Personalization

Is water wet?

Yes

Aug 22, 2021

yes I put QOL features in instead of basic functionality like an inventory, or a flee button.

Mar 5, 2021

got one of the UI elements working in engine, Kinda sleek but miss the drop shadows...

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.

Jul 9, 2021

cool status effects. I actually need to fix the art for these right now in the present lol. PRO means protected

Excelsior, a puzzle adventure game for the Game Boy Color is now live on Kickstarter. There is a demo available on itch.io - please help us fund the project so we can develop it into a full game! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zenadu/excelsior-a-puzzle-exploration-game-for-the-gameboy-color

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

Dungeon

I present to you my first block out for a dungeon level. Yea, it isn't great lol. But with these pieces in mind, I was able to make a proper sketch

It still needs some work but I'm getting somewhere with it. If only writing the story was this easy...

April 23, 2022

took about a year and a half but now you can do not battle things and switch to battle things.