I’ve been a bit quiet on the gamedev front recently for two reasons: 1. I started a new job, so I’ve been adjusting to my new routine 2. I wasn’t enjoying building Panic Spiral. This is my hobby, I want to enjoy it. I’ve got another game in mind though, and I’m excited to start building it!

The Salvage Unlimited Playtest has been updated with standard and hazardous salvage contracts - each timed, with varied salvage types and increasing rewards. store.steampowered.com/app/3961130/... #SalvageUnlimited #playtest #Steam #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Saddle up, #PitchYaGame! Drifter Dynasty is a strategy RPG that puts you in full control during every ally's turn. 🥊 Duke it out in brawler combat! 🎯 Nail the timing for quick draws! 📝Wishlist on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3824630/ #godotengine #gamedev #indiegame

System breakdowns, interaction, score and round time are now all in the #Godot version of Panic Spiral! From playtest feedback, the player now has a warning before a system breaks down, so you might be able to reach the problem quickly and fix it before it gets worse. #gamedev #indiedev

We had an interesting visitor to our holiday caravan. I never expected to see a mantis in the wild

I’m excited to share the little reactive programming library I built for #csharp and #godot, although it will work in any c# project. This will guarantee deterministic execution and defer mutations when executing bindings to guard against reentrancy issues. #gamedev #indiedev #dotnet

Panic Spiral progress is on haitus while I have a family holiday in the south of France. Gamedev updates will resume in a couple of weeks!

Moving Panic Spiral into Godot is going well! The framework for systems is in. Based on feedback, I've added a breakdown phase, so the player has some warning before the system completely shuts down. Triggered by console commands for now, but working properly soon! #godot #indiedev #gamedev

The Steam store page for Salvage Unlimited is now LIVE! Wishlist today and be ready for launch! store.steampowered.com/app/3961130/... #gamedev #indiegame #steam #wishlist

Started moving Panic Spiral into #godot this week. I learned loads building the prototype in PixiJS. It makes me incredibly grateful how much just *exists* in Godot. I decided to try Chickensoft's LogicBlocks for state management. And it makes it so straightforward and elegant. #indiedev #gamedev

I built a playtest version of Panic Spiral and deployed it. I've had great feedback from an indie dev discord - good core game loop, needs polish! So I'm porting it to Godot and will make a full version to release on Steam. Comment if you want the playtest link. #indiedev #gamedev #pixijs

Panic Spiral is beginning to feel like an actual game now rather than just a collection of mechanics. This week I've added game rounds, ship and player health, along with two systems which reduce health when they're broken. Here we see an example round of Panic Spiral! #gamedev #indiedev #pixijs

I didn't manage to get much done on Panic Spiral this last week, but I have added a score counter. In Panic Spiral, the score increases every second, until the engine breaks! Then you'll need to run over to the engine room and fix it. #pixijs #gamedev #indiedev

Time for a short demonstration of how Panic Spiral's progressing! Today's devlog features a few short videos displaying how Panic Spiral looks today. I've also included some comments on what's happening, and the reasoning behind my design choices. #gamedev #indiedev #pixijs

There's still a lot of polishing to do, and some more mechanics to add, but Panic Spiral is actually beginning to feel like a game rather than just a bunch of objects rendered on the screen. #gamedev #indiedev #pixijs

I created the in-game map of the spaceship where Panic Spiral takes place. Today's devlog explains how I built a simple tile grid from scratch and takes a look at how I hope my initial map design will interact with the gameplay to make things interesting for the player. #gamedev #indiedev #pixijs

Panic Spiral, like many other games, needs collision logic. Unfortunately, PixiJS doesn't include collision boxes as standard, so I've had to implement the logic myself. Today's devlog is all about how I added my own collision logic that works for Panic Spiral's scale. #gamedev #indiedev #pixijs

I had a lot on this week so didn't do much game dev. My main accomplishment is implementing collision boxes for Panic Spiral. Collision logic doesn't come as standard in PixiJS. It's amazing what little things I've started to miss from Godot. Here's a little tech demo! #gamedev #indiedev #pixijs

A few months ago I joined a discord server for game devs who wanted to help motivate each other and keep ourselves accountable with weekly updates. One of those devs is now making games professionally and the studio’s first game has been announced. It’s a roguelike deckbuilder. Show it some love!

I ran into significant technical issues while adding character movement to Panic Spiral. There was inconsistent jumping around the screen rather than walking smoothly, and the animation often failed to change. Pixi-React was the cause, so I had to do a major rewrite. #gamedev #indiedev #pixijs

SANTRIA! is a light-hearted, modern-setting RPG with a strong emphasis on exploration and character interactions, featuring a tactical battle system. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #gamemaker #santria

One of the most important parts of any software project is making the foundations strong. In this post, I explain how I've set up important systems that will make my life easier later. It's a technical one, but that's often the nature of things at the start of a project. #gamedev #indiedev #pixijs

Games should give you the tools to continue to play them if/when they get shut down. You should keep access to the product you paid for If any of my EU viewers agree, I urge you to sign the petition Stop Killing Games EU - eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#... UK - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

As I posted previously, I've had to divert my attention to a side project for a bit. So in this devlog, I introduce Panic Spiral - a game where you own an old spaceship and everything just keeps going wrong. This devlog talks about my design goals and the tech stack. #gamedev #indiedev #pixijs

I've made my initial title screen for Panic Spiral. There are improvements I want to make, but for now I'm quite pleased. Pixijs with react is proving an interesting challenge, both from a web dev and game dev perspective. I'll go into that more in my devblog on Monday. #gamedev #indiedev #pixijs

The Steam store page for Drifter Dynasty is live! store.steampowered.com/app/3824630/... The stage is set for an epic multi-generational Western, so saddle up for a new frontier of #srpg packed with brawlin' and gunnin'. More ranged combat options are on the way! #godotengine #gamedev #indiegame

Unfortunately I've had to pause my main gamedev project. My current workplace is getting rid of UK devs in a not-very-subtle-but-just-about-legal fashion, so I've had to turn my attention to job hunting. I've got plenty of savings so I'm fine overall. I just need to brush up on my web dev skills.

