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Billy Basso

7 months

After nearly 7 years of development, Animal Well is finally almost ready to be released out into the world. I have made this trailer to commemorate the occasion. I hope you like it. I don't really know what else to say.

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4 years

The most advanced yoyo string in video games #AnimalWell #PixelArt #indiegames #gameDev #screenshotsaturday #indiedev

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5 months

Almost done guys

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7 years

Little game I'm making where one of the things you do is light candles

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Animal Well was just featured in the Japanese version of today's Nintendo Direct+IndieWorld! They really nailed the atmosphere!

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恐ろしくも美しい動物たちが棲む、秘密に満ちた洞窟へようこそ。『ANIMAL WELL』は配信中。 #IndieWorld #インディーワールド

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Little game I'm making where one of the things you do is light candles

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I got a milkshake to drink while reading the youtube comments

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Jasper showed this to me on his laptop at pax last year, and it looks completely nuts

jasper byrne

@jasperbyrne

27 days

new game+ the action rpg i've been working on for 12 years #newgameplus #indiegames #solodev #gamedev #actionrpg #believe

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@Billy_Basso

4 years

I was really into yoyo when I was like 9 #AnimalWell #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #pixelart

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@Billy_Basso

7 months

So you don't have to watch it on x dot com

ANIMAL WELL - Release Date Trailer

Coming May 9, 2024 to PC, PS5, and Nintendo SwitchWishlist ANIMAL WELL!https://store.steampowered.com/app/813230/ANIMAL_WELL/https://store.playstation.com/en...

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3 years

fear of ostriches #screenshotsaturday #animalwell #pixelart

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

3 years

I have been taking great care to program Animal Well with the absolute minimum amount of input lag necessary. At this point, it honestly feels like one of the most responsive platformers I’ve played

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

5 years

Today at @LevelExGameDev I worked really hard on my diarrhea simulation. Also we're hiring lol #madewithunity #gamedev #diarrhea #diarrhoea

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@Billy_Basso

4 years

working on a new character for Animal Well #screenshotsaturday

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3 years

desk has gathered a lot of chaotic energy during the past year

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@Billy_Basso

4 years

Bleached coral #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #AnimalWell

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@Billy_Basso

4 years

You cannot pet the dog in Animal Well, but they will at least play frisbee with you #screenshotsaturday #animalwell #pixelart #indiegames

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@Billy_Basso

3 years

I may or may not have made a fully dynamic destruction system just to create this effect

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@PlayStation

3 years

The closer you look, the more secrets you’ll find in the mysterious adventure of Animal Well. New trailer and details:

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5 months

@DMann3D Thank you David!

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

3 years

The Birds (1963) #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

2 years

working on a super basic sprite packer that just sorts all the sprites by their width, then for each one scans for the first spot that fits. I am very surprised by how few gaps their are!

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

2 years

Extremely excited about this!

ANIMAL WELL

@Animal_Well

2 years

Animal Well will be one of the upcoming games being shown during next week's @dayofthedevs showcase! It's part of @summergamefest on June 9th, and starts at 11am PT/2pm ET Be sure to watch! We have something very interesting prepared for this🐇 @iam8bit @DoubleFine

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

7 months

@AlexStrook It is easier to jump

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

4 years

#Animalwell running natively at 240p on a Sony PVM

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

4 years

I've been making lots of #animalwell engine changes and along the way restructured it to store multiple tile layers per screen. I've been struggling to find good ways to render the layers so they add depth without being visually confusing. Here's what I've been trying:

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

4 years

I finally took the time and put together a website/development blog for #AnimalWell . I also made a post detailing the process of getting it running at 240p on a CRT!

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@Billy_Basso

2 years

I spent the past two weeks working on this, and needed to tell someone

ANIMAL WELL

@Animal_Well

2 years

Did you know? Both the PS5 version AND PC version of Animal Well fully support DualSense vibrations

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

4 years

I've decided it's really important that there's at least one fluid sim somewhere in the #AnimalWell code base #IndieGameDev #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

7 years

Look, I’m recompiling my C++ code while the game is running

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

5 months

@Khathis @Animal_Well @BIGMODEgames Thank you Kevin!!

