getting actual feedback on a thing i made is cool. now i can make it better. heck yeah.

alright. okay. i've been working on a fox game for a while now (see @theirfinestbean.bsky.social) and i'm at a point where i need. other eyes on it! i need some testers! come play an early build of my game. DM me if you want access. keeping this fairly limited to people i know for now, rehf.

looks like i do have a working EXE now though, cool!

does not seem to actually affect gameplay though so i'll worry about it later.

hmm it broke my terrains plugin, bleh. that'd be super annoying to remake at this point...

hmm. need to update my godot version which shouldn't break anything but i will still worry that it will.

i need to remind myself to update my git repository more often, ahah. hadn't pushed any new commits since mid-january... i keep a local backup as well but it's nice to have the online copy for extreme safety.

gonna wrap this up in a bowtie soon but i also need to start, like. reaching out to people to help playtest and maybe set up a server for it? we'll see.

i also need to hammer out an issue with springs that can occasionally crop up but. yeah, it's getting too late to do bugfixing.

i have mostly polished off all the level design things i wanted to, though, and i added secret indicators, so that part's good to go.

sort of a quick hack fix but ehh, it seems like it's working? and doesn't break anything else? i don't like cases this sloppy but there have been an unfortunate number of them i will need to clean up eventually.

ahh, the fix i did for the ceiling slide did in fact break something else and it's stupid. hmm. how do i resolve this.

really i just need to add in the "secret" indicators. i will implement an actual thing for them later but for now i'm just gonna add graphics.

honestly i think this test level is about ready to be playtested by others, i need to figure out how to generate an exe in godot but i'm sure it's easy. like, i could do some more polish but for what this needs to be i think it works fine as-is.

y'know, i'm actually pretty happy with this as a fun little playground room, there's a lot of little things you can do here & it's got room to showcase pretty much all of the movement mechanics used in the test level! it's also got my fox i made way back at the start of development so 🦊

alright figured it out, a case i added for corners on the ground was also triggering on the ceiling, which it didn't need to, added an extra check and it immediately stops happening and i can't recreate the issue now. should? be good?

it's like. not properly sticking to the ceiling when it hits right at a corner, i think :s corners are evil. why did we invent them.

gonna try and iron out the one ceiling slide bug i'm seeing but i'm struggling to understand what causes it. i see two separate ceiling slides trigger but it's actually the first one that's the problem anyways? as far as i can tell? it's very weird

also probably need to work on the actual controller feel, the heavy use of r1 in the current setup i can imagine being rough on peoples' hands but i don't know where else to put the slide action without it being too inaccessible, aheh. it's stuff i can work out. nothing is finalized yet.

maybe putting too much effort into rooms that playtesters may not even find, anyways. this one's kind of evil in a different way but it is also easily the most hidden room of the level.

it's something that obviously needs to be refined but to do that i need to have something to start with, and now i have that!

i wanna make a big playground room at the end of the level and i will do that tomorrow but it'll be less. designed, i suppose, i'll see ahah.

ended up finishing out this room, or something like that, playtesting it a little... there's a lot of roughness i really need to work out (and i definitely need to fix that ceiling slide bug, it's getting really annoying now ahah) but i'm happy enough with the actual level design.

already a liiiittle tired and i've still got a good bit to fill out though, maybe running dry of fun new ideas that fit into this mold without adding in some more gimmicks (which i will be doing at some point, just, not now)

hmm hmm i think i have an idea of what this room is developing into, it's maybe a little mean though but eh. we'll see how i feel about it later.

been so so distracted by other things the past week, i really have to get this last room done haha. bwuh.

i also don't have keyboard inputs set up but i may work around that by writing the relevant keyboard letters on each decal for now. i'll have it be dynamic later based on input but that's too much work for the moent.

there's one spot i'm considering adding something else but i think i'll let it come up in playtesting if other people are struggling to understand it. i feel like i communicated it okay but it's the hardest mechanic to explain in just button presses, i think.

a little out of the level design headspace at the moment, but i need to draw up some tutorial decals for button inputs and that sounds easy enough to do right now so i think i will.

it needs to be clarified that, the fox in the game i'm making is gay. there's not going to be any evidence in the game itself but just trust me.

y'know what, i know what i wanna do with this next (and possibly for this little tech demo, last) room and oooh i'm getting silly with it :3

alternate shortcut rooms that are way harder than everything around them and include secret tech i didn't tutorialize anywhere else, for $500...