Pretty sure my irl cat had an existential crisis watching me animate this. And occasionally had a swipe at it 🐾🐈 #pixelart #blender #unity #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

One of the most important steps that any game developer ever makes. Adding a cat to the game. Ginger because I too am ginger 🐈 #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #blender #unity

Melding, also known as skill learning/forgetting. This is probably worth watching with volume turned up. #indiegamedev #indiedev #solodev #logicpro #pcgaming

Who said learning a skill had to be dull? #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #solodev #pcgaming #indiegamedev

Welcome to the Melding chair. Learn skills through absorbing the knowledge that others already possess. Of course you still have to prove you should have access to that knowledge. Cannot be used without a skill pass! #indiedev #gamedev #pcgaming #rpg #indiegamedev

16 skills have now turned into 12 professions, which consist of many skills. Saved my sanity, as well as feels better game wise. #pixelart #IndieGameTrends #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGameDev #pcgaming

I've been in programming hell for a month, and now I'm back. Anyway, here's a giant lizard chasing me. #indiedev #gamedev #pcgaming #rpg #indiegamedev

How to lose 3 weeks of time: 1 - Create a new animal for your game as a fun side task. 2 - Discover sprites in general are using too much vram to be loaded at all times. 3 - Move to addressables so you can dynamically load in both sprite atlases & animation clips. #indiegamedev #indiedev #unity

Decided to do something entirely different this weekend and make a very big lizard (think house size). The slowless hopefully shows that off a bit. Need to pixelate it and put it ingame next. #indiedev #gamedev #pcgaming #rpg #indiegamedev #pixelart

Added a subtle object highlight 🟨 & a new radial menu for when you open up additional options on objects. It's fun finishing a huge feature like a character creator & then getting to these little bits that add a lot of character themselves. #indiedev #gamedev #pcgaming #rpg #indiegamedev #pixelart

Finally, a fully working character creator. Full UI sound effects & music. Very glad to have this done. Need to add in default clothing options next but this is a big milestone hit. #indiedev #gamedev #pcgaming #rpg #indiegamedev #pixelart

Who knew making a UI keyboard for controller support would take so long. Happy with the result though. Music was my own creation too. #indiedev #gamedev #pcgaming #rpg #indiegamedev #pixelart

A still work in progress but much further along Character Creator. All the changeable bits are in place, what you see is what you can actually choose. I'll be hooking it up to the actual data & model tomorrow 👀 #indiedev #gamedev #pcgaming #rpg #indiegamedev #pixelart #screenshotsaturday

A very much work in progress character creator. Quite fun to build so far. You'll be able to change quite a bit, and not be locked into those changes. The technology exists to change virtually anything in the world of Afterglow. #indiedev #gamedev #pcgaming #rpg #indiegamedev #pixelart

Added trails to Nanoflow abilities as well as improved bullet trails. Unfortunately (for them) the dancers have turned into my target dummies. #indiedev #gamedev #pcgaming #rpg #indiegamedev

New additions: hit impact effects & trails to bullets. Also made bullets glow a bit more. The colour of a weapon's projectile will probably be customisable, or at the very least change depending on which weapon you're using. #indiedev #gamedev #pcgaming #rpg #indiegamedev

Rifle skills. Obviously not complete but it's the most fleshed out skill thus far. I was going to make the ability icons coloured too but the monochrome sort of fits the UI. #indiedev #indiegamedev #gamedev #pixelart #madewithunity

Added a knock-back animation & tidied up the pistol whip. I'm so glad I added pistol combat, it already feels satisfying to use. Next up is making the actual projectiles a bit prettier. #indiedev #gamedev #pcgaming #rpg #indiegamedev

The very basics of pistol combat. I'm happy with the intial gun model & shooting animations. The pistol whip needs to be a bit more satisfying though! #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #rpg

New skills! Unarmed, Swords, Pistols, and Rifles. Seeing as my animation pipeline is much more efficient than expected, I've been able to separate combat into more distinct paths like these. Which is great because I love variety. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #indiegames #pcgaming #rpg

Thanks to everyone who signed up on my site www.afterglowgame.co.uk already. It's very encouraging when strangers show interest in something you've personally created. It also happens to be my birthday so it's a nice little treat! #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev #solodev #gaming

I decided it was time to make a website for my game. I found myself thinking wow this actually looks good then remembered it should - I am in fact a professional web developer. Let me know what you think! afterglowgame.co.uk #indiedev #gamedev #pcgaming #rpg #indiegamedev

Time to meditate and potentially ascend to a higher plane of existence? #indiedev #pcgaming #gamedev #rpg #sandbox

🔫Ranged combat. Still a bit buggy and some animations need tweaking but it's definitely getting there. Also added very short shorts. Some may call them hotpants. #pcgaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev #screenshotsaturday

