Notices by Clarissa | making Enigma Heart (clarusplusplus@peoplemaking.games)

@foone still less weird than the gender binary

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