Short-lived Slime

Devlog

• New animations - Near death panic! - v 1.0.29
  December 14, 2025 by sweenist

  Updates New animations When approaching a hard surface, Mr Slime starts to panic. Deer in the Headlights has nothing on Slime about to wall! Various refactors A handful of layout changes are happening... Continue reading

  
• Item Collection Animation Improvements - v1.0.28
  December 11, 2025 by sweenist

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  Updates Item collection animations The item collection stuff log jammed itself and was being handled entirely in my slime class. No more! I created a different class for showing the collected item and... Continue reading
• Better Paddling! v1.0.27
  December 10, 2025 by sweenist

  Updates Implemented frustum culling. I don’t need every game object and its sprites to call their draw methods if they’re not in the view-port. Mind you… at around 2500 tiles, this optimization... Continue reading
• Sounds and Transitions - v1.0.25
  December 08, 2025 by sweenist

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  All the Sounds! I made some more sound effects. I did this using a combination of sfxr.me, bfxr.net, Reaper and my imagination. I kind of wanted to go for a bit of a Metroid/ arcade hall feel for the... Continue reading
• Wired for sound! v1.0.23
  December 06, 2025 by sweenist

  Update v1.0.23 12-06-2025 At long last, I have sound! I worked on some music and sound effects this week. There’s more to add but we’ll get there. For the title music, I wanted something swift and... Continue reading
• New Map! v1.0.22
  December 01, 2025 by sweenist

  New Map! I created a friendlier tile map for the first level. Paddle usage is still required but there are less paddle bumps. Where will you go? Who knows! It’s up to you and your fast twitch fibers... Continue reading
• Better Paddle Interaction! v1.0.21
  November 30, 2025 by sweenist

  New and improved paddle timing! This game is hard. You’re trying to whack a fast moving slime and every frame counts! But sometimes, you’re certain that the paddle should have changed the slime’... Continue reading

  
• Visual/Experiential Improvements - v1.0.20
  November 29, 2025 by sweenist

  Good evening! The latest patch fixes a bug where the options menu can skip its animation but the option items and cursor do not appear. Also, to assist new players, pressing space while the game is st... Continue reading
• Version 1 Release
  November 28, 2025 by sweenist

  Since I have a complete game, I think it’s high time I announce this as an official release. The last fix I made was to constrain the view port to the lesser of height or width. The last prototype v... Continue reading
• Prototype 0.1.15 - Score!
  November 28, 2025 by sweenist

  Huzzah! Implemented a scoreboard. High scores are only saved to local storage. Next step is to add some more levels for variability. TBH, this current level is... pretty hard. It's easier than what I... Continue reading

  
• Prototype 0.1.11 - Mouse and touch events!
  November 24, 2025 by sweenist

  With this release, you can use mouse and touch events so this game is now mobile... friendlier? Now, with that out of the way... on to the scoreboard!... Continue reading
• Prototype 0.1.10 - Experience Improvements!
  November 22, 2025 by sweenist

  Fixed some of the weird visual bugs around the options menu (lack of 9-slice border, cursor duplication on option change). Also relaxed the bounds on game width such that a full screen experience woul... Continue reading
• Prototype 0.1.x
  November 21, 2025 by sweenist

  Greetings! I heard about the 20 Second game jam in October and started playing around with an idea. This is a good way to add constraints and actually complete a game. I'm putting my rough game out th... Continue reading