Matter

Devlog

• Making of Sentients in Unity3d
  June 28, 2023 by Inti Voxel Games

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  Hey, fellow gamers and supporters! This won't be a very long post, just wanted to share some progress about the making of Sentients and share some software architecture. While there must be a solution... Continue reading

  
• Back in action: Sentients unveiled, apologies given, and the quest continues!
  June 14, 2023 by Inti Voxel Games

  Hey, fellow gamers and supporters! Oh boy, it feels like ages since I last dropped a devlog or any other update, and for that, I humbly apologize. Life threw me a series of critical hit setbacks, but... Continue reading

  
• Matter Open Alpha 0.8.6
  April 11, 2021 by Inti Voxel Games#2d, #adventure, #pixel art, #platformer, #side scroller

  Hello there! It's been a long while since I write a devlog, a lot of things happened... stuff with work, life, time mis balances, I got sick, etc... but development can't and won't stop, I love this p... Continue reading

  
• Jump, slopes and matter control
  March 19, 2021 by Inti Voxel Games#jump, #game design, #game mechanics, #game development, #core mechanics, #Platformer, #Metroidvania

  Hello again! Yesterday I've been working on the most important issues in a game: core mechanics. I love to work on these kind of issues, each time I manage to fix these kind of bugs, and a player come... Continue reading

  
• When planet exploration goes wrong
  March 17, 2021 by Inti Voxel Games#story, #adventure

  "My mission is to explore possible habitable planets... Nobody wanted to take this job, as this planet is so far away, with no moon stations to communicate, and its atmosphere is so dense the helmet f... Continue reading

  
• Which level makes you die most?
  March 12, 2021 by Inti Voxel Games#game design, #analytics, #playtesting

  It sounds like a maniac question... I might be one, as I love to see my little testers... die! Jokes aside, now that I getting an interesting audience of players, I'd like to know in which levels do t... Continue reading

  
• BUILD! Improved conveyance, added challenges
  March 07, 2021 by Inti Voxel Games#update, #build, #2d, #unity3d, #platformer, #metroidvania

  Updates updates updates! Matter now supports Linux and MacOS with M1 chips! : I had several issues trying to compile to Linux, this was on Unity 2019.2, I'm not sure why I couldn't ever fix this issue... Continue reading

  
• You will die anyway... new level in progress
  March 05, 2021 by Inti Voxel Games#level design, #2D, #Metroidvania, #QA, #side-scrolling, #matter

  Yes you will die anyway, but at least you're going to feel progress and understand the mechanics the game is trying to show you and why you died. A death with purpose... this sounds ontological haha I... Continue reading

  
• Gameplay session: Matter is still too effing difficult
  March 02, 2021 by Inti Voxel Games#testing, #playtesting, #metroidvania, #side-scrolling, #2d, #pixel-art, #matter

  Niece: You idiot move to the left! Don't you see there is a way there? Niece's friend: Shut up stupid! There is no path there, I'm stuck! Juan help me come on! Me: No Niece's friend: Please! There is... Continue reading

  
• Road to a release!
  February 25, 2021 by Inti Voxel Games#sfx, #release, #alpha, #test

  Up here you can see bombs, now each of these have sounds Hello there! A small nightly release here that I think would give more juice to the game Added SFX to almost all elements in the game Missing a... Continue reading

  
• Back on track! SFX juice and fancy levels
  February 22, 2021 by Inti Voxel Games#Back on track, #2D, #Atmospheric, #Exploration, #GameMaker, #Metroidvania, #Pixel Art, #Retro, #Sci-fi, #secrets, #Singleplayer

  Hello there! Its been a while, but MATTER is back in progress! As I've been absent for a really long time (sorry for that!) I'll reintroduce my game: this is Matter. A pixel art platformer adventure i... Continue reading

  
• 2018-10-09 Sprite lights enhancements
  October 23, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games

  Well.. not exactly an update, or at least I thought it would be one, but I think I won't be using this I'm trying to learn the dark magic of shaders I'm trying to make a camera shader that takes a de... Continue reading
• 2018-10-08 Testing demo and curve of learning
  October 23, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games#playtesting, #demo, #game mechanics, #level design, #game design, #testing

  Testing, testing, testing! I got some players to play Matter, young people between 8 and 18 years old, some of them were not actually gamers, so platformers were not too familiar to them, which is go... Continue reading
• 2018-09-24 More level design
  October 23, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games#game design, #level design

  More level design, I think I will do only 6 levels for now, I will need sort of a MVP to show the game, after that I plan to design more levels (levels are not that long, its the first time I work on... Continue reading
• 2018-09-19 Explosions aesthetics
  October 22, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games#explosions, #pixel-art, #demo

