Puzzle Crossing

Devlog

• Fill your bags!
  March 20, 2025 by initdotdev

  During my playtesting of the new farm area I had to do a lot of rebalancing and tweaking. One of the big reasons why is that it would be really hard to earn rewards at the Silo if the player was only... Continue reading

  
• Stock up!
  March 15, 2025 by initdotdev

  Added a little stockpile mechanic where you can contribute items you don't need for rewards. I figured it was a logical way to use the handsome silo from LimeZu's Modern Farm . Since it is farm themed... Continue reading

  
• More eggs and jitter elimination!
  March 14, 2025 by initdotdev

  I added a level for the chicken coop. There are only a couple of levels right now but it is designed for a place to collect eggs. There is a a new NPC on the farm with a small side quest requiring egg... Continue reading

  
• Finally glowing! (with Godot 4.4)
  March 11, 2025 by initdotdev

  I was working on the chicken coop when the fact that 2D glow was supposed to be fixed in Godot 4.4.. This was actually something I had been waiting a long time for. 2D glow worked great in Godot 3.X b... Continue reading

  
• Fixed the farm!
  March 10, 2025 by initdotdev

  I re-sculpted the land mass for the farm into a much more natural shape and redid the layout onto it. I think it is a lot better now. It probably doesn't make a ton of sense but hey, it's a video game... Continue reading

  
• Farm progress and Godot 4.4 update
  March 07, 2025 by initdotdev#Godot 4.4, #Modern Farm, #Map Update

  Limiting scope is definitely one of the big challenges of video game design. Here is the current draft revamp of the farm using Modern Farm assets. While I think it is coming along nicely. It is likel... Continue reading

  
• Saving (or exploding) Chickens
  March 04, 2025 by initdotdev#dev update

  Is TNT really the right thing to be used for saving chickens? I'm not sure but it does offer a bit of puzzling variety so why not? I added a matchstick to activate the TNT, fixed some bugs, added some... Continue reading

  
• More character variety!
  March 02, 2025 by initdotdev#pixel art, #spritesheets, #puzzle crossing, #character generator

  LimeZu just released Modern Farm so I thought it would be a good time to update the components in Puzzle Crossing's internal character generator. Modern Farm has some new animations so I don't think t... Continue reading

  
• Dynamite!
  March 01, 2025 by initdotdev#update, #game design, #tnt, #bugfixes

  What is a game without the classic TNT mechanic? Added a TNT gem and a new mechanic for gems that have a turn countdown timer on them before breaking and executing their respective actions. So for TNT... Continue reading

  
• Puzzle Crossing is growing up!
  February 26, 2025 by initdotdev#beta, #release, #Puzzle Crossing, #journey

  A new major release! Play it here . A Steam page is up too! Well.. I broke my commitment to post more again but here we are.. It has been over a year and a half since I put out the last release but de... Continue reading

  
• Puzzle processing design
  July 21, 2024 by initdotdev#development, #progress

  Development continues and a lot of changes and additions have been made. I will summarize them when the next release for testing comes out. I plan for it to be a beta that has almost all the content f... Continue reading

  
• Still here..!
  January 30, 2024 by initdotdev#update, #puzzle

  Just a quick post to let anyone interested that I am still here and still working away. Took a little break to do some contract work and enjoy the holidays but I have been back at it since early Janua... Continue reading

  
• Ahh bugs!
  September 17, 2023 by initdotdev#update, #bug fixes

  Update 0.05 Released! I didn't think I would make a release again so soon but some ugly bugs were present in the last release. :( In squashing those bugs I started to look into some more long standing... Continue reading

  
• Being kinder to players
  August 29, 2023 by initdotdev#bug fixes, #user interface, #gameplay, #update, #0.04

  Wow. This release took a lot longer than planned.. After receiving some great feedback on the user interface from the last version, I decided to change my plans and focus on addressing some things pla... Continue reading

  
• Added free map movement, mining and a predesigned boards
  June 01, 2023 by initdotdev

  I was going to start working on the new city map but decided some things needed improving first. So here is the first round of improvements. It includes: Free map movement. You can now move your avata... Continue reading

  
• Casually Explorable Worlds
  May 09, 2023 by initdotdev#Puzzle Crossing, #Overworld, #PathFinding, #Algorithms

  After spending the little more than a month I took to challenge myself to make a playable/shareable game, I decided to lean into it a little more. The idea was to improve my skills and get some experi... Continue reading

  
• This took more than 2 years?!
  February 10, 2023 by initdotdev#journey, #journal

  Today I released my first public build of Puzzle Crossing. I started my game dev journey in the summer of 2020 (you know, the covid summer) and after two and half years, this is what I have to show fo... Continue reading