Next thing I have on my rework-list: The won game popup. Instead of that popup, I want to move this info into the regular UI ... though I am currently unsure how this fits into the game play flow, especially in regards of satisfaction of having solved a level. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

After a day of tinkering, I found a way to run my dev stack on my phone (a foldable), running vs code and compiling and running 8-bitBot. The GPU performance is questionable (10fps), but it runs and can be used. Setup: termux + termux-x11 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib #android

A character editor is here! #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #pixelart

I worked on the next devlog, but it will take another day before I can upload it ... having not much time at all right now :( #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib #cozygame #puzzlegame

Just noticed that this screen needs also a rework. I think it makes sense to show the campaign board and the level solution playback. Since the campaign can have non-linear levels, the "next level" selection makes no sense any more. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I think this can count as "finished". It is less spectacular than I was aiming for, but ... I can come back at it when I have "finished" the other missing parts. Next things to work on: Adding SFX playback to the intro cut scene and adding an outro cut scene. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

It's not fully done yet and I have so many more ideas what I could do with this PCB board design in the UI - but, I think I am procrastinating here. I have to finish this rework and get the intro done, too (some SFX is missing). #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I had a couple of ideas that I find very intriguing; I have replaced the binary states that LEDs used with 32bit integer registers and LEDs point to individual bit values. The LEDs in this video show the current startup time in milliseconds in binary form. I love this. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

HA! It works. The LED to the next unlocked level is lit. The thing that's special about it: The layout of the circuit board is a text file and the lit state is configured in the text file. I have some creative ideas what to do with it, hehehe 😏 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Working on the LED renderings... fine tuning individual pixel appearances. The 3d effect is more or less sprite stacking. Except I am not using sprites but individual quads. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Quite a bit too much effort just for "fluff graphics". As always, I kind of struggle to set myself proper boundaries. But then again, interesting looking graphics are for me the easiest kind of marketing. At least I _hope_ that it looks interesting #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I've never designed PCBs and it probably shows now 🙃 It just needs to look a bit fancy. Now I'll need animated LEDs and resistors and capacitors. The format is, once again, used to feed a mini bytecode execution engine with data. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Maybe I'll make the whole popup look like an ISA circuit board. The left and right level previews would become integrated displays. I could even pixelate them and use a lowres LCD filter on it... Then again, I have to finish the game at some point 🙃 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Work in progress comparison of the ongoing design refinement of the campaign level selection. I want to convert the grid of buttons into a circuit board. I have a rough idea in my head how this could look in the final implementation ... #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I've just uploaded a new devlog video about last week's progress 🥳

The cutscene I work on is like 80% done and I start wondering how I will integrate it. I think I want to change this campaign overview a bit; A button for each encountered cutscene. Grid aligned buttons. Levels that have conditions to become available... #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

🤣 I am trying to get this view set up to make the bot look like it is talking, but now I am laughing more than reasonably making sense. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I want to render another 3d model into a render texture, so I am using the same code path as for the tutorial character and ... something breaks and it affects other systems, too. No crash. Just broken. Moments I want to flip the table. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Sidenote: I am getting more comfortable with editing my recordings (took me long enough). After using #OpenShot in the beginning, I switched now to #ShotCut and I find the handling more convenient. I am not using anything fancy; just cutting out audio takes and video parts. Easy enough. #gamedev

There a few things I need to get the first rough version of the cutscene working: - Control props from tutorial (switch on/off) - Speech bubble character must be exchangeable - Play sounds via tutorial script I think that would suffice as minimal feature set #gamedev #raylib #indiegame

Back to the cut scene, I am confused why I see nothing. At least the lights of the modem tell me, that a level got loaded 🙃 Not sure what I broke here. Probably I added some new setting and now I am ... oh right. I added the max light attenuation, which probably is 0 here 🙈 #goodwetalkedaboutit

Crazy day yesterday, I didn't get to work on 8-bitBot at all. I did, at least, add a new puzzle. Now working on the last bits of functionality for the reworked object editing: Snapping. Gamepad input handling for this menu is also on my to-do list 😵‍💫 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Busy day, very little time to work on this. But most buttons are now functional. Snapping is still missing. Next to some other bits - and improvements I would like to have on top... #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

The 3D icons for manipulating the objects were quite a hack and I wanted to replace it for quite some time. I think I found another hack to make it work without rewriting much of that code 🙃 This might even handle gamepad input 🤔 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