Time to get back into the habit of weekly devblogs! Over the past couple of weeks, I've been refactoring code. Unfortunately, that doesn't lead to lots of pretty screenshots or a nice video about my game. So I've written a bit about how I've structured my code and why. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Landing is just the beginning... - Play as a pacifist or a bloodthirsty human – your choice - Explore the moon with your lander or EVA as an astronaut - Hack mainframes, door controls, elevators, and airlocks - And watch out for the dinos! #PitchYaGame #GameDev #IndieDev

Howdy, #PitchYaGame! Drifter Dynasty is an #srpg where you decide the fate of the Wild West. 🏃 Select the right character 👊 Duke it out in brawler combat 🔫 Nail the timing for quick draws Whichever you decide, give 'em the 👢 🤠 Steam page coming soon, so saddle up! #godotengine #gamedev #indiegame

The best part of refactoring your own game code: you know who's responsible for the mess you're cleaning up. The worst part of refactoring your game code: it's you. You're responsible for it. You made the mess. #gamedev #indiedev #godot

No devlog again this week. My day job is still very draining right now. I've been refactoring some code in my game so it'll be easier to add the features I want. Sadly that doesn't lend itself to pretty screenshots or shiny new features to talk about. Back to weekly devlogs soon though! 🤞

No devlog update today. My day job has been pretty intense so I’ve not been in the right mood to do anything code related in my free time. I have been writing down some ideas on how gear upgrades might work though. I might turn that into a devlog later this week.

In this week's devlog, I talk about building my save/load screens and updating some of the UI in my game to match my new (admittedly simple) theme. I've found making everything match the theme helps me to get more immersed, which makes me more excited to dev the game. #godot #gamedev #indidev

I've been doing a lot of work making some important UI components this week. As part of that, I've been building up a theme for my game with the #godot theme editor. #indiedev #gamedev

There have been many distractions from gamedev this week - nice weather, Clair Obscur... Ok, make that two big distractions. Somehow, though, I managed to find the time to build a nested tooltip solution for my game. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

This week I've been ill (again). I managed to add a few QoL things to my game though - localisation, a developer console, a loading screen, and the beginnings of a main menu with a global theme. It feels like slow progress, but it should save me from a pile of tech debt. #godot #indiedev #gamedev

I made a simple loading screen for my game and someone mentioned that one of their pet peeves is loading screen tips that vanish too quickly to read. So I spent 10 minutes adding that "feature" with some samples. Who knows, maybe I'll keep it in the game as a bit of fun! #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Time for my second localisation in Godot tutorial, this time focusing on gettext. khemitron-industries.net/godot4-4-pow... I think this method is far more powerful and has better scalability than the CSV method, but there are use cases for both. #godot #GodotTips #indiedev #gamedev

I’ve written the first of two tutorials on localisation in Godot 4.4. This first one focuses on the simpler way to do localisation - via CSV. khemitron-industries.net/godot4-4-eas... Second part to follow soon. #godot #GodotTips #indiedev #gamedev

I decided to spend some of my day off work investigating how to do localisation in Godot (so I can avoid tech debt later). 6 hours later, I have a prototype that can generate translation keys for scenes, custom resources, and json. I think I'll write a tutorial on it later. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

This week, I've got a full basic gameplay loop! There are a lot of things needed to flesh it out, but it's cool that I can send out an adventuring party, fight a simple combat with them, and then return to the world map. #godot #indiedev #gamedev

With the release of BG3 Patch 8, I've started yet another honour mode run. I like to roleplay as much as possible. This time I'm writing my character's story on my blog. I'm also going to explain my build choices and how I approach the encounters. Join me for the ride! #baldursgate3 #bg3 #honormode

I'm getting closer and closer to having a full basic gameplay loop. This week, I've added enemies dying and the first way to win or lose combat (by everyone on one side dying). You also get a pop up to tell you that you've won or lost. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

chickensoft started as a place for #godot + C# devs to gather, and it has slowly grown into a whole team of mods and contributors. we are all volunteers who want to make #gamedev just a little bit better. read about the team behind chickensoft here! #indiedev

This week I've added the ability for the player and enemy to damage each other via a simple strike action. Soon, a combat can be won or lost. Once a player can win or lose combat, I can integrate it with the world map and have a very early proto-gameplay loop. Exciting! #godot #indiedev #gamedev

Last week was movement. This week has been all about doing damage - now the player and enemies can use the strike action, hitting each other for a random amount of damage. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Now the enemies can move in my turn-based combat game. What a time to be alive! Maybe I'll give everyone some weapons and the ability to hit each other next... #godot #gamedev #indiedev

The player can finally move their characters in the turn-based combat part of my game! It's nearly done! Provided you just want to move and not do anything fun like use abilities or have an interesting environment. So just a couple more weeks of dev, right? #godot #gamedev #indiedev #devlog

Some bugs just make me burst out laughing. Like this one. Everyone must go to the same place. No exceptions. You cannot escape. Resistance is futile. #godot #gamedev #indiedev