Oh yeah, today is the 2nd anniversary of @newt.website starting development!!

My funny little first game is 2 now, age of baby with teeth

something

ok i added a sick as fuck cool smooth little animation that makes me brain jiggle

shit looks so cool Nils had to go stim with a work in progress push block with a dev art sprite

new enemy type...

feral ant

god i love getting to write for this game

ok have one more. this ones much rougher obviously but it shows off the features of the system a lot better

CUTSCENES WOW

this gamedev shit is easy

Never Ending Witch's Tower by Lauren A unique sopping-wet twitch-shooting rogue-lite platformer.

Decided to make NEWT free (until i update it again, if I ever do)

Canon News Roundup September 2025 | Lauren's Game Dev Stuff Get more from Lauren's Game Dev Stuff on Patreon

Made a quick Canon update post on the Patreon, talking about a lot of the new features and discussing how I'm planning level ups to work, as well as showing off the WIP level up screen.

Post is accessible at the $2USD tier! Check it out:

progress!

I went for a FF7 digitized drawing look so i anti-aliased it as much as i possibly ccould. i am very fuckin proud of it now!

funny

added smelly save points (audio on for best experience)

Everything good dies eventually. This is why Lobsters are totally worthless assholes

sonyplaytation OFFICIAL Webzone!

You can read the PatchNEWTs here: sonyplaytation.neocities.org/games/patchN...

Never Ending Witch's Tower by Lauren A unique sopping-wet twitch-shooting rogue-lite platformer.

SURPRISE!!!! The (potentially) final update to NEWT is out!!!!

This update was mostly just me polishing it up for long term stability. It adds unlocks, saving, controller rebinds, all that cool stuff!

DOWNLOAD IT:
sonyplaytation.itch.io/never-ending...

Never interrupt a man when he's aura farming

added a fighting game style input display to Canon!!

I am very happy with how it turned out :)

implemented one of the games main combat gimmicks today: Normals!

you have three seconds to mash out as many normals as you can for a high combo, but the heavier the input the more of your frames it eats up.

not very impressive considering i was just 90% following a tutorial, but i DO now have 90% of an RPG combat system :)

yo i got back into working on my previous scrapped-ish rpg project "Canon". NEWT is still gonna continue getting developed, it just wont be my ONLY focus

oh ALSO i made it so you can no longer get a soda you already have (until you run out of options but thats just to prevent the game from crashing (the final game will have a level cap of ~10, and have like 20ish sodas so it wont be a problem (third parenthetical just to prove I can)))

as of today every single UI element should be controller accessible :)

overhauled the soda screen entirely (it was previously drawing in the room instead of to the GUI lmao) and fixed the "Are You Sure?" screen to work at any resolution and with more than just the mouse.

Never Ending Witch's Tower by Lauren A unique sopping-wet twitch-shooting rogue-lite platformer.

newt.website :^J

it will be changed eventually, just not now

also holy CRAP i need to redo the menu system lol, it is just NOT flexible at ALL.

I kinda just made it based on a SaraJS tutorial where she only ever uses it to load into a room, so fitting stuff like tool tips and the rebind menu and everything is just such an insane nightmare

Controller is not technically supported for every single gameplay instance, but this will be changed by the time the next build releases. Currently theres just no way to select a soda from the machine on gamepad but thats it afaik

Good new(t)s! the next release of NEWT will have greatly improved controller support!

Controller support was already in the game but the default bindings were weird and there was no way to change them, both of which change now!!!

#gamemaker #gamedev #indiedev

i very much like the pixel perfect look, shout outs to stanncam

oh yeah i bought the domain "newt.website" cus it was like a dollar

i do not have a website specifically for NEWT though lol