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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The Royal Cat card from my game Heart Duels. This card appears weak but is dangerous in the hands of a clever player. Try it out in the Heart Duels demo: store.steampowered.com/app/4743340/... #cardgame #tcg #indiegame #godot

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I've made big updates to Heart Duels Demo. Latest update introduces Puflo, a furry creature from Erisa, to guide players. Say hi to Puflo. Please try demo & share your thoughts or leave a review! store.steampowered.com/app/4743340/... #indiegame #gamedev #godot #cardbattler #cardgame

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I made a flyer for my game Heart Duels. Inspired by 1990s game magazines. What do you guys think? Steam link: store.steampowered.com/app/4667170/... #indiegame #godot #turnbasedthursday #strategy #cardgame

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The demo for my game Heart Duels is now live. I hope you enjoy the game. If you have any feedback please leave it here. I appreciate your time thank you. store.steampowered.com/app/4667170/... #Godot #indiegame #gamedev #turnbasedthursday #cardbattler #turnbasedtactics

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Title screen of the game I am building: Heart Duels: A tactical single card player game with RPG elements. I hope to have a demo you can play very soon. And I hope people enjoy the game. Stay tuned to learn more! #CardBattler #TurnBased #Strategy #RPG #Godot #MadeWithGodot #Indie

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Many things happened in last 18 months; things I cannot get into. But I had to stop working on Erisa Blood March; which was too ambitious a project for my first Godot game. But I am not deterred. I've been working on a smaller game that I hope to share with everyone soon and I hope you like.

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Weapon Parry! The parry is not based on physics collision between two weapons, I have to time the attack and parry animation manually. It's hard. Yeah, it would be better if it was physics based, but this is not an action rpg. #godot #indiegame #gamedev #jrpg #srpg #trpg #devlog #ErisaBloodMarch

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

An attack can hit, miss, be guarded or parried. This is a test of the guarding with shield animation. Next up will be the weapon parry animation. For missing, I don't think I have to do much other than show the word "Missed". #indiegame #gamedev #godot #jrpg #srpg #trpg #devlog #ErisaBloodMarch

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I hate radians. I hate it when I spend 30 minutes chasing down a bug to find out invariably that I was working with radians when I wanted degrees. Who actually works with radians in practice. Anyone? Like do you think: I want to snap my rotation to PI/2 instead of 90 degrees?

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Dialogue plays before first battle. Also added objectives screen before commencing battle confirmation. Many other fixes and improvements. Soon I will make a video about the games battle mechanics. There system is pretty deep! #godot #indiegame #gamedev #ErisaBloodMarch #jrpg #sprg #trpg

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Good news: I've been fixing many bugs & adding features. Bad news: I can't really share this progress in a video or screenshot because I need to complete many other features to show a working example.😔 But I will continue to work hard. 🙏 #indiegame #gamedev #godot #jrpg #srpg #trpg #ErisaBloodMarch

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Improved the camera work. Added a cursor over the active character. The music is by the great composer @teteto629.bsky.social, who is composing the entire soundtrack for this game. I will continue to work hard so please be patient. 🙏 #indiegame #gamedev #godot #jrpg #srpg #trpg #ErisaBloodMarch

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Finally after coding for so long, I have some progress I can share. This video shows the deployment phase for battles. I hope to soon share footage of a battle! #godot #indiegame #gamedev #erisabloodmarch #jrpg #srpg #trpg

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

This screen allows player to select abilities to learn. There are no skill trees, I'll elaborate on this later but players can select abilities in any order. Maximum freedom to the player. How do you like my GUI design/work? #indiegame #gamedev #jrpg #srpg #trpg #rpg #godot #ErisaBloodMarch

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Ever since I became serious about developing Erisa Blood March, I have played zero games. All my free time and energy goes towards game development. Game dev is extremely time consuming. You must create huge amounts of content. When I finish making this game, then I hope I can play games again.

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

In game development... Everything is more difficult than I expect. Everything takes longer than I expect. Every decision requires careful consideration. I find I am unable to compromise certain qualities for expediency. I get only once chance and can't screw up. I will continue working till done.

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Been a while since I updates... I've been working hard adding on many things... One of them is making a character customizer. Players can customize the costume, skin, hair and eye color of characters... #godot #godotengine #ErisaBloodMarch #srpg #trpg #rpg #indiegame #indiegamedev

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Improved the spear stab animation. I'm satisfied with this now. Faster, better body rotation and angle and no more foot sliding. #ErisaBloodMarch #godot #indiegame #gamedev #rpg #jrpg #srpg #trpg

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Death animation, played forward and then in reverse. Need to get faster at making animations... I have so many to make. #ErisaBloodMarch #godot #gamedev #indiegame #jrpg #srpg #trpg #rpg

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Made spear attack animation. I struggled for a long time with rigging and animation basics. After making no progress for a long time, I am suddenly seeing progress. Progress happens in discrete steps, not linear! Never give up. #godot #gamedev #indiegame #ErisaBloodMarch #jrpg #srpg #trpg #rpg

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Made an animation of the spear maiden Arisha walking with shield and spear. #ErisaBloodMarch #Godot #gamedev #indiegame #jrpg #rpg #srpg #trpg

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Worked on an animation. I'm not happy with it, seems too stiff... but it's the best I could do. So much to learn. I will keep trying. #godot #indegame #gamedev #erisabloodmarch #jrpg #srpg #trpg

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Work on new level. This is a work in progress, needs lots of improvements, not done. Between job and family. Making game is hard. I work till midnight everyday. Health is getting worse, cause of very little sleep. But must continue... #ErisaBloodMarch #Godot #indiedev #gamedev #rpg #srpg #jrpg #trpg

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Changed lighting from previous version... I do think this version is better. But I think this one is a bit too bright. Will keep iterating and trying to improve. But have many other aspects of the game to work on too. #ErisaBloodMarch #Godot #gamedev #indiegamedev #rpg #jrpg #srpg

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

The intro for #ErisaBloodMarch, this took me so long to get right and I still want to improve some things with it. The music is by my friend and very talented composer @teteto629.bsky.social please give him a follow, he is new on BlueSky. #godot #indiegame #gamedev #rpg #sprg #jrpg #trpg

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

I was not satisfied with original start screen. So I remade it, in 3d. In the start screen the 3 main characters can be seen camping during their difficult journey. I hope players will eventually enjoy the title screen. #ErisaBloodMarch #Godot #RPG #SRPG #TRPG #indiegame #gamedev

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EncasedHeart @strugglingsoul.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Hello, I'm developing a turn based 3d strategy rpg in the spirit of final fantasy tactics using #GodotEngine. Here's a video of a weapon/item shop in the game. I was not satisfied with my last version so I made new shop. #gamedev #rpg #srpg

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