I found myself wondering how hard it would be, with modern tools, to translate Rom2.4b6 to a 2d graphical game. So, i grabbed school.are, and Claude, and started designing and testing. Now, at this point , i've got a minimal Rom2.5D (heh), that's playable. Curious if there's interest.

Ooooh, Dialog system.... #DecomissionedSite Oooh... Title..

Did you know bsky is a game distribution platform? If only most QR code scanners accepted data: urls, you'd be able to play the worlds most minimal version of #guitarhero #gamedev

Ooooh, the minimap is working now. First view of the island the game takes place on.

Slimes in games are always just piles of goo. What happens if you have a pile of sentient rgb goo? Mimics. Mimic's are what you get when you have a pile of sentient, angry, rgb goo.

Huh. Those turkey legs, and bombs keep getting knocked off the belt and into that pit. But if i poke this switch... the turkey legs go through. Bet... there's another switch for the bombs. (Well, there will be when i build it... hehehe) #ZeldaLike #solodev

fotdgames.itch.io/roguelike-ac... Well, it's out there on Itch now. The Wizard, and the Warrior are fully implemented, and 3/5 floors have some content, along with a bit of an ending when you reach the third floor boss. #indiedev #roguelike

fotd-games.com I think i've cleaned up most of the bugs i know about, and i'm in a passable spot for a game at 0.3.x. Heh. #gamedev #roguelike

Oooooh man. Just got my new logo back from www.fiverr.com/dens_saputra (Gotta advertise the artist), and daum does it look better than the poor little nonsense i made.

So, i've just pushed out a playable build of my game. "Roguelike Academy. Freshman Year" fotd-games.com This is version 0.3.0, so, while it's playable, and beatable, and most of the features are there... bugs likely abound. All of the art, and music are placeholders. #Roguelike #solodev

"Tobias wanders instead of moseying." Extract from my current bug list. #indiedev

Quick tour through the first floor of Roguelike Academy: Freshman Year, as a fledgling warrior. #roguelike

It feels kinda like a cheat that just generating a level, rotating it 3 degrees, and lerping it past makes a decent title screen.

Out of curiosity, how many people have "Upstairs" projects, and "Downstairs" projects? or something similar? I have one game i'm working on in my office, and the little PoC i just pushed out was (until yesterday) my upstairs project, for when i'm jiggling the baby, or minding the youngin.

imgur.com/a/PtQAnm8 An actual run of the little Randomizer Concept, did better than i did on my initial post. Heh.

I've built the worlds smallest randomizer. It's got a Sphere 0, a Sphere 1, and a Sphere 2. Proper logic is followed when laying out the items. Sphere 1 requires either the key or the ring of jumping, sphere 2 requires *both*. In theory, there's a sphere 3, ([key|ring] sword), but you can

This is the first image of a succesfull spawn of the third floor, with the miniboss room, the stairs and everything connected. I'd still call it a fail, because the way the corridor is drawn into the boss area breaks some specific corridor rules, but damn does it feel nice to have it in.

I've been working on wizard spells. Here, we get to see one of the wizards starting spells (Curse of Life Drain, a DoT), and one of the more powerful spells, Ice storm. #gamedev #roguelike

All of the wizard spells in the spellbook work. They've all got VFX, and at least some upgradability. All of the base warrior skills are in place. Seems like its time for content, balance, and polish. #gamedev #roguelike

Been a *while* since I've posted. I've gotten pulled into a roguelike project, that's still nameless, working heavily with Claude. Just pushed a 0.1.0 release this weekend. The warrior is the only class implemented "fully" and balance is... not. genrl-gtft2.ondigitalocean.app Super pre alpha.

Working on a tileset generation tool for my own pipeline. I'm betting there's tools that already do exactly this, but i don't know what they are, and it feels like the learning curve to find and master them is higher than the effort curve of just writing my own.

ChatGPT just gave me a task. Hah! It actually makes sense in context api.txt is a file i generate and pass back to the llm to prevent function name drift. The llm doesn't know i generate it locally, and doesn't need to. but it's actually worked pretty well.

This is just silly enough I felt like I should post it. I suspect people on both sides of the opinion on ChatGPT would find it somewhat amusing, if for different reasons.

With the next step being beter UX and Tileset stuff in DungeonSmith, i decided i needed a tool to mark up tilesets with autotile data. But, writing that is boring. So, instead, I coached a local LLM thru the process of writing it, in a language i don't use regularly. #IndieDev

I just pushed another small update to DungeonSmith. This adds basic CI scripts, and configs for deploying to k8s clusters. Going to spend the next week working on the editor, before going back to finish the conversion to Helm. gitlab.com/fotd_games/7... #gamedev #dungeonsmith

This weeks progress on DungeonSmith has been almost entirely around updating the front end to talk to the new back end. Which is now done. We're back to feature parity with the GameJam version. #SoloDev #LibGDX gitlab.com/fotd_games/7... youtu.be/eX77gfxnjxc Next, testing. fun....

Why is my computer crawling?? Ohhh... i left the entire backend stack of my application running in docker.

