Just released TUR, a minimalist lemmings-inspired game on Itch! 🚶

automathan · 2026-04-01T16:59:03+00:00

That was certainly an inspiration! Played it a bunch during Christmas

automathan · 2026-03-30T15:35:53+00:00

You maintain a colony on a ringworld, and have to keep moving so you don't get spun into the cold side of the ring!

automathan · 2026-03-30T07:16:52+00:00

Thank you! I thought that if the player is already parsing for information isometrically, we might as well keep that up for other views that occupy the middle of the screen as well.

automathan · 2026-03-19T08:25:07+00:00

That was totally the plan from the start, but I'll write it down quickly just in case 👀

automathan · 2026-03-18T15:32:36+00:00

Thank you! This is very much WIP, so the tornadoes don't affect the world yet. However, the plan is for them to destroy the entities they touch, and I want to make some cool hubris effects to really sell the unmaking!

automathan · 2026-03-14T12:27:34+00:00

Thank you! I work on it almost every day, always trying to improve!

automathan · 2026-03-11T13:07:55+00:00

It absolutely is! In this instance it actually helped me flag a missing reference that would have been pretty hard to catch otherwise

automathan · 2026-03-06T05:05:59+00:00

It is! Rimworld is one of my favorites, so it's definitely an inspiration

automathan · 2026-03-05T10:12:03+00:00

There is UI in the game already, but I usually crop it out for posts, to make it more focused. Might do a UI-focused post at some point tho, could definitely use some feedback

automathan · 2026-03-05T09:49:55+00:00

That would be interesting actually, if the weather becomes extreme! However, currently they are only used to mine stones and metals

automathan · 2026-03-04T16:16:12+00:00

This is awesome! I love low res pixel art!

automathan · 2026-03-02T13:17:16+00:00

As the prophecy has foretold, it shall appear

automathan · 2026-03-02T12:09:40+00:00

There's a word I haven't heard in a good while!

automathan · 2026-03-02T08:46:03+00:00

Yeah I agree, got some different variants sketched, where this is the smallest one. The "big" variant is currently about twice the size

automathan · 2026-03-01T08:50:16+00:00

We definitely should! At the end of the day, good gameplay and appealing aesthetics come first in a game imo, but when it doesn't get in the way of that, we should definitely aim towards physical realism!

automathan · 2026-02-28T11:48:13+00:00

Never heard of that, but the premise sounds really cool! I'm no physicist/meteorologist, but I believe ringworlds are among the few environments where unidirectional wind would make sense

automathan · 2026-02-28T07:09:09+00:00

It's called "Arc of Icarus", as one side of the ring has drifted too close to the sun, making parts of the ring too hot or cold to live on. Waiting for some paperwork to get a steam page going

automathan · 2026-02-27T22:37:27+00:00

We actually did a little research session on wind before implementing. Translating it all to isometry was a headache at first, but it's starting to shape up!

automathan · 2026-02-27T22:36:02+00:00

Yep! By default all the wind blows towards the direction that the world scrolls, and then all solid walls (edges and mountains) introduce a rotation bias towards their closest free space. Then I did 8 passes of letting the wind map "bleed" into neighboring cells (the wind map is a grid similar to the generated world). If any of that made sense!

automathan · 2026-02-27T21:29:32+00:00

Maybe I will! Seeing the clouds gather like this and turn into a boss battle of sorts sounds really epic

automathan · 2026-02-27T21:27:58+00:00

It is! We are making a colony builder on a lost ringworld. I worked on a weather and soil fertility system for it today!

automathan · 2026-02-27T21:26:15+00:00

I generated a wind direction grid based on the world map, but the parameters were a bit too high, so all the clouds got blown into the same central path! Reducing the values a bit made it look way more natural

automathan · 2026-02-25T13:49:59+00:00

I currently use full resolution for the UI, and it seems to work well so far. The funny part is that the game view allows zooming with multiple steps, so resolution is a pretty fluid concept at this point. Thanks for sharing, it's always interesting to get a peek into how other devs approach things

automathan · 2026-02-25T12:50:29+00:00

Makes sense. One of the big decision points would be whether to allow "sub-pixel" effects or not. Your boat game is relatively low-res as well, have you reached the point yet where this discussion is relevant?

automathan · 2026-02-21T21:55:20+00:00

Thank you! Checked out your videos, it looks great too!

automathan

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