Tower of Meowgic

Devlog

• New animation
  November 20, 2024 by PestoRavioli

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  #dog, #sprite

  Minor update. I took some time to build a better animation for moving up and down on the screen. It's not perfect, but it's a start and probably enough to keep my project moving. Looks way better than... Continue reading
• And we're back!
  November 20, 2024 by PestoRavioli

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  It's been a long time since I did one of these. Had my shoulder sliced open and a mole removed since my last post. Having another small procedure in 2 weeks and another mole removed in 3 weeks, but no... Continue reading

  
• Stepping away for a while...
  July 11, 2024 by PestoRavioli

  No major updates in this post. I've refined existing code a little bit to make it easier to maintain, but nothing worth posting about. That said, I will most likely be stepping away from the project f... Continue reading
• June 26, 2024
  June 26, 2024 by PestoRavioli

  Working on a project in the summer is rough, man. Between the full-time job, parenting, hobbies, exercise, household responsibilities, etc, there isn't a lot of free time. Since I'm pretty much done w... Continue reading

  
• June 19, 2024
  June 19, 2024 by PestoRavioli

  Wow, has it really been about 3 weeks since my last post!? I'm still working on the game, but as I mentioned previously, things are going slow. I tried creating my own tiles/sprites and my own music,... Continue reading
• May 30, 2024
  May 30, 2024 by PestoRavioli

  The more I was thinking about "what's next", the more discouraged I become. I admit that creating the battle system was awesome fun. It really was. Despite all the pitfalls I encountered and the break... Continue reading
• May 28, 2024
  May 28, 2024 by PestoRavioli

  Bug fixes galore today! In my last post, I believe I included screenshots of me needing to get my sub command menu and corresponding battle text screens to show the overlay and not show the background... Continue reading
• May 23, 2024 - It's been awhile
  May 23, 2024 by PestoRavioli

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  So if anyone stumbles upon this and notices a month between actual dev logs, I'm still working on this -- albeit slowly. You may recall or see in previous postings that I was struggling to make my sub... Continue reading

  
• May 7, 2024 - NOT GAME RELATED
  May 07, 2024 by PestoRavioli

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  I took some time off from looking at anything related to this endeavor, but I'm back! I thought almost zilch about this project and it was very refreshing if I'm being honest. So while I don't have a... Continue reading

  
• April 24, 2024
  April 24, 2024 by PestoRavioli

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  No major update today. I think I might take a week or 2 break from this. I'm getting a bit frustrated with some of the battle engine logic for hiding / unhiding options if they haven't been learned ye... Continue reading

  
• April 19, 2024
  April 19, 2024 by PestoRavioli

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  It's been a long day (work related) so I'm not feeling an in-depth post, but today I added an enemy special move as well as the chance for an enemy to be charmed based on the user's cuteness. The char... Continue reading
• April 17, 2024
  April 17, 2024 by PestoRavioli

  We've all had showerthoughts, right? Well, that's what happened with a large part of today's update. I did have a bux fix that I implemented. I had some bugs related to backing out of the new/continue... Continue reading
• April 16, 2024
  April 16, 2024 by PestoRavioli

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  A few updates to share today, though nothing too crazy. I added a play timer that shows up in the start menu. I figured it's a pretty standard item for RPGs these days. It was basic to implement, but... Continue reading

  
• April 15, 2024
  April 15, 2024 by PestoRavioli

  Another low hanging easy peasy update today. So previously, I just had my 'stats' choice from the start menu pop up a dialog box. Today, I made a proper status screen. Basically, I created a 160x144 b... Continue reading

  
• April 12, 2024
  April 12, 2024 by PestoRavioli

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  Minor update today again. So I did some thinking about the future of the project. I'm not sure that I want to invest time in an item system. Maybe once I get a game under my belt I can make a 2nd game... Continue reading
• April 11, 2024
  April 11, 2024 by PestoRavioli

