joe 🐛 making caterpillar game
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working on 🐛 I AM A CATERPILLAR 🐛 - a game about climbing on stuff and not being a butterfly.
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like a leaf on the wind 🍂🍃🐛
why glide when you can SPIN
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we're just normal maps
we're just innocent maps
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HELLO NEW FOLLOWERS
if you followed me for the very terrible joke post yesterday... sorry!
I'm Joe, and I'm working on a game where you play as a caterpillar and climb anywhere you want because that's what bugs DO
here's what it looked like 🐛 many moons ago 🐛
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behold, a procedurally animated caterpillar comrade 🐛
smooth climbing and exploring at any angle on any surface, while being cute and wriggly as hecc
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sometimes you just have to remind yourself how squishy and wriggly you are, as a treat
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🎶 REGULAR MOSS, REGULAR MOSS 🎶
🎶 REGULAR MOSS, REGULAR MOSS 🎶
some nice normal, non-glowy moss for our lil caterpillar friend to muck about in 🐛
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Heya
#PitchYaGame
🐛
I AM A CATERPILLAR
Become the squidgy lil' caterpillar you've always wanted to be, on a quest to stop your own metamorphosis.
Crawl & wriggle all over anything in your path (yes even that snail) and explore the canopy
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used a random displacement texture as a placeholder for my caterpillar's new see-through effect... but i actually kinda like it. looks radical dude🌈
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YOU, YES YOU! It's
#PitchYaGame
time 👇
I'm making 'I AM A CATERPILLAR', a game about being a lil' bug and facing down your destiny.
🐛 climb over everything
🐞 meet cute forest friends
🚫 stop your metamorphosis
Follow & catch the
#WholesomeDirect
on June 10 for deets 👀
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what better way to celebrate
#EarthDay
than hanging out in a swamp 🐛🌎
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tinkering with caterpillar movement calls for a very high quality test scene 😎
can you find the bug in this clip? 🔎
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move over
@CanYouPetTheDog
, its time for:
Can You Pet The Frog (By Crawling On It's Head (Actually It's A Toad)) 🐸🐛
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oh to be a small caterpillar on a big leaf
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for most, a tree is an obstacle
but for the caterpillar, it's just another pathway 🌳🐛
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my new followers pushed me past a new milestone, so once again, welcome new followers!
cheers for 3500+ caterpillar comrades 🐛♥
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hired a beetle as my new marketing intern, is he doing it right?
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its dangerous to go alone, take this (gif of an adventurous caterpillar)
enjoy your
#TearsOfTheKingdom
this weekend for all that partake ⚔🐛
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BREAKING: the Dublin/New York Portal has been shut down because of a serious bug in the system 😔
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apparently
#thicktrunktuesday
is about trees, so what better way to celebrate than marvelling at the huge tree our caterpillar friend finds themselves in 🐛
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solo gamedev is where you end up building your entire game on a git branch called something like "quick-dialogue-system-test_attempt-2" and never question it.
what is 'development'? who is 'main'? these are alien concepts to me i am sorry
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retro caterpillar?! 🐛
AKA 'whoops i broke my post-processing'
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oh to be a HUGE caterpillar on a TINY leaf
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The Floor Is Lava is such an easy game to play when you're just a lil bug 🐛
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its *possible* i may have SLIGHTLY over-tuned the spring on this leaf
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playing a game of cater-pool 🎱🐛 .... im sorry
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been a WHILE since i looked at the original gamejam submission that became IAAC... its definitely come along quite a bit since then 👀
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Dare you discover what lurks through the cracks in the walls?
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🐌 shelldon 🐌 likes to make puns to distract himself from the existential dread of knowing that he exists upon puppet strings dangled and yanked at the will of a malevolent and sleepy developer
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🌟BREAKING NEWS 🌟
did you know some caterpillars can actually jump?
watch this one conquer a floating midair obstacle course 😱 isn't nature beautiful 🥺🐛🔊
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I AM A CATERPILLAR - Reveal Trailer!
