Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz

Maffi as a centaur! I wanted to go with a pony lower half instead of a mouse one because I saw some art from koto0v0haru that I really liked that was like that.

Art by https://twitter.com/luvporbol

I wrote a simple tool for planning out video RAM usage on the SNES:
https://novasquirrel.github.io/SnesVRAMPlanner/

It's mostly just a visualizer where you can plug in settings and see what portions of video RAM get used

I've had Ichugo on my mind a lot and I've wanted to get art of her as a toy, so here's art of that. Unfortunately you can't really do rubber shines on a white surface that well but it was fun to have her design be more sexualized here a bit. One fun detail is that the strawberry that's on her chest would probably be printed on in this case?

Art by https://softponies.carrd.co/

Me continuing to get art of Nova drawn as lots of characters' penises continues with Vanilla the Rabbit here. It's fun to have it be another platformer character, and there certainly don't seem to be many of those that are actually adults so it's nice that there are a few cute ones like Vanilla.

Art by https://twitter.com/luvporbol

I polished up the hub world map in my game a lot, and I recorded me walking around in it! I really like how the town is looking so far, though there's still lots of things I want to add.

I'm already using about 60% of the tiles I'll have available and there's still plenty of space for more details. I also have lots of unused palette colors I'll want to put somewhere.

#gamedev #snesdev

Here's some art I've gotten recently! I'm really happy to get more art of my beaver taur Rebecca, but I'm also always glad to get more art of Maffi and Rosy too.

Art by:
https://twitter.com/funnyhat12
https://twitter.com/dandelionlambs

Here's what I ended up putting in my 10l$/week place. That gazebo is really helpful for only being one land impact, so I was able to fit it in and make something resembling a building, even though I only had a 4 LI budget.

A roof, something to eat, something to sit on, and a friend.

I realized I never commissioned https://twitter.com/luvporbol to draw Ichugo, so here's a drawing of her!

I implemented this feature over the weekend!

The game still does everything on a per-map basis and you can't chat with people on an adjacent map (or even see them, currently) so presentation-wise I made it clear that you are crossing over from one map into another.

Whenever I do any complicated bit stuff in my code I end up making diagrams both for my sake and others'.

It would've been nice if the SNES could shift multiple bits at once, though I know the 68000 also does it a single bit at a time, just that it does it in one instruction.

Definitely think it was a good idea to use the rest of my land tier on Second Life on making this area bigger. This is how it looks currently. For some reason, the fact that it's a small plot in an area without much around actually feels really cool and cozy.

Now after spending a ton of time designing buildings and making a rough draft of a hub world map, I've got something that feels complete-ish, just unpolished. And now I have it in the game itself; you can walk around the map but that's it so far.

Feels like a huge step forward because I've been working on this part of the game for a pretty long time at this point.

The map conversion does a whole lot of magic stuff where I just export the map as PNGs and provide palettes.

#gamedev #snesdev

I wanted to get more art of Maffi turned into a keychain, now that I know that I like having her drawn with a penis.

Art by https://softponies.carrd.co/

I doubled the number of pride flags in Tilemap Town to cover more identities 🌈

Oh I got a response to my ticket pretty quickly! Now I have my 512m² land tier completely maxed out. I'm not entirely sure what I'll do with this area, but it's a good little sandbox in a region with a funny name, and I don't feel any obligation to make it look presentable because there's nothing nearby.

I ended up just putting in a request to buy some abandoned land to expand out the 48m² area I already have, because I think that's the most useful thing I could possibly do with 32m² remaining in this land tier.

Gonna have a 8x8 square, and a 4x4 square connected to it, assuming they approve my request.

Last time they said they don't sell small amounts of abandoned land unless you already have some land adjacent to it (which isn't actually mentioned on the website), but in this case I do.

The GoodNES ROM set is a little different from how I remember it

Here are some digital cards of my characters I commissioned from https://twitter.com/bugbearstew !

I actually made my beaver taur character Rebecca have natural colors specifically so that a rubber toy version can use unnatural colors to really contrast against it. And now I finally have a picture that plays into that. I really like how she looks here!

Art by https://twitter.com/luvporbol

I saw this table near a local library. It's a really cool idea to have a built-in board for some board games.