I'm not fond of doing updates and progress reports. The reality is that sometimes a project will fail to take off or things will change so much that I feel that I would fail expectations. But I also doubt many people will even know about this game and that I should post something so folks know that it's alive.

In the wake of a failed game project, I decided to start building Sanguine 3 in Godot. Godot is free to use and, supposedly, pixel game friendly.

I didn't know it at the time, but I had become a master at Flash. The speed in which I could iterate and implement content was refined over a decade of experience, of which I am sorely lacking now. Godot is a capable engine, but it is also very crude even in comparison to Flash. There are many aspects to Godot that, for instance, just doesn't have any kind of undo function. External resources must be manually reimported when changes are made. It's free, I can't complain. Although I kinda just did.

I describe development of any game into two sections. The first is the experimental phase where I just build a character, features, abilities... that kinda stuff. The second is where I build out levels and bosses. I'm well into phase two and am currently trying to build a room in the catacombs that features parellax scrolling columns in the foreground that the player can be hidden behind and that humans can be hidden behind. As you move, so do the columns, so the player needs to adjust their speed to be hidden or pull humans out of hiding. I just caught a bug where a human flagged as hidden denies a trigger on their movement timers, causing them to walk in one direction forever...

Anyway. It's hard to guess when the game will be done, but I speculate that it will be the upcoming summer.