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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 20/09/2026

I'm working on a save/load game system at the moment, but I wanted to try to improve and expand my horizon with pixel art as well, so I've been doing that as well as trying to work out things with Hollows Academy!

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 20/09/2026

I've been working on my pixel art skills this past month while working here and there on Hollows Academy, but for now, please enjoy these sprites I made of Hollows Academy's main protagonist, Jeanne!

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 26/07/2026

other game dev/programming related stuff?

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 26/07/2026

It may not directly be a major development for Hollows Academy, but wanted to share either way because I know it might help someone out there one day! Let me know what you all think, would you like these little tips and tricks sorta things that show how I do something posted on here or maybe some-

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 26/07/2026

For today's #screenshotsaturday, I bring you a little thing I made comparing an old sprite and a new adjusted sprite I made that was better! I added a couple of tips on what good book shapes are for stuff like this and listed the improvements I made! #gamedev #pixelart

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 19/07/2026

battle system to get everything in there and tested! I think this will be one of the most complex systems in Hollows Academy, but I'm excited to continue working on it, and it makes me happy knowing I am doing something I love!

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 19/07/2026

For this week's #screenshotsaturday, I bring you more animations for Hollows Academy! This week, we've got Kylie and Jeanne's idle animations for battling! I'm really happy with how these are turning out and I'm definitely making good use of Aseprite! Now to focus on some programming for the-

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 12/07/2026

-like the Magic Book idle sprite and of course Jeanne's best friend, Kylie's sprites. Lots to do still, but just chugging away at some cosmetic things while working on programming prototypes for other things.

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 12/07/2026

Not much for #screenshotsaturday, but I've been working on some battle animations for Hollows Academy! This is the main character, Jeanne's weaponless idle animation! I've been enjoyng working with Aseprite and making cool stuff for Hollows Academy, now to work on other battle animations-

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 05/07/2026

Working on some sprite art for Hollows Academy! We've got two battle sprites (which I plan on animating in the near future), as well as a portrait that is planned to be used with some of the new UI for the inventory that I'm working on behind the scenes. I'm enjoying learning to make pixel art too!

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 04/06/2026

-like add characters to the player's party, get certain weapons or even special items! So please look forward to the next updates on Hollows Academy ✨

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 04/06/2026

It still needs some work, but the basics of it have been implemented and I'm excited to work more on it! So far, the one quest has been assigned to a character and the player is able to receive and accept the quest, thus showing it in the Quests menu, but there will be more quests to do things-

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 04/06/2026

📜 Quest Log Update! A brand-new Quests system is being added! You can keep track of active quests, side quests and their descriptions directly from the new Quests tab in the inventory menu. Now your quest information is just a button press away. ✨ #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 15/05/2026

Hey y'all! I just released a new written AND video devlog of me rambling about my RPG game, Hollows Academy (formerly Magical Girl Saga) on my website! You can find the written log and video log here! dawnlight.dev/blog/Hollows...

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Hollows Academy Devlog #0 | Dawnlight Dev

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 19/03/2026

Another very minor update to my game, we now have a light that illuminates around the player at night (and eventually caves and other dark areas too!). It has a bit of a flicker to it as well to make it seem more like a lantern light.

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 02/02/2026

TW: Short White Flashing Screen Minor thing for today, added in a better transition animation for transitioning from the overworld into battle. Wasn't too hard with a godot shader, though I had little experience with godot's shaders beforehand, but I got it all figured out!

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 19/01/2026

I want to make a video going more in depth about it too sometime this week, but yeah! I migrated from Godot 4.0 to 4.5 and decided to rewrite the dialogue system to better match other games in the RPG genre. Now to just rework the inventory system...

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 19/01/2026

What's new in the world of Magical Girl Saga? Well... a whole new dialogue system! I rewrote the ENTIRE dialogue system I had and created something that would allow for branching dialogue and the new system works flawlessly after 3 days of work! #gamedev #indiegamedev #godot

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 06/01/2026

Hey all! I'm Dawnlight and I'm a computer scientist! I like to make websites and program in various languages in my spare time and am currently working on a JRPG game! You can find me on a few places on the internet below!

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 06/01/2026

- make some good progress this year with the game and make something that I'd enjoy playing myself. There's still plenty to do of course, so I'm definitely going to make it my New Year's resolution to work on the game more and I think I can be happy with it in the end!

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 06/01/2026

- where like a character could ask you if you'd like an item and you could select a yes or no option in a menu box and that translates to a line of dialogue spoken by the player based on the selection. I think this way, the dialogue now is just better for the story I want to tell and I hope I can-

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 06/01/2026

As you can see in the video, our player character now has dialogue in the conversation with one of the game's enrollable party members. This means that I can now do things like create quests and more immersive dialogue in the game. I want to eventually add in the ability to select options as well-

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 06/01/2026

Hello everyone! I'm back! And.... I've got a new but maybe minor? (if you can call it that lol) update to Magical Girl Saga! I've refactored my ENTIRE dialogue system! So what does this mean? It means that now, the character AND the player speak to each other instead of just the character speaking!

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 07/06/2025

nothing to worry about. I hope to find a way to balance developing Magical Girl Saga and other things in my life, and I'm quite confident I can do that. Well, that concludes this update, I just wanted to come and say I'm not dead, I'm still here, just focusing on other stuff, so no worries!