Watch entertainers to get inspired & buff yourself up before going out on your adventure 🕺💃 #screenshotsaturday #indiegamedev #gamedev #solodev #pcgaming #rpg #pixelart #unity

Animations are life. Just added this equipment swapping animation, as well as a finger snap for quick self buffs. Made the music too. Thoughts? #indiedev #indiegamedev #pixelart #sundayvibes #pcgaming #solodev #unity

8 directional rifle, grenade, and other misc animations. Might have to make a toggle to have the weapon out whenever you want as walking with it looks cool. #indiedev #unity #blender

After about a month and a half, my 3d to 2d character feature is done. Fully modular, colour changeable, equipment slots. Hair/lips/eyes/beard also have their own variations. Character creator is next. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev

Finally, a working prototype of 3d->2d with skin, hair, torso, legs, feet, back, and weapons slots being changeable and colour customisable. Obviously lots more equipment variations to come. Going to add facial details next 👀 #screenshotsaturday #indiegamedev #indiedev #pcgaming

The actual 2d animation of the 3d->2d process I was trying out yesterday. Need to work on the actual animation posing itself, but the 2d look is pretty much exactly what I was after. #pcgaming #gamedev #blender #indiegamedev

Been investigating using a 3d -> 2d process for my main character model in game and I'm incredibly impressed with the results thus far. I want many detailed animations & character customisation so this seems to be the way to go 👀 #indiegamedev #screenshotsaturday #pcgaming #gamedev

Giving ranged combat some attention 🏹. Grenades of all sorts exist to apply status effects to the target - you see Snare & Incendiary here. Shot colour will likely depend on the gun, although I may make it customisable. #pcgaming #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegamedev

💫 Healing Grenades 💫- I needed a way to apply status and utility effects via ranged (but not magic), and this seems like a decent solution. Ignore the lack of animation, that'll come. I want every combat choice melee/ranged/magic to be viable on its own. #pcgaming #indiegamedev #screenshotsaturday

Been a while since an update, been working on save/loading so nothing visual. Back to more interesting stuff now though: here's some udpated ✨spell effects ✨ this time with 🎵 #pcgaming #indiegamedev #gamedev

Added a ✨teleport✨ ability. Works the same way as mark/recall in Morrowind, so you can set the location you teleport to, but marking a different location will overwrite the previous. Makes it easy to get back to a favourite location! #gamedev #indiegamedev #pcgaming

Playing around with line renderers and particle systems as a distraction from more pressing issues to debug 🫠 #indiedev #gamedev #pcgaming

Added spell collisions 💥 Need to adjust the effects to be unique for each collision combination but pretty happy with it so far. New music too 🎶 #indiedev #pcgaming #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

Reworked the overview section of the player's datapack. Now has a nice little animated image to show the current weather ☀️as well as other misc details going on in the current environment/day. #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiedev #pcgaming

Last week of work was purely localisation 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇫🇷🇩🇪🇺🇦 & adjusting UIs for longer than expected words. Happy with how it turned out though. Glad I tackled this now rather than a year from now too 👀 #indiedev #gamedev #pcgaming #indiegamedev

I've been wondering for quite a while what to put in the remaining space in the top left of my overview UI. Not sure why I didn't think of it earlier - News! #pcgaming #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

Remade the Euipment UI. Still a WIP but far better than before & the modifiers are more obvious. Character is still a placeholder for now. #pcgaming #indiedev #gamedev

All skills now in place with edited icons. I think that'll do for now. Not too bad considering how poor I was at pixel art about a year ago. #gamedev #indiegamedev #pcgaming

Second attempt at new skill icons. The colour is getting a bit better but more colour variety might be needed. #pcgaming #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

First attempt at making actual skill icons rather than using palceholders. I like the icons themselves, but colours need tweaking I think. #indiedev #pcgaming #gamedev

More UI polish. Added window buttons to most elements that enable control for that element. Pretty happy with how it all looks now. #indiedev #indiegamedev #pcgaming #gamedev

The last few days work: made every UI element moveable, added window buttons, misc polish of the new UI bits and bobs. #indiedev #indiegamedev #pcgaming #screenshotsaturday

New UI cycling through a few colours. Haven't decided what the default will be yet but I'll definitely be adding in a colour picker for the player to choose their own. #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev #pcgaming

Just finished the skills/abilities screen with my new UI design. Still some placeholders here icon wise but I'm pretty happy with the UI itself. #indiedev #pixelart #gamedev

I decided it was time to update my UI (the teal one is new). Pretty much everything is custom made. It also has the option for the player to choose the base UI colour which then changes every component automatically. #indiedev #gamedev #ui #indiegamedev

A very fast day cycle featuring: New tiles. New lights. Smooth transitions between differing tiles. Slowly getting closer to the atmosphere I want. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev