Wow, there are some pretty solid ideas here! I really like the holy block idea! I'll also consider if I can improve the beetle problem.

So, say I'm hypothetically having more plans for Uurnog, if you were to come up with a new block, what would it do?

It's coded so that each block does something when used, and can also respond differently to each damage type: push, pew pew, explosion, use disintegrate, and stack (yes, weird as it is, use and stack are implemented as damage types).

Hi! I'm glad to hear you seem to enjoy the game generally! To answer a few things:

I assume the game doesn't actually use bitmaps for the sprites, relying instead on polygons or vectorial images. It makes sense with the aesthetics of the game and means you can play in any given resolution without hindering visual quality, at the expense of performance.

This is actually completely correct. The story is that I wanted big antialiased pixels to make the game resolution independent and work with rotating objects. Originally I wrote a shader that could accomplish it, but there was a corner case where it'd look bad. I mean that as literately a corner case, because a transparent pixel in a corner between two non-transparent ones can only have a single color. The GPU interpolates towards the transparent pixel's channels independently (r, g, b, alpha), and that would make the color bleed over where the AA happens.

So, I wrote an algorithm that can convert a pixel image into a 3D mesh (though I only use two dimensions). The triangulation is a bit too advanced for my skills, so for that I used LibTessDotNet. At some point I realized it was very easy to use groups of four pixels as units instead of one, allowing a "block" to be split into two triangles. This also means that graphics eat more resources the more detailed the meshes are, not necessarily how big they are, so I had to stick to big solid color areas for memory reasons. That's basically how the game's style came into existence, by me not being able to fix a shader issue.

Have to agree there. It's kinda funny how there's all these annoying NPCs roaming around with no clear goal, though.

That part is basically inspired by any Zelda game. I love how Link runs into someone's house, start throwing pots all over the place (you know you did this). I wanted all NPCs in Uurnog to be like that.

I was also kind of annoyed at the fact that the keyboard controls were not at all to my taste and I couldn't rebind them.

Yeah, I agree. If I expand the game in the future, I definitely want to improve that.

Hi!

Sorry I've been so absent for such a long time. I've been through a bit of a rough period, and the honest explanations is that I've really felt I should write something here for quite a while, but when there's something important I should do, whether it's replying to emails or writing here, in my mind it grows into a mountain.

I hope you've had fun with the game though, and I'll try to start looking through the conversations tonight!

Well, there may be an announcement at some point related to something like that

Good news everyone!

Affordable Space Adventures will be released for Wii U on the 9th of April!

Here's the game's website, which features a new teaser!

Hey! I'm not sure why they are different. I'm hosting the mp3 version on ni2.se but because of bandwidth reasons not hosting the flac. I'll look into if I can host a flac edition of that though. Differences between the content may be related to that I'm managing the mp3 version myself while I didn't set up the flac version and graphics myself.

You're welcome! Though, if you have a Steam key for one of my games and want a non-Steam version, you can just drop me a message and I'll get you a download code!