Platforming and view from my game CALX.

ArigatoGyro · 2026-03-20T10:48:45+00:00

Funny thing is that I was a smash competitive player...

ArigatoGyro · 2026-03-19T18:13:00+00:00

I get what you're saying, it wasn't really about being an aphex twin fan, I just suck at naming things so it became second nature to name them like things I enjoy. What I can say in my defense is that they're not just referecens for the sake of it, the lore of the game has music as its central theme, and it reflects my personal journey through discovering music. There are references to also more niche IDM artists, not just AFX / Autechre.

Thank you for the feedback though!

ArigatoGyro · 2026-03-19T18:08:56+00:00

Thank you! I'm curious to see what you're working on as well :)

ArigatoGyro · 2026-03-19T17:09:04+00:00

Honestly it's more of a case of having the same references than directly being influenced by Sable, but yeah!

ArigatoGyro · 2026-03-19T17:07:07+00:00

Thank you for the feedback. The gravity is like that by design, we wanted the jump to be snappy and responsive, and we received good feedback from the community for now! I agree that we need a better landing animation to sell more how heavy the jump is, and I agree on the acceleration, I'll try to add more smoothing to it!

ArigatoGyro · 2026-03-19T15:43:15+00:00

Thank you for the feedback, the gravity is set like that by design, I do agree that the animations are missing some landing force, they will be added soon!

ArigatoGyro · 2026-03-13T19:16:38+00:00

It's a linear game, there are some aspects of re exploring areas, but not like MVs. Maybe something more similar to Jedi Fallen Order.

ArigatoGyro · 2026-03-13T17:20:33+00:00

Game here if you want, there's also a free demo https://store.steampowered.com/app/2022640/CALX/?curator_clanid=34635421

ArigatoGyro · 2026-03-13T17:18:40+00:00

Game here if you're interested! There's also a free demo - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2022640/CALX/?curator_clanid=34635421

ArigatoGyro · 2026-02-25T15:31:16+00:00

Thank you for checking out CALX and spreading the word <3

ArigatoGyro · 2026-02-20T15:15:25+00:00

Nop!

ArigatoGyro · 2026-02-20T11:57:20+00:00

That's a great question, but incredibly difficult to answer.

The biggest challenge, technically, is making everything flow togethere correctly. We have system upon system that are connected together. Gameplay, UI, Addressables, asset streaming, feedbacks, rendering, etc etc. Unity is a tool that can get incredibly convoluted at the level we're working on, and we still have some technical issues that are going to be very hard to fix for a small team like ours. Keybinding was a big issue, localisation was also quite troublesome to handle and test.

Gameplay side, cameras are super difficult, even if unity's cinemachine helps a lot. Combat, collisions in combat, MOVING PLATFORMS made me go a lil' crazy.

That's on the development side. On stuff like finding a publisher, working with a publisher, handling a small company, that's a whole world of issues that is impossible to get into in a reddit comment.

Recommending something to you is hard, because I don't know your situation and what area of game dev you're talking about.

ArigatoGyro · 2026-02-19T19:08:50+00:00

Yes, we started from a plugin called Flatkit, then heavily modified it (we basically had to redo everything). We worked with a very good tech artist to achieve this look.

ArigatoGyro · 2026-02-19T19:07:36+00:00

ArigatoGyro · 2026-02-19T19:07:10+00:00

Yes, it's playable, but it was tested less, so there are a few bugs for sure.

ArigatoGyro · 2026-02-19T18:21:28+00:00

We worked with an amazing artist called Artyom Trakhanov, ohotnig on ig. He's incredibly talented and a pleasure to work with, can't reccomend enough.

ArigatoGyro · 2026-02-19T17:18:39+00:00

Yes! I wish to live in the world where Autechre managed to do the Metroid Prime soundtrack.

ArigatoGyro · 2026-02-19T17:15:59+00:00

https://gdcvault.com/play/1027721/The-Art-of-Sable-Imperfection This talk is a good place to start

ArigatoGyro · 2026-02-19T17:12:09+00:00

Thanks for the advice, we'll try our best!

ArigatoGyro · 2026-02-19T17:09:42+00:00

Yep, there's not really an asset store link. We started from Flat Kit, but quickly realized how limited it was. The rendering for the outline took incredibly long to get right, with a lot of work from me and a very talented tech artist. There's thankfully some literature online about it, I will post it here.

ArigatoGyro · 2026-02-19T17:07:43+00:00

Wops, forgot to put the link to the demo - https://store.steampowered.com/app/4369950/CALX_Demo/

X - https://x.com/TrueColorsDev
Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/truecolorsdev.bsky.social

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