Dean Dodrill
@NoogyTweet
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Half-Korean Christian Solo-Developer. Dust: An Elysian Tail and Never Stop Sneakin', and an unannounced project!
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And now, a very personal message to commemorate the Tenth Anniversary of Dust: An Elysian Tail!
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Dust: An Elysian Tail is coming soon to Nintendo Switch! Along with a digital eShop release, I'll be offering a physical edition through
@LimitedRunGames
!
#NintendoSwitch
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Dust: An Elysian Tail flies onto Switch September 10th!
#NintendoSwitch
@NintendoAmerica
@NintendoEurope
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Happy
#indieanimationday
From '01-'09 I created a feature film titled Elysian Tail with some cleanup help from my wife. I finished a third of it before taking a break to make video games and sadly haven't gone back. This is the only footage I've released, for Dust's postmortem.
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It warms my heart whenever I see fanart by artists like
@TwoKinds
, or pretty much everything by Youtuber
@nimbatspectacle
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Fidget and Dust taking a break from all the fighting to just chill.
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Dust:AET is six years old today. A lot of games have since attempted similar things, but I like to think Dust still offers something unique. Thank you everyone for making it such a huge success!
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I can't believe it's been eight years since Dust:AET was released! Sadly I've been too busy to prepare much of a celebration.... but I don't think fans would be too disappointed knowing why.
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For my ten-thousandth tweet, I present a Fidget drawn by my wife.
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Dust: An Elysian Tail is now available for Nintendo Switch!
@NintendoAmerica
@NintendoEurope
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I'm humbled to be in such fine company! Wishing the team the best, Dewborne Dawn is shaping up to be something special!
The games that inspired me the most when deciding to create Dewborne Dawn!
- Hollow Knight
- Dust: An Elysian Tail
- Sekiro
- LoZ: TP
Please consider supporting the Kickstarter page so that I can make this dream a reality!🙏
Link posted in the replies.⬇️
#gamedev
#indiegame
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I absolutely love how this looks, coming from one of my favorite artists! I'm truly honored, thanks!
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Today I enter the seventh year of fulltime solo-development on my game. Am I ready to announce anything? Thinking about it.
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Happy 11th, Dust. The year was pretty chaotic and I would have loved to share more, but rest assured I'm working on something that I think you'll all enjoy.
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I'm pleased to announce my second game:
Never Stop Sneakin'
Coming this holiday to the Nintendo Switch!
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Hey, that game that I made came out nine years ago! I promise to have a bit more fanfare and hopefully more news for the tenth!
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Thank you everyone for all the kind words. This is oftentimes a lonely endeavor and there are only a handful of devs I confide in. All of your support means so much to me and I hope the project I'm working on is worth it!
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The cast of Dust:AET also secretly took my iOS/Switch launch comic and put it to motion!
@LucienDodge
- Dust
@KimlinhTran
- Fidget
@EdBoscoVA
- Ahrah
@DevenOClock
- Monsters, Voice Direction, Mixing
@Omahdon
- Video Editing
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Dust: AET originally launched four years ago today! Thank you everyone for your continued support!
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Good news, I'm hoping to have a Switch release date for Dust:AET very soon!
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I appreciate that louder voices than mine are pushing back on this Unity news. I've spent every moment of the last six years building my world and tools in Unity and honestly don't have time or energy to be bothered with more corporate nonsense.
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My children watching me game dev with aggressive debug logging enabled: "No one is going to want to play your game with math all over the screen."
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2-22-22 would have been a great day to release a sequel. Or even announce one.
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I'm sure this doesn't come as any surprise, but working solo on a game for 3+ years is REALLY difficult.
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After the launch of Dust:AET, the voice actors surprised me with an outtake reel. This was one of my fondest memories from that genuinely difficult time!
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It's been three years since Dust:AET first launched on XBLA. How time flies!
http://t.co/5rJ1LUsXQb
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It's been 7 years since Dust:AET launched, and about 2 since Sneakin'. Curious what I've been working on during and since then!
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.
@TheIndieBox
has announced a physical release of Dust:AET with some SWEET collectables!
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Sorry for my inactivity here. My wife and I each lost family recently which required a lengthy hiatus from work. I should be back to my infrequent inanities before long.
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E3 is a harsh reminder that at some point I have to announce this thing I've been working on.
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I can't overstate how touched I was by
@Totalbiscuit
's coverage of Dust, even being featured in one of his WTF videos. His supportive attitude meant so much to this budding developer. RIP, John.
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Congrats to
@DevenOClock
for landing this role! He handled all casting and voice direction and editing for my games, and remains an absolute pro.