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

4 years

Just learned @bitinkstudios implemented a similarly cool effect two years ago!

Mario 🔶 Nesrocks

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6 years

I think it looks pretty robust now. Testing the rope's bend/stretch/draw using debugging mouse controls. #superhikingleague #indiedev #gamedev #GameMaker

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5 years

I’ve been spending way too much time noodling around with scanline shaders while making this game, but I think I’ve finally come up with something that is both cheap and decent looking #AnimalWell #screenshotsaturday #indiedev

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@Billy_Basso

2 years

The latest issue of Edge has a beautiful preview of @Animal_Well ! It is so surreal to see a personal project in print

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@edgeonline

2 years

Inspired by Fez and survival horror games, Animal Well is no ordinary pixel-art Metroidvania. E370 is on sale now:

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5 years

Hijacked Unity's deferred renderer to render infinite blobby in PBR @LevelExGameDev #madewithunity

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@Billy_Basso

3 years

Portable gaming

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@Billy_Basso

5 years

Pretty proud that I managed to get 13 game consoles and 2 TVs hooked up without the room looking completely insane

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

3 years

my favorite file to write code in is "game.cpp" - it is 19,494 lines long, compiles in 1.89 seconds, and really is not a problem at all

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

5 years

I’ve been quietly working on a game in my free time over the past two years, and you’ll be able to play it at the IGDA Holiday Mixer next month! More details coming soon 🎄

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@IGDAChicago

5 years

You're invited to the Game Dev Holiday Mixer 2019! Come mingle with Chicago's video game community at @EmporiumChicago on Dec 12. Enjoy delicious food from @kumascorner , play Chicago made games, win raffle prizes, and support Comer's Childrens Hospital!

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

3 years

I just wrote a quick blog post summarizing the events of yesterday's announcement

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

3 months

@TrentKusters Wow, thank you Trent!

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

5 months

@TheDashingAdnan @BIGMODEgames @Animal_Well No spiders ✅

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

5 years

Generating texture for in-game map :)

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

6 years

Made a 1bit invert mask for a couple fx, but then got wild and put it on the whole screen. Now I have a completely different unplayable game

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

5 years

#AnimalWell will be playable this Thursday @IGDAChicago 's Holiday Mixer! This is by far the most elaborate personal project I've ever worked on. I made everything from scratch over the past 2 years, including the engine, music and art. I'm excited for people to finally play it!

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

7 years

2D ambient occlusion + colored lights + shadow masks

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

6 years

I'm glad the first game about pulmonology gets to be this weird thing we made.

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

4 years

my shader is melting #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

2 years

I talked with @dirigiblebill at the @guardian and he put together a wonderful piece examining @Animal_Well from the angle of game preservation

The Guardian

@guardian

2 years

‘I’m doing puzzles that may take 10 years to solve’: Animal Well, a mysterious video game time capsule

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

7 years

I added those shadows that are in every 2D indie platformer

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@Billy_Basso

6 years

I built a gameboy 🔆✨

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

2 years

We are at gamescom with @Animal_Well !

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2 years

Hey #gamescom2022 folks! Be sure to swing by the @Animal_Well booth in the Indie Games Arena in Hall 10.2!

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

5 years

I've been working on lots of very legitimate things, but the thing I'm posting on twitter is this rendering bug #AnimalWell

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

2 years

I just got my copy!

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

10 years

Rendering 1,000,000 cubes right now

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

5 years

Impulse bought a Twin Famicom and I think it’s my new favorite Nintendo console design ☄️

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

4 years

- lights exist either in the foreground or midground - background is front lit, foreground rim lit - foreground casts blurred drop shadow onto background - background is tinted by a fog color - more foreground lighting effects to brighten overall image ie: caustics above water

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

2 years

Extremely excited that @Animal_Well is at TGS and @famitsu made a preview video about it!