  Yesterday I got some time to finish the last level, but instead of that, I choose to make a more precise way to handle explosions, so if a bomb explodes due to a hard impact on a wall (there are canno... Continue reading
• 2018-09-16 Level design for incoming demo
  October 22, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games#demo, #pixel-art

  Game design! Yesterday I spend almost all day watching videos and reading tuts about level design, game progression and game learning process about your own game (including watching again the very ex... Continue reading
• 2018-09-14 Weight button artwork
  October 22, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games

  Making some art for the button, I'm not sure if this looks like something the player would jump over and press, I guess it still needs some testing, but for now I'll leave this functionality at this p... Continue reading
• 2018-09-12 Button mechanics features
  October 22, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games

  While I was waiting for some tasks at my day time job as a web developer, I was able to implement the basics of the button trigger: now if you place a rock (or yourself) over this button, you can open... Continue reading
• 2018-09-08 Jump mechanics issues
  October 22, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games

  I cannot continue having issues on the jump logic, its too basic, yet critical for a platformer, so I'm doing some debugging and research on why some bugs are happening In theory I can reduce or even... Continue reading
• 2018-09-05 Big buttons to press
  October 22, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games

  Working on buttons based on weight. This mechanism requires a certain weight over the button (for some of those, it could be the player, others require heavier objects like that ball) to activate stuf... Continue reading
• 2018-09-04 I'm back! (posted after more than 4 months of inactivity)
  October 22, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games

  I'M BACK! I know it's been a while, I had some obstacles that severally slowed down the progress of Matter, my colleague was not feeling he had enough experience to keep helping me at the pace I would... Continue reading
• 2017-01-18 Matter gameplay video with HUD updates
  October 22, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games

  Hello there I have posted a youtube video showing the progress I have on HUD, mechanics and aesthetics overall... Continue reading
• 2017-01-12 UI proof of concept
  October 22, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games

  Now: more updates! This is a mockup of the HUD I'm working on, this still looks early, artwork needs to be polished Mechanism: Those 4 blocks contains the power-ups the player has collected so far, th... Continue reading
• 2017-01-02 HUD to place matter
  October 22, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games

  I made some improvements to the HUD to place matter. I still have to figure out what choices do I have to make the HUD tell the player that he can drag the pointer to create more matter rather than cl... Continue reading
• 2016-12-06 The platform
  October 22, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games

  December started! time is faster than expected... and desired! The platform It may be weird that you being able of creating your own platforms creating matter you would need to use other platforms, th... Continue reading
• 2016-11-30 The matter blocker (2018: still lacking for a good name, tho)
  October 22, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games

  Hi! its me again So... let me show you the matter destroyer device (still lacking of a good name for this one even now oct 2018 :D ) See the device at the middle? Its objective is to prevent you to go... Continue reading
• 2016-11-23 First level ever!
  October 22, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games

  Here are some full size screenshots of what we've being cooking, this will become the first playable level, its a short one but shows the most basic gameplay and aesthetics elements. Notice those gree... Continue reading
• The strange honeycomb architecture
  October 22, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games#pixel art, #platformer, #sci-fi, #concept art, #environmental art

  A bit of story behind this abandoned world. He has fallen in an unknown dangerous and alien place. This place used to be inhabited by intelligent beings which presence cannot be noticed so far. This c... Continue reading

  
• Matter 0.8.3 available to test, welcome back Linux!
  October 21, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games#game development, #matter, #unity3d, #linux

  EDIT: The MacOS version continues to face issues about the game looking totally dark. If you have this same issue, try playing the game in fullscreen. Also, if any of you players and testers find this... Continue reading
• Matter 0.8 available to test, no lights bug fixed
  October 13, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games#indiegame, #indiedev, #testing, #qa, #demo

  Hello! Somehow the file I uploaded got corrupt, I'm not sure if it were that way because of my internet, or if the system corrupted it somehow (if so, that's not a good sign, if it was a disk damaged... Continue reading

  
• Update and testing help request on MacOS Mojave
  October 13, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games

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  #playtesting, #QA, #testing, #indiegame, #macos, #mac, #mojave

  Hello For anyone following Matter, I will start testing making my dev updates here rather than in TIG forums, and see how it goes, as feedback and interactivity there was not the one I expected. Also... Continue reading
• Update 5/2/18 - Sound and... quiet time incoming
  May 02, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games#metroidvania, #pixel-art, #platformer

  Hello there, Juan Barba here! These weeks I've been pretty quiet about Matter, I couldn't use the time I was expecting for this project these weeks, and that can cause some feeling of incompleteness... Continue reading

  
• Update 4/18/18 - Greetings and summary
  April 18, 2018 by Inti Voxel Games#Metroidvania, #Pixel-art, #Platformer

  Hello all, Juan Barba here! Its the very first time I post a devlog for Matter at itch.io, I just want to say hello to this vibrant community, and also show the progress of this game for those gamers,... Continue reading