DAY 208: Close to 400h invested and still far away from the goal 😕 . Thank you all the beautiful people reading this log. But all the bad mood, concerns and burnout will stay away from me for the next 7 days. I'm on vacation! 🥳. Here you ha... (1/4) #gamedev #IndieDevHour #JurassicWorld

DAY 207: Waiting for the vacation period to start, but... finishing some stuff although I'm very tired. I finished my red barred, added a coin bag. But the main dedication during this week was... I got obsessed with mastering the promotion. (1/3) #gamedev

I *almost* did it! Some bugs need to be solved for my soft_reset to be fully functional... At least half a victory for today 🥳 #gamedev #godot

DAY 206: Too much time spent restarting the game while testing to improve driving. I decided to add a soft reset mechanism in my console... but something is not going ok... 😡 why it does not work for every node??? #gamedev #godot

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insanely tiredv after my daily work, I'm considering to go to de doctor... I barely could update my game, just started to create explosions... Hopefully, next week I will get some vacation... and everything will be back on track. 💪

DAY 205: Tired 😔 . I've started to refresh the Godot muliplayer features... got the idea to port a multiplayer game I made on version 3.5... lot of changes, not worked 😥 So, I moved to create some barrels. but had no stamina to make it explode #gamedev #godot

DAY 204: Today my game journey splits into two milestones: 1. Learn (refresh), design and implement the first multiplayer layer 👪 2. Improve the driving feeling and overall fun (sometimes the car gets too hard to handle) 🚗 💨 Uncertainity ahead! 👀 #gamedev #godot

DAY 203: Second attempt to migrate to Godot 4.5.1... It seems it works pretty well 🤔 Good navigating dinos, no stutter with obs... I will keep a close eye in the project performance during the next days. #gamedev #godot

DAY 202: Today I wanted to make something new and cool. So, I mixed a problem I had: the rocks deletion strategy to not overwhelm the physics. With something cool: destructible stuff. So here we have destructible rock (timeout and impact based) 😊 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

DAY 201: As the interactions grows so the bugs appears... But it's great to see the world interact. Like in this clip... Don't mess with the T-Rex food 🌭 🦖 😂 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

DAY 200: Whoa! 200 days of work!! 🥳 And 100 days of daily updates! Thanks to all of you reading this. Today I'm super happy not only for the 200 days but also for the coleophysis and t-rex interaction... check it out! #indiegame #gamedev #indedev

DAY 199: Good news... The coleophysis IA got fixed! 🥳 And the environment start to interact... Althought my workload is still really hight. It feels really good see small improvements like this first state machine working 🚗 🦖 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

DAY 198: Still overloaded but dedicating time to my project. 💪 My best wishes to all gamedevs out there... becouse I need yours, a minute ago the small dino detected the t-rex. Now he does not... I changed something and don't know what! 😭 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

DAY 197: A ton of work in my job this days, so I have little time to invest in Drive to Extinction 😭 Additionally, the las YT video flopped huge! 😭 I have the feeling of fighting uphill, but... shit happens. Hope to have coleophysis AI ready this week. #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

Uh-oh! Maybe I did something wrong for my game progress... What are your gaming sins? Mine it's the SILENT HILL IP. I resisted for a couple of weeks but... #gaming #gamedev

DAY 196: Not to much time to invest in my game. I decided just to record something to make a YT video. Are you trying to make gamedev + socials at the same time? I want to see your setup... here is mine. 💻 👀 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

DAY 195: Struggling with social media 😡 , I don't get the point on how to make the videos appealing🤦‍♂️ . I can reach the 1k mark on tiktok, youtube and instagram... somehow easy. But I can't break that mark!😡 . Advices are welcome! an experiment attached. #indegame #gamedev #socialmedia

DAY 194: Today was intended to create a short video to promote the game... but, life is life, haven't had the time to finish it. In the meanwhile, here you are... a previously created one 😂 youtube.com/shorts/aszgX... #indiegame #gamedev #promotion

DAY 193: There are many things that needs to be done at the same time. First UI and combo engine interaction. On the bad part I thought the sttutering issue with OBS was only a thing of godot 4.5... but it seems it is not 😥 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

My egocentric me was on charge when decided to search for "Drive to Extinction" on Youtube... And someone who wasn't me appeared!!! This is how "proud" feels? Btw, the video only have 11 views... but... who cares?!?! A GUY DIFFERENT THAN ME CREATED A VIDEO OF MY GAME! #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

DAY 192: I'm happy but tired 😅 I've locked my next big milestone (create a demo), but first I need to create the complete path form the main menu to finish a race and customize/upgrade the car. In that journey, creating a robust combo system is key ...working on it 😂 #indegame #gamedev #indiedev

DAY 191: I've fully revamped the map system! Now it's really easy to add makers to the map just attaching a node to the owner and selecting the marker type. Before the demo my next steps needs to focus on create a full game journey, from main menu to end a mission. #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

DAY 190: It looks janked enough to be in my game? This is the first draft of the map. It needs much more features to be a decent one. But at least is the next feature to be created. In my journey to the demo this is a must have. Ideas? #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

DAY 189: YEAH! This is a small milestone but... it's my milestone. 50 wishlists! Thanks to all the great people out there supporting me! 😘 This is also your accomplishment! #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

DAY 188: I'm super tired! My daily work had me really bussy this week. It's sad because I want to continue building my game. And make me feel anxious. On the other hand the short form is doing better but not skyrocketing... Sleeping a bit can give me a better perspective

DAY 187: 🚗 💨 🦖 The first draft of the main menu is here!!! I'm super happy with the result. And It's not so hard to create something like that. Do you like it? Oh! I told you I did a loading screen? 😊 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #cargame #dinosaurs

DAY 186: I've been criticiced by my art style... three times in a row this week. I don't know, It's simple and colorful yet I like it a lot. The janky dinos with the physics movement... It's really appealing for me. I don't want to be down because of mean people, but... it itches... #art #indiegame

DAY 185: Today I've started creating a main menu and testing the new path finding organization... and I've found another bug! I call it the t-rex bachata dance bug... A headache but hilarious! #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #dinosaurs

Bro! I want people to see my game! #gamedev #art

DAY 184: I'm happy! New way to handle path finding and navigation. Now I have a grid of NavigationRegion3Ds (automatically managed) I've also learnt a lot about the NavigationMesh parameters... and now I don't have a single synchronization error 🥳 #godot #gamedev

DAY 183: I'm still working on the pathfinding issue... I'm not moving to Godot 4.5 but I think I have a better understanding of the issue. Mainly it was my bad.although godot modified the default behaviour. I'll use this benefits in my game and I will wait till 4.5.1 #gamedev #godot

DAY 182: I've reported my first bug to the Godot engine (110831)!!! It's a mix of feelings, my game does not work with 4.5 but I'm happy to somehow contribute to the project 😊 Hopefully the nice guys from the godot project will fix it soon 🤞 #gamedev #godot

DAY 181: I'm not migrating to Godot 4.5. That version brokes my navigation workflow and makes me feel dubious about performance and stability... will check the 4.5.1. Hope this decission will not slap me in the face in the future 🤨 #gamedev #godot

DAY 180: I'm hurdling with the migration to 4.5 😥 I think I've detected the stuttering issue when OBS is open. And what worries me the most... Dinos refuse to chase you on complex surfaces 😭 But it seems to work in my simple debug room. Sometimes gamedev isn't fun #gamedev #godot

DAY 179: Along with short form content creation and promo optimization I've started porting the project to Godot 4.5... In the first attempt all in a sudden the framerate droped and the shadows rendering time skyrocketed... Now it works but no changes were made 🤷 This is scary as hell! #gamedev

DAY 178: Just experimenting with short form content 👇 I've created a couple of short form videos... and checking if it works or not. I'm feeling good, but I need to calm down a bit. I'm eager to get results and this could be prone to frustration and burnout. #indiegame #gameved #indiedev

This is my first game: DRIVE TO EXTINCTION A driving game where the craziest dinosaurs chases you! 🚗 💨 🦖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5R0...

DAY 177: Game updates goes slow, sorry. The reason is I'm trying to improve my promotion skills. Because I need eyeballs to watch the huge amount of time invested 😂 . Spoiler alert: It's not going as good as it should 😅 the trailer 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5R0... #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

DAY 176: I've decided what to face next... and the first stop in the road is to solve some issues of the trailer and create additional materials. But, today I have nothing related to that... so let me show you how the coleophyisis is integrated in my game ;) #indiegame #dinosaur #cargame

Not 100% sure but missing one letter of #gamedev killed the post exposition... or it was just a crappy post? 🤔 bsky.app/profile/revi...

DAY 175: At some point, I forgot to publish this little dino... sorry! The last week was hectic, so I don't know what my next steps should be. I think I will sit and plan my next moves. In the meanwhile a bit of ik dance is alwais nice! 🦖 💃 #gamevev #blender #lowpoly

DAY 174: I'm over the moon! 🤩 Steam page is out! (yesterday) and we reached the 10 wishlists!!! Things are a bit hectic because everything was rushed... but I don't know if it was right or not. I don't have nothing to compare with. Anyone has some experiences to share? #gamedev #indiedev

DAY 173: It looks crappy, it feels crappy but... it's somehow working... The IA is back again, now its time to improve. Additionally, I've created a tool to snap Path3D points to a surface, because I did not found one. Eh, Godot? 🤨 #indiegame #gamedev #cargame

DAY 172: Recovering my old car IA for opponents. It's just a temporary solution to make the trailer of the game. At the moment is not working great 🤔 #indiegame #gamedev #ia

DAY 171: The water dino... feels... meh 😰 Maybe is the lack of mechanics or the emptyness of the water or I'm just thinking too much on the Steam approval... Thanks for the good ideas received for this dino! ✍️ 👇 🙏 🥺 #indiegame #dinosaur #lowpoly

DAY 170: Still nervous but I need to make some progress... How about modeling a new dino? Being honest, this one has been impulsive... I have no mechanic defined in my GDD for this dino. I just need to make something. Share your thoughts about new mechanics for him! #indiegame #blender #lowpoly

DAY 169: Fair enough 😭 Steam rejected my store page due to blank borders on my hero capsule... My bad! Didn't know how to face that huge image and solved it the crappy way. Image attached to show how to NOT create a hero capsule. 😂 #gamedev

DAY 168: While waiting for the approval of the Steam page I'm creating small supportive features like a generic loading screen. Nothing bigger because I'm shaking and I'm checking my email every 5 mins 😂 #gamedev

DAY 167: Yesterday I sent my Steam page for revision. I'm excited 🤩 It's my first time doing this, so there is a possibility that I messed it up 😂 Now I can disclose the name of my driving game with dinos: Drive to Extinction. What do you think? #gamedev