I officially joined the April Fighting Game Game Jam on Itch, hosted by people I know.

https://itch.io/jam/fighting-game-versus-jam-2026

I got some of my friends, Pocket Fighter EX crew, and others, together to make a demo!

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Managed to figure out how to apply palettes to low color sprites in #UnrealEngine5. The flashing ones are randomizing their palettes every frame.

Still working on an easy to edit palette data system, but it works!!

#gamedevelopment #gamedev #UnrealEngine

Most didn't realize that part of the colorization specification was maintaining 100% backwards compatibility with the original NeoGeo Pocket 3-Color look via palette swap only. I enforced this by mandating every new sprite to be made *first* in 3-Color.

Kirby seems to understand what the Vest means now; That he can go outside.

Been going 200%, but I have so much left to do to make the one month Fighting Game Game-Jam deadline...

This is Old Boy. He's a grizzled older stray cat. He was reluctant about approaching for a long time. Recently he was limping and we gave him food. We were gentle with him and let him rest inside a few days. He got better and now comes around every day.

It got warmer so Kirby and I went out.

On the off chance that the new #KOFXV character was Kasumi, I colored her KOFR2 sprite. That wasn't the case, but I figured I would share it anyway. #NGPC #KOF #NeoGeo

Not an April Fool's joke, I got super sick. My wife had been super sick and I caught it, which I should have expected.

Sucks that this happens right at the start of the game jam, but I'll still try my best.

Anyway here's Bud, he came inside on his own!

I got unreasonably mad at combining text in C++ Macros, so I made this lol. I'm honestly surprised it works.