I also learned about an old arcade game called Mappy where you play as a mouse-cop trying to steal back the Mona Lisa from a gang of cat-thieves? Very inspirational tbh

oatmeal problem = goopy sameyness

This week @pancelor.bsky.social started working on a semi-procedural "Chaos Mode" - it smushes together chunks of hand built levels with randomly chosen enemies, hazards and quests. It is still early, but I like this approach for trying to avoid the oatmeal problem
#screenshotsaturday

I have this very loose design pillar for Gaarl that everything in the game should be "recognizably something", even if that something doesn't really belong. I am hoping that a big collection of somethings will accumulate into an interesting collage of stuff

I added new graphics to change an existing indistinct blobby enemy into smiley/frowny/straight line faces

Suburbs

Derelict Star is OUT NOW!

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/...
Itch: gate.itch.io/derelict-star

A hand-crafted interactive political allegory written in the author's mother tongue. One intricate vignette about 19 national birds, a red planet and freedom.

My upcoming game "Kansallislintuja; punaisessa planeetassa." can now be wishlisted on Steam! (link below)

oops I forgot to tag @pancelor.bsky.social :)

Screenshot GAARL - a pixel art dungeon with giant skulls floating around

Also here is a cool screenshot

GAARL! by MatthewLacker, pancelor Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike! (Demo)

I have a demo! GAARL is a single screen arcade-y platformer roguelike about climbing chains. My name ended up in the acronym (Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike) but Pancelor also put a lot of work into this. It is playable in the browser, check it out!

matthewlacker.itch.io/gaarl-demo

Cat standing on hind legs

Climbing!