • 14 days ago

With drawing being something that never really came naturally to me, the 1st real challenge I faced was animating the character. After 3 months of frustration, the idle and running animations took form. It was at this point that I started to crave the ability to control the character
4/10

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grimclownjay.bsky.social•14 days ago

The year that followed was spent learning how to use Unreal Engine 5 to create assets and code the mechanics that I wanted to appear in the game. Most of that time was spent drawing out the framework for the world and measuring everything to make sure all of the platforming worked
5/10

grimclownjay.bsky.social•14 days ago

Most of my progress was documented on X, but due to their change in policy regarding creator content and generative AI training, I switched over to @bsky.app about a year and a half into the journey. It was around this time that I started adding textures to the game world
6/10

grimclownjay.bsky.social•14 days ago

The creation and addition of textures occupied a lot of time at this point, and it was around here that I came to terms with my artistic limitations and really leaned into the whole "MSPaint doodle" cartoon art style.
7/10

grimclownjay.bsky.social•14 days ago

One of the key features of the game is there are 6 possible endings to find, the main objective being the discovery of a fuel source for Curtains' ship. After the textures were in place, the coding and designing for each ending began. Some musical placeholders were also introduced
8/10

grimclownjay.bsky.social•14 days ago

Now that there was a working goal and placeholder title screen, it felt important to make a demo available. On this day, the first working demo for the game was released on https://itch.io
9/10

grimclownjay.bsky.social•14 days ago

Through a random stroke of good fortune, I was able to sign up for Steamworks and publish a store page on Steam, also registering for the Steam Next Fest in October. This marked the biggest milestone on the journey and brings the story to present day where I'm shooting for a Q1 2026 release
10/10🧵

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