Developer posts and news about this game.
Jay Ingle - lead developer, designer, and artist: Sometimes, life happens. Perhaps this is why there has not been a devlog update for a little while! Ok, it is why. How very vague. Here is what you need to know: Development on Star Child has gone from my full-time job, to my part
Jay Ingle - lead developer, designer, and artist: Star Child will be released in 2026! I have plenty of work left to do, but I am confident that I can get it done. I also believe that when it is finished, Star Child will be a fun, engaging, and memorable experience! Recently, I f
Jay Ingle - lead developer, designer, and artist: This week I've been busy setting up a proper text system. This system is used to display controls during the tutorial section of Star Child. However, even more importantly, this is the voice of the antagonist. Well, part of the vo
Jay Ingle - lead developer, designer, and artist: Hello again. We last spoke a couple weeks ago, with Janne filling in on devlog duty. I have been working a lot on our demo, which was released in time for Steam Next Fest. Since the release, I've been doing plenty of little fixes,
Playing Star Child on hard mode to celebrate Next Fest once the Next Fest goes live.
Janne - the other guy: Last week we had just gotten our demo out, now we've had a bit of time to gather some feedback and start polishing things that weren't still quite ready. Here's a bit of a preview of what you can expect from the demo: In no particular order we've managed to
Janne - the other guy: We've been working a lot on polishing things for our demo to get it out for people to test a bit before Next Fest still and get some initial feedback that we can hopefully resolve before the showtime. Some highlights: - Improved our level preprocessing tool
Jay Ingle - lead developer, designer, and artist: This week I worked on a lot of enemy and environmental art. With our demo dropping officially in 16 days, I don't want to show all of it to you. You can see it for yourself very soon! How about I show you a few little things, and
Jay Ingle - lead developer, designer, and artist: This week I was sick! But I worked a lot on our main menu design, and some enemies. Here is the enemy i have named Homer. Doh. This enemy homes in on your location. Could use a little refinement, like only turning a certain number
Jay Ingle - lead developer, designer, and artist: This week I've been doing menu and UI work. This is my least favorite part of game development, however I have found some satisfaction from solving some coding problems. Recently, I have improved my coding. I have been using dicti
Jay Ingle - lead developer, designer, and artist: Recently I have been implementing the G.U.I.D.E. plugin for handling player input. Godot's input system is generally ok, but 3 things are very complicated to do: disable/enable all controls (like you would want to do when you have
Kyle aka Anthrocarbon - music and sfx MUSICAL CHAIRS! (Silence is vital.) Months after my previous log, the stars have aligned and some more music has reached Jay for review. I’ve had multiple long sessions keenly tweaking sliders and knobs, until the growing song turned into a d
Jay Ingle - lead developer, designer, and artist: I recently took some placeholder animations, and made em look nice. Here is the original, placeholder animation: And how it looked in-game: So I created a replacement animation: Certainly an improvement, but it still isn't quite r
Jay Ingle - lead developer, designer, and artist: Great news! You will be able to play Star Child, 2 months from now! Steam Next Fest begins February 23rd, 2026, showcasing many new indie games. Star Child will have a playable demo for this event. We will also have an updated sto
Hello. This week I made some plants, and I animated them, and I created particle effects for them. This is Pyxel Edit, which I use for most of the art in Star Child (and I used for all of the art in Toleo). Let's take a closer look at one of these plants. The most important aspec
Jay Ingle - lead developer, designer, and artist: Let us take a look at the process of animating some plants. In the world of Star Child, we don't always have a lot of scrolling/parallax going on, so we need to find ways to make things move, to provide pleasing visual interest. W
Jay Ingle - lead developer, designer, and artist: Let's look at how I animated some lava. Here is my first attempt. Not very smooth, but it does show basically what I am aiming for. To make the animation appear more smooth, I decided to start with moving a ball up and down, and t
Jay Ingle - lead developer, designer, and artist: What happens when you die? I don't know, hasn't happened to me yet. However, I have died in plenty of video games. What happens when you die in a video game? Dark Souls says "YOU DIED" and lets you press a button to continue immed
Jay Ingle - lead developer, designer, and artist: Today we can look at a new environment in Star Child, I call it Fire Mountain! I'm pretty happy with my weird alien plants, and their subtle animation when you touch them. You can see below a decent example of the type of combinat
Jay Ingle - lead developer, designer, and artist: Today let us take a look at the mostly-finished deer enemy that we have been discussing in recent weeks. When left on its own, the deer will run back and forth for a random amount of time between 3 and 5 seconds. When this timer e