finally upgraded from VS2017 so that I can compile the godot source code 😔 end of an era

*shakes violently*

logging what I can ignore for this prototype game
(aiming for ~1 hour of playtime, single story beat in a single dungeon)

Real glad I came up with this
I love the drive of starting a new project - but in a same sense, this side project will just move my main game forward as it's built from a subset of its systems

I'll talk details once I have more to show but fuuuuuck I'm a genius

this is why you should only play Straftat, the last good online FPS

AAAAND I just burnt my lunch in the middle of writing this tweet / writing the design doc because I got hella pulled into the idea.

whoops 😅

Had a random idea for a TRPG using my existing game as a template, and I think I'm 100% gonna have to make this as a "prototype" project leading up to the bigger project

the heath bar stacks indefinitely for overheal, so ya can get stuff like this >:3

UI for Unit charge, movement, and health - along with a bullet that heals more each time it ricochets >:)
#GodotEngine #IndieDev #GameDev

Still need the UI for the player's stats- that's comin next

An example attack in my game is stored as
"move bullet from cell A to B",
"move bullet from cell B to C",
"lower stat X on cell C unit by Y",
"push cell C unit from cell C to D"

& each module can be given visual effects - it's real nice

I always felt out of my element working on game feel, but breaking game events into arbitrarily combine-able modules makes it real natural to polish any one module individually

adding features by deleting code >:)

It's also a jab at the ending of Xeno 1 & the "hair length" question. Honestly one of my favorite small scenes from 3 & one of the many reasons Mio is a great character

Thinking about Xenoblade 3 & how they mock the "Pyra / Mythra" choice from Xeno 2 with Mio goin "Bruh why the FUCK would I care about Noah's opinion? This is a personal choice."

def need to make "back attacks" a thing, especially for attacks that buff the player, as lining up a ricochet to shoot yourself in the back is fun

Thinking about Xenoblade 2 again & how the story went out of their way to emphasize that Drivers & Blades are genetically related just to ship a bunch of Drivers and their Blades

look y'all are still better than twitter, but that's only because the bar for "better than twitter" is 10 feet under

BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)

yall remember… companies dont make art, people do. there is no disney art, there is no unreal or tencent art. they create a wrapper around someone else’s art. find out who makes the stuff you love

Mirror's Edge - The Shard | Puzzle Soundtrack YouTube video by Gaming Ambience

Also the theme of the final area is fukkn art
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDWC...

They hella fumble by immediately giving Faith a new comms guy like 3 rooms later, and the ending is all sorts of goofy, but I still really love how good the best moments of that game can get

Coolest thing in Mirror's Edge is the start of the final chapter right after the comms guy dies & it's just dead silence with no guidance on what you're doing

Never really liked the constant narration, but that plays into the sentiment. Gives a great feeling of solitude, yet trust in the player

also slightly touching up font size / control sizes so that everything is legible in 720p while still not looking too large on higher resolutions

spent all evening slightly rephrasing the tooltips in my game / adding new keywords & I can already tell that writing these is gonna turn into a sisyphus type situation

Witch Hat Atelier villains be like
"we believe in equal rights, freedom of expression, and everyone who joins gets a dope fukkn hat"

& the story keeps failing to convince me that they're the bad guys just because "they do a bit of human mutilation every now & then" like womp womp

once I finish this game, I may never want to look at a hexagon again (affectionate)

Just finished the most complicated health bar I've ever made

But at 116 LoC, it's a lot more compact than some of the health bars I've seen my students show me 😅

One of the best games of its era
Sakurai is at his best when he's making anything other than Smash

woke up to my cat lookin @ me and she goes
mor?
...

mor morp?

(it's comin together, but gods does it lead to some bugs when I get something wrong)