amzeratul.bsky.social
CTO at Chucklefish, Lead Programmer/TD on Witchbrook and Wargroove (always involved in game design too!).
Created Halley Game Engine & Aegisub.
BAFTA Member. He/Him. 🇬🇧🇵🇹🇧🇷🇪🇺
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I'm currently working on Neverway at Coldblood Inc., a new studio I co-founded with @isadora.codes. We haven’t shared much yet (but soon!) so in the meantime, you can subscribe to our newsletter to stay in the loop with our latest announcements: coldbloodinc.studio
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I don't dislike working in UI now that I have somewhat sophisticated tooling around it, but having to deal with the 1-2-3 punch of pixel art, localisation, and mouse+gamepad support is always a big challenge!
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Come visit us in the old world!
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Congratulations!!
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Brazil -> Japan, which is very close to true
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Have you checked the fridge?
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Hello o/
Made Wargroove (Win/Mac/Linux/Switch/XB1/PS4) using my own custom engine, Halley, now using it to develop Witchbrook!
It's available at gitHub.com/amzeratul/halley
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As someone named after the last king of the Visigoths, I approve!
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A good publisher will be able to guide you and help you be visible to the right audiences!
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It somewhat depends on the game, but I don't think that the console market is any easier than PC - and Steam is 100% the way you go on PC. In the end building a community and having it available on multiple (strategically chosen) platforms is the best bet for success IMO.
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My general opinion on level design is that every level must bring something new to the table, or be cut! It's not always very easy to stick to that for all games, but otherwise you risk the player falling into boredom.
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You stole Uoichi's miso bowls!?!? ;D
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Likewise, any isometric pixel art will draw comparisons to Habbo Hotel, even if the style is extremely different!
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Still not working for me, I've tried many times since yesterday, every two hours or so, and I never get a response :(
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Not sure about ONE key feature, but it's:
- Modern C++
- Programmer-friendly
- Based on modern and true ECS
- 2D games as first class, but with full 3D pipeline
- Very portable
- Very customisable tooling
- Comet scripting, which is a pretty unique scripting language :D
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Thank you! In which case can I request that my tag is swapped from Custom to Halley please? :)
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yep, same :(
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😂
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This makes me realise that "plant based" is a poor replacement term for vegan, given a lot of vegan food contains fungi...
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
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Sayonara Wild Hearts was my GotY 2019, but I haven't yet played their earlier works!
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Yes!! I crave more games that require me to take notes and actually work out a puzzle!
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Hard to pick between Giles, Willow, Anya, Spike (minus that one episode) - they're all great!
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Hi~~ me, please!
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Those are gorgeous!!
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Well there's always The Muppet Christmas Carol
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Entirely agree! I still enjoyed the game, but the side quests were very weak, especially when comparing them to BG3