The Owl, The Thief and The Strawberries

Devlog

• September 2023 Update (part 1)
  September 26, 2023 by Splerp#ots, #owl, #thief, #strawberries, #art, #pixelart, #pixel art

  Hey! "August part 2" never made an appearance, so here is another part 1 to make up for it! Over the past month, the rest of the overworld graphics rehaul was completed. This took much longer than I w... Continue reading

  
• August 2023 Update (part 1)
  August 10, 2023 by Splerp

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  #ots, #owl, #thief, #strawberries, #replay, #demo, #replays, #demos, #playback, #recording

  Hey! I've been busy moving house over the last few weeks so not a hugely exciting update this time. In the last week or so I've been putting off graphics work and instead have added a rudimentary repl... Continue reading

  
• July 2023 Update
  July 08, 2023 by Splerp

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  Hi! Just a quick update - I've been able to make lots of good progress over the last couple of months. A brief summary: Load some game assets directly from .kra files. This speeds up development by a... Continue reading

  
• May 2023 Update
  May 19, 2023 by Splerp#update

  Afternoon! It's been a while since the last update (most of the time being taken up by contract work), but here's a quick one to organise some thoughts about the next things to work on for OTS. Here's... Continue reading
• Cheese Talks - Interview with Cheeseness about OTS
  December 18, 2022 by Splerp

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  #ots, #vod, #interview, #talk

  Hi! I sat down with Cheeseness last week and we talked through some OTS thoughts together! If you're interested, you can find the VOD on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkXu8Cijgj8 You c... Continue reading
• Jigsaw Puzzle Mechanics
  December 06, 2022 by Splerp

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  #jigsaw, #puzzle, #tech, #update, #ots

  Hey! I'm again a little late for the weekly Friday update. I thought I'd do a bit of a deeper dive this time, into the new lore-related features. Most of the work went into implementing a jigsaw puzzl... Continue reading

  
• Weekly Progress Update for... November
  November 23, 2022 by Splerp

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  #2d, #ots, #platformer, #update, #weekly

  The completed feature goals last week ended up taking longer than expected, but here is "today's" "Friday" update! This was mostly me getting distracted, making shelves + walls block incoming light. N... Continue reading

  
• Summary of this week's feedback
  November 12, 2022 by Splerp#ots, #feedback, #todo

  Bit of a late Friday post, but here it is! This will be a short one as there's no development progress to share this week. I was mostly focused on other hobby projects, but did get a bunch of very use... Continue reading

  
• Ready for initial external testing! + thoughts moving forward
  November 04, 2022 by Splerp

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  #ots, #platformer, #2d

  My goal this week was to have a playable build of OTS, with a few final additions included. It's now 11:45pm on Friday and I'm happy to report that the game is ready 🎉 If you'd like to give it a tr... Continue reading

  
• Update Coming Soon™
  October 31, 2022 by Splerp

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  Hey! I've been working on OTS on and off for the last few years, and feel like I'm getting close to a proper release. If you're interested in seeing what's changed, there's a thread on twitter with so... Continue reading

  
• v4.0 - Just bug fixes
  February 14, 2020 by Splerp

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  Update scoreboard to avoid duplicate seeds on final page Avoid placing window too high on smaller screens Reduce volume of level complete sound effect... Continue reading
• v3.0 - Global Leaderboards!
  February 13, 2020 by Splerp

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  Hi! I finally got around to adding global leaderboards to this game. This is super exciting! (for me) There's now a dedicated scoring server that keeps track of everybody's best scores across all the... Continue reading

  
• v2.0 - Endless Mode!
  June 08, 2019 by Splerp

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  I decided to devote another weekend to this and the new version is now ready, with bug fixes and the missing "Endless mode" feature. Most notable changes are listed below! Endless mode will give you a... Continue reading

  
• v1.0
  May 27, 2019 by Splerp

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  #version-notes

  Hi! This is the first release of The Owl, The Thief and The Strawberries - a few hours before submissions are due for the Book Jam. Hope you enjoy! Expect maybe one more update to this game (fixes for... Continue reading