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Every few months I suddenly realize that the game I'm making is actually pretty cool. The moment quickly passes as I focus on the billion tasks at hand, but someday.... someday it'll be something!
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While working on Dust I took a two year hiatus from playing any other video game, mostly out of necessity. Demons Souls launched during that time and I was so enamored by the design. Playing that was my reward to myself after such a strenuous crunch. It was worth it.
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Yeah I'm probably a bit biased, but playing Dust:AET on Switch is really cool.
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I feel like there are only a handful of modern comic artists that had worldwide recognition like Akira Toriyama. I was a big fan of his video game work; Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, Blue Dragon. RIP to the master.
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I've been working on my next game full-time for two years. With all that's going on I'm waiting a bit longer to talk about it, but know that I love you all and that you're in my prayers. Stay safe.
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I guess I can announce that I've delayed the release of my unannounced game like four hundred times. And I get enraged every time.
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I've spent the last 3 weeks creating what I consider to be the most important asset of the game. The fact I waited this long might seem odd but I finally felt ready, and I'm pretty happy with this personal milestone.
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I feel so fortunate to have started gamedev when I did (and thank everyone who has followed/supported me during that time).
These are difficult times, and more than ever I hope my fellow artists in the industry can continue to do what they love (and are damn good at).
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I'm still learning basic stuff all the time. Can you believe that I coded Dust without knowing what a List<> was? Lots and lots of fixed arrays.
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I've now been been working on my next game full-time for a year. Mostly spent researching, building tech and creating a workflow. I've generated a single finished asset - a rock texture. And even that probably won't make it into the final product.
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I just realized it's been over five years since I clicked on the 'New Project' button in Unity. Somehow I haven't been deterred by the insane scope of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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A massive thank-you to everyone patiently waiting for physical copies of Dust:AET on Switch. I believe
@LimitedRunGames
will begin shipping them out this week!
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In the last decade I developed two games with numerous ports, and started two others, one that I'll continue into 2020. I wasn't quite ready to talk about my current title but hoping that changes soon. Happy New Year!
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To celebrate Dust:AET's launch on the App Store, I've created the following bit of madness. Enjoy!
http://t.co/qtRV2aCNU3
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As an imposter artist and programmer myself, I have one thing to say about AI art. I hope that a budding artist somewhere has not been dissuaded from learning their craft. Heaven forbid this also happens to musicians and writers. Your creation is beautiful and worth persuing.
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This conversation regarding age and your chosen career.. I was 33 when I seriously picked up programming, charting a new and current chapter of my life.
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Being a solo developer running your own business is impossibly difficult. Often times I think I'd just rather find security at some large studio, but then I see stuff like this Activision news. This is not an easy industry to be a part of.
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I've now been working on my new project for a year (on and off, anyway). Most of that time has been spent learning/developing tech, but it's starting to come together.
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Dust: An Elysian Tail arrives on Nintendo Switch next Monday! For review codes, please contact me with press credentials along with your region. The email is in my profile, thanks!
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Wow, it's been five years since Dust:AET originally launched on XBLA. If I wasn't so deep in crunch I'd have planned more of a celebration!
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While the actual start date was in November, today marks the five-year anniversary working full-time on my current game. I think it's good? Let's go with that.
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I'm about 26 months into my current project and am just now at the point where I'm creating shippable assets. Yeah, this is gonna be a slow one.
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I've primarily been a solo dev for the last 14 years. The term 'indie game' doesn't seem to mean anything anymore, although maybe it never should have. FWIW my favorite indie game of all time is the original Doom.
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We’re pleased to announce that Never Stop Sneakin’ will launch on the Nintendo Switch in NA on 12/14!
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Today marks the fifth anniversary of my second title, Never Stop Sneakin'! To celebrate I present a compilation of all the game's cutscenes. These were some of the most fun I've had as a developer thanks to
@tdcpresents
' writing and some hilarious actors.
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You should probably be watching the
@LackadaisyCats
pilot. What Tracy and her team have accomplished is something truly special!
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To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Dust:AET, the voice cast is getting together for a Twitch charity stream:
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Making cool stuff. Thankful to God for helping me through a rough week including a couple nights in the ER. Lots of love for all of you, excited to be working again!
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Dust:AET's Coming Soon page is now up on the eShop, and it's beautiful!
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I've received tons of great fan art over the years, but occasionally one really stands out:
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"Hmm, did I just design this weapon to be too large?
...
No. No I did not."
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I had to replace the fan in my Switch. Super tiny screws. I can guarantee you that Fidget wouldn't be able to do it, fingers are too fat and nubby.
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I love the stuff I'm building for my next game. Development would probably go quicker if I actually knew what I was doing, but at least it's extremely enjoyable.
