Valerie

Devlog

• Update 0.3.3 released!
  February 20, 2025 by Jole

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  #updates

  Hi! This update contains mostly bugfixes and quality-of-life features, with a few tweaks to the mechanics. Here is a full list of the changes. I wanted to prioritise changes that make the game functio... Continue reading

  
• Game Anglia Festival and Demo Release!
  February 13, 2025 by Jole

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  Last week I attended Game Anglia Festival, an event where indie developers, studios and students could submit their games to be played by the public. I submitted it by giving them a download of the ga... Continue reading
• New Mechanics!
  February 13, 2025 by Jole#Game features

  This is going to be a short post in which I'll talk about a new game mechanic that I've added. Or rather, a mechanic that I've made changes to. It's been over a month since I've started this blog abou... Continue reading
• Designing a Main Character
  February 13, 2025 by Jole#technical explanation

  In this post I want to talk about some of my thought processes and inspirations for Valerie's sprite design. She's the player character of a 2D platformer game, so there were several things I needed t... Continue reading
• Platforming Game Physics
  February 13, 2025 by Jole#technical explanation

  Game developers have come up with lots of creative ways of making objects in video games behave similarly to the real world. All of the falling, bumping and bouncing that they do needs to be simulated... Continue reading
• An Introduction to Valerie!
  February 13, 2025 by Jole#Game features

  What is it? Valerie is a 2D platformer adventure game for Windows inspired by the likes of Cave Story and Celeste. It follows the story of our protagonist, Valerie: Having crash-landed a plane on a sn... Continue reading