Hello Patrons!
Welcome to weekly number 20! Its crazy to me that we're already approaching half a year worth of weeklies! This Patreon only started really growing in earnest in the last two months though, since then we've gained ~$80/mo spread over ~25 patrons. At the current pace we should be hitting $200/mo around the end of the year, and I'm looking forward to getting that discord set ...
2019-10-19 03:52:16 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patreons!
This week has had me busy with more technical work and some more detailed concepting for 0.7.6.
I've just put 0.7.5b to beta, and the new platform-independent text renderer that it includes should be ready for primetime after a bit of user testing. There ended up being a lot of edge-cases involving Asian languages which I had to address, which is why 0.7.5b ended up ta...
2019-10-13 02:32:53 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons!
This has been a bit of a slow week for new dev work with the release of 0.7.5 and then 0.7.5a right after. I likely will also be doing a 0.7.5b, but I'd like to wait a bit to get some analytics numbers so I can include some balance changes with it.
For the remainder of this week, my focus has been on more technical work. Late in the development of 0.7.5 I successfully d...
2019-10-05 20:47:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons,
The first Patreon poll has now concluded, here are the results!
The final vote looked like this, with 7 total participants:
1st: Grey Without Eyes - 6 Votes (86% Support)
2nd: Red Without Eyes - 4 Votes (57% Support)
3rd: Grey With Eyes ...
Hey Patrons!
I'm spending some time working on polish this week, but also some time on concepting for 0.7.6! In 0.7.6 I'm planning on improving enemies and bosses in the later three chapters of the game. There likely won't be any Tengu-scale boss reworks (there just isn't enough time to squeeze all of that into one update), but I do intend to fix most of the major enemies issues in these ...
2019-09-28 03:23:55 +0000 UTC View Post
(This is the discussion post for Patreon Poll #1. The content is the same, but all patrons can view this post, while only golden+ patrons can view and vote in the voting post. Please leave any comments here so that all patrons can see them!)
Hello Patrons, welcome to the first patron poll!
As I mentioned last week I'm doing a quick poll for 0.7.5 to test the polling system ...
2019-09-23 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post(This is the voting post for Patreon Poll #1. Please leave any comments in the discussion post so that all patrons can see them!)
Hello Patrons, welcome to the first patron poll!
As I mentioned last week I'm doing a quick poll for 0.7.5 to test the polling system out. The good news is that I thought of a topic that's a bit more impactful than I initially planned, so I'm goi...
2019-09-23 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey patrons!
Just last week I mentioned that we were on track to reach $100/mo, but I definitely wasn't expecting that we'd hit it in just another week! In celebration of hitting the goal, and also to test out Patreon's polling functionality, I might do a "patron poll #0" in the next few days. This will be in addition to a regular poll for the next Shattered update, and will be on a fairl...
2019-09-21 03:39:39 +0000 UTC View PostEDIT: Hey patrons, just a quick change since Friday. Progress on getting 0.7.5 beta-ready is going well but I was unfortunately a bit tied up with other work on the weekend. It's now looking like the 0.7.5 will release tomorrow on Tuesday.
Hey Patrons!
I'm working on getting 0.7.5 beta-ready, and I hope to push it to beta either this weekend or very early next week. I'm excited to s...
2019-09-13 17:24:18 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons!
This has been another busy week for me. My thesis defence went well, but the examiners requested a few more revisions than expected. I hope to be done with the bulk of the revision work after this weekend. I do have some things to share though!
Polished Slime Sprites
I've spent some time polishing up slime sprites, and I'm really happy with the re...
2019-09-06 20:41:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons!
As mentioned previously, this week is going to be a bit sparse for content, I'm mostly sharing some refinements to things mentioned previously. Specifically, I'm going to show some progress on Goo's boss level layout, and on sprites for the two new sewer enemies:
WIP Enemy Sprites
2019-08-31 17:50:09 +0000 UTC
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Hello Patrons!
