T-SOL - Early Access Demo

Devlog

• Update 5 NOW AVAILABLE!
  September 10, 2023 by Bird With Toes#update

  First update that's actually resembling on schedule in a very long time! Here's what's been done. Changes and Additions Improved lighting effects on Saul Improved lighting effects in Crash Site area a... Continue reading
• Plans for Update 5
  August 01, 2023 by Bird With Toes#plans

  It's been a few weeks now so it's about time to let y'all know what evil is being added to T-SOL. In short, not much evil but lots of visual improvements. The overall focus is on improving visual cons... Continue reading
• Unity 2D Animation with Fancy Lighting!
  August 01, 2023 by Bird With Toes#technical, #vfx

  aka Unity 2D + Normal Maps This is more of a devlog than a tutorial but if you're relatively familiar with Unity 3D maybe this will help with something. I posted this on my cohost blog at first but I'... Continue reading

  
• Update 4 Released Development Resumed
  July 16, 2023 by Bird With Toes

  I'm sure anyone who's read the devlogs here has noticed that updates petered out some time in 2021. There was a good reason for that. I got burned out in general and sick of working on T-SOL at the ti... Continue reading

  
• Customized Tiles in Unity
  June 21, 2021 by Bird With Toes

  Good moraftnevening Internet! Here's another little devlog on the tools used to make T-SOL. This time about working around the shortcomings of Unity 3D's built-in tile editor. Out of the box the tile... Continue reading

  
• The Light of Forgotten Promises
  June 01, 2021 by Bird With Toes

  Howdy all! In an earlier devlog I mentioned that I would make a post about how the revamped lighting in Update 3 is being done. I then promptly forgot all about it. Oops! This blog will provide a litt... Continue reading

  
• Plans for Update 4
  May 10, 2021 by Bird With Toes

  Howdy all! Now that Update 3 has been out for a bit it's time to reveal our nefarious plans for Update 4. This one will add more content for your gaming pleasure. We're aiming to have the update done... Continue reading
• Update 3 now Available for Download!
  May 04, 2021 by Bird With Toes

  After a few months in the oven Update 3 is finally here ! Also be sure to check out Stop THEM which we created over March as a fun little side project. Changes and Additions: Main Menu Ability to adju... Continue reading

  
• Update 3 will be available Tomorrow!
  May 03, 2021 by Bird With Toes

  Update 3 of T-SOL is finally done! We're currently doing a final pass over to find any potential release-blocking issues. Get ready for a bunch of shiny new visual improvements to T-SOL as well as bug... Continue reading

  
• Animating Saul: A Crash Course on MechAnim
  February 27, 2021 by Bird With Toes

  Dan here! With a large part of Update 3 being about animating Saul better I think animation would be a good topic to blog about. Strap in, this is going to be a long one! Originally the artwork for Sa... Continue reading

  
• Plans for Update 3
  February 06, 2021 by Bird With Toes

  Howdy Internet! Now that Update 2 is out the door for all to see it's time to get back to work on making T-SOL even better. In order to make this update take less time to produce we're reducing the am... Continue reading
• Update 2 now available!
  January 29, 2021 by Bird With Toes

  The second update to T-SOL is now available for download. Click here to get it! Changes and Additions: Lighting! Random healing item drops Unlimited save slots You can delete saved games now Much larg... Continue reading
• Update 2 release COMING SOON!
  January 24, 2021 by Bird With Toes

  Update 2 is officially feature complete now! Yay! At the time of writing we are doing internal playtesting of Update 2 and squashing the last few critical bugs. Unless something goes horribly terribly... Continue reading

  
• Nasty Bubbling Death Goo
  December 29, 2020 by Bird With Toes#art, #vfx

  Let's talk a bit about how some of the new visuals in T-SOL work. The new fire area features a nasty hazard in the form of a deep pool of boiling goo which rapidly sucks away Saul's HP. It took some e... Continue reading

  
• What's Left to do for Update 2
  November 28, 2020 by Bird With Toes#update

  To start off with, here's what has been finished so far. New Content: Lighting! Revamped save system with more slots and ability to delete saves. Save points heal Saul on entry. No need to save. Lots... Continue reading
• Thoughts on Level Design
  November 24, 2020 by Bird With Toes#design

  So it's been a few *cough* months *cough* since the last update. Update 2 includes significant additions to the areas teased in Update 1. Thanks to this the amount of effort needed is more than double... Continue reading

  
• How the art of T-SOL is made!
  August 24, 2020 by Bird With Toes

  During the development of T-SOL so far I've found that content development, not code, is the most time consuming part of creation. In light of that I figured I could walk you all through how some of t... Continue reading

  
• Light up my life!
  July 31, 2020 by Bird With Toes

  AtmosFEAR A big part of Update 2 is adding lighting to the world of T-SOL. From the beginning we wanted the game to evoke the feeling of being lost in an unfamiliar place. Light and darkness is a real... Continue reading

  
• Plans for Update 2
  July 21, 2020 by Bird With Toes

  Hello again everyone! We hope you're having fun with the new version of T-SOL. Here's what we have in store for the next update Upcoming Content Updates Lighting! Random healing item drops Add a way t... Continue reading
• Update 1 Now Available!
  July 14, 2020 by Bird With Toes

  The first update to T-SOL is now available for download. Download available here Changes and Additions: Teaser area for third zone. The CyberSkull Factory Teaser area for the fourth zone which is yet... Continue reading
• Update 1 Drops Monday
  July 12, 2020 by Bird With Toes

  Update 1 will drop on Monday in the evening assuming no catastrophic bugs are discovered between now and then. Sorry for the rather long wait. Due to real life circumstances we had far less hours avai... Continue reading

  
• May Mini-Update
  May 15, 2020 by Bird With Toes

  Howdy everyone! It's been about a month since our last update and, unfortunately, we've not been able to do much due to being busy with life commitments. Just this weekend we participated in the Toro... Continue reading

  
• Tech: Operation DE-JANKify
  April 14, 2020 by Bird With Toes#technical, #controls, #camera

  Movement jank A major goal of our first patch is to remove jank in T-SOL. It looks ugly and makes the game frustrating to control. A big source of jank is in how we handle collisions with the scenery... Continue reading

  
• After the Jam: First Update Plans
  April 06, 2020 by Bird With Toes#plans, #update

  I'm sure T-SOL ending with a "DEMO COMPLETE" has made it seem like we intend to do more with the project. If you thought that, you were correct! Our initial plan is to fix stuff that we didn't have a... Continue reading
• MoLoGa Jam - Postmortem
  April 03, 2020 by Bird With Toes

  Now that the MoLoGa Jam is officially over it's postmortem time! YAAAY! Chris gets full credit for coming up with the idea of creating a metroidvainia for our month long jam project. Given the theme i... Continue reading