Rewrote the atlas & tile shaders completely making them render correctly (and in line with character graphics. Also made it possible to add custom tiles via mods. Among a lot of other stuff. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #CelestialRift #terrain #hexagons #shader #worldmap #roguelite #fantasy

Okay, hextile-shader.final.final.this_time_for_sure_probably_2 Pretty happy about how it looks now. :D Last 2 images is how it looked before I started all this. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #CelestialRift #terrain #hexagons #shader #worldmap #roguelite #fantasy

After many hours of messing around... Managed to get the tiles to blend a bit more nicely and take elevation into account (mountains bleed into the forest, beach into ocean, etc.). #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #CelestialRift #terrain #hexagons #shader #worldmap #roguelite #fantasy

Combat! Also... "Poise" and Health Bars! The health % is an estimate since it simulates body parts. That system is a bit inspired by EON/NeoTech & GURPS. (Movement events are a bit broken, I'll fix that later). ^_^;; #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #CelestialRift #ui #combat#hud #roguelite #fantasy

UI for body parts, traits, stats, skills, etc. Starting to look like something, imo. Otherwise I've mostly been working on combat/AI-events/states and stuff. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #CelestialRift #ui #settlement #hud #inventory #traits #stats #skills #bodyparts #simulation #roguelite #fantasy

Been working on wiring together a UI system. I wanted to avoid repeating work so the windows, events, etc. heavily leverage custom C# stuff. Art & everything is VERY placeholder ofc. :D #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #CelestialRift #ui #settlement #hud #inventory #simulation #roguelite #fantasy

Some work on the resource system (note apple icons, etc.) Since it is for (NPC) societies (not individuals) resources are treated as dynamic abstract things rather than physical items. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #CelestialRift #buildings #settlement #resources #simulation #roguelite #fantasy

Set up some proper materials for the npc's buildings and made them fully recolourable. :) #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #CelestialRift #building #masks #coloring #shaders #settlement #naga #jotun #simulation #roguelite #fantasy

Some little debug-tests with the old building system. :) Also made movement animations nicer, and made it fade the squad-representation to the leader when zooming in and out. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #CelestialRift #building #settlement #hex #pathing #naga #jotun #simulation #roguelite #fantasy

Working on a test scenario. Spawn near friendly faction settlement, then bandits start spawning. Very Scenario 101. ^_^;; Was awhile since I posted. It is because I've mostly been doing code improvements/framework stuff. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #CelestialRift #scenario #ui #roguelite #fantasy

Added some selection behaviour. I think it working pretty acceptably. :) Also fixed the "stutter" when they change direction suddenly, made the player ignore "traffic" and other stuff to make it run nicer. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #CelestialRift #combat #pathfinding #selection #gameai #fantasy

Working placeholder animations, smarter AI, etc. Feels like it is moving forward quite well now. Just hours ago I came up with a "traffic" system to avoid them clustering too much. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #CelestialRift #combat #pathfinding #gameai #fantasy

Humble beginnings of the combat system... I accidentally created some kind of terrible bar brawl. You could almost be fooled into thinking I did this intentionally. :'D #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #CelestialRift #combat #pathfinding #gameai #fantasy #FatTooManyDebugSymbols #OwMyEyes

Working on pathfinding today. Got a Flu, and apparently thought that was the best thing to be doing while having a fever. :'D It is starting to get pretty decent, I think. I'll tackle combat when I'm a bit better. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #CelestialRift #fantasy #pathfinding #openworld #sandbox

Took a break from the pathfinding and drew up a new dress. That somehow took me the entire day because I was never quite happy with the various revisions. It is... okay now, imo. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #CelestialRift #dress #characterart #art #medieval etc. etc.

