#heartbeast

[yet-another-suomi-blogi]

Tuli katsottua tämä Sydänpeto-leffa Ruudusta kun sinne tuotiin kotimaisia tuotantoja Viaplayn puolelta. Olen Hesarin arvion kanssa aika lailla samaa mieltä, tosi kova kotimainen leffa (toki yhteistyössä ranskalaisten ja saksalaisten kanssa tehty) - ja voitti Jussi-palkintojakin ihan syystä.

[solitari]

You happen to people. I've merely been happened to.

[a-witches-riddle]

I think laying on her chest, listing to her heartbeast whilst she holds me at pets my head would fix me a bit 🥺👉👈

[l1zardart1stre]

fan sprites of jevil and the heartbeast from jevilquest by @zootyplex will try to post here more after that mega artdump I just posted

[haveievermentioned]

So, Deuce was just confirmed as Aro in the most recent episode of Monster High and they just... did it so well.

So to start off, they introduce their version of Valentine's day called "Heartbeast day" where if you say your love, a real heart will drop down in front of you by an unseen but presumably omniscient being. Heath (flame elemental) and Lagoona (Sea monster, known romantic) find Deuce, alone, listening to sad music, in his PJ's and tissues. They assume he is sad because he is lonely and try to set up romantic situations so he HAS to call someone over. It does not work. He subverts every single one. Brings his school to a movie showing, he shares his food with his snakes, he takes a pet on a long walk, etc. In addition it becomes apparent even from that FIRST situation that he isn't sad! Lagoona and Heath are just reading into something not there. He is perfectly happy, and when they start escalating their plans he finally just tells them that. He is happy, he loves himself, he loves his friends, the initial thing was a mis understanding he explains, and he helps them get their nights back in order. In fact, the OMNISCIENT MAGICAL BEING gives him a heart just like the romantic couples. It's just a really solid, explained it in kid friendly terms, and Deuce was just the same, never broken. He is the sweet boy he always is.

[ponett]

I've been curious about Godot for awhile now, what resources have you been using to learn it? If you don't mind me asking!

I actually fell out of learning Godot really quickly when I started trying to learn it earlier this year, although this is more due to the timing and my own continued burnout than anything wrong with the engine. (I like what I've seen of Godot so far and need to get back to it.)

The main resources I was using were the official beginner tutorials on the Godot website and a handful of video tutorials by HeartBeast on YouTube. The problem, really, is that I jumped on shortly after the public release of Godot 4.0, and there was very little learning material available for Godot 4 at the time. There's TONS of stuff out there for Godot 3, but 4 seems to be juuuuuust different enough in terms of features and syntax that not all Godot 3 tutorials will work for Godot 4. I was also reluctant to roll back to the older version of the engine, even though the devs have been constantly reassuring people that Godot 3 is still viable, just because I didn't want to spend all that time learning a version of the engine that's already outdated. So my brain just kinda shut down in the face of having to make this decision and I put off actually learning Godot

Right now I guess I'm mainly waiting for GDQuest to put out the updated versions of their courses for Godot 4 - particularly "Learn to code from zero with Godot," which seems like exactly the in-depth introduction to designing things in Godot that I need as someone with very limited programming experience. But who knows when the hell that'll be done

In the meantime I did at least make this

[impzone]

thank yuo...

spent 1 billion hours trying to modify a dialogue system i learned to make from a tutorial and did not succeed. pain

[darksides-dutchess]

hi so i'm up at 10pm thinking about Loceit, and how Logan rubs Janus' scales when he's over-stimulated and needs his boyfriend to "come over here before i have a meltdown pretty please".

Aaaaaahhhh, I love that!! Honestly, I read this and wasn't able to tell who's the over stimulated one, but now this makes it more fun and delightful to imagine.

Logan laying in bed with a book in hand as he always does before going to bed when he hears the sound of Janus's footsteps but more... angry?

Janus walks into the bedroom with a face that screams of frustration from whatever type of day he had. He sluggishly walks towards Logan, and without giving a chance to ask, he collapses himself onto Logan's chest and just whines.

Logan can tell exactly what Janus is saying through the mumbled words, and his warm hands start to stroke his beloved's scales gently. That instantly helps Janus ease down as his shoulders relax, his breathing becomes softer, and his whole body melts into a puddle in Logan's arms.

Likewise, Janus is sitting in the living room with a glass of his favourite wine in hand when suddenly he notices a shift in the air. He glances over at Logan, seated on the opposite side of the couch, working his ass off on his projects that just doesn't seem to be going his way.

Irritation starts to fill Logan to the brim, and Janus can see that clear as day. The snake's places his glass onto the table and scoots closer to Logan. Immediately, he lays his head onto Janus's chest and wraps an arm around him.