Mill Yoshi

@ntheweird

2 years

. @Dan_Adelman を脅してAnimal WellのTGSデモの映像を撮った。ぱっと見以上にあの手この手が詰まっててディープなのでオススメ。ホール1 インディーコーナー A-60 via @YouTube

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

3 years

It is very easy to do things that add a frame of latency, like updating a characters position after drawing it. With code changing a lot, it is good to double check every once in a while

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

3 years

Do you want to hear @Dan_Adelman and I talk about @Animal_Well in audio form? Then this is the link for you

indieRift

@indieRift

3 years

"I was tired of seeing games do the same things over & over again". Joined by the awesome @Dan_Adelman , @Billy_Basso gets into the creation of Animal Well - an unconventional puzzle platformer that's breaking all the rules. #PlayStation #indiegames #PS5

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

7 years

Asshole AI that's equivalent to a player mashing buttons #screenshotsaturday

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

5 years

implementing subsurface scattering and getting it almost completely wrong

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

7 years

weatherfx #screenshotsaturday

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

3 years

A few things that have helped with this: frames are computed, submitted to the gpu, rendered, and presented all within the same v-blank period. There is no parallelism between the cpu and gpu 😅

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

3 years

I’ve been following this game’s development for YEARS here in Chicago. Very excited for them

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

3 years

I’ve also been very careful to immediately show visual changes upon recognizing input. When you press the jump button, the player is put in the jump state and lifted off the ground all within the same frame

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

5 years

Took some time yesterday to implement the height of realtime fluids circa 2004

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

5 years

Lol don’t look back here

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

3 years

Talked about building @Animal_Well with @kerrblimey over at

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Game Developer

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3 years

Creature feature: The surreal pixel art and animation of Animal Well

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

4 years

Animal Well live demo tomorrow!

Dan Butchko

@DanButchko

4 years

Heading to the Windy City for this week’s virtual #WorldGameNight ! Meet these games and creators from Chicago on Wednesday! ☑️ ANIMAL WELL - @Billy_Basso ☑️ CODEMANCER - @bobbylox ☑️ SUNRUNNER - @renzumusic ☑️ VAX BRACKET - @sambondcmi FREE RSVP:

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

4 years

Close up of the scan lines 🙂 — also it’s technically running at 320x224p, but since the screen doesn’t have pixels it still scales perfectly

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

7 years

This debug visualization looks more interesting then the effect I was trying to make

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

12 years

@edclef @dkanaga Proteus works PRETTY WELL with three monitors. http://t.co/HN4t2ZzF

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5 months

@OtherWhiteTofu Korg R3 and Korg MS20

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7 years

So tiny 😮

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5 months

@Us3ful1di0t @Animal_Well 8am CT!

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Billy Basso

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5 years

I also boost the gain and saturation to compensate for the light taken away by the scan lines and make it feel more like a glowey crt. I was going for a fairly sharp PVM/BVM look.

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

9 years

Congratulations to me

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

3 years

@sktoby I'm sorry, you will have to hold the controller upside down

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

9 years

I'm not writing good code right now http://t.co/VChugnBN61

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

2 years

I am also snapping sprite dimensions to 8x8 tiles - that is probably helping a lot

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

5 years

@werlkjh @IGDAChicago I have a game I’ve been working on for the past two years that I could potentially be ready to show 😅

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

7 months

@RudyBasso so true

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

8 years

Finally had a reason to use a stencil buffer in openGL :)

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

3 years

@werlkjh I would say I'm surviving

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

5 years

The scanline thickness varies based on how bright the color is — that combined with the horizontal filtering makes it seem like the “phosphors” are blooming out when there’s a sudden change in brightness.

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

6 years

@AmazingThew I would try three triangles first

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

3 months

@MrJohnSear @GregRicey @yosp @developconf 💚💚💚

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

3 years

Animal Well is available to wishlist on Steam and PlayStation Store!

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

5 years

Alright it's kind of working now

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

4 years

@BathThief Thanks! Not exactly sure what you mean, but the entire game is rendered at 320x180 then the final render target is scaled up to monitor res. Keeps all the pixels perfectly aligned

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso

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@gojirra Not shit looks good!

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Billy Basso

@Billy_Basso