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Stacking

Very useful feature, totally not a pain to work with due to the submenus needed to select what you're acting on and then select what you're doing... I plan to make this a gimmick in at least one dungeon but maybe I should look into streamlining the process before that haha.

"Oh, great, another game falls prey to Yellow Paint Syndrome" well, gee, my guy, maybe if we didn't demand hyper-photorealism in every game regardless of context, modern platformers might be able to develop a visual language that doesn't require painting a sign on every single interactable feature to render it distinguishable from the clutter.

i feel like Mario as a metroidvania is a concept that hasn't been explored as much as it should

i feel like it's rich with potential for that

I don't think you could implement anything like the standard upgrade treadmill without doing violence to Mario's basic idiom. When I picture a Mario game with a large interconnected world, I see something less like a metroidvania and more like the sub-game "The Great Cave Offensive" from Kirby Super Star; i.e., there'd be no permanent upgrades, but a wide range of temporary, mutually exclusive powerups, most of which can only be obtained in particular regions of the map, with the open-world traversal being purely a challenge of routing – identifying an obstacle at point A as requiring a powerup which can only be obtained at point B, and figuring out how to travel between those two points using the capabilities that powerup provides.

Objective UI and Quest System

Mostly backend. As usual, it's a pretty jank system but it works. No quest markers atm but I've been considering them. I also want to look into optional objectives. This is the first time I've seriously considered how quest systems work and it's quite interesting. I need to find more references to study haha.

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Needs some VFX, but at least how I built my system lets me turn any rigid body into something you can push around like this. Just need to set up another system to encourage you to move stuff around...

Feb 26, 2022

It was around the 1 year anniversary since development started when I originally posted this and it totally slipped my mind. Hopefully I do something for the 2 year anniversary, but i'm busy and it's technically now (Feburary) Welp, I always have next year

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Jun 18, 2021

we got even more characters now, and fancy weapons!

Mar 5, 2022

Yea that's right, I want my game to have an adventurers guild with ranks. I'm going to take my sweet sweet time explaining the rank system to the player even though it will barely differ from the speech given in every trashy isekai made since 2018. Recently I redesigned the rank insignias (I was bored and didn't want to code) sneaky peaky