Logan takes notice of what his partner is doing and lets out a heavy sigh. He shuts off his laptop, leans back on the couch, and holds Janus closer in his arms. With their heartbeast against against the other, the feeling of his delicate scales as Logan strokes his skin, and the soft purrs escaping the snake's lips as though he was just an attention seeking cat.

Though Logan didn't mind, in fact he could do this all day and night long.

I rambled a bit there, but THEY ARE SO SPECIAL TO ME!!! 💙💛✨️✨️!!

[snailmakesgames]

Hey, bro, I really like the NES game you submitted for the game jam. As I'm new to coding and eager to learn, I wanted to know how you did the fade-away effect, where the colour palette almost changes likeit does on the original NES. Looking forward to hearing from you, and best of luck with the jam!

Heya! Thank you so much :)

The way I handled the color palette effect was actually done entirely inside a shader! In my main gameplay scene - a node that handles everything at the top level, like level transitions, restarting the game, keeping track of hp/score, etc. - I have a CanvasLayer node with a ColorRect set to cover the whole screen:

This ColorRect has a shader material applied that locks the colors on-screen to the nearest color within a palette I set from an image file. I also have the filter CanvasLayer set to Layer 128 just to be extra sure it takes priority over everything. Then for the transitions themselves I actually just have a pretty standard fade in/fade out animated using an AnimationPlayer - all the magic comes from keeping to that palette! You can see it's just a normal smooth fade without it:

So it's the same concept as palette cycling, just without an actual indexed palette being manipulated.

I'm so not the person to teach about shaders as I only barely understand them myself, but you can find a shader that does this here and a Heartbeast tutorial on shaders over here!

[mindymortondev]

New Features, Lightning Round!

There's been a lot of updates over the past few weeks, and I have been a little too busy implementing them to take the time to upload my progress, so here I will quickly try to show off these features and credit my resources!

New Animations and Player States So I actually had to totally rewrite the player code to add these new animations and a couple of new states involving getting damaged, dying, and winning the game.

I mostly used the logic from this Godot tutorial by Nathan Lovato in GMS2 which helped me to really break down the character into good chunks. It was tricky to work out the kinks when I started but it worked just as well now and made the workflow with these other new features a lot easier. I also used a lot more functions() to be able to speed things up, since physics would need to be written in every state.

Essentially, these new states work like this:

Touch something bad? Damage State. Damage State? Check if they still have health. (tutorial on invincibility frames by HeartBeast) No health? Enter death state. Death state? Transition to title Game Over room.

And the winning state will simply transition you to the "winning room" as soon as you touch the winning item. And the looking-up and looking-down animations are used in the idle state if the camera detects that that is what the player is inputting.

Title Screen, Pause Menu, Game Over, and Winning Screen So to make these work, the first thing I had to do was actually decouple my camera from my player. Coupling is what happens when you write the code of two objects in such a way that they can't run without each other being present. Decoupling was difficult for me since I did not understand the key difference between calling an instance and calling an object. Basically, an object includes all instances of that object, but an instance is only one specific object that's already loaded.

However, once I did, it was fairly easy to move the camera around through code without a player present and create the Game Over, Title Screen, and Win Screen all on my own.

For the pause menu, I used this tutorial by Shaun Spalding and implemented some assets in the Draw event to make it feel like a proper pause menu.

I'm also just going to mention here that I used this other tutorial by Shaun Spalding to implement a transition so the game doesn't just freeze for 20 seconds while it loads the other room.

A few more assets I implemented a few more assets, mainly for UI. I actually was able to figure this out by reading documentation! It was pretty much all handled in the DrawGUI event. I also added some simple hearts and coins by using GameMaker Studio's health and score properties, which are universal throughout the project, like a global variable!

Everything past that was mostly more assets like recoloring the roots, making some more roots with the spikes on them, and then making additional backdrops for above ground and underneath the ground! I would share them all here but I intend to share a link to download the game in the next post, so keep your eye open for that!! :)

[clownstho]

Enemy Script Overhaul: Done!

I did it. I fucking did it. Last night, I finished de-tangling my enemy AI script.

Here are a couple of before pictures of the script and my reflective thoughts.

I was so taken with madness fixing this thing. I didn't bother to preserve the old script. These pictures are all that's left of the first version of my enemy. RIP but it won't be missed <3

231 lines all piled into one script. This poor man's state machine was just an enum and a MATCH statement executing all the functions it was crammed in with.

To emphasize the scope of the problem, I also took a picture of what I was calling "Timers' Alley". I named a section of his script because it was 5 timers all running at all. It lived above where all the animations happened.

I think once you're at the point you're naming the different neighborhoods of your goddamn script, you might want to Learn A Better Way.

I've attempted state machines in the past, but I don't think I had the confidence or skill to debug anything if there was a problem. Or the understanding of structuring my code. This time around, I could grasp Heartbeast's finite state machine explanation. So I set it up and then spent about 5 hours debugging.

