Thirty seconds of gameplay, of where we're at. #gamedev #indiedev #WarVideoReport

While working on all game systems, we are in the midst of tweaking the look of our game. Our vision is a 1-bit look reminiscent of thermal imaging. #indiedev #gamedev

A sketch of one of our enemy AI final state machines. We realized planning the FSM out carefully first on paper helped a lot. Each arrow represents a state transition that is conditioned by a set of Booleans. The exit conditions are shown in the "Exit State Matrix" on the left. #gamedev #indiedev

We now have a system, that detects objects between explosions and the player and takes into account how they dampen the blast. In the video you see how the "expl.objdamp" value goes up, as the violet probe passes through the walls. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #gamedevelopment

We are adding mechanics bit by bit. Here fpv drones are chasing and attacking the player. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #gamedevelopment

We made progress with enemy AI in the last weeks. Surprisingly it does not take much to make a very mean enemy, especially when you give them grenades. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #gamedevelopment

We created a blog! Our first post goes in-depth on how we managed to properly display our player in front of or behind assets — creating the illusion of 3D in our 2D game. #indiegames #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

Do we dare call this "gameplay"? Last week we had some progress with enemy AI. Here a test level with randomly spawning enemy soldiers. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

We do not have many assets in the game yet. But this poor car has been bumped into, hidden behind, shot up and hit with grenades countless times during testing so far. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Explosions heard far away. Closing in. Zero line. Daily commute. Contact. We listen, we look, we play - filtered and protected. Lives end on an anonymous battlefield. On our screen. Not on our screen. War Video Report, a game by periphery, is coming soon. #indiedev #gamedev

we implemented blood and injured walking to visualize health without UI #indiedev #gamedev

Adding a gun - by hand - with mouse - to 80 frames of animation - yay. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #aseprite

Hey there! We are excited by your interest in our last post! We started working on WarVideoReport at the end of last year. This video gives you a good idea of what we’ve got so far and what we’re aiming for in terms of mood and direction. #gamedev #indiedev

Visually not much change, but under the hood we have among other things a vastly improved Y sorting system, and also a smooth camera (again). #gamedev #indiedev

Bug or feature? #indiedev #gamedev

Working on determining grenade collisions. What does it hit, what not. #indiedev #gamedev.

Working on handling height of the bullets (Z) in this 2D world. This was done by separating the bullet into two objects. One ground level and determines where in the world the bullet is (XY), the second with a vertical offset, that determines (Z). Still has YSorting issues. #gamedev #indiedev

Lots of things are happening under the hood of our game: basic player movement, player variables, environmental destruction, Y-sorting, player and projectile collisions, health system. Hopefully having a reasonably solid foundation, will speed up things later, when building assets and a level.

Working on an adaptive YSort / YSort-Override system for this isometric game. The green "carpets" disable YSort temporarily, read out the order of the individual car they touch, and place the player +1 ZOrder, while it they are in contact with the carpet. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

testing fog of war … #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

Our grenade trajectory code … not exactly working at first try. 😖 #gamedev #indiedev

Progress with our "comrade"-AI. They run towards a goal and take cover from explosions. They can die from explosions or player bullets. Although they should act all independently it feels like there is "cross-talk" between instances. Red: expl. hitbox. Pink: expl. triggers. #indiedev #gamedev

carefully placing assets . . #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

Vector to pixel workflow. Made asset in #AffinityDesigner (vector program) and took it via clipboard to #Aseprite. Beforehand we made a custom palette in Aseprite to ensure it will only have the three colors we want. Aseprite does a clean conversion without antialiasing. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Hit a wall with #AffinityPhoto. PNG export with custom palette is broken. :( No go for #gamedev The issue is apparently known since 2022. Please fix it! forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/t...

In #GDevelop it is apparently not intended to address instances separately. The workaround was to store each hit tree, along with its x, y into a variable structure. Each instance then syncs its hit state with the var struct at the beginning of the scene, if their x and y match. #indiedev #gamedev

Persistent world destruction.

We have gameplay! Three minutes, (attempted) survival under artillery fire. #indiedev #gamedev

Artillery and crawling. First steps. #gamedev #indiedev

slowly, slowly, slowly on the way to a first milestone - a basic player character, that can walk, run, aim and shoot. gamepad and mouse and keyboard controls are implemented. #gamedev #indiedev

Running animation old (top) vs new (bottom). We are keeping the option for the character to equip different guns. The gun assets will be placed on top of this sprite, and less arm movement should allow us to avoid animating the gun(s). #gamedev #indiedev

Paper planes? Nah - asset templates. But wrong iso angles, so back to the drawing board. #indiedev #gamedev

We are dithering … Floyd-Steinberg - Pigeon - Stucki - error diffusion - random - ordered - Arrrgh!

Isometric games and Y-Sorting issues. Here a first working attempt, defining a buffer zone that disables Y-Sorting while the player is in front of the object. What are the best practices?

we are periphery. we are working on tools, processes and on a game with the working title ’war video report’.