Refactor

Devlog

• Updated to LÖVE 11.3
  January 17, 2020 by fluffy#release, #love2d

  I haven't actually worked on this game in a while but now that macOS Catalina is here I figured it was prudent to update the build so that it would, you know, work on it. I do have an idea for &counti... Continue reading
• Updated to LÖVE 11.2
  January 19, 2019 by fluffy

  This probably doesn't matter to anyone but I've updated the build to use the latest version of LÖVE, which should hopefully fix some of the problems with running in the itch.io sandbox. Someday I mig... Continue reading
• Tiny perf improvements, graphical tweaks
  August 27, 2018 by fluffy#flight, #performance, #little bouncing ball, #design

  Just a little more performance work and a little tiny bit of visual polish while getting ready for SIX this coming weekend. Main things: Little Bouncing Ball's RoamingEye shader is a little faster now... Continue reading
• Performance improvements in Little Bouncing Ball
  August 15, 2018 by fluffy#performance, #little bouncing ball, #graphics, #quadtree

  I finally did something I'd been meaning to do for quite some time: I replaced the naïve collision check in Little Bouncing Ball with one that uses a quadtree. Previously, it would check every ball a... Continue reading

  
• Some small updates from user feedback
  July 10, 2018 by fluffy

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  I got a nice thorough round of user testing, which is such a great and useful experience! A lot of the feedback was very helpful and I've pushed a new build that makes a bunch of the low-hanging-fruit... Continue reading
• High-DPI support is back
  May 16, 2018 by fluffy#graphics, #love2d, #performance

  Restoring high-DPI support was really easy. As is the case with most of the LÖVE 11 changes, this made it so I could get rid of most of my DPI management stuff, with two exceptions: I had to change t... Continue reading
• Take it to (LÖVE) 11
  May 16, 2018 by fluffy

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  #love, #engine, #versions, #love2d

  Have you ever heard the expression "ripping off the Band-Aid?" So, Refactor is written using LÖVE , which is a wonderful little game-development framework. LÖVE had been on version 0.10.2 for ages... Continue reading

  
• New monk design
  March 05, 2018 by fluffy

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  #flight, #art

  After some feedback at ECCC and some good conversations with folks regarding the feedback, I decided to redesign the monk in Flight. Here's the new design. There are no other changes since the previou... Continue reading

  
• Bug fix with config stuff
  March 03, 2018 by fluffy#business, #eccc, #bug fix, #ui

  There was a silly bug with how I was handling the game version number; for the purpose of future bug-related analytics I decided to also put the last version run into the config file, but unfortunatel... Continue reading
• Lots of little UI tweaks
  March 01, 2018 by fluffy#ui, #strangers, #little bouncing ball, #flight

  Okay, wow, it's been a while since my last devlog. Part of that is because I've been really busy with non-Refactor things , or with non-game parts of Refactor . Part of that was because I was waiting... Continue reading

  
• Finally added "play all"
  February 03, 2018 by fluffy#flight, #strangers, #ux

  In keeping with the album-ness of this game collection I finally got around to making a "play all" function. It's very rudimentary for now but at some point there will be full-on transport/track selec... Continue reading
• Fixed some embarrassing bugs
  January 31, 2018 by fluffy#menu, #UI, #bugs

  Turns out that on macOS it was doubling the font size on non-retina screens due to an apparent bug in LÖVE; I switched to a different API for determining the pixel scale which simplified my code anyw... Continue reading
• Fixed some licensing issues
  January 28, 2018 by fluffy

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  #license, #legal

  The most recent version shouldn't have any visual or gameplay changes; however, I did finally fix some problems that were bothering me: namely, I fixed my LICENSE file to properly attribute all the fo... Continue reading
• Some more additions to Flight
  January 26, 2018 by fluffy#flight

  I decided to draw more faces, bringing the total up to 45. (Not so "final" after all I guess.) I also made a slight change to the ending, such as it is. I've also been experimenting with the dialog sy... Continue reading
• Flight is done
  January 23, 2018 by fluffy#flight

  I could add a few more faces to the second sprite sheet but for all intents and purposes, Flight is now complete. Next up: I'm going to make some changes to the Strangers dialog system to hopefully fi... Continue reading
• Finally have platform jam/demo builds
  January 19, 2018 by fluffy#build

  Now you can download native/packaged versions of the demo/jam builds as well. Makefiles are painful. I really should convert my build system to something more suitable, like a friggin' shell script... Continue reading
• Sprite sheet 1 "done"
  January 18, 2018 by fluffy

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  #flight, #art

  The first 25 animal faces/masks/whatever are now "done" (modulo my meager art skills – remember, all the art in this game is technically programmer art), and that happened faster than I expected. So... Continue reading

