dev diary: poffin game (Patreon)

this week is summer games done quick! which means eevee is running another games made quick jam! and i just finished my treat 8 wip build, so i thought it'd be fun to make another small game, this time about POFFIN!!

i've been looking longingly at gb studio ever since they added a way to make songs within the program (with piano roll like i'm used to!!) ...when i tried using gb studio before, i had to learn how to make songs using a tracker and it was too overwhelming, so i gave up.

this was years ago, but i still have the sprites from that project... it was going to be a trick spinoff game. trick still looks very cute in 8bit.

i drew some cute tiles and edited the default font, but it was monospace so you could barely fit very many words per text box. they added a variable-width version since last time, which makes it SO MUCH MORE WORKABLE... it's still a small space, but i feel like i can write something good without it being overly constraining.

another thing i was really happy to see added to gb studio was the little AVATARS!!!! before, you had to write the character name in the text box if you wanted to differentiate who was speaking, which felt really clunky to me and i didn't want to deal with it. i was so happy i can draw the little faces, cuz they really add so much imo...

here's poffin and her family:

i've mostly been doing spritework, so this is kind of all there is to show at the moment. the plot is that the moth kingdom is at war with the spiders who live in the basement, but i can't write events until i draw the maps for those events to take place in, which i'm in the middle of doing right now.

i guess next week will be a postmortem about this game, assuming i finish it in time! i'll be posting more previews on my cohost as i work on it, since i'm not restrained by spoilers :) it's just gonna be a lighthearted little 8bit adventure...

short update today, but i hope you look forward to untitled poffin game!

thanks for reading <3