Lily Valeen 🌺 What were some design compromises you had to make while developing games, and what were the reasons?

Lily Valeen 🌺 Are there any coding/visual game challenges you’ve run across that were particularly challenging? 👀

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Lily Valeen 🌺 What's your order of operations for making a game? That being in what order would you do things like making assets, actual programming, writing, sound design, etc?

Time is a created thing, to say “I don’t have time” is like saying “I don’t want to”…

Oh! This is a tricky one, hmm... I've had all sorts of coding challenges, honestly. Often it comes from me having to work with a library or API I'm not very good at understanding... like right now I'm trying to implement Steam stuff in Bossgame and it is *rough*

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Regrettably, I don't... not much, anyway. I came up with some systems to put together enemies in Bossgame, but they're not easy-to-use tools. The dialogue is all written directly into JSON...

I'd like to do more in the future!! Gamedev is about cheating as much as possible, imo

Surprise and suspense is important, but not necessarily twists?

ex. the 'twists' in Bossgame are, imo, not hard to see coming! But it's not obvious what form they will take, what will happen, or how the characters will handle it, and I think that tension is really important

Lily Valeen 🌺 Is there a character you wanted to add to Bossgame but couldn't find a way to make them fit?
If you had to hire someone to do a specific job for your next game what role would they fill?

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Lily Valeen 🌺 So... no fishing update for Bossgame?..... 😔

Lily Valeen 🌺 Do you make tools along the way? If so which is your favorite or most reused?

Lily Valeen 🌺 What game do/did you like making the most?

Crescendo 🎹🏳️‍🌈 @ play Toumayhem I'M HONESTLY REALLY PROUD OF HOW BOSSGAME TURNED OUT (and i had so so much help from great writers like Tabby 🐀 Instead of 🧠 there is Slow Damage & Marina Ayano Kittaka 橘高) BUT I WAS SWEATING BULLETS THE WHOLE TIME

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Super Easy. Barely an inconvenience. Imagine being so bad, you can't kill an overload champ in a GM while bragging that you're a 'GM player' when you do Trials.

You choose one or the other. Skilled gameplay (GMs) or ego not (Trials.) Right, Revenant5333?

Sometimes you have to let go of something good to make room for something better…

on one hand, i've implemented steamworks into bossgame. on the other hand, steamworks is eating all of my gamepad inputs. move forward, gain two

Lily Valeen 🌺 do you like trains?

First step is prototyping!! I make a tiny simulacrum of the moment-to-moment gameplay. For Bossgame, this was the battle system - I spent months playing with mechanics, input, balance, timing, getting feedback).

Once that was ready, I knew I could move forward confidently!

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Lily Valeen 🌺 Another question, how important do you feel plot twists are to narratives?

Bossgame, for sure. I've wanted to make a bigger adventure for so long, and I was so excited to push my limits!

I got to write a full story with characters I fell in love with, I designed a battle system I'm really proud of, I got to work with amazing artists... I feel so lucky

Scope is the big one. Bossgame was going to have 25+ bosses ('sounded like a good number') but it would've taken me another 2 years, so I released when I reached my limit.

I also cut weapons w/ passive bonuses - too complex for the super-fast action, and made gameplay a slog

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Actually, one of the trickiest ones for Bossgame was the texting cutscenes, and it was a code AND visual challenge.

Designing a UI that fits well on phones, scrolls up and down, keeps a log, respond to touch, and feels natural was so much work 😭 i'm proud of it, but...

Trying Bossgame by Lily Valeen 🌺 again

Fighting these 'devils' makes me sad, they just wanna hang out 😭

yes!! trains are very good. Bossgame does not have any trains, but it has a boss that runs you over like a train while tooting a train whistle

i think trains are a very good setting for dungeons, or just as a boss themselves. also public transport rules when done well!!

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Lily Valeen 🌺 what are the easiest and hardest parts of making a game for you?

ooh, this is tricky..!

Easiest: Gameplay balancing & minutae. I can really easily get lost in stuff like adjusting attack patterns or tweaking menus, and I kinda love it!! It's why I was sure bossgame was a good fit. Plus, I love leaving little weird quirks everywhere✨