mclean making games

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Pro turned hobbyist game developer. Big fan of:
- procedural generation & roguelikes
- pleasing gamefeel & tactile interactions
- big fat shapes and vibrant colours
- games where 10 is a big number
- taking it easy with the violence and the challenge
- godot engine & open source tools generally
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My games!!https://mcccclean.itch.io/
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Look at how cute Five Plants is these days! Todo list is down to like half a page. Finish line is in sight. #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #puzzle

Starmap test with a short stochastic arpeggio track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxBMJ70O2h0

Starmap

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Now Five Plants' screen resizes way nicer! Including some flexibility to the aspect ratio so that it can fill narrower (ie mobile) screens fully #indiedev #gamedev
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I continue to have a nice time giving Five Plants a hand-drawn makeover. #indiedev #gamedev
Five Plants hand-drawn update: yesterday's discovery was that I could just delete a bunch of UI and it instantly looks way better. #gamedev #indiedev

have taken on a little project of rebuilding my gardening puzzle game of last year, Five Plants, but with all hand-drawn art - what do you think?

#gamedev #indiedev

#7drl progress.

Have spent most of the the last few hours rejigging the event/action system, for Five Plants it was a very simple system of pairing a tool to a target, but any roguelike worth its salt needs something with more complexity.

So now an action has four parts - a tool, a target, an actor, and a technique - and an actor can know multiple techniques, and you can select which one's active.

This year's #7drl coincides with some time off! so I'm gonna finally do it after quietly spectating for like 10 years

to save effort I'm gonna be building it off of my previous project Five Plants, so it'll share a lot of DNA: mobile-friendly, low detail, small grid, pretty puzzle-y. Turns out that's a space I really enjoy.

Spent some time last week deleting a bunch of gardening and cleaning up hacks; kicking off in earnest this morning with some character controls and a roguelikey asset pack.

Just launched my new free puzzle game Five Plants!

Experiment to figure out how your different plants behave, then use that knowledge to create particular arrangements.

Free, playable in a coffee break, browser-based, mobile-friendly.

https://mcccclean.itch.io/five-plants

#indiedev #puzzle #mobile

Five Plants by McLean

An emoji game. A coffee break puzzle about gardening and experimenting.

itch.io