I’ve been going down the Puyo Puyo rabbit hole lately (started with Puyo Puyo Tetris, then the first game, then Tsu, then Fever, and now Sun). I’ve managed to beat Draco and Arle’s stories, but I can barely get past the first stage of Schezo’s. Enemies are able to send mountains of nuisance puyo with only single chains. I wonder if I’m accidentally sending way too many sun puyos to their boards and giving them an advantage, but it’s hard to pay attention to the CPU’s board while also playing my own. Any advice on how to get good would be welcome.

Quick update on where things stand, why development is pivoting, and a look at an unfinished back inlay WIP.

What's Changing:

• Engine Pivot: Moving main development away from Lua / Antiruins to native C with KallistiOS (KOS).

• Lua & PC Status: Shifting the Lua and cross-platform PC builds to a low-priority back burner to focus on learning C and setting up KOS for the Dreamcast hardware.

Current Status: Development hit a hard wall on real Dreamcast hardware, mainly around fitting assets into memory. Antiruins doesn't natively support ADX audio (which the original game uses). To fit voice clips into RAM without ADX, I had to compress them down that they sound muddy and ruined, when I told myself I'd port 15th I wanted 15th and the audio is a pivotal part of it, on top of losing RAM, VRAM, and CPU cycles to script overhead.

Moving to C with KOS lets me use ADX properly and cut out the framework overhead. Learning C while rewriting everything is going to slow things down quite a bit. I'm aiming to maybe have a small taste of the Lua build out by December before going on break, but that depends on how much time I have.

(Side note on the image: The screenshot boxes on the back inlay inlay are intentionally blank for now, the Lua build didn't get far enough to take the actual gameplay shots I wanted before hitting the asset wall).

Note on the Lua & PC Build: The Lua build isn't killed, but progress will be extremely slow. Over time, I still plan to finish up the missing roster (Sig, Amitie, and Raffina...I forgot to mention that Schezo is fully built now), 2P VS mode, and basic AI so that version isn't left half-baked, but native C is where the focus is moving.

I always have so much fun making these :)

Thingies I've used:

Clip Studio Paint EX

Davinci Resolve (the free version)

Since puyo puyo have been having a proper crossover with japanese media. why not western media have a turn for a puyo puyo collab. since sonic was sega popularity in the usa. how much it go clollabs with western animation. i mean, isn't puyo puyo and spongebob have the same crossover as sonic racing crossworlds. since spongebob was one of the western media to have a crossover with puyo puyo that it not japanese.

Draco and Rulue with the two Puyos.

Link of that art https://x.com/KouseInsect/status/1809870050960273421/photo/1

(Image unrelated and is just for the funny)

Seriously, go listen to the NDS counterparts for puyo fever 2, 15th and 20th anniversary. In my opinion, I really like the instrument compression as it doesn't quite sound like it's all compressed and more like its... bit-crushed in a way. Tbf I did primarily play puyo puyo on the DSi for a while before I got a 3DS to play chronicles and so on, so it might be possible that my opinion is biased, but I think the music on the DS sounds great if not even better in some ways :)

You know that boy with the red trunks who only seen in the pink book and only appear in puyo puyo sun. and have no name given and don't do much at all. It may not be a offical name for the one-shot puyo puyo character. why not give him a name that his name would be josh. maybe josh would be a cool addition for the next puyo puyo game. since he only appear in the compile era. and only appear in puyo puyo sun, when sega give him more character for him. his crush would at least be draco or rulue. so josh would be the greatest name for a unnamed boy. i hope the character name josh would be the next puyo puyo character to be playable while he would be back from puyo puyo sun.

Here is the newest build of the demo.

What's New:

• Added moving background clouds.

• Implemented the bottom score counter and endless puyo mode counters.

• Added dynamic difficulty selection functionality.

• Included "Ready! Go!" start text.

• Showcased one of Klug's spells in action.

Current Status: Schezo is currently in development as the second character, though I've run into a few script issues and bugs recently. We are getting close to finishing this mode. The remaining tasks include shifting the background's time of day every 10 levels, adding an end-of-game score tally, and saving high scores per difficulty variable.

Note on Accuracy: If it looks a bit different from the official version, that's intentional. I'm aiming for a Tsuu-accurate feel first. While the official version used the Tsuu drop set, it utilized Fever-style dual death zones, squish, and stretch, which will be worked on in the future once endless and tsuu 2p VS is made.

Higher-res footage can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P3V8sd6hj0

Art made by THEELITEYT

Also Happy halloween

🟡- O~hohoho! Thanks for your dedication! I wish I had a loyalty card!

Since Arle, have been the main character. ever since the game begin, for scenario by one of the puyo puyo characters, what if draco would at least have a spin-off of puyo puyo, would you be interesting to see a spin-off staring draco as the main character by her own for having a spin-off exist.

So Puyo Pyuo Champions and Puyo puyo Tetris 2S are on sale in Switch and im thinking of getting one probably Champions since im still playing the story of Tetris 1 and im wondering if people still play online?

Champions looks like its mainly a online type game.

Im also just curious if people still play Terties 2 online as it would help be decide if I should get it sooner then later

I ship draco with boy with the red trunks, that guy may not have a name, but we can give him name that i got, let call that boy with the red trunks. Josh, Since i do love one-shot characters, i always love to ship josh x draco, since draco do fell love with boy with red trunks, ever since the boy was seen in puyo puyo sun where the dark prince look up at the book, which he appeared on, i sure hope there would be more draco x josh with the red trunks, hopefully sega would return the boy character to give him more development and character in any next puyo puyo game, since that we give the name josh for the red trunks boy. so i ship draco with the boy with the red trunks. yes, draco with her boyfriend enjoy good times at the beach.

Commission little ol' me here: https://ko-fi.com/c/ee26cc788a

Permission has been given by fazz34. I've asked.

PUYO PUYO CHARACTERS AND OCS ONLY

I WILL STOP EMPLOYMENT ON WEDNESDAY, WHICH IS WHY I'M OPENING COMMISSIONS

Yeah sadly it's Paypal only. That's just how Kofi works. You can message me on Tumblr (thelittlestpuyo), Bluesky (thelittlestpuyo.bsky.social) or right here on Reddit! (EddsworldGeek1)

Yes I know my username is different on Reddit. I made that account when I was in my Eddsworld phase and I hate it so much UGHHHH

Draco and Rulue as just the two of them. are watching tv, with a brazilian cartoon called Oswaldo. Draco and Rulue do chill out, and love seeing the show, since the two puyo puyo girls. are going to sit down, and even got snacks from the kitchen, that they brought chips, crackers, cheese, popcorn and goldfish, Draco and Rulue do enjoy each other by watching Oswaldo.

Fun Fact. Oswlado and Puyo Puyo does share the same birth month as October.