Having played my prototype for hours during its development, I thought it was relatively bug free. Tonight I got my 7 year old nephew to playtest it for me a bit. Sure enough, he immediately found an audio bug that has somehow eluded me this entire time. Typical. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot

First short prototype is up on itch! Would love to get any feedback if you’d be willing to give it a go. Still deciding if I’m gonna pursue the full version of this game, so all feedback helps. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot spicybytegames.itch.io/whisperwind-...

One of the last things I needed to implement for my initial prototype was swimming. Got it added yesterday. The water itself is a little rough and will need more work once I get past the prototyping phase, but I like how the swim animations look in it. #godot #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

I have a chronic problem spending way too much time overpolishing what should be rough prototypes. I spent 3 hours last night fixing a tiny edge case visual bug that doesn’t even matter other than making my eye twitch with the knowledge it existed. AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH #gamedev #indiedev

Finished another little quest you can do for the chicken lady. Her chicks all escaped and it's up to you to herd them back into the pen for a reward. #Godot #indiedev #gamedev

I got my audio manager working for basic sound effects and started adding a few into the game. Some of these are likely gonna be only placeholders for the initial rough draft of the game, but I like how they sound and make the game feel. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Modeled, rigged, and animated this little chicken for use in my latest project (gonna have a little quest where you have to herd a few of them into a pen). Went with this squishy jumping animation for his movement instead of a walk/run because it seemed cuter. #blender #indiedev #gamedev #3dmodeling

Added in a super super basic inventory system and made it so you can get items from chests. The chest functionality took far longer than I'm willing to admit to get everything working and decoupled. It's still very barebones and ugly but at least it works. #Godot #gamedev #indiedev

Got the beginnings of the interact system working. Got the interaction focus outline, smooth camera repositioning, and reorienting the player towards the interactable all working. No dialogue system built yet, so it just goes back to idle after the interacting state is done #Godot #gamedev #indiedev

As I continue to learn and practice blender, I’ve been trying different versions of stylized trees. I definitely need more practice, but I could use all of your opinions. Which one so far looks better? #Blender #indiedev #gamedev #3dModelling

Spruced up my test island with some textures, water, and a tiny bit of atmospheric fog. It’s probably not the greatest thing to be working on aesthetics this early when I have a lot more core functionality I need to add, but it’s fun to experiment while I’m learning 3D. #Godot #gamedev #indiedev

I made the beginnings of an island so I don't have to test on ugly orange CSG meshes anymore. It's very rough, but I learned a ton about the workflow and I think it's okay for my first attempt. Will probably end up redoing it from scratch several times to practice. #Godot #gamedev #indiedev

Been tweaking the animations a bit. It's not much, but I am finding that small changes can go a long way to make things feel better. Added a bank/tilt when turning while gliding and added a tiny bit of squish when impacting the ground. #gamedev #indiedev #Godot

Added a little double jump and a vertical launch ability. Pretty fun when combo'd with the glide. It definitely needs a lot more refinement, but I feel like I'm getting somewhere. #Godot #gamedev #indiedev

Threw my character in Godot and gave him a character controller. Also added in this little magical float/glide thing that is pretty fun to fly around with. I'm not sure what this is going to become, but it's a start. Gonna start playing around with other movement mechanics #gamedev #indiedev #Godot

I got a little burnt out from my last project and took a break. I’ll go back to it eventually but I wanted to try and learn something new, so I started messing around in Blender. I made this super simple character and got a very basic idle animation. #blender #3dmodelling #gamedev

An artist friend of mine recently gave me this awesome print of a piece he recently finished because he knew I loved Hollow Knight and Silksong and I couldn’t be more excited to hang it in my office. #hollowknight #silksong

So much discipline required to stay the course when you are a few months into your project and a shiny new game idea pops into your head. Must. Finish. Current. Game. #gamedev #indiedev

Got super sick over the weekend, slept a ton, and got essentially nothing new done in my project. Self care is super important, but does anyone else find it hard to take care of yourself when all you want be doing is working on your game? #gamedev #indiedev

One of the small quests in the first level is going to be hunting crows to get their feathers to give to the town fletcher (still need to do the feather spawning). They fly away when you get too close so you can't sword them to death. The crossbow is needed. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot

Finished the werewolf enemy. He is immune to sword damage until you stun him by hitting him with the crossbow a few times, although you need a bit of space to hit the shot as if you are too close/point blank, he'll block it. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot

Started working out and testing some of the initial movement behavior for this new werewolf enemy. Without the attack animation or hitboxes added, he kinda feels like a loyal puppy-man following me around obediently 😄 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot

Whipped up this crossbow. It's not the fastest shooting weapon ever and it's not very effective against skeletons, but it will do the job in a pinch. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot

Been working on the animations for this little werewolf enemy. It's a rough draft and needs some adjustments, but it's a work in progress for prototyping. These are most of the animations needed for its planned behaviors. Still gotta do his attack and getting stunned. #gamedev #pixelart #aseprite

