Detta's Designs

Worked on a new puzzle element this past month… mirrors which will reflect the shadow’s position onto the next surface (and also show a sliced reflection of Luna). Somewhere between realistic and strictly functional, it currently only draws the reflected shadow if it would cause Luna’s active shadow to be reflected. (Also ignoring for now how the mirror itself would basically become a new light source with all the light Luna isn’t blocking and therefore cause her to cast a second shadow…)

There are still more cases I still need to implement (like ceiling mirror and leftward mirror) but still pretty satisfied with how this came out after spending much longer than I really should have trying to do the math on drawing just the reflection of Luna’s sprite in a way that it gets trimmed properly and only draws the part overlapping the mirror.

Another thing I’ve been working on lately is two types of objects which can be linked to stage elements, such as a moving platform. One object detects when a nearby light source is casting light on it, and the other detects when a shadow is being cast on it. Stage elements can have multiple or a combination of these linked to require activation.

Been a bit! Didn’t really touch the game in 2025 due to other priorities, but I’ve been chipping away daily since 2026 started as one of my main goals.

Recently started working on the first real enemy since the resprite/engine rework, a shadow slime that jumps towards Luna at random intervals.

Worked on some menu overhauling this weekend and added a debug feature to allow me to click and drag light sources.

Also got a Steamdeck, so a lot of this was to make it easier to mess around with on that (my debug shortcuts were all numpad-based and the screen keyboard doesn’t have a numpad lol).

Finally finished the punch combo and made a lever you can interact with to affect stage elements, in this case to make a transparent wall appear or disappear which blocks Luna but not her shadow.

It’s been a bit! Not a lot has changed since my last post, but I wanted to recap some things I’ve chipped away at over time.

Some newly implemented stuff (really, reimplemented from the previous smaller iteration of the game): air kick, running animation with the lamp, lamp swing combo, and three abilities (big shadow,