And likewise briefly about Star Baby, the sport we’re engaged on. The actually quick model is it is a pixel-art sci-fi metroidvania. The marginally longer model is that we’re making an attempt to honor the classics of the style, whereas including our personal creativity to the sauce. We wish the sport to really feel quick and fluid, and have simply the correct degree of problem.
Newest replace from Jay Ingle – lead developer, designer, and artist:
We wish Star Baby to be a enjoyable motion sport. After I have a look at different enjoyable motion video games, one of many principal issues that stands out for me is projectile patterns. These projectile patterns must be fascinating, different, and they should present the participant with a chance to be taught, react, and adapt to totally different conditions. My talent at coding pure projectile pathing is minimal, however with that in thoughts, I arrange a Projectile class, to supply base performance for all projectiles.
We’ve one class for projectiles that I can management straight with code, similar to projectiles that go straight and don’t must react to the physics of the world. In Godot, these projectiles are simply created with Area2D nodes. For extra complicated projectile motion, I take advantage of the RigidBody2D node, permitting Godot’s built-in physics engine to do it is job, dealing with physics calculations for me.
I created a easy ceiling turret enemy to check my Projectile class, and after a little bit of wrestle, all is working simply high-quality.
I additionally created a pair animated fireball projectiles (utilizing the wonderful PyxelEdit utility), that are mixed with different results similar to a glow, a fiery particle tail, and an explosion on contact, in Godot.
I now look ahead to pretending like I’m making a bullet hell sport, and making cool patterns of fireballs for you, the participant, to keep away from and overcome!
Newest replace from Janne – the opposite man:
Pale Blue Studios did not have a whole lot of the fundamentals in place for speaking with the world, so I have been making an attempt to arrange all of the fundamentals for that. First wanted to arrange the area, then construct a fundamental web site for it, a press package for the sport, arrange electronic mail internet hosting for the area, and began accumulating an inventory of business contacts to ship keys to after we are near launching the sport.
Jay already owned the area, however it had nothing arrange on it. I first migrated it to a site registrar I used to be glad to work with, and arrange identify servers for it with Cloudflare attributable to their wonderful service. I then constructed a easy web site utilizing SvelteKit and Pico CSS, and printed it on GitHub Pages. Additionally arrange automation so any updates we make to the content material get mechanically printed as properly. After configuring the DNS on Cloudflare to level to the GitHub Pages -hosted website, we now had palebluestudios.internet up and working.
With the area usually arrange and dealing, I seemed on the present panorama of electronic mail internet hosting companies. Wanting a top quality service for an inexpensive worth that would not make us waste time on handbook processes with downloading invoices on a regular basis and so on., I ended up selecting Zoho, signed up for it, and set us up the accounts and teams we have to function, and began to replace our listed electronic mail addresses.
I additionally took the prospect to arrange a customized area deal with on our Bluesky account to make it a bit simpler to confirm it is us, and with these arrange I went although the method to ask the Bluesky “Video games Business Labeller” service to label us as a sport studio. I additionally went forward and located a bunch of related Bluesky starter kits for us to comply with.
Lastly I began to arrange some new advertising instruments for us, a brand new account on imgur, in addition to an inventory of sport business contacts. Spent a number of hours digging via lists of related folks I already know and comply with, wikipedia’s record of online game magazines, numerous searches on Youtube and Bluesky to search out the enterprise contacts Youtubers, streamers, sport journalists, podcasts, and so on. have posted on-line. We’ll need to ship these folks free keys to check out the sport near the discharge with the hope that they’re going to speak about it, make movies, weblog posts, critiques, or articles about it and to date we’re as much as 67 contacts. I anticipate we’ll need to get to someplace round 1000+ earlier than the launch because of the low success ratio of sending keys out en masse, I learn someplace that 2-3% is a reasonably frequent end result.
The area registration prices us about $10/yr, every electronic mail account 0.90€/person/month. The opposite companies arrange right here, Cloudflare, GitHub Pages, Bluesky, Imgur, and Google Sheets the place we retailer the contact data are all free.
You will discover out extra about Star Baby on
– Steam https://retailer.steampowered.com/app/2953070/Star_Child/
– our press package https://palebluestudios.internet/presskit/starchild/
– our gameplay preview video
And extra about Pale Blue Studios and comply with our progress additionally on
– https://palebluestudios.internet/
– https://bsky.app/profile/palebluestudios.internet
– https://www.reddit.com/person/PaleBlueStudios/
(Initially written twenty seventh of April, 2025 earlier than posting right here)
