I just want to go back to how happy I am with my mountain generation in Spectral Express. For procedurally generated peaks and ranges, I think these look really good!
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Here's some more footage of our new 3D particle system! I am super happy with how it's turning out
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We've achieved liftoff!
It'll all look a bit more put together once I have the proper assets in 😂 but until then, only one particle task left: a predictive path!
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No new #GameDev footage to show today but my particle adventures are going in the right direction! #SpectralExpress now has about 75% of its particle work done, including the smoke and dust clouds as previously shown and more, as well as debris from destroyed obstacles! #IndieDev #IndieGame
On our continued adventure with particles, we are now 99% done with the system itself! Only got single puffs/bursts left before I start populating the game with emitters.
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After about a month and a half of regular posting here, we broke the 100 follower barrier! Thank you all for supporting our dinky little train game with ghosts <3
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Added a conical option to the variable dispersion with a variable opening arc (all totally legit math and programming terms, trust me) -
And also they have gravity now!
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We're working on #SpectralExpress, a resource management train driving game with ghosts! No associated steam page yet, just here to spread awareness for now :)
Particles are happening, part 2! It took me several days to get them to:
A - play nice with the outline shader and
B - transparency to (mostly) work correctly.
Good progress!
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This week kind of kicked my ass a bit, however I still got to put in the beginnings of a particle system! Now to make it play nice with the outline shader...
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The menus in our game are so pretty, my wife is so skilled
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OUR GAME IN 4 WORDS:
GHOST 👻
TRAIN 🚂
RESOURCE 💰
MANAGMENT ⚖️
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OUR GAME IN 4 WORDS:
GHOST 👻
TRAIN 🚂
RESOURCE 💰
MANAGMENT ⚖️
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I'd post an image or video but i keep getting an internal server error unless I leave it out lmao
Getting more assets for out menus, and they are looking NICE! Someday the menu art will be animated as well, but we are not shooting for that with the alpha.
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Getting to flex my meager modelling skills today by updating the locomotive model, haha. Textures are placeholders of course. I am quite happy with how it's turning out!
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And just like that, we advance from placeholder menu to very nice assets!
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Finally beat OBS into recording this in the correct format for me lmao. But here we have the finished menu interactions! I am happy with my results.
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With the debug option now in (toggleable on/off from the brand new in-game menu), a live peek behind the curtain is possible! Hopefully this will help me track down some of the more elusive bugs
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A day of many small tweaks today. Ironing out menu wrinkles and fixing bugs. Normally it doesn't feel very rewarding but when I look at my "tasks done" list, don't think it's been this stacked in a while 😂
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I just wanted to share my absolutely garish start menu mock-up before my lovely and talented wife gets around to giving me the proper assets 🤣
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I didn't finish the menus like I was planning to today, however I did finish pretty much all of the hard parts: buttons and sliders are fully functional and the menu swap system is done!
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Sounds are in! I forgot to turn the music on, but the game already feels so much better with all the lil noises in place. A bit of balancing left needed, but overall done!
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I think I'll be finished with all the sound updates tomorrow. Only a few trickier ones left that need implementing, and the balancing needs finished. Upwards and onwards!
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Soooound
is a paaaaain
in the asssssss
signed - NOT a sound designer/engineer who is currently doing sound design/engineering for our game
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Ok so the sound balancing got delayed to tomorrow, but I got a start page, a pause screen, and menu states into the game! 2 years into development is not too late for all of those, right? 😂
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Big step on the technical side, I have set up a sound test system in which to play all in-game sounds and set their volume! Will be balancing them all tomorrow
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Now that the keyboard and controller support is in, I've moved on to sound. Thing is: neither of the people on the team are sound people. So we're doing our best with the audio balancing haha
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You ever make yourself a schedule with daily tasks and go yes, I am starting and finishing this task today! And then that task ends up taking you four days instead?
That is me today.
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Been kind of a busy day so I don't have much to report; just a couple more mouse interaction only features that I added keyboard and controller support to. Was supposed to have these done before tomorrow.
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Today I started adding keyboard and controller support to Spectral Express. It's going well! While you can play the game with only a mouse interacting with the driver's cabin, it's good to have options!
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