I've got two major bits of info for you this week. The first is a new sewers enemy and the second is more progress on Tengu's new level.
Additional Sewers Changes:
Snakes are a new enemy type which inhabits the sewers, and are meant to help enhance variety in the very early stages of the game. Power-wise they are a mix between m...
2019-08-24 03:05:24 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons!
I've got two major updates this week. Firstly, some progress on the aforementioned boss improvements, and some teaser info on new prison enemies!
Work on Goo and Tengu:
I've added four new room types which are exclusive to Goo's boss floor, pictured below. One of these will spawn every time, and will contain goo in that dark nest in the cent...
2019-08-16 20:08:39 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons!
0.7.4b is now out of beta, which means I can finally stop talking about LibGDX and get on with more content! This week I'm going to talk about some changes I have planned for Tengu.
Tengu is the only boss I've ever fully reworked, and I got some fairly mixed results when I did...
2019-08-11 01:00:46 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons!
I've got two updates today, one is more LibGDX progress, and the other is a new enemy coming in 0.7.5!
LibGDX:
Progress continues on converting Shattered to use the multiplatform LibGDX library. I now have all parts of the game except text rendering and keyboard input working through LibGDX. Last week I said I was planning on rolling Li...
2019-08-02 19:42:14 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons!
Progress continues on converting Shattered to LibGDX. I have almost all of the game's core functionality working with the library, and I expect to start an Android beta for people to test the LibGDX code soon. A few key areas of the game's logic are going to be tricky to separate from android (primarily text rendering and keyboard input handling), but everything else will be ...
2019-07-26 02:49:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons!
0.7.4 is now released on all platforms, and so this week I've mostly been working on planning for the next update. I'm not quite ready to say what 0.7.5 will have yet, but I have made other important progress!
As I mentioned in my 2019 blog ( https:...
2019-07-20 03:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons!
Another slow week as far as patreon teasers are is concerned. 0.7.4 is now in beta, so I've been primarily focused on balance adjustments and bugfixes for that. I am of course doing some concepting for 0.7.5, but don't have anything solid enough to show yet. Now that the Patreon is a more expected part of my work structure I'm going to try and better plan out my teasers here...
Hey Patrons!
I've ironed out almost all of the details for 0.7.4, and so I expect to be putting it to beta in the next few days. That will be accompanied by the usual 'coming soon to shattered' blog post, which will go up over at ShatteredPixel.com
In the meantime, I've attached a teaser video for the wand of warding. Obviously rats aren't much of a challenge for any +5 item, but t...
Hey Patrons!
Work on 0.7.4 is well underway at this point. The sad ghost AI improvements are finished, wand of living earth is fully working short of some polish, and wand of warding is working in a fairly basic form.
Today I wanted to share something that's also coming in 0.7.4: another wave of alchemy balance adjustments, this time focused around bomb recipes. Currently boss bombs...
2019-06-28 18:13:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons!
Afraid I don't have much to report this week, as I've mostly been tied up with implementing things I've already shared and fulfilling some real life obligations. Work on 0.7.4 does continue to progress and I hope I'll have a beta and full blog ready in another week or two. I should have more things to share here next week once implementation details become more specific.
<... 2019-06-21 18:48:59 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons!
I'm mostly finished the high-concept phase of 0.7.4 now, and I'm moving on to implementing. I'll likely be covering all of these in more detail in the eventual blog post, but here's some early info on 0.7.4's main content: new and improved allies!
Existing Allies
Firstly, I'm looking to tweak and improve the behavior of existing allies so that the...
2019-06-13 20:06:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patreons, welcome to the inaugural weekly update post! I'm going to do one or two of these short update posts a week. They'll give some information about what I'm currently working on before that info is available anywhere else.
Most of this week is going to be spent doing concepting and design for the primary content in 0.7.4. I'll have more info on that later. At the moment though, ...
2019-06-04 19:05:06 +0000 UTC View Post