Wowza was all of the EVERYTHING for laser weaponry implemented incorrectly. I wrote it all ~2 years back when I first started the project and I did not understand the spatial system in Unity at all. Time consuming but satisfying to get working right! #indiedev #gamedev #indiedev #ZAP!!

Working on getting laser effects in Brendan's models integrated properly. Def had one of those days where the 1s and 0s seemed to be working against me, but a fresh look tomorrow will probably be good. ^^ #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #the1sareworse

Got bootstrap scenes working! It might not look immediately different from the video, but this ensures that scene transitions are smooth, and that there is no gross/choppy framerate for the first second or so that a new scene loads. #indiedev #FPS #indiegame #gamedev

Default music can now be associated with characters/factions/races, and pulled in a hierarchical manner for all actors... Going to be implementing something similar for locations, though it'll be a bit different in function. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #music #score

Aaaaand the System Nav stuff is finally ready to be committed/set down for a while. A bit of polish left for later, but it is functional, which is all I need for now. Moving on to music controls now, which pulls me back to Dev Tool land... #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #ui #devtools

Just a little clip of some cool sounds Ben is putting together here! I feel like we've kind of passed a critical threshold with the music recently. Some important pieces are coming together really well. #indiedev #indiegame #music #gamedev #modularsynth

Surprisingly difficult to get fine controls dialed in for both mouse and controller... trying various things with ever increasing success! More boring menus. XD #gamedev #indiedev #boringmenus #ui

More work on the System Nav system! It's almost at a point where I'm going to leave it for a bit as I move on to other things. There's still the details window on the right, which will also integrate into known space nav... #gamedev #indiedev #ui #indiegame

Sketches of the System Navigation, which is coming together. This will just be the first iteration... I haven't decided whether each system in the game will map one to one with one of the stars within it. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #ui

Ok, I am fairly proud of this one. I had a few days full of brick walls and dead ends, but this is what I have been envisioning. The System Map is definitely not yet complete, but this is the LOOK I have been going for. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #SPACE

Rough few days with less to show for it than I was hoping. Currently working on better organizing the music system so that it'll be easy to associate specific characters/races/locations with particular tunes. #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #music

Mostly behind the scenes things and work on developer tools this past weekend. The only really visible thing was a bug fix. Coms Talk now fades behind the pause screen as intended, rather than just hanging out on top of it. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #ui #ux

Just a funny bug this time... transparency in the accessory layer makes layers beneath it transparent as well. So this poor fretzer's upper torso is partly see through. Also a cool new outfit design by Anne! #gamedev #bug #indiedev #indiegame

Just menu transitions this time... I will try to have something more exciting for the first post of the new year, though! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame @ui #ux

Check out this production video that Ben put together! This is a rare case where we're showcasing the full track beforehand. It's the theme music for the Zoccoli, the antelope inspired race in Transience. Enjoy! #gamedev #music #production #indiegame

Got some more fun designs that Anne made for the Fretzers back when they were in the planning phase! I always think it's cool to watch the process of hand drawn design to pixel art. #gamedev #characterdesign #indiegame

This is a little show of the environment that Ben is creating music in! Most of the music he's making is from his synth setup (including legit SNES hardware based MIDI!), but here he's mixing in physical instruments as well! #music #gamedev #soundtrack #indiegame

And another preview of the Fretzers from Anne! I absolutely love how cute these little guys are! #gamedev #indiedev #gamedev #ferret #fretzer

Menus menus menus... might not seem like much going on here, but slow refinement. Also, I have not worked on the System Nav menu literally at ALL. I need to get on that! Been holding off because I'm looking for a cool effect... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Playing with different ideas for menu sounds and noises. Not sure if this is the feeling I'm going for with this menu, but I'm definitely getting more of a feel for it! Also gonna lose the magenta button color for something easier on the eyes... #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

Mostly bug hunting and stability checking lately, but here's something more visible for folks! The color transition of buttons was happening almost instantly, and I've fixed that to be smoother... #indiedev #gamedev #ui #ux #indiegame

Added the ability to disable other ships if you zap them with a laser once their shields are down... with special guest appearance of code debugger. XD #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #dinkblapp #poordin

Some design work for the Fretzers from our 2D artist, Anne! These little guys bounce off walls, cannot keep track of a thought when they blink, and absolutely want to talk to you about why you should by their DookBux coins. #indiegame #characterdesign #indiedev #gamedev

Did some more work on the nebula system... they blobulate and drift around a bit more now and I'm pretty happy with how they look! I will probably tweak a bit down the road, but for now they're working as intended... #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev