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 07/06/2025

week or so. I'm also working with one of my artists on creating new assets for my website and social media branding for my bsky, and my sprite artist is working on making new sprites based on the concept art I scribbled for the game, so there's some stuff to look forward to. But for now, there's-

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 07/06/2025

Hello all, I just wanted to come on here and say that, no, I didn't stop working on Magical Girl Saga, but instead, I took a break on working on the game so I could focus on finding at least part-time employment. I plan on returning to work on Magical Girl Saga very soon, hopefully in the next-

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 08/02/2025

It also works on other characters as well as the main character, I just opted to only show the main player using it to get the point across. Now to debug the inventory menu a bit more and it should be nearing what I envisioned.

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 08/02/2025

Another minor update to my game, this time, there's text that tells you what item you've used and what it does when you use it, followed by the inventory reopening back to the last inventory the user was using when the dialogue is dismissed. #gamedev #indiegamedev #godot #screenshotsaturday

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 22/01/2025

Some concept sketches of the main character in my game, Jeanne and her companion and one of the enrollable party members, Kylie. I've got some new sprites in progress based on these sketches, so I hope I'll be able to show those off soon! #gamedev #indiegamedev

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 19/01/2025

Minor update to my game, we've got the ability to use items on all characters in the player's party as well as assign weapons to all characters in the player's party. Now to just work on adding text that tells you what item you've just used. #gamedev #indiegamedev #godot

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 12/01/2025

Speaking of new website updates I've been working on that I mentioned in my thread, I've got my bluesky feed to show up on the main page of my website, so now when you visit my website, you're greeted with a video from my YouTube channel as well as a scrollable container with my bluesky feed!

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 12/01/2025

be back on my feet soon and can push an update out in time for screenshot Saturday as well.

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 12/01/2025

-my website and putting my game on the backlog, but I assure you, once this winter term ends in a couple of weeks and I'm no longer sick, I will def be back working on my game at least part time! In the meantime, I hope you all can forgive me for lack of updates on my game, but here's hoping I'll-

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 12/01/2025

Hey everyone! Sorry for the lack of posting about my game. I've been battling the flu and also got swamped with work from winter term courses (I'm supposed to graduate in a couple of weeks when the winter term is over) and I've been working on all my university work as well as working on stuff on-

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 15/12/2024

These sketches are both done by me, but my concept artist has more sketches we've been working on and my sprite artist was the one who went over one of my sketches with colour just to block out how to do the sprite.

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 15/12/2024

Not neccessarily a screenshot Saturday, but my sprite artist, my concept artist and I are all working out a new design for Magical Girl Saga's main player character, Jeanne. We have a good start so far and my sprite artist is working on a sprite based on the new design.

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 10/12/2024

Plus I also linked my Google Workspace so I can get email notifs on my phone, so I'll always know when someone's submitted a form to contact me.

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 10/12/2024

Not a game update this time, but a website update! I added in a contact form on my contact info page using Nodemailer and my Google Workspace account, so now people can reach out to me through my website! 🔗 dawnlight.dev/contact

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 27/11/2024

Hello, hello! I'm Dawnlight (or Destiny, doesn't matter to me!) and I'm a Computer Science graduate who likes making games and websites! I'm currently working on my JRPG indie game, Magical Girl Saga (working title) as well as my personal website! You can find where I am all across the web below!

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 21/11/2024

The latest devlog for my JRPG indie game, Magical Girl Saga, is now live on my website! Come check it out! 🔗 dawnlight.dev/blog-posts/C... #godotengine #indiedev #gamedev

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Magical Girl Saga Dev Log #5 | Dawnlight Dev

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 16/11/2024

Eventually, all weapons will have a unique set of attacks to use and the attack option won't be able to be used without a weapon equipped (but magic is still useable regardless of whether a weapon is equipped and some magic will deal damage when used)

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 16/11/2024

Today's #screenshotsaturday: working on the battle system, implementing the attack options depending on whether a weapon is equipped or not. #godotengine #madeingodot #indiedev

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 03/11/2024

Today's #screenshotsaturday: Battle animations! I created a prototype animation for the player and player party and implemented it to currently work with the party members (still working on getting it to work with the player) #gamedev #indiegame #godot #godotengine

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 31/10/2024

Finishing up the last of the minor bug fixes in the weapon equipment system, just need to fix one small bug with weapon unequipping (not shown in the clip but essentially is just the party members' weapon doesn't unequip properly) and the weapon equipment system for my game will be (mostly) finished

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 27/10/2024

aww it seems like the gif got messed up on bsky, but that's okay! Here's a screenshot instead of the cursor over one of the player's party members.

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 27/10/2024

Minor progress today for #screenshotsaturday: Finally fixed the cursor so that it properly highlights the currently hovered over character. Now to move on to debugging the weapons inventory system and we should be all set on that! #godotengine #gamedev #madeingodot

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✿ Dawnlight Dev ✿ @dawnlight.dev · 18/10/2024

✨ DEVELOPER STUFF ✨ 🔗 dawnlight.dev - My personal developer blog 🔗 github.com/DawnlightDev - My GitHub

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