Smoother movement! And by that I mean they don't just teleport around anymore. :D Technically they still just occupy one tile/subtile at a time, but visually speaking it is displayed in a nicer way now. #solodev #indiedev #gamedev #gameai #pathfinding #movement #celestialrift #sim #adventure #rpg

After much battling to better my code I've managed to get squad members to run around chasing their squad position (shown as an oversized character atm.) Combat is slowly getting closer. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #worldmap #simulation #pathfinding #gameai #CelestialRift #Fantasy #worldmap #hex

Heck yeah! managed to get the hexagons to align and behave. I should be able to do pathfinding and everything on whichever layer, so different sized fighters, boats, floating cities, whatever. It should all be possible #hexagon #tiles #indiedev #solodev #CelestialRift #Worldmap #grid #terrain #map

Here is an early WIP showing some visual parts of the world-level stuff from yesterday. I'll hopefully have something more impressive to show soon. :) #Indiedev #solodev #gamedev #CelestialRift#GameAI #Fantasy #mapgeneration #fogofwar #hexagon #tilemap #map #overworld #worldmap

Reworked the fog of war! And a bunch of other tile system stuff which I can hopefully show off here later. For example, I've now got several "layers" to the world. #Indiedev #solodev #gamedev #CelestialRift#GameAI #Fantasy #mapgeneration #fogofwar #hexagon #tilemap #map #overworld #worldmap

Factions spawning into the world properly! The wood print below is old. Players/squads use that stuff, but faction themselves track economy instead. E.g. burn down their lumberyard and things may fall into disrepair. #Indiedev #solodev #gamedev #CelestialRift #Factions #GameAI #Fantasy

More faction work! Two human factions added. "Valori" from some fantasy world and "Terran" from the future. Decided to make the terrans civilians eccentric with their hair, apparel, ... Might give them body-mods too. #Indiedev #character #generation #CelestialRift

I maybe have an an excess of mice. Or maybe not enough? Unleash the vermintide™! Currently setting up faction and culture generation. The mouse units are very... Affordable. Hm... Perhaps I should commit to this? #IndieDev #SoloDev #Godot #CelestialRift #Mousepeople #jotun #naga

Added some spooky undead. Also finished wrapping up a rewrite of the character (or anything really) generation code and updated it to make this video. It was something I needed to do for the kindom-culture generation which is up next... #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #random #character #generation

Been testing new eyes for the mice. It was really just a crazy midnight thing, but I realized I kinda liked it. A previous co-worker's idea to add the highlight. 100% better. Two other attempts in the comments to this post. #mice #rat #ratpeople #mousepeople #solodev #indiedev #gamedev

Mostly been working on data structures, but I also set up some new graphics, outfit combos, etc. The game went from 1 head graphic to 11 (after endless tweaking and tuning). I'm pretty happy with the results tho! :D #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #sandbox #simulator #roleplaying #rpg

Mostly worked on the rendering system, which can be seen on the apparel which can now have various rules for colors, etc. :) In the future it will be possible to get more fancy with it. :) I also had to redo every single setup for every hair, skin, etc. Oof. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

Did some work on an apparel/layer system. Here is #barbarian armor I ported from my #rimworld #mod Otherwise I’ve been working mostly on framework stuff recently. It is going great, but doesn’t make for great pictures :p #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #indie #jotun #digitalart #2d

Played a little bit with rimworld and wrote a glowy energy shader last evening. I originally aimed to just make basic glow, but I feature creeped it a bit… Might resuse it in my own hobby game too. #rimworld #shader #modding #mods #gamedev #jotun #angel #giant #glow #divine #sfx #transformation

Got the mod feature deployed properly. :) Better shaders, 3-colour stuff, ability to change the colour of stuff like specific genes (where supported), etc. Was an interesting challenge to work on. ^_^ #modding #mod #gamedev #rimworld #digitalart #shaders #android #lamia #naga #robot

Making a little custom colour-customization system in my RimWorld mod. Uses the shader I made before for nicer blending and extra colours. :) #modding #mod #gamedev #rimworld #digitalart #android #lamia #centaur #jotun #robot

Managed to figure out how to build rimworld shaders, and created a new shader with much better blending and support for full RGBA instead of just Red+Green. The Ideology icon is unrelated to this change. Looks a bit meh up-close but I thought it was eat :) #modding #gamedev #rimworld #digitalart

Made a new RimWorld mod which lets you toggle a more reactive mode for drafted colonists, letting them use abilities and pursue foes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZyM... steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/... #rimworld #modding #gamedev #gameAI #Big&Small #mod #autocombat

Prevented the timeline where #RimWorld Odyssey released without alligators capable of performing pulse weapons research. With #mods.

