I’ve just released v0.820 of GearHead Caramel, featuring the new Challenges system and the War on the Highway scenario. You can get it from itch, GitHub, and Patreon.
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Jan 14
New Challenges for GearHead Caramel
I made a video this morning to show off the new procedural narrative system I’m developing for GearHead Caramel. The Challenge system is a further refinement of the Mechanical Tarot, which was based on Smart Terrain Causality Chains. Its big difference from those systems is the fact that instead of linking interactions to lead to …
Nov 30
GHC v0.810: Black Market Blues
GHCaramel v0.810 has just been released. A lot of the work this time around was under the hood- things have been refactored and updated to make future development (especially of the scenario generator) easier and less bug-prone. The big visible changes this time around are the new Black Market Blues scenario for DeadZone Drifter, the …
Jun 26
GearHead Caramel Narrative Trailer
I have just finished making this narrative trailer for GearHead Caramel. All the backgrounds are hand painted with acrylics on watercolor paper; the mecha were drawn in Gimp and animated using Blender. I’d kind of like to choreograph and animate a decent mecha action scene someday… after I recover from the making of this video.
May 23
GearHead Caramel Scenario Creator
It’ll be easy, I thought. Just throw some widgets together to link boilerplate code and you’ll be finished in a week. I really need to stop listening to my stupid brain. Anyhow, I’ve been working on a GearHead Caramel scenario editor! In theory, this should allow players to create scenarios for GearHead Caramel without knowing …
Apr 13
GearHead Caramel Cinematic Trailer
GearHead Caramel now has a cinematic trailer, created by the mega-talented cartoonist and animator Matt Sandbrook.
Apr 09
GearHead Caramel v0.620: Content and Hotkeys
GearHead Caramel v0.620 has just been released. There are a lot of changes this time around- as you’d expect from the length of time it took me to release this version. Every town in DeadZone Drifter now has a special feature. The opening scenario for DeadZone Drifter may be different depending on your character’s life …
Jan 23
Modding GearHead Caramel: Create Your Own Adventure, Part Two
In part one of the tutorial, we created an empty city scene and stuck an exit in it. In this part we will add a building, a shopkeeper, and a shop. You can download the expanded script file from Dropbox. Now, we could stick all of this new content into the same Plot we used …
Jan 14
Modding GearHead Caramel: Create Your Own Adventure, Part One
One of the great new features of GearHead Caramel is the ability to add your own content that will automatically be loaded and used by the game. If you check your ghcaramel user folder (which should be located in your home directory) you’ll see a bunch of folders for content, designs, and images. Today I’m …
Jan 13
GearHead Caramel v0.612
I’ve just uploaded GearHead Caramel v0.612. This is just a quick bugfix release- I accidentally broke GH1 character import in v0.611. Also, I added the CNA-15 Century mecha from GH1 and GH2. You can download it from GitHub, Patreon, or buy it from itch.io. If you are using the itch.io app your install of GearHead …
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