The gutter is wet
The first real stretch of Chapter 1: seven layers of depth, painted lights turned into real ones, water that reflects the screen and a light rain.
Devlog
Notes from the gutter
I'm Dodz, and I'm making PewRun. This is where I write down how it is going: what worked, what broke, and how I use AI along the way, without hiding it.
Pew pew, in eight directions
Aiming, weapons as data, bolts that never skip through walls and a script that finds the tip of the blaster in every frame.
Making a tiny alien feel good
Coyote time, jump buffering, a dash with one air charge and ledge grabs: the numbers behind Pew's movement.
Nine sheets, eighteen animations
How Pew's sprites went from generated sheets to one tidy atlas in Godot, and why the run cycle took seven tries.
A title screen in the rain
The first thing running in Godot: a backdrop with real water reflections, layered rain, and Pew blinking and firing from inside the logo.
Teaching an AI to draw Pew
Third hands, antennae, white eyes and a sky inside a sewer: what went wrong with the generated art, and the rules that fixed it.
Meet Pew
A tiny green alien in a hoodie, a rainy New York and one design document: how PewRun started.