Bleh. Didn't get things working today. Past midnight. Should be asleep hours ago... I think I'm 90% of the way to the AI searching the map for resources, extracting them, and going back with them. Here have some random unreadable JSON! :'D Hopefully I have something better to show next time. :)

Was busy being sick. Did mess a bit of tinkering with the shaders, renderings, scaling, json editing,... I think the colors look a bit cleaner now, and the outline less gritty. Hope it is noticable. More gameplay next! :) #gamedev #indiedev #CelestialRift #solodev #godot #shaders #art #digitalArt

Started messing around with getting the NPC-AI to build bases and collection resources. Currently quite buggy, but it is progressing nicely :) #gamedev #indiedev #CelestialRift #building #gameAI #no-no-no-not-THAT-kind-of-ai #solodev #godot #indiegames #gameart #digitalart #norse #jotun #worldmap

Some really nice buildings SirVan made for me (Thanks!). Also I've made it so when you zoom in you will see the whole squad/army. When zoomed out you get represented by the most "visible" member. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev (mostly) #godot #vector #indiegames #map #worldmap #camera #gameplay

New fog-of-war effect (visible/seen/never-seen). Intend to make super-dark area just be black or show the background. ...but that doesn't make for good screenshots. :p Colours will probably need some tweaking though. #gamedev #indiedev #godot #indiegames #procedural #map #worldmap #landscape

Cleaned up my scaling code for UI so it has diminishing returns. Here is a test where I basically forced a bit over the intended maximum permitted size. I might need to support wide portrait for monsters. #gamedev #indiedev #ui #solodev #godot #indiegames #gameart #digitalart #jotun #worldmap

Got a bit tired of Godot's hex tile system and decided to write my own so I could mess around with JSON and stuff to control the map. I'm quite happy about how the trees and such look. :) #gamedev #indiedev #godot #indiegames #gameart #digitalart #jotun #worldmap

Suddenly it feels like an actual game. Had the idea of making the icon fade away to reveal the character when zoomed in, but maybe I'll just make that shrink them reveal the rest of the squad..? #gamedev #indiedev #godot #indiegames #gameart #digitalart #jotun #frostgiant #giant #worldmap

Redid my tiles a bit and replaced my old hill & mountain graphics. Took many attempts. Turns out environment art is hard, and I have no idea what I'm doing. :'D I don't want to go to crazy either since I might redesign everything later. #gamedev #indiedev #godot #indiegames #gameart #digitalart

Behold the POWER OF ITERATION! :D This time there are almost no shitty ones, and the whole bunch look so much better than what I posted yesterday! :happy dance: #gamedev #indiedev #godot #indiegames #gameart #digitalart #jotun #catgirls #mice #banner #flags #heraldry #factions #icons #fantasy

It's ALIIIIIIIVE!!! The game now automatically tries to generate faction icons/colors using some pile of code to try to find colours that go well together. :D #gamedev #indiedev #godot #indiegames #gameart #digitalart #jotun #catgirls #mice #banner #flags #heraldry #factions #icons #fantasy

Decided to try to tackle adding faction icons to the game. These will be semi-randomly generated, so they both fit the faction, but also and unique and recognizable Uses a custom-built shader :) #gamedev #indiedev #godot #indiegames #gameart #digitalart #banner #flags #factions #icons #brimstone

Experimenting a bit with colours and overlays to communicate to players which... Actually, please feel free to guess. I'd appreciate feedback on how it reads. #gamedev #indiedev #godot #indiegames #gameart #anime #digitalart #catgirl #mousegirl #jotun #outlines #border #readability #enemies #ally

Had a bit of fun messing with Godot's CanvasGroups and used them to set up an outline using a custom shader. I then proceeded to make a disco. :D #gamedev #indiedev #godot #indiegames #gameart #anime #digitalart #catgirl #foxgirl #jotun #disco #cute #tagstagstags #hashtaghashtags #swords

Got the back view fully working. Also messed around a bit with the code that sets up the characters for nicer colours, etc. Maybe I should keep the main menu this way? #gameart #digitalart #indiedev #godot #anime #catlgirl #foxgirl #jotun #giant #horns #gif #wip #2d #animation #art #AllTheHashTags

Decided to try to make a back-side to the characters. Will probably try to avoid making east/west though. Tail/ears/etc. need fixing, among other things. This is really just a proof of concept. :) #gameart #digitalart #indiedev #godot #anime #catlgirl #gif #wip #2d #animation #art #AllTheHashTags