Hi everyone!

Just wanted to let you guys know that I do commissions, and that I recently updated my commission sheets! I do various commissions like art, pixelart, etc.

Art commission sheet

Pixelart/Rivals commission sheet

If anyone here plays Rivals of Aether and know of my various mods for that game, I also take commissions for stages and even full characters! I don't have a sheet for those (although stages are covered in the pixelart sheet), but contact me if that's something you're interested in.

In general, if you're interested in commissioning something, just contact me! Prices can vary if it's complex or simple, but I'm very easy to talk to about that, haha. Shoot me a message here, on Discord, or wherever you're comfortable and we'll work it out.

Anyways, that's all. Thanks for reading!

- Felix

I just released Dr. Eggman for Rivals of Aether workshop! He has a ton of cool moves and animations, and was made from scratch like all my characters. Check him out, and give it a vote if you can!

Eggman and his stage on workshop:

Dr. Eggman

Egg Carrier

Watch the trailer here!

I don't typically post these here, but I figure it doesn't hurt, lol. For those who are interested in the characters I make for Rivals, I'm revealing a new character for Rivals of Aether in less than 24 hours!

It's a big video game villain that basically everyone knows, and a lot of people would probably enjoy having a quality mod of them, lol. So if you're interested, you can get your predictions ready and check it out!

You can find the premiere here: https://youtu.be/WsnpUo7yxRY

Here's a trailer showcasing the newest update for my Metroidvania game Super Gear Quest!

The update adds a whole new ice cave area, new bosses, more quests, and a big addition to post game content! And it's currently on sale, 50% off.

For those who don't know, Super Gear Quest is a Metroidvania game inspired by the likes of Cave Story, Metroid, Kirby, and Megaman. In this game you mostly play as Starter, a "Kewtian Android" who wakes up from an 100 year slumber with an apparent mission to save the planet Tanrega from it's certain doom.

Along the way you meet new friends that help you with your mission, as well as villains who attempt to squabble you. The game has many fun mechanics such as multiple upgradable weapons, dynamic movement, and even segments were you get to play as a pair of characters called Avatar Duo, who have to fight off viruses inside of Starter's body!

Stay tuned for many more future updates, and feel free to join my Discord server here!

- Felix

Hi! I just figured I would let everyone know that I have set up a Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/felixblobdev

So for those who want to support me while I make more games, mods, art, etc, can do so through there! Donations are of course completely optional though, so if you aren't interested you can feel free to ignore this completely, lol. But yeah, if you ever want to help me continue with the work I do, you can easily do so through there.

I will also allow commissions through Ko-fi as well, but please note that at the moment it's closed until I have cleared up some of my current commissions.

Thank you!

Hi! Been a while since the last update, but during that time some stuff has been done.

I'll try get right into what's new.

First though, if you want to see these things much earlier and more frequently, see what else I'm up to, and more, you can join the community and visit the the Discord server!

You can also find my games on Steam here!

Anyways, I finished up more animations for Sol! These include versions for both his outfits.

I also have a new character for the game: A plushie called Karo. Sol brings him along on the adventure, and he'll most likely be a sort of companion character.

Karo also has a sprite, and I did a bit more on the intro of the game. Early on before going on his adventure, Sol gets his stuff from his room:

Like I mentioned, I also did more on the intro. This has slowed down a little bit and it isn't really complete yet, but I did mess more with some parts:

Most of the first half of the intro (at least) is entirely functional. I'm aiming for a fairly short intro to avoid the game having a boring and/or slow start, to try and get right to the point.

There are one or two opportunities for the player to explore a little in the middle of the intro sequence if they want to do that as well. And after the intro, the player is able to freely start exploring, since exploration is a very important part of Solarblade.

Anyway, I also finally started on a new version of the main city; Calia! It has some 3D houses and a bunch of new tiles and details.

I also finally got started on new mugshots/portraits for the game! Previously only Sol had a few of these, and they were pretty old. So I've made new ones, which include a ton of expressions for Sol, and some mugshots for other characters (some of which also have many expressions, such as Tiel). Most of them arent shown here, but it's still some of them:

Now for something a little different: The game is going to have some 3D parts in it, so Sol also needs a model. I've slowly made one for him over time, and its just about ready for use. Not only that, but I also finalized the rigging (so that it can be animated), and implemented IK (so that his feet properly follow the ground).

Particularly IK is very new for me, as I haven't used it before... So it was a bit difficult to implement and figure out, but I like the result!

I also created a brand new tileset, as I had one somewhat productive day a bit back. It will be useful later on, since I intend a part of the game to feature lots of fire and lava:

This also includes a new enemy: Eruptlet! These guys are pretty cute, but they'll get spooked if Sol gets too close, causing them to shoot fireballs.

Solarblade still doesn't have many functional enemy types, so this guy is still among one of the first. It was also the first attempt at vertical projectiles in the top-down environment the game uses, but everything worked really well. They're basically completely ready for use.

I think I'm just about out of stuff to post now. I have a lot of ideas for this game, it will just take a bit of time to work through everything and find out what I end up with. Hopefully this update was worth the wait anyway.

Before I end this one though, here's also some art for the game, with Sol getting ready for his adventure:

As usual, if you want to see these things much earlier and more frequently, see what else I'm up to, and more, you can join the community and visit the the Discord server!

- Felix

Hi again!

Sorry for no updates, I didn't have as much to report on. I've saved up a few things since last though, so I have some stuff on Solarblade to show now.

If you want to see these things earlier and/or join the community, feel free to join the Discord server! You can find it here: https://discordapp.com/invite/blobgames

You can also find my games on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Blob%20Games

Gamedev Updates

First, I made some more tiles and environments, like more interior stuff and different colored brick tiles.