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On this day ten years ago I wrote a letter to my brother expressing interest in learning how to make a game. I never intended to actually make a career out of it, but here I am!
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What's surprised me through all this is how much trust people put into these companies. Maybe I'm just old and jaded, but I don't trust Autodesk, or Adobe, or Unity, or whatever. They are there to profit from me and if I find their tools useful, I'll reciprocate.
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Four days and several attempts later I finally decide the original bit of animation is fine. Yeah this is why it takes me a century to make a game.
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You are my brothers and sisters and I love you all very much. I hope you have a Merry Christmas!
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During tonight's Dust:AET anniversary charity stream we'll be auctioning off this original physical sketch:
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I'm finally designing/modeling my protagonist's outfit. Got old running around naked.
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I've been fortunate to have tested a number of great 2D games. Hollow Knight, Cuphead, Axiom Verge, Salt&Sanctuary, Ori. Each succeeded well beyond my expectations. The latest of these is
@mattwhitedev
's Ghost Song. An amazingly atmospheric game, congrats on the upcoming launch!
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It's incredible how much work it is to build systems from scratch that players totally take for granted, myself included. Solo game dev is just a drawn out series of micro-victories.
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Keen eyes may recognize the soldiers and airships which did make an appearance in Dust: An Elysian Tail... which was meant to be a bit of a side story.
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That man in his mid-40s you see spending an uncomfortable amount of time looking at cookies in the grocery aisle? Yeah, that's me.
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I'm really happy to hear that fans are receiving their physical Switch copies of Dust:AET. Thank you
@LimitedRunGames
for making it happen (and for being so patient with me!)
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My heart skipped a beat watching what just happened in the Port of Baltimore. A terrible tragedy that will have ramifications for months, maybe years to come.
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Sorry for the lack of updates, just quietly working and struggling to get over being sick all month. Making lots of cool stuff though, can't wait to share it.
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It's nice to work on something slower like a quest system (vs working on combat). I guess that's spoils the fact that my game is going to have quests. Missions? Endeavors?
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It just took me four years to finally fix an obscure camera bug. Now that's efficiency.
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Just a friendly reminder that pre-orders for the physical version of Dust: An Elysian Tail on Nintendo Switch open August 31st! Standard and CE editions available for a limited time!
Dust: An Elysian Tail from
@NoogyTweet
gets physical on the Nintendo Switch this Friday, August 31st 10AM Eastern Time at !
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Sort of humbling that nearly four years of development has yielded about 2MB of code.
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Merry Christmas everyone! It's been a rough year but we've made it. May God bless you and I hope that 2021 brings you immense joy and prosperity!
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I'll never forget when the Giant Bomb crew checked out Dust in Microsoft's booth at PAX '12, giving me a shoutout at their show that evening. That got the ball rolling in a major way, and from then on lines were absolutely packed.
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Happy New Year! Spent my fourth year on this project, lots of difficulties but learned a ton. Hoping for a productive 2022!
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My prediction regarding Microsoft's upcoming announcement: They ditch the Xbox name and consolidate everything into the Sidewinder brand. Also three new entries in the Viva Pinata series.
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The fun thing about being a solo developer is that your job changes by the hour. This week I've dabbled in camera code, world-building politics, enemy AI, terrain rendering, and modeling pretty rocks.
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I appreciate the honesty of my children who know just enough of the dev process.
"Does that look bad because it's not finished?"
I respond with "Um, yeah, that's it," and then proceed to reopen and fix the file.
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I still use my launch Xbox 360 gamepad, the one I developed all of Dust with. The thumbsticks are incredibly smooth, and a little shredded where our guinea pig chewed through them.
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Was nice to lose myself in a game, but glad to get back to work. Apr 2 marked the four year anniversary of full time development on my current project.
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Accidentally sliced my thumb over my sketchbook and got blood on it. I'm really giving this project my all.
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I'm going to try to manage my hours better this year (unfortunately very difficult when working solo). Six years of 100+ hour work weeks is exhausting.
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Never Stop Sneakin' was a fun experiment. I learned Unity, worked with a new aesthetic (and dimension), and tried to focus on pure simple design. While not the huge success that Dust was, the experience was invaluable.
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It's amazing how minor tweaks to an enemy's silhouette aid in combat readability.
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My ceiling isn't tall enough for the combat moves I'm trying to visualize for animation. And I'm certainly not going to practice outside where the world can watch... and laugh.
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This GZDoom mod is the first-person Castlevania that I didn't realize I needed, and I'm absolutely loving it!
First Person Castlevania = "Castlevania: Simon's Destiny" (by
@Batandy_
the developer of the Super Mario FPS "Doom: The Golden Souls")
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