Jason

Spent this evening bringing things together and tweaking lighting to make the game a bit darker and seedier (and to hide the background so I don't have to model that) #godot #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Finally got round to giving the blackjack dealer some clothes and a (temporary) hairstyle #gamedev #godot #screenshotsaturday

Twinkle twinkle little star 🎶⭐ Adding a basic open/close hand animation for the card dealing #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

It would be easy to look back on this as a bit of a waste of time as it didn’t result in publishing my first game like I wanted but I think I can be pretty positive about it because I learned a lot about #gamedev from the project

Manually placing buildings for my city level felt like a lot of work so I created a custom editor instead which can randomly place them for me. Now I smash "Randomize Seed" until I get a layout I'm happy with #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Here's a really minor update to improve the aiming and lock-on targets. It's much less jarring than the earlier prototype version #gamedev #indiedev

Here is the missile system in my #indiegame with added missile trails and explosion effects #gamedev #indiedev

Moving this into the game has been slow progress with lots of tweaking of behaviour settings. Gradually coming together but it's hard to actually figure out how aggressively the enemies should move without having some semblance of an actual level so I might do that next #gamdev #indiedev

I was hoping to complete the gameplay loop of my game by the end of the month but instead I started a new farm on Stardew Valley #gamedev

calling all developers, if u have a steam page, itchio page or what ever . please link your games, that way we can check out your work and increase your wishlists ^^ #indiedevelopers #indiedevs #indiegames retweets appreciated , help gain exposure to developers

To my #GameDev / #DigitalHoarders folk, if you have not claimed the free Megascans assets yet, you have a couple of hours left to do it. approx 18k assets for free. do it in both places, because they are used differently. www.fab.com/megascans-free and quixel.com/megascans/home go now. do it now.

Today is the deadline I set for myself for releasing a demo of my game. I'm happy to say...that I am absolutely no where near that milestone but I have learnt a lot along the way. I can't wait to come up with a new milestone and miss that one too #gamedev

Now I have multiple behaviours combined, including obstacle avoidance, it's time to get this running with full 3D movement #gamedev

Did a bit of work on nearby object detection this evening, should just need to calculate some some steering forces and the enemy should be able to *attempt* to avoid other obstacles in front of it

The enemy AI movement behaviors were a pain to work on with the third person view and steering controls in my game so I created a separate scene as a test bed to provide a better view to observe the enemy behaviour. Here they are plotting a basic intercept path to the player #gamedev

The most unreasonably priced service AWS offers is a hosted zone. It's only 50¢ a month, but still, I can't get on board with paying for DNS when I can do so much compute in a free tier

Adding some bullet impact effects this evening #gamedev

I had been considering adding a sideways "dodge" movement to avoid incoming projectiles. But it might be best if I stopped pissing about with random stuff and actually implemented something to shoot those projectiles at the player and *then* decide if this is fun to have

I have a whole bunch of ideas for games I want to work on and one I’m actively developing. It’s currently taking all my willpower to continue to focus on the active game and not get distracted by the next idea which comes along #gamedev

One of my favourite things about #gamedev is my ability to accidentally create effects in minutes. If I intentionally tried to do this I would probably require 3 evenings work and a bottle of wine

Adding some HUD elements and a weapon power/recharge mechanic to my game this evening