  Another small update. The next week and a half to 2 weeks at work will be pretty long with PI Planning happening (planning work for the next quarter). That said, I did finally address something that h... Continue reading
• April 10, 2024
  April 10, 2024 by PestoRavioli

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  In today's update, I want to talk briefly about displaying the enemy names in battle. I had been using the advanced dialog plugin. That provides an option for "background text" that I was using. I'd c... Continue reading

  
• April 4, 2024
  April 04, 2024 by PestoRavioli

  Quick update today. I added a new command -- Zoomies. Like any good doggo, the main character can get the zoomies in battle. Using this command will make the player lose two turns; however, it ensures... Continue reading

  
• April 3, 2024
  April 03, 2024 by PestoRavioli

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  Today's update was a few very minor things. I'm trying to think about what is to come next, best approach to whatever I decide, etc. Some potential upcoming tasks (not sure which I'll pursue): adding... Continue reading

  
• April 1, 2024
  April 01, 2024 by PestoRavioli

  I wish I was witty and talented enough to have some sort of April Fool's joke here, but I don't and I'm not. The last few days I basically scrapped my battle system and started it over. I didn't start... Continue reading
• Mar 29, 2024
  March 29, 2024 by PestoRavioli

  Progress is significantly slowing down for me. I've hit a wall. While I think my battle system mostly works, my assumption is that it's incredibly inefficient. After varying number of turns, it decide... Continue reading
• Mar 27, 2024
  March 27, 2024 by PestoRavioli

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  I promise to keep today's update short. So my battle system wasn't working quite right. I kept getting a Kernel panic after a few turns in battle. I couldn't figure it out, but assumed it had somethin... Continue reading
• Mar 24, 2024
  March 25, 2024 by PestoRavioli

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  So yesterday (3/24) I spent some time implementing a move called Cat Breath (RIP to in inspiration Lucy up the street) that will work like a normal attack, but has a significantly increased chance at... Continue reading

  
• Mar 22, 2024 - Part 2
  March 23, 2024 by PestoRavioli

  Minor update this evening. I think I have successfully implemented the ability to use a healing command. In the battle menu, if you select Dusty's Chirp, you will heal. Amount needs reworked. I have n... Continue reading
• Mar 22, 2024
  March 22, 2024 by PestoRavioli

  Not a big update today. Yesterday was a long day at work; however, I was able to fit in a brief dev session after my 14 hour day. So I finally hit the point where I think I need to start creating docu... Continue reading
• Mar 20, 2024
  March 20, 2024 by PestoRavioli

  As expected, I haven't had a lot of time recently to work on things. In a little bit of downtime, I've tried doing some sprite creation on the ipad which has led to me experimenting a little with the... Continue reading
• Mar 17, 2024
  March 17, 2024 by PestoRavioli

  Today's update is pretty small, but some nice modern quality of life features added. So now that random encounters are a thing, I figured I should probably add a start menu. I don't want a lot of opti... Continue reading
• Mar 16, 2024
  March 16, 2024 by PestoRavioli

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  So, today's goal was to finally work on a random encounter system. This actually turned out to be much easier than I thought it would be. I'm assuming this is because of GB Studio itself. I'd imagine... Continue reading

  
• Mar 15, 2024
  March 15, 2024 by PestoRavioli

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  So over the last few days, I have spent a good chunk of time after work trying to figure out how to get the character's name to carry over from the name entry screen to the game and consequently to th... Continue reading
• Mar 14, 2024 Name Entry Update
  March 15, 2024 by PestoRavioli

  super buggy text entry menu. requires hitting the 'a' button twice initially. when you hit the 'enter' option, it doesn't quite function how i envisioned and some dialog gets cut off so I'm not clear... Continue reading
• Mar 12, 2024 Update
  March 12, 2024 by PestoRavioli

  Added a horrible title screen because I am not an artist. Added new/continue menus. Implemented what I think is a working save system, though it probably won't really work in the browser. Added an inv... Continue reading