I wrote a little spiel on the internal tools I've made to speed up my JRPG #gamedev! The game's called #JARPUG :).

https://floatingislandgames.com/blog/how-a-tiny-dev-can-make-enough-content-for-a-jrpg

Floating Island Games : How a Tiny Dev Can Make Enough Content for a JRPG

Floating Island Games: Jumping robot shootin', pugs with jars on their heads. Handcrafted games for the modern age.

Virtual Journal #5: Steam Next Fest - June 2024

Talking about the game demos that I enjoyed during this June’s Steam Next Fest: JARPUG, Witching Stone, Kitsune Tails, Demonschool, and Hookah Haze.

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JARPUG's Kickstarter is live NOW!
🎉🎉
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/floatingislandgames/jarpug

I've been working on this little JRPG/platformer for years and this could help make it bigger and better! Check out the demo.

Boosts and shares much appreciated.

#indiegame #kickstarter #JARPUG

JARPUG's demo is up for Steam Next Fest now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2474010/JARPUG/
Click that lovely green Download demo button and tell me what you think.

Wishlist if you're into it! #gamedev #indiegame #JARPUG

Steam:JARPUG

JARPUG is a JRPG about a pug with a jar on her head. Help Pug and her friends explore a 3D platformer world and fight in turn-based RPG battles. Designed for VR and flat screens, either way is a great way to play! Explore the magical, fantastic world of the modern dog.

Look, my pug got its head in a jar and this is the fastest way to get around. She loves it. She's FINE.

#JARPUG #indiegame #screenshotsaturday

adding a multi-gradient lighting shader to the background clouds really helped those lightning aesthetics! #indiegame #screenshotsaturday #JARPUG
This scene's coming along well enough that I briefly feel like I know what I'm doing here. #gamedev #JARPUG

Trying to get faster at creating new areas. The workflow seems like I can pump these out in 1 or 2 days, but novel level art and effects shaders add another day or two.

Eventually I'll stop creating new technical art challenges for myself on every new map, right? ...right? #gamedev #JARPUG

Been working on a more active game camera and a souped up jar roll move. #JARPUG #gamedev

There used to be a special stance for this where you'd waddle around with the jar on your butt before tipping over and rolling... a bit funny but mostly just awkward! It turns out you can roll on a head-jar just fine.

In #JARPUG's upcoming SUPERHELL dungeons you get a new layer of SUPER gear that you can just keep on equipping on top of! You pick and equip in one step so that things flow faster. I don't want to bog people down. I want them to be excited for their sweet loot! #gamedev