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music donneee!! atleast for this boss fight XD

feels nice to finally have a complete vertical slice, even if it's for like 0.1% of the game haha

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yo, it's been a while. I've been a bit busy with sound design (very fun) and level design (not so fun). The final missing piece is music which I've been looking forward to do, but now I'm completely artblock haha

anyway second boss almost done here's the disarm scene
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xingyu design sketch

xingyu char design #rkgk #falseprincessiruruu

This is Xing Yu, princess of a rival tribe.

She's dead set on stealing the royal seal and taking Iruruu's place in the imperial court to gain favors for her tribe... so you'll be seeing her a lot. She's hot-headed and arrogant, and her fighting style reflects it.

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deathblow #gamedev #falseprincessiruruu

Taking a break from level design to work on some music.

This motif is for a character that's very important to Iruruu's character arc, so I want to start working on it early to make sure I get it right. #music #falseprincessiruruu

i haven't even implemented half the planned moves but I think this is already hard enough for an early boss lmao. maybe I'll add them later in a hardmode boss rush, but for now I'll start working on the boss arena
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happy new year from iruruu!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I originally made this account to force myself to draw more, but I kinda lost track halfway through. Hopefully I'll get more done this year~

(of course imma still post gamedev stuff cuz I know that's what most of u are here for haha)
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Been mostly working on level design lately and not much new cool stuff to show, so here's a random fight xp
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kick move completed! All time that spent just to make the B variation for aesthetics, but I think it was time well spent :D
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sneak peak on a new kick move

It's going to be part of the core moveset so you can seamlessly weave it in between sword hits. Deals 0 damage, but x2 posture, so ideal for aggressive players that can keep up the pressure. And yeah it disarms enemies instead of killing.

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testing out an idea from a friend

If you take a lot of damage in succession you can get back most of it by healing immediately. However, if you don't have an opening, being aggressive will prolong the grace period, so you can heal after the fight.
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me: healing items should be grittier and more realistic
also me: SPIN-TO-WIN HEALING
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wip of the new HUD
(pay no attention to the violence going on off-screen)
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super duper official false princess iruruu™ art

it was a nice and windy day so i wanted to make a quick autumny sketch, but then i went a bit overboard and ended up coloring the whole thing so uh... official art i guess? xD
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I was worried that players would bypass the mechanic by rolling to one side to make it a 1v1, so now I gotta give these enemies a backup range attack.

This 2v1 thing started out as a way to utilize simpler enemies, but now they're even more complicated😅
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testing out enemy coordination

Well, they're not really coordinating to fight more effectively, but so the player won't immediately die from all the overlapping attacks xD
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iruruu's holding her saber

a little sketch of a cute girl iruruu for @poohcom1.bsky.social !!
thank you for so much inspiration! i wish to play your game one day, please keep up the good work :3

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so since the system is already in place I thought it would be cool if enemies can also reflect projectiles but then I realized why that's probably not a good idea lmao

I will probably just give it to some specific boss to surprise the player
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Iruruu uses bandages

I've never liked the idea of potions or food as healing items, so I've been thinking of alternatives that might make a bit more sense, like cautery irons or bandages.

These are harder to convey in pixel art tho, so I'll have to get a little creative.
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went back and colored the whole thing, and also added some item descriptions to flesh out the character a bit
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double hook sword enemy!

I'm finally getting to experiment with more complex attack patterns now that I'm past the tutorial section :D
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Iruruu goes trick or treating

happy halloween!
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pixel art for reference as usual
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design of iruruu

ok this is the last time I'm redrawing Iruruu's design I swear hahaha

I've always had a hard time keeping my artstyle consistent but after a month of forcing myself to draw the same char over and over I think I'm settling one that I'm happy with
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This game isn't just deflections! Some other mechanics I've implemented so far are projectile reversal and sword binding.
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fixed this scenes animation a little bit. still feel like it's missing an extra line of dialogue tho, maybe ill add something later one the story's more fleshed out
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it's fridaaayyyy!!!! here's to a productive gamedev weekend!! (totally not gonna play mh all day)
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