Made a little monster arena trap today where a few skeletons spawn and brambles block off the area until the player kills them. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #godot

Started experimenting with NPC voices. I recorded myself making a few random mouth sounds, bitcrushed them, and randomized them playing with slight pitch variations when you talk to Eustace the shopkeeper. (He's the only NPC in the game so far.) #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot

After working on a million tiny bugs for hours, I finally figured out and finished the shop functionality for my current game. The UI is still pretty ugly, but everything is functional and persistent with items separated by 2 separate collectable currencies. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot

I started building my game’s shop system and I spent way longer on the UI than on any other UI element, but it still looks like trash 😂 Good thing it’s just placeholder visuals. When I actually get to polishing the UI, I’m gonna have to do some serious research into UI/UX design. #gamedev #indiedev

The main way of healing is going to be resting in beds or at campfires. Got the campfire working tonight. Heals the player and respawns previously killed monsters (similar to how benches work in Hollow Knight). A little unsure about the resting tune. I think it needs work. #gamedev #indiedev #godot

The main collectables in my game are enchanted candles that you place on shrines to break a curse on the town and open up new pathways and progression in the map. Here is the sequence when you have enough to break the curse. Buildings get clean and flowers grow. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot

I got unlocked doors, locked doors and keys working tonight. There are 4 types of keys/locks that only work with each other: gold, bronze, iron, and silver. Some bozo here left his housekey on his lawn for any rascal to find and break in. Interiors still pending. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot

Had some friends playtest a super early prototype of my current project and it turns out the thing I was most worried and self conscious about was everyone’s favorite thing. Nice to get some validation and good feedback with suggestions. #gamedev #indiedev

#gamedev question: I’m thinking of starting to stream gamedev once a week or so. What is the better platform for gamedev streaming between Twitch and YouTube? Does anyone have experience on either or both platforms that can give any advice for someone just starting out? #indiedev #streaming

Playing around with ideas on how to use the rendspinner outside of just fun bouncy combat and came up with this simple little puzzle. Watch your step! There be bottomless pits in these woods. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot

Took me the better part of a day, but I managed to finish this goblin enemy. He might just run at you, but occasionally he'll try and line up a shot to throw a spear at you instead. Goblin feels too generic a name. Anyone have any better name ideas? #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot

I implemented a very simple inventory system that allows the player to swap between weapons (right now just the sword and the spinny throwing blade I'm calling the Rendspinner). The UI is all pretty placeholder, but I think I at least got it functioning well. #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #godot

Started experimenting with alternate attacks and came up with this thowing spinny blade thing that bounces around hitting things until you either catch it or magically recall it back to your hands. Not sure if it's gonna stick, but it's kind of fun. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #godot #pixelart

I made a simple little puzzle with these little pillars and some blocking brambles. The player has to hit each pillar with a different sword attack to activate them and once they have activated them all, the brambles clear. #godot #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart

I don't know why, but I really really enjoy making player death sequences. I think they are kind of funny. Here's my player running into a bramble wall until they die. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot #pixelart #pixel

Got player health working alongside these little ground thorn traps and acquirable boots that allow you to roll over them unscathed. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot #pixelart

Got treasure chests and dialogues working plus a few placeholder sound effects. Here's the player getting her sword. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot #pixelart

Health UI: which do you like more? A: health meter slider B: health containers/hearts #gamedev #indiedev

Started the project over to set things up better architecturally from the ground up. Got the player moving, rolling, and some basic sword attacks in: A slash, a jab, and a little combo move if you do both in quick succession. Lots and lots to do. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot

I was feeling uninspired and rudderless on my most recent game so I took a break and focused on other hobbies for a couple months. Slowly getting back into it and feel like I have better ideas and a better direction to go in. Sometimes, taking a break is needed, and that’s okay. #gamedev #indiedev

Added a few potion ingredient resources that can spawn, both standalone ingredients that can be picked as well as petals that can be harvested from small bushes. #Godot #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #solodev

Trees now shake slightly when you hit them with a spell. This is obviously a very important development update and crucial to the game's technical infrastructure. An achievement for the ages. #Godot #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #solodev

Got some pretty basic inventory tooltips working as well as the ability to use consumable items from the inventory. I think I'm going lean into a bit more of a mix of Zelda and Stardew Valley instead of just a pure Zelda clone. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #godot #madeingodot

Got the beginnings of a persistent drag and drop inventory system in place. Was surprisingly difficult to even get to this point as the #Godot documentation wasn't super clear. I'll make it look prettier later #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #solodev

I had a big aha moment with my game design that will require a lot of refactoring and redoing previous work. I think it will be better, but it's going to take a while to get back to where I was. In the meantime, I procrastinated and drew a fountain instead. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart

Working on the player death sequence for my action adventure zelda-like. Now just need to make a proper game over screen. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #godot #madeingodot