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smackin the frogs. work in progress

thanks! idk what you mean by your question tho

nightmare august and dogshit september but october is my month of power................ its time to become Strong

splash screen

the world breathes

artstyle

the cursor placing stuff in real time is debug obv lol

fun little 1-script engine sketch i did over the weekend to unwind. imagine it would be paired with a turn-based battle screen. i like the concept of a minimalist rpg that feels like walking around on a dungeon somebody drew on digital graph paper

the humble bump ~ 4 days left to get the rarest games. seeing these in the wild is like seeing a beautiful endangered bird.....

full color

over the past few years tho ive been slowly building up what to me is a really cool setting, my own little rpg world with its own politics, magics, cultures, and histories. something i can use as a backbone to build a game world that stands on its own and acts as a canvas for that imagination play

and honestly a big part of whats held me back is just, not having a world to create in this frame. i could just cobble together a bunch of abstract setpieces, but for me and my process thats a copout, leaning into "the player will make their own meaning", starting a treasure hunt with nothing buried

<3 the very first version is actually the first thing i ever made that blew up on twitter! and basically gave me the platform to make long live the axe. not a bit to say its the project ive been chasing literally since i started making games publicly and not just as a private hobby

not in a hackneyed (to me) "branching story" kind of way, not with radiant quests or w/e, but thru the filter of imagination and unguided exploration. an open world as a still artifact, something to puzzle over and find meaning in, not a collection of short stories told non-linearly in a big space

to me what i want to recapture is the use of player imagination in an open world context. in presentation thru the no-fi pixelart and textureless polygon world, but also in the writing, the environment design, the quests. i want to create a journey thats different for everybody who plays it -

to talk a bit abt it, im very, very, very excited about this. ive been trying to make some variation of this project for a decade - an open world arpg with heavy pixel gfx, wandering aimlessly thru big impressionistic environments, fighting monsters and stumbling into horrible mysteries