A Skink's Tale

Devlog

• A Skinks Tale: Launch
  November 16, 2025 by Scalies#Launch

  Hi Everyone! Hello all! Scalies are happy to announce that A Skink's Tale has officially launched on itch.io! It's been a long time coming over the course of this year. A Skink's Tale was actually mad... Continue reading

  
• Boss Fight!
  November 11, 2025 by Scalies#bossfight, #boss, #animation, #spritesheets

  These boss fight animations were a year in the making! See queen slash attack right and down (left omitted for this blogpost to save space) See queen egg projectile attack (left omitted for this blogp... Continue reading

  
• A Skinks Tale: Lets Break Games Post Mortem
  November 11, 2025 by Scalies#Marketing, #Post-Mortem

  Hi Everyone! Last weekend, we attended Let's Break Games with A Skink's Tale, and we had a great time with everybody! We also learned a couple of things while we were there. Now, the good: AST was wel... Continue reading

  
• A Skinks Tale: Upcoming Showcase
  October 27, 2025 by Scalies#Marketing

  Hi Everyone! This week, Scalies are ecstatic to announce awesome news about our attendance at a student game development event. Our team of three will be attending Let's Break Games on the 2nd of Nove... Continue reading

  
• Poster design process
  October 24, 2025 by Scalies

  Hi Everyone! With our public debut at the November student edition of Let's Break Games just a week away, Megan and I have been busy polishing marketing art. Our poster started with rough composing, d... Continue reading

  
• Our Fashionista Fox
  October 22, 2025 by Scalies#Animation, #Enemies, #Development

  Hi Everyone! Our team has been working on some new enemies. Previously, we shared the Dynamite Kitty and the type of attack that they'd have! This time we're showing off the combined work of both Chip... Continue reading

  
• Gates, Fences and Dialogue
  October 20, 2025 by Scalies#Development

  Hi Everyone! Just wanted to come in and show some of the things I have been working on, Ill try to keep it fairly simple! First are the electric fences and gates, which were made and animated by Megan... Continue reading

  
• Our Dynamite Kitty
  October 05, 2025 by Scalies#Animation, #Development, #Enemies

  Hi Everyone! In one of our previous posts ( Upcoming Enemies ), we showcased some of the concept art behind some new evil and not-so-little guys that Skink would come across! After a little developmen... Continue reading

  
• Animation Process
  September 17, 2025 by Scalies#Art, #Development, #Process

  Hi Everyone! I'd mentioned in last week's post that there'd be an animation process devlog; hooray, that's this week! I wanted to cover my animations and what I do to speed up the process. I'll start... Continue reading

  
• Overworld Area Progression
  September 09, 2025 by Scalies#Art, #Development

  Hi Everyone! This week, we have some insight into the biggish-small overworld for our Skink friend! We have some updates on the tilemap, including additional flora and puzzles. But not all is smooth s... Continue reading

  
• Upcoming Enemies
  September 03, 2025 by Scalies#Development, #Art, #Enemies

  Hi everyone!! We have a small update on some upcoming enemies, since we have two new areas for our little Skink to explore; they need some not-so-friendly friends to accompany them, of course!! As a d... Continue reading

  
• Self Intro: Megan!
  September 03, 2025 by Scalies#Introduction

  Hiya All!! I'm Megan! I'm working as the Producer and Marketing Lead for our project. Whilst I'm working as the Producer, I didn't actually pitch this game concept; the original idea stemmed from Dom!... Continue reading

  
• Self Intro: Dom!
  August 28, 2025 by Scalies#Introduction

  Hey gamers. I'm Dominic, the Tech and Testing lead for our team, and have been mainly doing the unity/coding work for this project! Outside of making and playing games I have started taking photos, es... Continue reading

  
• NPC Development
  August 21, 2025 by Scalies#Development, #Art, #Animation

  Hi everyone!! Over the last 2 weeks, we have been working on some characters to aid our Skink in their journey! Below is the current state of our bat apothecary, which is still lacking in some decorat... Continue reading

  
• Tilemap Update & Progression
  August 14, 2025 by Scalies#Development, #Art

  Hi everyone!! Recently, our team has been discussing the development of our Tilemap, what we'd like to change and what we can add! We're currently moving forward in our game development to create addi... Continue reading

  
• A Skink's Tale Introduction
  August 04, 2025 by Scalies

  Hi everyone!! We're a W.A. based team of 3 working on our first ever game! Follow along as we wheeze our way through the final few months' sprint (we love it), it's crunch time, both our carpal tunnel... Continue reading