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:cat-rainbow: (and other cat hearts)

There was discussion about people wanting cat hearts with various pride flags so I made this set. I decided to put them all in a single post instead of spamming the comm, hope that's okay All emoji should use the following keywords and if needed I added extra keywords specific to each emoji keywords: heart, meow, love, care  :cat-rainbow: additional keywords: lgbt  :cat-gay:  :cat-lesbian:  :cat-non-binary: additional keywords: nb, enby, nonbinary  :cat-bi: additional keywords: bisexual  :cat-ace: additional keywords: asexual  :cat-pan: additional keywords: pansexual  :cat-intersex:  :cat-aro: additional keywords: aromantic  :cat-demisexual:  :cat-polyam: additional keywords: polyamory  :meow-hug-trans: additional keywords: support, trans

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Happy Anniversary Hexbear!

Now in it's own post as requested so everyone outside the mega can enjoy too. Here's to another year!

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Cocoa needed a cuddle this morning

Sorry for the dark photo, I didn't want to wake him up lol

A little over 2 weeks ago, I had once again started working with Godot, determined to finally learn the software so I can bring my many game ideas to life. And then I stumbled and failed as I usually do as my ideas were lofty and my skillset meager. I think it was the Mark Brown video that finally made the (obvious in retrospect) idea sink in that there was no way I can do the more complex games I wanted to make without first having made a bunch of simpler projects to nail down the fundamentals. So instead of trying to follow a grand plan, I just opened up a old tutorial I did and started adding stuff purely by vibes. And it fucking worked because after 2 weeks of intense hyperfocus I was able to put together an actual game that works (so far) and has most of the basics of the genre! Sure it's only 5 minutes long and full of stolen assets but I'm still very pleased with the outcome. I started with the GDQuest Vampire Survivors tutorial and first decided to change out the graphics and give it a theme. What would be an amusing communist theme? Stalin crushing hordes of fascists. I decided to use Metal Slug assets for most of the characters and weapons (which had the bonus of getting a lot of practice in with animation because holy shit those spritesheets are huge). After I changed the graphics, I gave the solider a death animation instead of just disappearing. I thought the same death every time was boring since the soldiers had so many death animations in Metal Slug, so I made a system for randomly choosing a death scene each time. Then I got nostalgic for cheat codes from old games so I figured out how to add a text input box and made some effects for code matches. Every time I got bored or frustrated with an element I was working on I would come back and add another cheat, sometimes even it was just a bit. And it sort of fed into itself after that. I went back to the soldier. I wanted an leveling system, so first I needed gems to fall from defeated enemies. Those gave XP which needed to be tracked, then I needed to trigger a level up screen where random options can be chosen. It started with a basic screen where 3 upgrades could be chosen. Then I added dummied weapons into the mix. At first the options could be infinitely chosen, but I was able to limit each option to 5 levels, which each level being a unique upgrade. I got bored of working on that so I went back to enemies. I made 2 new variations: ones that I thought could have interesting attacks (though I never got around to adding an attack for the pirate variant). Since I didn't want them to appear at the start, I made a game timer and assigned a difficulty counter that increased every minute that changed the enemy loadout and spawning ratios. With all this game info to be tracked I created a UI to track important info. Then I made a boss with multiple attacks, 2 phases, adds, and a custom health bar. I was creating larger challenges but with my hero only shooting a simple gun, it was time to add weapons. I added 7 in total. An 8th was originally planned for parity with the 8 upgrades, but I never got around to fully implementing it lol. Then it was just some polishing left, so I added a title screen, credits, game over screen, music, and any sound effects I didn't get around to adding yet. Oh and options, so volume levels and fullscreen mode could be adjusted. And then any last passes for animation adjustments, bugfixes, sound balancing, etc. I probably did more that I mentioned because it all starts to blur together towards the end. It's still a little janky in areas and I'm sure a lot of my methods and solutions are inefficient but in the end, it still seems to work and that's good enough for a learning project Here's some screenshots! Title screen:  Swarmed by enemies:  Using the "gorbachev" cheat:  Level up overlay:  Boss fight:  I have a packed exe that I can put up on a file sharing site if that's allowed here and anyone expresses interest in trying it out Links to the game: [Windows version](https://pixeldrain.com/u/qUUshQER) [Linux version](https://pixeldrain.com/u/w44ccgmu)

Brain hurty but I'm gonna keep at it

Hi all, I've completely run out of money and I have a couple needs coming up soon. I need to pay my phone bill and my partner needs to send off time-sensitive documents for their disability claim soon. I think I should be able to get by with $30.