A very short video I made on how I notice how lighting effects the visual appearance of my levels and revisiting these levels to add lights too every level in the game:

Trying to refine the instruction stack operation icons ... I always find it difficult to compress something abstract into an icon. But that's probably hardly surprising XD #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I was well entertained this morning by Frothy's latest video on youtube about an indie game demo he recently tried out! I can only recommend to subscribe to his channel, his videos are really fun to watch! youtu.be/l6z9PKLEw3Y... #indiegames #youtube

A test level that uses the new instruction stack instruction. I wonder if the icons are clear enough... One side thought: I could make a font with these icons and then I could use the SDF font renderer for it - which would allow dynamic effects like outlining or shadows... #gamedev #raylib #solodev

I added a new instruction today! There's now a stack of instructions that can be used to repurpose functions and making them more flexible. A level featuring this (but without detail explanation) is shown in this video: www.youtube.com/shor... #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I should focus on something else, but ... I wanted to have that modem blinking lights animation! In the end, it's simple UV shifting :D #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

What will I do when I run out of space on my atlas 😬? Or will I 😅? I wanted this limit so I don't overstretch and want to much... and so far, it worked and I still might make it. I just need 4 more icons... #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib #cozygame #puzzlegame

I uploaded a new devlog video to youtube: youtu.be/hjN0Sl1rako Topic: New levels I made, explaining a bit how the lighting works and progress on how the rain effect is going. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib #reflecting #youtube

Here is a new daily update video I recorded; it's already day 218 since I started working on 8-bitBot. youtube.com/shorts/j... #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib #cozygame #puzzlegame

Getting a bit dramatic! Still missing: Thunder claps and rain noise sound effects. But I am quite happy with how the mood is turning out. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib #cozygame #puzzlegame

I began the day making a short video showing the game play of 8-bitBot; nothing fancy, but for once in a while,I tried using a video editor: youtube.com/shorts/E... #cozygame #puzzlegame #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Hallelujah. it's getting correctly rotated. Some internal matrix pointer juggling was messed up due to how the scene rendering to the texture works Long story short: RLGL.state.currentMatrix not pointing to the right matrix. Lots of fun figuring all that out. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Since last Monday I am trying to upload 1 short video per day about my gamedev progress. I just looked it up and it turns out that yesterday was day 214 since I began working on 8-bitBot. Let's see how far I get with these videos 🙂 youtube.com/shorts/v... #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Two scenes on one screen with two different lighting settings :D Tme to think how to get the monitor into the scene... And then I'll have to revisit the bots and do something so they can have different animations. Fun. Typical engine stuff; Which I happen to not have 🙃 #gamedev #indiedev #raylib

This is probably fine ...

I worked out a simple lighting system that should help me with making my cutscene work :) #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Making the light settings configurable is more work than working out the light effect in the shader; but being able to change the light color like that and what a profound effect it has on the atmosphere is pretty motivating to expose all those values properly. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Devlog 10 is live. I started designing the rescue intro cutscene - a bot gets caught in a thunderstorm, and I’m figuring out how to turn that into a playable story moment. Watch it here: youtu.be/_2m0swyqXgw #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Simple, yet effective; it's just a (tweaked) spotlight lighting function on top of the shader. I really like the dim atmosphere it creates :D #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Back to some shader programming/debugging .... at least I know now how to make a disco dance room. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

I started working on a cut scene for the game intro. This video sketches out the rough script for it. Tech-wise, I am building on the tutorial system and I can render now multiple scenes on screen and have animate the view ports and cameras. 🧵 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

After nearly 2 weeks of working on gamepad code and it still not being fully done (still bugs and editor support parts missing), I want to take a pause from that and instead work on implementing a cutscene (that I can also as part of a trailer). SO ... here I go. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

Crossing off the UI parts here that have game pad support. Going for the final ones - though: they won't be easy, some of those tabs have world interactions, making this a more difficult task. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib

"Found a bug?" Are you mocking me? Why are even half the text missing?! Jeez. Just another day in #gamedev.

The automatic ui element navigation path determination had a weird bug where elements would not be connected with straight but diagonal lines. Took me half an hour to understand that there was no tie breaker in place and the elements had identical scores for connections. #gamedev

Editing the level with a gamepad is beginning to work! Now I only have to do this for the 8 other tabs 🫠! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #raylib