Think this makes v1 of the player's move set. Looking forward to juicing and adding movement to some actions. #gamedev #indiegame #showmesunday

Working through a 'Vision Component' with line of sight, field of view and a 'proximity' detection. Started with 1 ray cast, switched to triple whiskers, finally drew shapes for the detection ranges. Kinda fun. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

First time working with an animator. Making flow charts has really cleared up some of the communication. I would've saved a bit of money and time doing this from the start. At minimum, it's a good mental exercise to really reflect on what you're doing. #GameDev #IndieDev

I uploaded clips to storage and saw 5 years ago (legit almost to the day) I had clips from my phone (!) of my first character design with super floaty jumps in Unity. So I cut in recent stuff to compare. I still haven't shipped anything 😆. Time is a ⚫ #screenshotsaturday #GameDev #SoloDev

Going from vanilla animations to incremental bits of juice adds SO MUCH FEEL. Even this early in development. Even the very basic effects give me the juice to keep going. (I work on actual enemy behavior soon) #GameDev #IndieGame #Defold #SoloDev

Started messing around with a combo attack 🤫 Thought this was neat. Slowed it down to show the 'combo' hit window. A keen eye can even see some sneaky input buffering even. Again, made easy with a flexible state machine. #gamedev #Defold #indiedev

I enjoy code first state machines. The Godot and Unity UI ones end up being too fiddly. #Defold does not have a baked in FSM. So I wrote one to handle transitions off anim/physics callbacks. I've split animations to allow functionality like activating a collider mid swing. #gamedev #indiedev

More concept work for #screenshotsaturday As for #Defold I'm working on marrying a player controller with a physics + animation state machine. Looking forward to sharing that next week. #gamedev #indiedev

Unplugging in 3 minutes so #screenshotsaturday is here #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Continued the search for a playable character. My "Speak softly and carry a big stick" concept. #IndieDev #GameDev

2 weeks sick and another week to catch up in real life has slowed me way down. Got back my first concept piece. #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #indiedev

My first attempt at creating a character controller in #Defold We have room to improve. #GameDev #screenshotsaturday

Cycling through the anims from oboropixel.itch.io

Added to my 'SpriteSheetCombiner' tool by also generating the .tilesource file with animations #GameDev #Defold

Moar funner #screenshotsaturday Started my port to #Defold. Bundled under 3 mb and hosted on GH Pages. Really impressed. Easy. #GameDev

Ever purchased art assets but they were different sizes and difficult to work with? Little different #ScreenshotSaturday but I wrote a tool that takes a list of image files and builds them into one atlas image file with a consistent tile size. Ready to animate in game! #GameDev #Defold

Stacking effects are a common but sneaky game mechanic. Not wanting to write a 3,000-line switch statement, I went to the whiteboard. ​With a factory and strategy pattern, you can design any kind of ability effect you want. To extend it, all you have to do is add an enum and a new file.

Sunday special putting the new bits together. Improved UI will be the goal this week.

This week's update is visually difficult. I've ripped out the core and replaced it with something more traditional and ideally fun. Its a system where you use abilities based on colors. Like link cooking I want the player to discover abilities. #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev

Prototype updates from last week. Core game loop is pretty much here. Need to add the health UI orbs. Then it's ready for people to play. It was built to be resource based from the start so generating new enemies is a matter of adding files. #GameDev #GoDot

I spent the weekend prototyping a color combat puzzle(?) idea Mechanic being: The player has a heavy and quick shot plus a swappable active color. R, G or B. The enemy has a target color to hit for defeat. The active color is added and the other two are partially subtracted. #GameDev

The great garden gaslighting has begun. We convince ourselves this year will be different. Then May hits We've lost half the labels. Wondered why we started 32 hot peppers we would never eat. After unloading yet another tray of starts from the plant store with no space to plant lol. #gardening

ANYWAY, did you know there's an extension you can put on Chrome that will connect with your local library system and when you go look at a book, say on AMZ, it will tell you if that book exists in the library system and if it's available? It's literally called Library Extension.

Just got my first commissioned asset for this little isometric game. Guys I am EXCITED to show off the great work from my guy Vlad later.

I loved how the levels in Bastion would build around the player. Trying to replicate the effect. Isometric does weird things to the brain lol. #gamedev

When I make a change and a completely unrelated part of my game stops working for no apparent reason. #gamedev

Cleanup on aisle isometric. Today's little goal was learning how the isometric grid to screen coordinates worked. Added random positions and control to "build" one at a time. #GameDev #RayLib

Wanted a sprite slicer without opening unity or something. So once again, raygui! Lol. Some day I'll get back to an actual game. #gamedev #raylib

I'm looking at an isometric prototype next (okay it's Zaxxon). I can't decide between 2D sprites or 3D models. Does anyone have thoughts or experiences between them for iso? #gamedev

Putting a bow on this prototype with a ship customizer page. Details in my last post. Ngl, didn't think I'd be able to animate but it wasn't too bad. Now I want a 3D ship customizer 🌝 #GameDev #raylib Assets from Foozle at itch io

Prototyped an FTL like entity UI. Used sqlite and raylib with C++. I really like this. Is there a flex box in C tho? Lol. I'm picturing storing player encounter data, balancing with SQL scripts and generating prefabs/scenes next. Art from Zintoki at itch.io #gamedev #raylib

Found raylib has a whole GUI library and tooling! Got me thinking it'd be a great way to configure game entities. Probably with sqlite that a game engine could pull from. So here's the start of making a CRUD app in C++ with raylib/GUI!

Does anyone have a favorite tool or method to mock up UI elements outside of the game editor? I'm leaning towards just ms paint but something that displays the center point might be helpful. #GameDev

Building out abilities and I had to start with the goat. I promise it will be an expanded barrel-roll+ #GameDev #FlaxEngine

Can't get our cat off trash TV.

Thought through a weapon system and ended up here. Each box is a component with modifiers. Componets can be swapped around. Logic is contained. I think you can drastically change play styles just by swapping a few bits around. #gamedev

Testing the a new engine and the default post processing is hilarious. I started porting my game to Flax from Godot. So far, it's a better fit for my style. Back to implementing more weapons 😅 #GameDev #FlaxEngine

My toxic trait is doing game dev tutorials with a different language and/or engine than intended. *Godot plane combat tutorial* Fuck yeah we're doing this with raylib.

Yo what magic do I need to learn to figure out 2D aiming in 3D space lol.

Cat tax.

'Favor composition over inheritance ' can be hard to understand. I wanted to create different spray patterns without rewriting a whole "weapon" class. Composition to the rescue! Each 'Weapon' takes a 'ShotPattern' with a single method. Which adds a bunch of game variance easily.

Hi, my name's Colin and I'm building a 'modern' on-rails shooter in the style of the original PlayStation. Follow along and learn game development with me! youtu.be/EmBDnSPKQxk?...