  
• Inching towards completion
  January 17, 2018 by fluffy#flight

  17 critters down, 56 to go. If I can keep up this pace of 5/day then I should be done in like 12 days, which was pretty much what I was expecting. Kind of a big "if" though; I might end up just making... Continue reading

  
• Pretty much code-complete
  January 15, 2018 by fluffy

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  #flight

  All that's left to do is draw more heads. A LOT more heads. I also changed some of the coin/gem bounce physics. Not really a lot else to say... Continue reading

  
• The last bit of functionality is in
  January 14, 2018 by fluffy#flight

  All that's left to do now is to draw a whole bunch more animal heads... Continue reading

  
• Finally drew the monk, and made it windy
  January 13, 2018 by fluffy#flight, #graphics

  So I finally got around to drawing something approaching a final Monk. I'm not that happy with how it turned out (because of my usual self-criticality in my art vis-a-vis it not turning out how I imag... Continue reading

  
• Coin sprites
  January 12, 2018 by fluffy

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  #flight

  Nothing major gameplay-wise, but I'm finally getting more final assets in. In particular, there is now a nicer-looking coin. My process for making the coin started out with me launching Blender, reali... Continue reading

  
• Even better graphics!
  January 11, 2018 by fluffy#flight, #graphics

  Two things in this build: Fixed the chasm procedural generator Improved the background art, using a photo I took of Mount St. Helens and then some Photoshop filters... Continue reading

  
• Improved mountain graphics
  January 11, 2018 by fluffy#flight

  It's hard to tell because of the very very temporary background, but I've improved the mountain graphics. There's still a lot more to do on it of course but it's getting somewhere! Since the last devl... Continue reading

  
• Quick update: Jam-specific builds
  January 10, 2018 by fluffy#meta, #build system

  Now that the game requires payment to download, and because I'm still doing individual tracks for jams, I've added a build for the current jam. So, when I'm working on a track for a jam there will be... Continue reading
• Very rough prototype of Flight
  January 10, 2018 by fluffy#flight

  Hi there, long time no devlog! For Games Made Quick , I'm finally actually implementing Flight. So far there's just the barest skeleton of the gameplay; you have a falling monk, a procedurally-generat... Continue reading
• More graphical tweaking
  December 15, 2017 by fluffy#little bouncing ball, #strangers, #flight, #performance, #graphics, #gimmicks

  I should be working on Flight, but instead I've been tuning the heck out of some of the visual faff in the existing tracks, because I can't leave well enough alone. In Little Bouncing Ball I restored... Continue reading

  
• Oops, builds were broken
  December 13, 2017 by fluffy

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  #oops

  Once again I have learned not to sleepily publish versions to itch.io at 2 AM without testing them. Someday the lesson might actually stick! Not that a changelist is necessary for this update but for... Continue reading
• Also added hidpi support
  December 09, 2017 by fluffy#graphics, #performance, #bugs, #little bouncing ball

  Since I was making the renderer be able to adjust resolutions on the fly, I figured, why not also support high-DPI screens? (e.g. MacBooks and so on) For now the feature is disabled by default (becaus... Continue reading

  
• Graphics quality improvements
  December 09, 2017 by fluffy#little bouncing ball, #flight, #quality

  I decided to make some changes to Little Bouncing Ball's graphics; now it will automatically adjust the rendering quality on the fly. If the framerate is below 45 it will decrease the quality to try t... Continue reading
• End of October wrap-up
  October 31, 2017 by fluffy

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  #updates, #business

  Not a lot of development happened since the last devlog, as I've been equal parts busy on paid client work and still recovering from the craziness that was September. The changes I've made since the l... Continue reading
• Finally fixed some LBB physics glitches
  October 17, 2017 by fluffy#strangers, #little bouncing ball, #physics, #updates, #business

  Sorry for not posting here in a while! After GeekGirlCon I decided I'd spend this whole month not working on Refactor. However, I just decided to break that in order to fix a long-standing issue with... Continue reading
• ALMOST DONE WITH STRANGERS!!!
  September 28, 2017 by fluffy#strangers

  Two of the three art things that I had left are now done - one of the background photos, and the vacation scene. And the last photo isn't actually necessary, so this game is actually, like, done. or s... Continue reading

  
• All scenes finished!
  September 27, 2017 by fluffy#strangers, #ggc, #final stretch

  Oh wow, the last scene I had to do (the vacation scene) is now done. Or at least GGC-ready. There's still a bit I want to do (especially with the water) but what I have for now seems pretty okay I gue... Continue reading
• More progress!
  September 26, 2017 by fluffy#strangers, #infrastructure

