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Aug 20, 2021
Punting everything over from twitter is a bit tedious. At least reposting everything slowly gives me time to make things I should've made while wasting time... I guess?
Oh yea I guess take a look at this super old UI, it looks different now... in the future. Well if I ever get to implementing it instead of tweaking it left and right
Aug 16, 2021
my super wack workflow, ngl even though it's okay I want to redraw all the characters, but it will screw up the scale of the enemies and environment unless I redraw them with a similar size and proportion, but if I do that, did I really redraw them?
Aug 12, 2021
Another imgur link. dang I need to optimize my gifs... Or maybe I should work in only video...?
Aug 11, 2021
Sorry for the imgur link, my gif was too chonky. Which makes sense I guess since it's a 30-second-long textbox that needs some of it's messages pruned.
Jul 21, 2021
Actual turns + new active indicator.
Jul 20, 2021
Characters can't be revived mid-battle.
Jul 13, 2021
a bug, this is not intended behaviour, tbh pretend you didn't even see this. My game has zero bugs, this is self-sabotage posted to make you think my game is buggy.
Jul 13, 2021
posting videos on tumblr seems to be a billion times more enjoyable than trying to post them on twitter. oh and yea now the characters move a bit when they do stuff.
Jul 10, 2021
yea that's right, I made the trees move
Jul 9, 2021
cool status effects. I actually need to fix the art for these right now in the present lol. PRO means protected
New Isosprites
Hello, this is Ali from the future just checking in to show off these amazing new isosprites. Now you can see Jordan and Phoebe on the overworld. Way better than Alice and her two doppelgangers. The hardest to make had to have been Phoebe tho. Her hat is nuts.
Jul 8, 2021
cool system that lets you survive with 1 hp when you really should've died if you have a high-luck stat. also healing is in. it's bog simple stuff but I literally do not know how to code I am a master at programming.
Jul 7, 2021
I got so many things done during 2021. Like all of 2022 passed by and I barely refactored some of the code and continually realized how shit my game story will probably be my game will have a great story please play it when it's done
original tweet below:
AOE techniques work! I also learned the oddities of integer math recently... math is wack. -- Next up will probably be Healing? or Buff/Debuff.
Jul 5, 2021
sometimes I direct link to the image on Twitter. I am now realizing that might be a mistake and like a few posts might die out of nowhere. Oh well everything is preserved pretty nicely on discord
Jul 1, 2021
idk if you've noticed but like I queued up all these posts so my page could run itself for awhile. I've noticed that my blog's current theme only makes the videos look super nice but the images are displayed too small and it kinda ruins the aesthetic tbh
oh yea I guess I should add this is showcasing battler selection. it's pretty fancy.
Jun 29, 2021
okay, not gonna like this is cool, how the heck did I program this.
Jun 27, 2021
reposting everything kinda sucks, but like I haven't been making a lot of new content while I've been focusing on the story so hopefully, this will hold over? maybe. I should work on my game more.
Mar 5, 2021
got one of the UI elements working in engine, Kinda sleek but miss the drop shadows...
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I'm Ali. This is a blog for my video game, I usually do this on Twitter but you know, rich dude wants more money. Welcome! I usually just post stuff about the game. My game is a JRPG-inspired exploration game called pearlessential. It's made in Godot Engine.
Website: pearlessential.webflow.io/
Itch: https://alkaliii.itch.io/
and since you read this far, I have an empty discord server waiting to be populated that you can find here: https://discord.gg/UZ3DCZXmr9
Not sure what else to say right now, other than be patient lol.