Notices by Clarissa Toney :linux:🏳️‍⚧️ (clarusplusplus@peoplemaking.games)

I have no idea what I'm looking for in the log, and I don't have the time or patience to investigate, so I think I'm just going to try to get Photoshop running in Wine and accept that anything on that VM's hard drive is inaccessible until I can figure out how to recover it

Huh. So, forcing an upgrade to VirtualBox 7.0 fixed it

Still weird, though, that VirtualBox 6 would just randomly decide to not work anymore with perfectly-good VM that ran just fine the day before 🤷♀️

I tended to save anything I worked on in Photoshop onto the host anyway

Well this sucks

ok so this is weird!

I decided to write off that VM as lost, and create a new one. Created a new VM with a fresh new virtual hard drive, pointed it at my Windows XP ISO, and.... same message on boot up.

So it seems that *any* VM is immediately failing with an unspecified "critical error"

Wonder what the hell that's about

Hey y'all! I'm looking for a pixel artist to help out on my game!

"Enigma Heart" is a retro-styled side-scrolling action RPG. There are no palette restrictions, although I would like to keep the visual style in roughly the SNES era. Tile size is 16x16; most characters are 1 tile x 2 tiles (16x32).

Some of the graphics have already been done by me and other artists, so a style similar to ours/ability to match it, is a must. Screenshots of the game (as it currently stands) are attached to this post.

Needed are graphics of the player character, some NPCs, monsters, and dungeon and town backdrops/tilesets.

This is a paid gig, and rates can be discussed. Please reply or DM if interested.

Boosts are requested, and greatly appreciated!

#PixelArt #Commission #ArtCommission

I wonder if boxing could somehow be turned into a point-and-click adventure game

I've watched loads more sci-fi than I have fantasy in my life time.

Why, then, am I more comfortable writing fantasy than sci-fi?

Not complaining; I just don't understand lol

Hey y'all! I'm looking for an artist to help out with promotional and key art for my game!

"Enigma Heart" is a retro side-scrolling action RPG. To capture the feel of the era, I want to commission retro anime-style artwork of the main characters and a few select scenes from the game, much like the examples attached to the post.

(EDIT: I've also included an image with three screenshots of the game and a Hero Forge model that I created when I initially designed the main character.)

If you're interested, reply to this post with a link to your art, and let's talk!

Boosts requested and greatly appreciated!

#Anime #AnimeArt #AnimeArtist #ArtCommission #Commission #Commissions #GameArt

Forget discovery and algorithms -- for 30%, Steam should do your entire marketing campaign for you. At 30% they're in fucking publisher territory

@ann3nova Steak fajitas! You're welcome to join us

oh, this feels good 😌

I got input icons integrated into the game's text routines. It works with a special control code that switches the font routine into "controller icon" mode, and another control code that ends it

omg it even works in real time.

I turned off my controller so the game couldn't see it, so it showed me the keyboard legend.

Then I hit the pair button on my controller, and instantly, the left bracket key icon on the screen turned into the start button icon

It's the little things 😊

aaaaa
My SNES controller's icons are right there. In my game!

I'm definitely gonna be sprinkling this all over the game. I'm gonna be like a kid with a new toy

Joy. I can't find the exact variant of the Atari arcade font that I used for the main font in Enigma Heart, and now I need to add new glyphs

Time to scour the web

BINGO, found it

The lowercase letters are from the fan translation of FF3

https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?p=87887#p87887

It doesn't have the extended characters that I need, but I can build those myself by combining these lowercase letters with the accents and marks on the glyphs I need from Press Start K.

Just me in my room making Frankenfonts

yeah, so... 8 pixels (7, if you don't include the 8th row for descenders) really ain't enough to convey uppercase letters with marks

hm =\

what to do

I might have to do some hacky shit like use the full height of the glyph, and hardcode it so those characters are offset one row up when they're printed

Game dev, kids: don't do it. Become an accountant or a trash collector or something