Damnit, I wanted to install @eniko's #KitsuneTails demo on my #SteamDeck but it took so long to install all updates that my kids came back from dance lesson.
I guess it'll be for another time.
Also, I found my SteamDeck battery completely drained, again, after leaving it OFF for a long time. Honestly don't like this.
The Kitsune Tails demo for Steam Next Fest is live now, five days early, and looks really adorable on Steam Deck!
I would also like to emphasise that when you get hit, you transform out of your human form and into a small and intensely adorable purple fox with a swooshy tail.
(I'll share proper screenshots of that later, but they're on the Deck rather than on my phone.)
Big news: Kitsune Tail's Steam Next Fest demo is live now! Go get it at https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260 and experience the first part of this queer furry love triangle wrapped in an SMB3 jacket
You should definitely check the options. There's a CRT shader in Kitsune Tails made by @JoshJers which isn't on by default (because people get upset by that kinda thing) but playing with it on is totally the recommended experience
And for those of you who have Steam Decks, we've verified it works on that, too! And there's a new reveal trailer, showing off some of the bosses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRBcm5fagUU
Just updated the #KitsuneTails next fest demo build on Steam, incorporating a lot of tweaks based on the feedback you gave us. Thank you for playing our demo and for taking the time to help us make it better!
i sure hope nobody figures out that kitsune tails save files are just a proprietary binary version of json thats fairly human readable and so easy to reverse engineer and hacks them for their own purposes 🥺
so we have a system for melee attacks in #KitsuneTails and just yesterday i realized why mario spins when he attacks in SMB3 and SMW: those engines didn't have a melee attack system like we did, so when mario attacks they probably just flip his hitbox around from hurting mario when intersecting with enemies to hurting the enemies
thats why mario spins, because if he didnt it wouldn't make sense that he can hurt things behind him
i think we're doing pretty good in #KitsuneTails with avoiding the problem of SMB3 and SMW where its trivial to chain-bop (mini)bosses. the proper boss i mentioned earlier will actually has a punish for going for a straight forward bop on him, instead making you bait out attacks and then attack him when he leaves himself open
and a miniboss is a ghost type enemy, ghosts in kitsune tails being notably invincible, which means you need to wait until his "ghost shield" drops to bop him. he's no boom boom!
in #KitsuneTails i made an emote system where each sprite can have up to 16 emotes and oh my god it's the best thing i've ever done. they're so useful for one-off animations that aren't compatible with any other built-in animation type and i use them for melee attacks too
made something to atlas all the tileset textures in #KitsuneTails and of course i made it so that if it runs out of space it grows automatically, so that modders will always have enough room to add their own stuff :ameowbongo: