Mmmm things are good on my end, as I mentioned good to see ya again! :D I'm ready for winter too, lol...this heat and humidity sucks xD

Good to hear from you, I hope to see you streaming again soon. :)

Definitely more of a fall winter guy myself.

No one likes being too hot or too cold, but were I to choose one over the other, I'd go for too cold.

Its awesome to see you pop up again! and really cool to hear your working on your coding skills! Awesome to see you pop out a game, but yea, dont like, start polishing to the point your spending hours on something that makes a minuscule difference >//> that can be a bit of a trap that doesn't end up being worth it ^^;

but yeah, cant wait for fall/winder again, heat is no good Xd

Hey Endium. Nice to see you around again. Good look on your programming :)

Best of luck with your codings and much fun, if you stream and draw again.

Yes. Summer sucks. I rather freeze to death, than melting from heat.

I always look forward to your streams and your art, and doubley so if you manage to get it running steady. I imainge you'll rack up quite the que in no time. that said, planning other projects or anything? Or would you rather focus on the game? I'd be looking forward to both, just a bit curious is all1

Yeah, I also can't wait for summer to end, even if we are having a lot of rain over here

The "fractal" makes a lot of sense to me, a lot of my own creative projects tend to go off on "tangents", or research where learning one thing leads to questions about another. It's a useful way of thinking about it!

Hard when you are not used all around development. It is like 90% of population lack nowadays. Usually nowadays people trained for one thing only it is sad. But yup life like this you take one task you have to learn another to make it good.

... Soda can hack?

I didn't even know you made a game. =0 that's pretty cool.

I tend to go with modular design personally, but I haven't really accomplished much x3

Yup pretty much build your game engine first. Or more exactly design document.
It may not be to the letter but you need to know what different features you plan to put in your game, and make them specifically possible while you are working on engine to have less time fighting with what you wrote and more trying to input those features. After that make some study on games you like then read on how they built.

Like your metroidvania had good concept, but too fast clunky jumps that moved screen suddenly and too much. Felt more like tight platformer, and really had strange ranges, feeling frustrating to play. Good concept but inexperience matters(or having more time to put such small things that might not exist in first hodge podge proof of concepts but should be added soonish as they scew that feeling of how it feels to play game.)

Now imagine things to fix, add short 0.2-0.5 seconds accounting for platform check while jumping so technically you could still jump after you got of platform. few pixels accounting that you landed but requiring for you in same 0.2-0.5 seconds to land. Some let ins for attacks making them just few pixels longer.

Or such important thing like proportions of game speed to asset sizes ratio. Like in game with the small sizes like megaman you can go fast make enemies move fast, because there is enough screen space to react. There is a upper limit, but it is still faster then in games like metroidvania, where enemies are stationary slow or predictable, always slow down, and there is relatively few fast enemies and they are predictable in their movement or where they appear.(would mention more about it later). And this game more relies on not zooming of the screen enemies and more of you walking in to slow enemy and then they signal their attack and you need to dodge/block it and read it in time. Looking on the game classics and trying sorta fit in those speed/size ratios is a good thing sometimes.

speaking of enemies appear suddenly. Sorta if player may near where they appear unless it is a target to cause feeling of being unfair or frustrating, like with pumpkin heads in castlevania I know it maybe wasn't super intended in terms of gameplay, but it sorta fitted in. The telegraphing of something is about to come out is good thing, or show player in safe environment that something can come out, so he could try to stay away from such places. Ofcause such desings not rooted and up to experimentation but it is better have them and turn them on and off to see how it feels with and without them.

generally simple things like that easy to implement most the time, but usually causing huge effect on gameplay. Every genre has those. Card games too, board games too.

As for programming you are taking right approach of engine and framework first rest is after. Just to help you to keep with least hussle as much robust and universal you framework I would recomend to use objects, or something that allows easy branching off. And keep all similar data to keep together in structure or in whatever analogue. (like sprite, weapon data and such) so if you would want to branch you could convert it easily without too much work into object or class.

For example if there is class for status effect, you can always branch it off to create completely different status effect or partially different you almost didn't account. Basically building structure for your program is as important. Thanks for hearing me out and sorry if I told banal things. Would be looking for your game to see how it would end up.

Really want to get something from you if you get back to draw. Love your stuff, especially the latex drone armor thing