  I finished the "therapist" vignette and did a bunch of tuning to some of the other vignettes. I also finally added a basic credits screen and redid the way I'm handling text on the menu, because I cou... Continue reading
• More changes for GeekGirlCon
  September 24, 2017 by fluffy

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  #strangers, #con prep

  Only one week left before GGC! So I'm trying to get as much show-ready as possible. Finally made debug mode a configuration option, rather than compile-time Finally also made configuration a thing - n... Continue reading
• Two more ending scenes
  September 23, 2017 by fluffy#strangers

  Finally got back to work on ending vignettes for Strangers, namely the hospital scene and the park bench scene. I had fun making these. There isn't a lot else to mention; those are the only changes as... Continue reading

  
• In which a better GPU makes me debug a shader
  September 19, 2017 by fluffy

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  #bugs, #cognitive dysfunction, #post mortem

  I haven't gotten much new work done on my games because I'm mostly getting ready to show my games at GeekGirlCon . Which means polishing stuff enough for show, and also getting my booth ready. Part of... Continue reading
• Some updates
  September 11, 2017 by fluffy#strangers, #little bouncing ball, #meta

  I haven't gotten a lot of playtest feedback yet, but what I have gotten has been very helpful. Thanks, everyone! I've fixed a couple of dialog paths. Also, note that in the latest builds, the app iden... Continue reading
• Please playtest this version instead
  September 08, 2017 by fluffy#strangers

  I've made a bunch of minor tweaks to the dialog in a few places, and also improved the ending cinematic to be more representative of what it's a placeholder for. The instructions for play testing are... Continue reading
• Strangers: now ready for playtesting!
  September 07, 2017 by fluffy#strangers, #playtest

  Hi, sorry for not posting a devlog in a while, but I've just been working hard on filling in various bits of scaffolding and filling out the dialog forest to get it to a point where it's ready for pla... Continue reading
• A bit more progress
  August 31, 2017 by fluffy#strangers, #art

  I finally got around to drawing the first of several images that the player sees during the "So many pictures of us together" part of the song, and the start of the background image that goes with the... Continue reading

  
• Track 2: finished dialog is in sight
  August 30, 2017 by fluffy

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  #strangers

  The dialog tree has gotten complex enough that running my automated coverage on it takes too long to be feasible. Hooray for exponential growth and weird interactions between states! Guess I'll have t... Continue reading
• More animation and dialog
  August 28, 2017 by fluffy#strangers, #infrastructure

  The animation system now has enough in it to actually let the NPC walk around in a scripted way. Yay! One of the conversation paths is actually fully fleshed-out! Yay! Many more of the conversation pa... Continue reading
• Finally have an animation system
  August 26, 2017 by fluffy

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  #strangers

  Took a break from working on the dialog tree (which I've simplified a lot, because I was going overboard with condition variables unnecessarily) and finally got around to building an animation system... Continue reading
• A whole bunch of stuff!
  August 23, 2017 by fluffy#strangers, #little bouncing ball, #infrastructure

  Dialog engine stuff: see my Patreon post for more information Other things since the last build: Tweaks to the main menu (fonts, layout, etc.) Finally set up an app icon for the macOS build Added luac... Continue reading

  
• More plumbing-type stuff
  August 22, 2017 by fluffy

  Not a whole lot has happened on track2 from a gameplay standpoint, but I'm finally properly rendering sprites and graphics layers and whatnot, so there's that. Also the beginnings of a rudimentary ani... Continue reading
• Haha so itch builds have been broken for a while...
  August 20, 2017 by fluffy#infrastructure, #oops

  Well, that's fun. Turns out my builds have been broken for a while because of a case-sensitivity issue in the build, which was easy to miss because I do all my development on macOS where the filesyste... Continue reading
• Finally a proper main menu
  August 20, 2017 by fluffy#ux

  Well, less improper, anyway... Continue reading
• Finally have some dialog in!
  August 17, 2017 by fluffy#strangers

  There's actually something to do in Strangers other than watch the lyrics go by. I mean, there isn't A LOT to do, but you can certainly do it. Jeeze, this was annoying to figure out. But now I can fin... Continue reading
• Finally publishing builds including Strangers
  August 13, 2017 by fluffy#strangers

  Nothing much to see here, but I am making progress. Slowly. No gameplay in Strangers yet but I'm getting various pieces of content in place and generally doing... things, I guess. Still trying to fig... Continue reading
• Track 2: Strangers
  August 08, 2017 by fluffy#wip, #behind the scenes, #dialog, #strangers

  I'm finally starting on Track 2, " Strangers ." It's in the form of an RPG cut scene with a dialog tree, and there will eventually be a couple of minigames that might or might not show up depending on... Continue reading

  
• Just some aesthetic faffing about
  July 29, 2017 by fluffy#little bouncing ball, #internals, #meta

  Instead of working on a Ludum Dare entry I've been fiddling around with some of the minor aesthetics of Little Bouncing Ball, namely changing the score font to be more in keeping with the era I'm goin... Continue reading
• Flappy bat!
  July 26, 2017 by fluffy#little bouncing ball, #flappy bat, #so cute!