🐛 Be an adorable caterpillar
🧗♂️ Crawl over everything in sight!
🌳 Explore a mystical forest and try to stop your metamorphosis
🔄Retweet to support! ♥
👇 Wishlist below! (I can't believe I get to say that now 😱) 👇
#WholesomeDirect2023
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The indie game I'm making and three of the inspirations behind it.
The indie game I'm making and three of the inspirations behind it.
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i was gonna add more to this... but there wasn't mush-room 🍄😎
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#pitchyagame
'I AM A CATERPILLAR' - you are just a lil' bug who wants to choose their own destiny in life
🐛 climb stuff
🍄 find stuff!
🌳 explore stuff?!
crawl around and live out your wildest caterpillar dreams wooooo
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🌟 BIO-LUMINESCENT MOSS AGAIN🌟
but like, more 🌈 colours 🌈
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our little caterpillar friend has become quite *dashing* ha ha ha (please laugh) 🐛
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this is the first video I put up of the *new* caterpillar game a while back now, its reception is what made me want to push the project further 🐛
ARTISTS you can only use one Art picture to convince people to follow you.
Which art piece you using?
OK GO UWU
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the floor is lava
but you are a caterpillar
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what better way to spend your weekend than being a lil bug doing lil bug things
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hmmm no i do not think that is correct
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you dont need to go through metamorphosis to fly if you simply accidentally disable the cooldown on dashing 🧠🐛
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bug space program shows promising results
if you're currently working on a video game, take a short break, pick a number in your code or data files, multiply it by 1000, and post the results
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status update: character controller rework is going exceedingly well thank you for asking 🐛
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any time i make changes to how the caterpillar controls, i test out its precision and ease of control with a little test i like to call 'the tree is lava'
i got a bit cocky towards the end and stomped off the vine for a second, rookie mistake
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Inside the paper dungeon, you find a cardboard chest sealed with sticky tape.
Do you find it... a-peel-ing? 👀 ... sorry
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I was going to take part in
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the thing about being a bug is that ⬆ up ⬇ is kinda subjective
adding an optional 'caterpillar view' camera mode back in for those who wish to see things from another perspective (and have more of a tolerance for funky camera motion 👀)
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the world looks very different when you're a tiny angry caterpillar 🐛
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am i stress-testing the mushrooms? or bullying a caterpillar for my own enjoyment? who can say 🐛🍄
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no mr. orc, dont worry, im not gonna hurt ya. just taking a peek 👀 with my new jazzy selection effects ✨
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some cute little interactive moss i did as a shadergraph experiment. looks a bit more like slime than moss but luckily, stylized games can do whatever they want 🕶☘
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crank the tippy taps to 11
show me sped up gameplay of your game.
is it satisfying?
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new caterpillar just dropped, now i have to remake the entire game damn
The bizarre limacodid caterpillar.
(Photos Philippe Fernandez)
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the debug donut is probably as close as the caterpillar will ever get to playing halo 😔🐛
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happy holidays to those who celebrate - and to all a bug-filled end to the year 🐛
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if you too wish to soar like a graceful bug someday, you can wishlist over here 👇
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who else is touching grass this weekend? 🐛
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caterpillar flexing its gymnastics skills ✨
please ignore the lil accident at the end no caterpillars were harmed i promise 🐛👀
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apparently there's some show about people putting mushrooms on their heads or something? weird??