#DungeonSmith #SoloDev #LibGDX The backend of DungeonSmith just received a massive refactoring. Going from a monolith to a series of microservices. The front end is temporarily incommunicado, as i rewrite the rest api to use WebFlux, but it still works for local editing and play.

I was just reminded i have a fully usable RogueLike engine, written from the ground up in Java 8 that i should also be cleaning up and pulling into my Employment facing public repo. Guess i have a short project to do after finishing this first pass at DungeonSmith.

I've never felt quite as schooled as this: DungeonSmith is using reactive mongo/webflux for some of it's microservices, mainly so I can learn how to work with it. I'm still learning, so this was my first attempt at converting declarative saving code to reactive:

I've been Job Hunting, and updating #DungeonSmith. Both seem to be going well. I've split DungeonSmith's monolith into two microservices, and i'm working on tying Steam authentication in, to replace my homerolled stuff. Once i have the services working smoothly, I'll do one final MIT release

The fun part of reviving a project is getting all the tooling updated. DungeonSmith is going from Java 11, and springboot 2.7 to Java 21, and springboot 3.5.0. Now, i'm updating all the scanning tools that check for code issues. I think using those previously is about half of why none of the

#DungeonSmith Well, would you look at that. Just a few hours to go from "gathering dust on the hard drive" to "Deployed on a digital ocean droplet, and working" Had to entirely redo the deployment process for the server, and upgrade to java 17. But, she runs. Now... updates.

Well now, that was embarrassing. I was configuring security my brand new droplet, and accidently forgot to provide a login mechanism for my non-root account after disabling root login. Reboot->Brick->Angry Curse Words Least it was only first pass configs.

I am in the process of standing The Asylum back up as a playable game. I'm going to be renaming it to DungeonSmith Once i've got all that done, i'm going to be republishing it at Itch.io, and making it playable again. #Gamedev #libgdx #SoloDev

I'm cleaning up and pushing up personal projects, so I can have them publicly available for Resume purposes, but it brought back to my attention the one game I have finished and published. This was an entry for the #7DRL gamejam back in 2023. It's essentially #MarioMaker but for #roguelites

Well, with my job ending sometime in the next month, and a nice chunk of Garden leave while i find a new one, It's time to pick and write a small game, and publish it. I figured a Match 3 game should easily fit in the timescale, and an idea for a theme if i can get permission. So, time to code.

I've been working on various prototypes for gameplay, and I think i've found one I like. So, it's wave and region based. In that there will be ~10 regions, every minute, a new region activates and spawns a number of waves of enemies. Hope you cleared the last one. (Remember, prototype)

A bit in this video made me realize i should go play some games in the price scale my skill can cover. So can anyone suggest good 1$ games to go buy off steam? Like, games that demonstrate a level of quality a solo dev should expect. Spending 20$ total. #indiedev youtu.be/gQQazkTn70g?...

IDE's... If I type a Right Paren, I intend to add a Right Paren, into the code, where the cursor is. Don't say "Oh look, there's a paren right here, he must mean that one" and just... skip it. That is the principle of most surprise, not least.

Here we go. Got the new Skeletal Animation Sprite into my game, along with the bare bones of a new tileset to represent the interior of the warehouse. I'm also fiddling with the lighting, but i've never even touched lighting before, so i'd expect changes upon changes. Still learning the basics.

It's amusing how many games how a stat called Curse that is basically tied to becoming OP somehow.

So, i think i'm about half way through converting my POC Skeletal Animation to actual usable code i can put into my game. Smooth transitions between six different directions, with animation sync between them all. Here's a basic walk cycle. (Don't look too closely at the earring...) #Gamedev

It seems unfair that working with 2D animation means you need multiple skeletons for your sprite. I just don't see how to get away with less than 4.

Finished up my POC for skeletal animation in Godot. End result is very passable, and better than most of the programmer art i've produced in the past. (You'll have to excuse the sashay when he walks directly up, the only reference i could find was from deviantart.....) #Godot #Gamedev

@bsky.app You know what would be a wonderful feature, that would mesh well with starter packs? A mass follow-back option on notifications like the one attached. The problem is, if you expand it, and go into it, and try to follow people one by one, the notification changes, then disappears.

Let me try something…. INDIE GAME DEV INDIE GAME DEV INDIE GAME DEV INDIE GAME DEV INDIE GAME DEV INDIE GAME DEV INDIE GAME DEV INDIE GAME DEV INDIE GAME DEV INDIE GAME DEV INDIE GAME DEV INDIE GAME DEV INDIE GAME DEV INDIE GAME DEV INDIE GAME DEV INDIE GAME DEV INDIE GAME DEV INDIE GAME DEV

I'm working on a plugin that can auto build UI nodes in #godot from #figma json exports. I'll be making an in-depth video in the future. You can try it now here: github.com/mightymochi/...

Starting to get the hang of 2d skeletal animation. I think? Spent my whole gamedev time today learning how #godot handles cutout animation. It's pretty nice once it clicks. I can see how this should save me a lot of time developing art assets with limited skill.

btw these large scary math symbols are just for-loops