I also did a lot of spriting and animating on Sol himself. More animations for his casual clothing sprites, for example.

Also fixed up his item animations:

Push animations:

Shield animations:

The rest of his attack animations:

I also partially coded the game over functionality, finally.

It also has a pretty finished animation, too!

Also includes some new particles when Sol is asleep, which I posted about here: https://twitter.com/FelixBlobDev/status/1440012892145913857

There's also a new mechanic I began to implement, which is a sort of EXP system:

The idea is that Sol gets bigger during the game (which was already a thing, canonically), so to represent that there is EXP which makes him grow larger.

This was initially just an idea for fun, just a number that represents what size he has reached, but it's possible that it might affect some things beyond that.

I'm pretty happy with the effects and the animated UI for this, though. So I also did some similar stuff for the games money system. Might have more on all that another time.

It's been a bit since last, so I don't think I will put any tweets here this time. I still make them daily however, so if you wanna see them you can find them on my twitter: https://twitter.com/FelixBlobDev

That's probably all I have right now, but I'll make another update once I have more!

- Felix

Hi again, back with another update. Not much to say, but I did a little more on Solarblade again.

If you want to see these things earlier and/or join the community, feel free to join the Discord server! You can find it here: https://discordapp.com/invite/blobgames

You can also find my games on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Blob%20Games

Weekly Gamedev Updates

I've been working on Solarblade again. First, I made a bunch of new decorations and tiles, such as flowers!

Some are unique to the forest, aka Terga Woods:

I also improved the games shadows a little, and implemented cloudy weather:

With improvement to shadows, also comes darkness! This will be very useful for places like dungeons and dark environments. Maybe even for night time, too.

Sol also now has animated idle states now, instead of a single frame like before. The simplicity of the earlier idle animations worked fine, but I wanted to do more for the game's animations and I think this looks good!

And on the topic of animations, I have also fixed up part of the games intro, and created an unique animation for Sol during it.

Lastly, have some random screenshots I took of the weather system in action, inside a test level:

That's all I got for Solarblade this week, but I also added this to my released game (Super Gear Quest), as someone requested it. A screenshake setting:

It's not too special, but someone wanted it, so I wanted to add it at some point. I haven't updated SGQ with this yet either, but the feature has been implemented.

Tweets

Jack-o Kewtians: https://twitter.com/FelixBlobDev/status/1429866030109577221

Art of Sol holding Helicalia: https://twitter.com/FelixBlobDev/status/1430228411100794884

Mr Mokula in Super Gear Quest: https://twitter.com/FelixBlobDev/status/1430590804247023618

Helicalia in Solarblade is actually flat: https://twitter.com/FelixBlobDev/status/1430953190040739842

Sol fumo: https://twitter.com/FelixBlobDev/status/1431315580963868672

Swamplands in Super Gear Quest: https://twitter.com/FelixBlobDev/status/1431677967977959426

- Felix

I was thinking I'd try start making weekly updates on here! Mostly just to share what I post on twitter and get a bit more out of things, as recently I started attempting to make a bunch of tweets every week.

Marketing is pretty difficult so I'm trying at least do what I can, even with the very small audience and outreach that I currently have. Anyways, without really wasting any more of your time, I'll try this out!

If you want to see these things earlier, join the community, or just simply enjoy what I do, you can feel free to join the Discord server! You can find it here: https://discordapp.com/invite/blobgames

You can also find my games on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Blob%20Games

Weekly Gamedev Updates

I've been working on my next game, which is Solarblade. Some of you probably know it already; it's about a young giant called Sol. Keeping motivation up is hard, but I have some stuff this week anyway.

First off, I modeled a bunch of new houses for the game! It uses a mix of 2D and 3D graphics, so exterior buildings and such will be mostly 3D.

After that, I set up a bunch of the interior of buildings, made it possible to enter them, added a bunch of new interior tiles the game didn't have before, and so on. This still needs a lot of work, but the basics are there.

I also coded a bunch of weather stuff, as the game has a dynamic day and night cycle and a weather system. For now this includes wind, rain, sunny days, fog, and cloudy skies. It's not all complete, but it's mostly there!

Tweets

Funny Solarblade: https://twitter.com/FelixBlobDev/status/1427329314668703744

Sol watching funny dragons: https://twitter.com/FelixBlobDev/status/1427691704572735490

Sky Facility in Super Gear Quest: https://twitter.com/FelixBlobDev/status/1428054092031565828

Geneticognito and Rane in Super Gear Quest: https://twitter.com/FelixBlobDev/status/1428416474067046401

Baby Matthew buddy in Rivals of Aether: https://twitter.com/FelixBlobDev/status/1428778861605515274

Weekly fan art: https://twitter.com/FelixBlobDev/status/1428809064281108480

The Haunted Chateau in Super Gear Quest: https://twitter.com/FelixBlobDev/status/1429141253367730181

- Felix

Hey everyone,

I just saw that I got followed by some people (I guess I got front page, so that's cool) and I wanted to say thank you for noticing my art! You may have noticed that a lot of the art is from something called Super Gear Quest, so I'd like to elaborate on that:

Super Gear Quest is a game I started working on in 2015 and have released in May of last year. I did my best to make a new and innovative metroidvania featuring Starter (the protagonist) who has to save the planet of Tanrega from a strange and ancient evil. You also play as Avatar Duo, two digital beings inside Starter's systems, who assist him on the adventure.

It's on Steam, so if you're interested please check it out. You can find Super Gear Quest right here!

Other than Super Gear Quest, I also do a lot of art which is from the same universe, other upcoming/future games and projects, and some fan art. So there's a lot of that, too.

Thank you, and I hope to show you guys much more in the future!

- Felix