anyway don't listen to
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, fungus headwear doesn't have to be spooky ♥🐛🍄
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behind the scenes: our little grub wasn't always so talented at jumping, there were some... false starts 👀
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caterpillar's new eyes and mouth decided they wanted to be included in the see-through effect... okay i guess 🐛
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why is my shitpost popping off
uhhhh quick, time to shill myself, i am making a caterpillar game pls check it out and follow if you like being squidgy and cute:
what better way to celebrate
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oh god this has left the gamedev circle and apparently there is a different meaning for some people so to clarify for non game devs:
this is what normal maps are:
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ONE LAST WRIGGLE:
#pitchyagame
🐛 A grumpy caterpillar's quest to stop their metamorphosis
🧗♀️ Climb up, down, under, over, inside and across anything you see
🐌 Meet cute forest friends that will assist you on your journey 🐥
Follow for more ☑
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added more satisfying bleep bloops to the pickups, this was very necessary. if ur a bug u will understand 🐛
there's still room to squeeze more juice into it tho so my task is not yet over
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OH GODSH OH LORD PLEASE FORGIVE ME I HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE NATURAL LAWS AND I AM SORRY
THIS IS MY LAST TWEET. IT COMES FOR ME
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so uhh.... i *think* i may have broken moving platforms
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Reminder to tune into Wholesome Direct by
@_wholesomegames
tomorrow (June 10, 9 am PT, 12 pm ET (5pm BST for my UK folk)) for 70+ awesome games on display, including our little caterpillar friend! 🐛
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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
more bugs for the bug throne! 🐜🐞🕷🐛
pls checkout and wishlist the below 👇
Announcing a roly poly adventure from the wonderful world of Webbed!
🍂 Isopod 🍂
The Steam page is up now!
Please Wishlist!
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i thought the yellow paint in games discourse was interesting, so to test it out i added yellow paint to everything in the game the caterpillar can climb
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what time is it, I hear you ask?
it's time for
🌟 COOL GLOWY MOSS OOOOOH🌟
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Excited to finally share that
🐛I AM A CATERPILLAR 🐛
will be a part of Wholesome Direct 2023, which is on June 10 at 9 am PT, 12 pm ET (5pm BST for my UK folk)!
Tune in for loads of awesome cozy indie games, and special news about our lil 🐛 friend!
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🐛❗ I AM A CATERPILLAR has a discord ❗🐛
come along if you want to offer feedback, ask questions, or just chat about caterpillars
link below👇
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The cover art for I Am A Caterpillar was created by the very talented
@thegnarlyghost
and I absolutely love it! If you like what you see here, go and check out their other work and maybe get your fave D&D character or gamedev artwork idea commissioned 😉🐛
#WholesomeDirect
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think they got some dust in their eyes 👀
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it must be hard being a bug that needs new shoes, like damn u gotta buy 3 pairs every time 😔
(also look wowie Uzul the marketing intern got a makeover 🐞)
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weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 🍃🐛
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i know most of my followers are here for BUGS
so go check out this mix of bugs and tamagotchi all wrapped into one awesome cozy game (demo is still up on steam if you wanna try it out!) 🐛🐞🐜
Our demo is out NOW!
🌳 Raise & release bugs to revive a forest
🎮 Enjoy minigames, decorating & more
🤯 Learn about real critters
🪦 Face mortality
We're a tiny, women-owned studio so playing the demo/wishlisting it means a lot to us 💚🪲
#FutureOfPlay
#pixelart
#Tamagotchi
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oh no the last panel is calling me out 🐛
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do you ever feel like you're stuck in a loop?
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i have changed the entire game now u are a ghost caterpillar on a mission to do the exact same thing as before but also now you are a ghost
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cube propaganda: rapidly spinning debug cube doesn't exist, it can't hurt you
rapidly spinning debug cube:
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combat demo where the player has beeg dash upgrades (longer steerable dash; dashes deal damage; spawn ring of bullets at the end)... end result: many splats and many fun
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Messed with the lighting last night, closer to how I want it but we're not QUITE there yet 🤔🔥
how long can I spend tweaking one shader instead of adding features? let's find out
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what does it mean when a bug says "i got alot going on"
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🐛I AM A CATERPILLAR 🐛 has a discord! Join if you want to stay updated (just in-case Twitter X-plodes 👀)
Come say hi 👉
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COUNTER-STRIKE 2? The only 'CS' you'll ever *REALLY* need is a (C)aterpillar & (S)nail 😎🐛
okay now ive got the SEO out of the way, there is a big tire in the game now! wow!
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