Kinoko and the Cult of Galaxy

WIP sticker by Beautysnake

Someday she shall be restored, in all her former glory

Galactic Halo and Event Horizon

Just a small sneak peek of how both of the cultist will look!

Currently working on a ref sheet to give more lore on what both of these groups are all about!

Neemal's paranoia...

He just had to double check...

Stones and Bones

produced by Ember (Strymes49)

We finally got another soundtrack! This time for the mushroom caves of Fungaia! What do you think? 

So a kuparkuke walks into a bar and...

It's been a while since I've ever done any kind of storyboarding, so why not get some nice practice in with some sounds to go along with it. 

This is part of a scene where Kinoko discovers the Starlounge for the first time!

(WE DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE SOUND EFFECTS)

Bouncy Mushrooms

It's official: we have our first soundtrack!

This audio track, Bouncy Mushrooms, was originally produced by a talented member of our Discord community, Ember (Strymes49), as a fan work. We loved it, everyone in our Discord server loved it, and so we did the only natural thing - bought it and made it official!

We've added Bouncy Mushrooms to our prototype, and we can't get enough of it!

What's cool is that we ...

Concept: Kinoko's raygun

Chelsey's been thinking about Kinoko's 'shooting star raygun' and all the different functions it might have. In our game we're planning on letting the player upgrade or level it up to some degree, so these are just a few of the things we're thinking of!

Adding NPC dialogue

This week, we've begun to add NPCs and dialogue to our game!

NPC dialogue is something we already had working in our previous Unity build of the game. However, unlike other aspects of the game that we've since rebuilt, such as platforming mechanics, I always wanted to go back to the dialogue system and redesign it. For instance, I like the idea of being able to use an external data source such as JSON or a spreadsheet to store lines of d...

Designing Kinoko's moveset

Recently, we unveiled two new moves for Kinoko - publicly, over on Twitter, and privately in our Kinoko Fan Club Discord channel - which were the dodge roll, and the spin attack. People seemed quite surprised about these new moves, so I thought we should probably talk about what else we've got in the works.

Everyone's seen the basics by now: Kinoko's running, jumping/falling, flying, and gliding. In previous video clips we've also demons...

Starsprite vocalisations

Using sound effects from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Chelsey has produced this short video demonstration of how starsprites might communicate vocally. Although starsprites are incapable of speaking with words, they possess their own form of communication which is made up of a complex system of chimes. This incredibly ancient language is known only by the starsprites, Galaxy, and Blackhole.

Fortunately, starsprites can also commun...

Starsprites progress update

Who said weekends were for relaxing? I spent mine working on starsprites!

In summary, since the last video clip I shared, I've added:

• The ability for starsprites to follow Kinoko in both directions
• A (placeholder) animation for starsprite movement
• Shielding - each starsprite absorbs one hit before fleeing to safety
• Dying - including a placeholder 'game over' sequence
• Randomised starsprite c...
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The abyss beckons...

Deep in the void, Blackhole lurks, hungry to devour all light and life.

Kinoko gets Twitter

Whenever Chelsey posts Kinoko to Twitter there are invariably always comments about the poor kuparkuke's ears... but has anyone ever stopped to think how he might feel about this?!

Starsprite storyboards

Chelsey's taking a break from her commissions by practicing her storyboarding skills. She doesn't really have any kind of purpose in mind for this storyboard in particular, but it looks cool!

Starsprites are back

Up to this point, a lot of what I've done for the Godot rebuild hasn't been too dissimilar from the ways that I did those things in Unity. Whilst Godot's API is obviously different to Unity's, things like running, jumping and flying aren't really all that different. In both engines I'm just responding to the player input by adjusting Kinoko's velocity and positions, updating his sprites, and so on, so none of it's really been that difficult to...

Character spotlight: Starstruck

One of the many things we want to do with the Kinoko Fan Club here on Patreon is talk more about our lesser-known characters. We have well over 100 characters, with more being added on a regular basis, but how many of them do you actually know? Even the ones you do know, how much do you know about them?

As a member of the Kinoko Fan Club, you'll be the first to discover more about all the characters we haven't got around to shar...

First week of Godot

Hey Kinoko Fans!

First of all, thanks for joining the Kinoko Fan Club! If you're seeing that post, that means you're one of our very first Patreon supporters and we can't thank you enough for that! We plan to do a lot of blog posts (shorter and more frequent than the ones we post on our website) over here for Kinoko Fan Club members, as well as lots of never-before-seen videos and artwork, so you're in the right place if you want the ver...

Introducing the Kinoko Fan Club!

Howdy folks, and welcome to the brand new Kinoko Fan Club!

We've been wishing to launch a membership scheme for our supporters for a while now, but we've never known quite how to go about it or what we'd really do with one... until today!

Every single membership we sell here will directly contribute to the development of the Kinoko game and project. Right now we're just a humble team of two, but in the future we'd really love to be...