Good morning/evening/night. My name is Brandon, and I have a secret to tell you. You might find this hard to believe, but I have been… playing videogames recently. Scandalous, I know! But I simply cannot help myself. My latest guilty pleasure has been Celeste. After clearing all the game’s content, I’ve taken an interest to speedrunning it.

Its level design and difficulty progression are of particular interest to me; I believe that Celeste is absolutely master class in these fields. There’s a lot you can learn by studying how Celeste organizes its areas and extra content.

This is actually a very thought provoking component of game design, I find. It’s important as a game designer to draw your ideas from many different places. Not just games you’ve played, but everywhere! Films, books, places you’ve been and things you’ve done. You will be able to solve problems in many different and better ways with that large breadth of experience and knowledge. Never stop learning and growing!

Let’s get into the update.

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Ahoy, fellow traveller. ‘Tis a rare treat to meet another on this weary road. I take it you be searching for the Dev Blog? Well… I’ll be honored to take you to it, friend. Oh, foolish, foolish! I’ven’t even gone and introduced myself. My name is Brandon ‘BitesDev’ Johnson. Let’s set this ship asail.

…I’ll be the first to admit - that intro sucked, and this devblog isn’t a whole lot better. We’ve actually been working on something internal for the past few weeks, and have had little time to dedicate to practical progress on the game. However, this little internal thing may lead to a very, VERY interesting announcement in March. Let’s just get into the dev blog, though!

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I’m SO tired right now. Holy cow. Why do I always stay up so long before I write these?

I’m sure you’ve guessed that it’s Bites. This week’s dev blog is all art stuff. I can’t even adequately articulate how tired I am, but it’s enough that I won’t be writing any jokes this time around. All I have for you is this awful image that Laurence made a few days ago.

Let’s get into the update.

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Hey, all. It’s Bites. And it’s just going to be me this time - this is no dev blog, but rather a short introspective on game development and my experience with it over the last couple years. I hope it can give a little perspective to those of you interested in pursuing gamedev yourself.

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Good evening, everypony! Can you guess who it is? Can you, huh, huh, huh?!

Hold on a minute, you said… you know it’s me? How’d you guess so quickly?!

“Because you always introduce the blog posts, Bites, you nincompoop,” you’re telling me? I suppose that’s true!

I hope you’re seated comfortably and have prepared bottles (for general use) because you’re going to be here for a little while. Today’s blog update is bangin’! A bunch of our developers have contributed writeups on what they’ve been working on. If you aren’t very technically minded, do not fret! Most of what’s being discussed today is fairly straightforward.

I’d normally tell you about what I’ve been occupying myself with in my free time in the past couple weeks, but truth be told, it’s still mostly dance games and modding. Check out this dope score I got the other day!

Oops, sorry - accidentally had it on the front facing camera.

Anyways, let’s jump into the update.

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I hope you’re doing well! My name is Bites, and I’ll be your host and server for this evening.

Let’s see what’s in store for this update!

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Greetings. It’s me, your co-conspirator and loving great-stepfather, Bites.

Check this shit out.

Let’s get into the update.

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I greet you with a little dance as you tune into this dev blog. It’s very awkward, and you take note of the fact that I don’t seem to really understand how to use my legs.

Hi! It’s me, Bites. As of late, I’ve been a total dancing FIEND. I’ve been playing Dance Dance Revolution multiple times per week, and I’m becoming so strong and powerful that soon nothing will be able to stop me. I’m even planning on building my own dancepad!

I doubt we could build a rhythm-based party game for Rolled Out! that would work very well, but it’s something fun to think about. If you can think of something that would fit the game well, be sure to throw your ideas into the #suggestions channel in our official Discord server!

Let’s blast right into the update.

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A magical day to you! It’s me, Brandon “Bites ‘The Smartest Gamer’ Dev” Johnson, as ever and as always.

BLALAKUZOOM! I’ve just cast a spell upon you, which will slowly rewrite your memories so that in every fond moment you’ve ever shared with an animal, you will experience it from their point of view and be extremely uncomfortable with your original self.

I’ve been rather obsessed with magic, lately! I’ve recently been playing an extremely fun new roguelite called ‘Noita’, where you play a spellcasting wizard.

It’s very difficult, but its expansive world and deep, interwoven mechanics keep me coming back for more. How could we apply some of these ideas to Rolled Out! hypothetically…?

Maybe we’ll give one of the characters a magical wand. Woohoo!

Let’s get into the update.

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