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Recreating childhood pixel by pixel. Developing Metropolis 1998. https://linktr.ee/yesboxstudios
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Simulation is starting to come together! Workers and shoppers at the local grocery store.

Get item 🍰. Purchase 💵. Consume 🥵 I've been adding a lot more depth to the unit simulation for the next build :)

Experimenting with the color space. Thoughts??? I recently watched a documentary from the 70s. That inspired me to modify the color palette to reflect the color space of analog film. This isn't the final result, but I find the results interesting. Maybe a second option

Camera can lock on units, and units can now enjoy your city parks :)

Some bugs should just be kept

Making great strides to drastically improve the UI. After (left), before (right). Gonna try adding clickable items to move camera to item clicked

Hey! We've got visitors now 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Non-citizens will travel into town to eat/shop. Once they're done, they'll head home. Ignore the collisions :P Soon they'll be able to visit friends/family

Time to give ya'll goals.

Working on unit simulation in Metropolis 1998 🥳. In this clip, units are assigned the eat action. They look for a table, check for unoccupied seats, then sit down to eat! (quick retriggers just for show). #GameDev #PixelArt

Creative Mode for Metropolis 1998 is now in alpha and live. Next step: simulation/management 🥳 Demo Steam: s.team/a/2287430 Demo Itch: yesbox.itch.io/metropolis1998

Worked on something fun and tinkered with my shadow projection code. There's no 3D lighting in my game so to keep things simple, I bake peak shadow projection into the map, then calculate how much shadow to output based on the sun angle (done manually here). #gamedev

Added stackable items to Metropolis 1998. Pillars and columns coming soon! #pixelart #gamedev #indiegames

Will you earn it? Added some mayor statues and fountains to Metropolis 1998 :) #gamedev #videogames #gaming

Farms are in Metropolis 1998 now #gamedev

Added in wall corners! Super happy with the outcome. #gamedev

Finally added pools/animated water to my game. #gamedev

A view of things to come :)

Im making Metropolis 1998. Check my link tree for activity on twitter, discord, and my steam page for monthly updates