by @morbidember.bsky.social
Developer log for my game "Rivals in Rock: Path of the Wolf", a visual novel/rhythm game that tells the story of a notorious rivalry between two bands who can't seem to keep cool in each other's presence. This feed is just for tracking my posts about my dev progress on this game. Marked with 馃幐馃挜
Ember馃敟 Super rough and blocky visdev work mainly exploring themes and defining the colors that represent the bands. I have to keep the darks relatively on the lighter end in order to not clash with text box, menu, and note highway UI/UX 馃幐馃挜 #gamedev #indiedev #conceptart #visdev
Ember馃敟 I think about the placeholder assets in my game a lot 馃幐馃挜
Ember馃敟 Flowchart for the conflicts in my game's story is getting to Pepe Silvia levels 馃幐馃挜
Ember馃敟 THINGS ARE HAPPENING 馃幐馃挜 This is a test of one of the methods I learned for scripting Visual Novels, Test 1: JSON Temp assets made in MS paint with my mouse #gamedev #indiedev #visualnovel #art #Godotengine #godot
Ember馃敟 It's been one year since I announced my solo dev game, Rivals in Rock: Path of the Wolf! 馃幐馃挜 I'm pretty proud of my progress so far. Mostly writing story, but got plenty of art done too, and started making the demo! Real excited to continue sharing progress throughout 2026!!! #gamedev #indiedev
Ember馃敟 The demo build is officially in progress (LET'S GOOOO馃敟馃槇馃帀) which means I gotta make a mock up for what I want the UI and backdrop style to look like during dialogue scenes (which is most of the game) 馃幐馃挜 #art #visdev #indiedev #gamedev #visualnovel
Ember馃敟 I wanted to push the 00's rock star look harder on Adam so I teased his hair, along with other minor changes 馃幐馃挜 His character has developed a lot these past few months, how he behaves and present himself in the story, so the change felt needed 馃槇 #art #characterdesign #conceptart #indiedev #solodev
Ember馃敟 I'm learning through the process of my solo dev journey that I really need to pace myself better. I am only one person, and I'm doing this for fun, I can make small progress and that's okay Anyway here's character personality exploration sketches of Isaac 馃幐馃挜 #art #gamedev #indiedev #conceptart
Ember馃敟 This was supposed to be just a block out but I ended up getting really into it 馃幐馃挜 #art #conceptart #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #rhythmgame #gamedesign
Ember馃敟 Sneak peak at some first pass sketches for an important character in my #solodev game. 馃幐馃挜 #art #gamedev #indiedev #conceptart #visualnovel #characterdesign
Ember馃敟 I wanna get some animation tests for Rivals in Rock started soon so I'm getting prep work started by breaking down and refining the hair of my two poster boys Adam and Wolfgang 馃幐馃挜 #gamedev #visualnovel #2danimation #indiedev #solodev #characterdesign #art
Ember馃敟 Beatboards for Rivals in Rock when I was testing out the character designs for the main two bands 馃幐馃挜 I decided I'm going for simple animated sprites, simple as in using less frames per animation while showing as much action as I can. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #art #visualnovel
Ember馃敟 I made a matching poster for Scarlet Tears similar to the one I made for Path of the Wolf Did I mention this band's name was Scarlet Tears? If I didn't before I am now 馃幐馃挜 #art #indiedev #gamedev #visualnovel #rhythmgame #characterdesign #conceptart #solodev
Ember馃敟 IVE GOT A TITLE FOR MY GAME NOW馃幐馃挜 Rivals in Rock: Path of the Wolf or just #RivalsInRock Meet Path of the Wolf, a rock band that doesn't like to use labels to describe their music, but follow the influences of the hard rock and heavy metal legends before them. #art #gamedev #indiedev #solodev
Ember馃敟 NEW YEAR NEW PROJECT I'm making a solo dev game that's a rhythm game/visual novel about two ex-childhood friends and the rivalry between their bands, taking place in the 00's! Here's a sneak peak of the band you rival against, a Vampire-themed dark alt rock band #art #gamedev #indiedev #solodev