God. It was so much trial and error. There were a lot of little changes made that were reversed. A lot of print statements. And even more comments written! I rooted out a lot of code that I didn't need. Now it all works and now the state machine is also fully commented. My script is sooo organized, and works like I want it to. Not to mention that I feel like I understand it completely now. That was not always the case in the old script!

100 fewer lines in the main script, and that's with the addition of updated descriptive comments. Now timers' alley no longer exists, replaced instead with the two-function Animation Alley. The timers now connect directly into the relevant state scripts using signals. All together the state scripts make up 442 lines across 5 states. So it was a lot more coding and commenting to get 100 fewer lines, but i think it was worth it. Now I can feel at peace, and modifications to behavior later will be easier later.

Now that I know how to do this, I could theoretically do this to the player too. I won't right now. But I could.

Okay I guess it's time to consult my notes and see what else is on my to-do list.

[herlittlesmile]

Heartbeast, está en filmin

acabo de ver esto, aunque mejor tarde que nunca y ya tenía tu recomendación apuntada, gracias igualmente

[schalotte]

tagged by @darflores thank u angel :]]

5 song i've had on repeat lately. it's a bit of a mess <3

tagging @plantbutter @noroalia @kimpossiblefacts @zoeadrien @taohun kisses <33

[nine-nine-lines]

Ark of Corruption Dev Blog 1

This'll be the first development blog post for my new programming project, Ark of Corruption (name pending)! How exciting!

This'll be the first development blog post for my new programming project, Ark of Corruption (name pending)! How exciting!

Project Description:

Ark of Corruption is going to be my attempt at a NSFW furry p*rn game (I obviously won't be able to post the naughtier parts here). It'll star a dingo paladin who has to navigate lusty, corrupting enemies on their way to face off against an invading alien presence.

Progress Thus Far:

Even though this is the first dev blog post for the project I've been working on it on and off for about two weeks. I've been following the Action RPG Tutorial by Heartbeast on Youtube to get off the ground with Godot (I'm using 3.5 right now). It includes a lot of features I was already planning on including so was a perfect find for my project.

As of today I've officially finished up that Youtube series and have begun to work on my own sprites, code, and design! That's whats getting me to post about my own progress from here on out!

Things I Learned from the Tutorial Series: -Displaying animations with AnimationPlayers/AnimationTrees/AnimatedSprites -Setting up hitboxes and hurtboxes with prefab scenes that can be attached to anything -Learned about state machines and how to keep the player and enemies in discrete states -Coded a detection radius prefab scene that can be attached to any enemy -Created an enemy unit that has soft collision to push other enemies out of its way -Used tilemaps to set up level design of visual and collision elements on a scene -Used animation tracks to call functions, edit properties, and make sounds

Progress Today:

Today I managed a lot! Very productive day.

On a coding level I made the dodge roll deactivate the collision hitbox, effectively making the player immune to damage during it. I also managed to create a placeholder image for the Holy Blast ability, code its instantiation, and make it move properly across the screen. The player can now use Holy Blast to damage enemies from range! It also is properly incorporated into the FSort so it doesn't show from behind objects. I ran into some issues making it collide with the environment, but I learned to use enter_body signals when dealing with non-Area2D collision elements.

Art-wise I spent a lot of time iterating on some pixel art that I worked on last week. I had originally designed the pixel art of the main character based off of some art that @Switchbit did for me. Today I started animating some that original idea into the four-way walk cycle (with all armor still on). I still need to animate the sword swing, dodge roll, and holy blast.

I also knocked out a simple set of slime animations--one for movement and one for idling. I used the tutorial's code for Bat enemies as a base, made some adjustments and included a slime enemy into the game! It has slow movement, low friction, and should make a great first enemy.

Ultimately, I'm very happy with progress today. Looking forward to doing more next week. But Destiny 2's new update is going to put my free time to the test hahah.

[night-clown-demon]

"I've never had bad sex with you.. I enjoy it every time we have it~," he spoke softly and nuzzled softly into the other man. He was happy listening to his heartbeast and the crackle of the fire.

It was relaxing and he loved to be close to Dazai. He loved these days of sex and then sweet after care. It was nice, and he loved it dearly...

Nikolai reached over, grabbing his cape to drape it over both of them to use as a blanket.

"I'm always happiest when i'm with you... I like just laying next to you, feeling your warmth and listening to your heartbeat and breathing..."

"At least I know it's never been bad for you. I get paranoid about that sometimes." He pet the other's hair, content with the other laying with his cheek on his chest.

"I love you too, Honey Bun." The gentle crackling of the fireplace was a relaxing sound, and even with that pressure in his abdomen, Dazai quickly found himself relaxed and happy.

"I think I'm happiest just laying next to you some days."