MB for dropping off the face of the earth, I took a break from social media and I'm not sure when I'll be gamedeving again

Styilzed black hole with a red outer band, orange inner band and white inner band and spiral

with a fresh slate I have some very interesting ideas I'm exploring. Nothing concrete yet but my love of triangles has not dissipated. I want to do something space like after I made this black hole sprite

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What comes next is I will most likely start a smaller project that is more manageable. And you'll see updates about it here, I still have motivation to make games, just not on Trishot specifically. And to be quite honest I was ashamed of it, the game, the sound, the art. I just didn't like it

For some extra explanation. The breaking point for this was when I started getting severe anxiety over realising I hadn't been working on the game and not making progress, it simply wasn't healthy or maintainable.

While I'm not saying it will be gone forever, I'm suggesting that it may see no work for a good while. So far this year I clocked barely 30 hours in GameMaker which is barely any. I had ambitions and I overstepped my skill level and moreso my motivation.

I've been gone a while. School's back which mean time and focus has been diverted away from bluesky and more importantly, my game. And I've been thinking about potentially putting it on hold for a while. I simply don't have the spark for the project I used to. Which makes work a burden.
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*Dont kill you immediately I should say

Did some sound editing & balancing. such as
-Adding random pitch to the sounds of the coin pickup and guns so it feels less grating during long firing sessions
-Adding sound to the dash ability
-messing w/ some dmg values so detonator enemies don't kill you
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And so I feel like my scope for this game outweighed my skill capacity

A lot of the older code has no comments and since I've taken a lot of breaks from working on this thing I'm having to decipher this code so there's this little devil on my shoulder telling me to to give up and try something smaller, because I am not an experienced gamemaker developer

And this is a big problem for me because I'm REALLY struggling for motivation at the moment, I dont want to just abandon the project because I have sunk a lot of time into it, but at the same time I feel like it just really wont turn out well, it technically "works" but theres a lot of issues

I'm at the stage in my game where I have a game, but not sure what it really is or what I want it do be, which is a really bad spot to be in because that kind of position breeds a developer's hate for their own project
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Havent been working on game much, been too busy playing flyout so not much in the way of progress has been made

alr, progress has been made, more or less done working on a difficulty system that im not super happy with, its kinda buggy and I have NOT finished with the whole "dialing in the balance" thing.
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I think I've said this before, but I think a lot of large studios are getting too comfortable for making a poorly optimized games then relying on artificial frame boosters to make up for it.

mb for the relative silence. But unfortunately for your feeds I am back and because im now on holidays, I should be able to work on my game A LOT assuming my motivation lets me :)

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Hi yes i am alive again, fixing up some UI elements and trying to actually set up a pipeline that ima try to follow more or less, baring on the side of less.

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Yeahhh ive done that before, curse us gamedevs for wanting fancy buttons

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Ladies, Gentlesirs and every fabulous human in between, I will bring great pleasure in telling you I have optimized my game

And we now get 3FPS LESGOO BABY 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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So I've been messing around with the aesthetics of my game further, and I changed the bg out (which is a change I will be keeping), but I wanna know what you all think about the glow fx, I personally like it but I also know it always looks good to just change stuff

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exams or game dev what to do what to do...
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Sleep schedules are actually lies made up by the wealthy to stop us common folk from reaching maximum efficiency 🔥

also i tried exporting game to my laptop and we got a chill 2.5 Frames Per Second

HELL YEAH

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Out of like some 15 ingame achievements only 2-5 work in practice

oh right theres achievements in my game, I kid you not I implemented achievements like months ago for testing, then like... never touched them again. So after I'm done beefing up the combat I'll work on that, i should probably set up at least a rough list so i know what to do

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Today has been a fustrating but kinda productive day for gamedev. I had a whole slew of issues that popped out seemingly out of no where, i might not be getting much sleep, hoping I have no exams soon. In other news i've been working on making combat feel better

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Im alive and not dead, and i did some stuff in gamemaker i think, idk the weekend was a blur

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Just learned of a cool GM function, its called draw_text_ext_color(), essentially lets you make rainbow text dead easy. I wanna find a way to use it in my game already!
extra reading for those interested >> manual.gamemaker.io/monthly/en/#...

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holy hell, your game isn't running, its crawling 😅. gl with fixing that tho

No clue what's going on with me recently, I just cant find myself able to work on my game for more than like 20 minutes. :/

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