  I finally got around to implementing FlappyBat. Just look at these cute little critters! They're just tryin' to fly around in the world without a care Oh no watch out for that ball!... Continue reading

  
• Tiny input update
  July 17, 2017 by fluffy

  I haven't worked on this game in the last several days, except last night I refactored the input layer to make it easier to support all of the games I have planned. This also includes better support f... Continue reading
• Some more changes
  July 12, 2017 by fluffy

  I have now disabled vsync by default, because for some reason LÖVE has decided to cap my framerate to 30 FPS on my desktop despite vsyncless rendering going at 200+ FPS. This is yet another thing tha... Continue reading
• More tweaks
  July 11, 2017 by fluffy

  Today I had some friends playtest my game and the one big takeaway I got - which is something I'd been aware of - was that the input was way too sensitive and jumpy. So, I made the input less sensitiv... Continue reading
• Some more performance tweaks
  July 11, 2017 by fluffy

  Just some graphics performance tweaks. Previously the tonemapping stuff needed 5 texture lookups per pixel per pass and 6 postprocess passes. Now it needs 7 texture lookups per pixel per pass, but onl... Continue reading
• Some minute post-jam changes
  July 11, 2017 by fluffy

  Minute like small, not like time. Tweaked the behavior of the various mobs so they don't die quite so easily; in particular, after they're hit they stay hit-immune until all balls have passed through... Continue reading
• Final build for jam
  July 10, 2017 by fluffy

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  After the last week of nonstop crunching I've hit a wall. Did some last-minute gameplay tweaks which I feel make it feel better, but I'm otherwise calling the gamejam entry done. This was a lot of fun... Continue reading

  
• Everything from here is gravy
  July 10, 2017 by fluffy

  This build has the following changes: Visual tweaks, namely making glowy things look extra-glowy Fixes to the point system Another brick spawn pattern Now there's brick and enemy spawns everywhere I w... Continue reading
• It's the final stretch
  July 09, 2017 by fluffy

  Aside from improving the ROAMING EYE's visuals substantially, this build is mostly for compatibility and bug-fixes prior to the end of the jam. I doubt I'll get Flappy Bat done in the next 12 hours,... Continue reading
• All hail the ROAMING EYE
  July 09, 2017 by fluffy

  Added another enemy type, the ROAMING EYE (yes, the name is a Steven Universe reference). It basically wanders around and shoots stun bullets at you; if you hit the bullet it'll stun you for a bit but... Continue reading
• I judder to think
  July 08, 2017 by fluffy

  Sorry for another devlog so soon, but just two quick things here: I finally fixed my oBS encoder settings so it won't look like total ass (although I didn't realize until too late that I had my screen... Continue reading
• Water you looking at?!
  July 07, 2017 by fluffy

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  So, I've added a fun visual effect. You'll probably never guess from the cheesy title of this devlog. Go on, guess. The effect itself is fairly simple. It treats the water surface as a tapestry of spr... Continue reading
• Our first alien: meet the Randomizer
  July 06, 2017 by fluffy

  You might notice that build versions are now a string of seemingly-random hex characters. This is because at least for now I've switched to using the git shorthash to version my builds, which makes it... Continue reading
• So many improvements!
  July 06, 2017 by fluffy

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  Originally my intention was to make the graphics look pixely and low-resolution, akin to Arkanoid or 90s PC demos or the like. But the more I played with the vector-art visuals the more I liked them... Continue reading
• And now, bricks
  July 05, 2017 by fluffy

  Bricks can now be spawned. And they can be spawned in sequence, as well. This is turning into an actual game! Of course there's a fun thing that this exposes, where if the ball hits multiple objects a... Continue reading
• Updated me some physics
  July 04, 2017 by fluffy

  My polygon-ball intersection test wasn't working right, and I had to take a few steps back to rewrite it correctly. Now it's both faster (because it does early rejection wherever possible) and more ac... Continue reading
• Really really really early prototype post
  July 04, 2017 by fluffy

  Hey I guess I should use this devlog function. Refactor is an album I did back in 2015, as part of trying to get back into making electronic music. Many of the tracks started out as game soundtracks o... Continue reading