Just some thruster effects I got wired up! Not pictures: The effects going absolutely bonkers when the ship wraps around from one side of the screen to the other... #Indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

Folks have been asking for more of Brin, so here's a little clip of him explaining a bit about his species, the Jackalopes! All of the different species have histories to them if you care to learn about them, some more intertwined than you might imagine... #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

Just a li'l animation test! Script controlled animations and ship explosion is working for the general ship harness... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Making space much prettier! Planets dominate large portions of the screen now, which I think looks better than having them be tiny little specks. Also, the atmosphere and animated water is working properly now! And in the background, shifting nebulas! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

And a planet dropped into actual gameplay for folks! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Planet generation was one of the biggest remaining barriers in terms of not being sure how I would get all the assets I would need. After a LOT of fiddling and experimentation, first vs final techniques. Way too many hours sunk into this one. X| #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

Worked on the static effect for conversation startup and ComsTalk stuff a bit. Instead of wiping up, which I always thought looked weird, it slowly fades now. I did leave just a bit of the effect to give more of an analog feel to the communication. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

A planet in orbit follows its delicate and mathematically perfect orbit to serene music. (First pass at planet gen! Wish I had gone with URP in the first place... had to hop over to it today and it was a pain). #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

Very much wish I had started with the URP for graphics in the first place... losing so many hours to converting. ^^; All for the planet stuff, though. And this will allow me to have access to other cool aftereffects as well.

The scan menu exists in alpha form! Obviously much more polish to do here, but it's something. Also refined what buttons look like when deactivated a bit... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

Had to scrap a bunch of work on the Scanning Menu today after realizing it wouldn't work. X| It just be like that sometimes. It'll be cool when it's done, though! ^^ #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Getting back to work on the cockpit mode, and working on some of the menu systems now.... here's what it looks like from way outside the typical player view when some of them pop in and out. #gamedev #indiegame #indiegame

Still a lot of boring internal work going on, but I'm figuring out what the scanning menu will look like in the cockpit as I swing back to work on that area of the game... #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #hyperadvancedbrick

No media to share today, but as a little update, the short cut scene for New Game now exists in its beta form, and I’m now moving back to battle mechanics and CockpitUI work, including System Navigation. #gamedev #indiegame #indiegame

Zap zap! Electricity is what ships run on, right? So this is probably a good thing? Look at all those good volts doing what they're supposed to! #indiegame #indiedev #spaceship #malfunction

As peaceful as this feels, I can't help but feel that something's gone wrong... #indiegame #gamedev #music #space

I KNOW this doesn't seem a lot different than before, but the intentionality and power of the tools I'm using now are something more than just random values XD. The Jackalopes are the first race to have a voice mutation system that I would even classify as beta. #indiegame #gamedev #jackalope

More work on the voice system. Learned a ton about synthesizers, and slowly going through data that looks like this, reworking it into something much more sane... Hope to have something good to listen to very soon! #indiegame #indiedev #synthesizers

Spent the last few days working on pre-cacheing assets to prevent places I had found where it would lag things visually... Not a lot of visuals to show from this unfortunately, but it will ensure the game is nice and smooth! Currently working on the New Game intro sequence...

1/2 Working on the Zoccoli writing script for their interstellar language of trade, Overspeak. This is my first time trying to make more traditional letters, and a script font, at that! It's definitely a bit tricker than I had anticipated! #indiegame #fonts #scripts #conlang

Finished the language font for The Congregation! I'm really happy with how this one came out! I kind of wanted to make it fully tessellating, with all of the characters fitting vertically into one another perfectly, but there's no good way to do that. #language #indiedev #indiegame #conlang

Not a ton today! You can see that another working version of the new ship is in the game now, and I'm making more progress with controller integration/iconography, even if controls change, as I'm doing in the video. #indiedev #indiegame #UI #UX

Preview image for a member of The Congregation! This is a race based on bees/ants, and I really think they're a lot of fun! The look you see here will be a little different in the game since they are an energy race, and will be slightly transparent... #indiegamedev #indiegame #bee #ant

And the revamped Title Screen! This is by no means complete, but after some great mock-ups from Brendan and the new player ship he's made, this is way closer to a final for this screen! Very exciting! #indiegamedev #indiegame #indiedev

There is a chance that She is not the final boss. There is also a chance that her ship is not the best ship. A possibility. She is, however, the lady that keeps popping up, no matter how much you wish she wouldn't... #indiedev #indiegame #furry #hyena

More ship stuff! This is way closer to the finished thing! And I have been doing some serious redesigns on the Title Screen after seeing some solid ideas from Brendan. Excited to show folks that! #indiegame #indiedev #space #rpg