Been experimenting with writing some custom plugins and am thus far quite pleased with the results! Not super flashy, but these two buttons will save me a lot of time registering resources with loaders and converting assets into resource types! #godotengine #tooldev #indiedev #solodev

Settings menu is now fully functional and saving properly! Obviously there are more settings to come in the future, but getting it to the point of adding new ones with relative ease is a pretty important hurdle! #godotengine #indiedev #solodev #ui #settings #accesibility

Rebind-able controls are functioning! Just gotta write these keys out to a config file and read them in on load. I intend to add generic gamepad support in the future as well but happy with this for the time being! #solodev #indiedev #gamedev #accessibility #UI #godotengine

Managed to move the sub menus out into it's own viewport now menu navigation is done! Still some work to do, particularly with text being blurry on larger menus but now happy with how this has come along! #godotengine #solodev #indiedev #gamedev #UI #diagetic #GMScreen

Been a while, I've been busy! But I managed to get some UI elements rendering via a viewport in #godotengine and I started reworked the main menu to use it. Still working out some kinks but happy with it thus far! #UI #diagetic #gamedev #solodev #indiedev

New relic today as well! This ability synergizes with the Blood Tithe ring to make powerful, high stakes, heavy hitting character. Can't wait to see other ways people find to make these relics work together. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #godotengine #srpg

New equip-able relic added today designed to give your physical-damage users a high risk, high reward way to double their damage! #indiedev #solodev #srpg #godotengine #gamedev

Added a QoL feature to the battle log from yesterday! Now it's hidden by default unless it's moused over, should be a bit less intrusive this way! #indiedev #solodev #godotengine #UI #srpg #QoL

Even more progress today. Development speed has basically tripled since internal playtesting began. It's definitely given me a surge of motivation. I've been making major progress on bugfixing and balancing + compiling a new build every 2 days lmao #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

Added a battle log today! This gives a quick break down of what abilities are used and how much damage people are taking. It comes complete with a scroll bar, pooled log entries and reusing old entries once you're past 40 to help with memory usage! #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #godotengine #srpg

New QoL features! A toggle-able grid overlay and a distance measurement appearing next to the mouse cursor! This should make the battle easier to parse in a unintrusive way. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #godotengine #QoL

The main pause menu should now support multiple resolutions! While I was making the update I decided to slightly upgrade the visuals and make it so the user only needs to hit back once to get to the main menu! #indiedev #solodev #godotengine #ui #strategy #rpg

Experimenting with some fake shadow casters at the feet of the sprites. I think this makes it a bit more clear where the sprites are positioned in 3D space. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #strategy #rpg #godotengine

The world map is coming together piece by piece. Lots of empty spaces, but a lot of key locations for the main plot are now on the map with a few locations for side content so far as well! #indiedev #solodev #godotengine #strategy #rpg #exploration #worldbuilding #gamedev

Today's demo is based off one of my favorite magic items in D&D! #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #godotengine #strategy #rpg #style

Today's demo is the Ring of Body and Mind! This relic rewards a player likes to build their characters evenly! #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #godotengine #strategy #rpg

Spent some time cleaning a lot of the forced movement related ability code. So here's a demo of bringing a lot of it together. I think the ideal end state of the project has a lot of potential for abilities to work in fun ways like this! #indiedev #solodev #godotengine #strategy #rpg #gamedev

Another classic ability, available fairly early to the Ranger character: Marked For Death! This ability synergizes specifically with piercing damage, even when inflicted by your allies! #indiedev #godotengine #solodev #gamedev #strategy #rpg

Today's demo is the Bruiser's Energy Drain ability! This ability heals the user for half it's damage, and gives your tank character a bit of self sustain to keep themselves on the front line! #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #strategy #rpg #godotengine

Today's ability: Last Resort! An ability I fully intend for player's to find a way to break. This ability uses the total cooldown turns of every other ability the user has equipped to determine it's damage! #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #strategy #rpg #cooldown

Today's ability is Harpoon! This ability can pull a target directly to the user over a long distance, it's shown off here being used alongside the Bramble ability to deal piercing damage to the target as they are pulled through! #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #godotengine #strategy #rpg

I didn't realize how much I missed game jams! Been working on a silly little platformer which revolves around switching between joy and grief masks. Thanks to OzzbitGames on itch for the character art which I have cruelly plastered a mask onto! #gamejam #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Today's ability has no flashy effects yet, but is implemented now: Hyperlucidity! This is the first ability I made which has wonky damage scaling, scaling off the difference of two of the targets stats instead of your own. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #strategy #rpg

Today's ability: Fire Field! This places a hazard on the ground that deals fire damage when an enemy moves through it. The demo here shows the wizard using gravity well to pull an enemy into the field! #indiedev #solodev #gamdevelopment #godotengine #rpg #strategy #synergy

Today's ability: Tornado! This ability deals moderate crushing damage in an AOE and pushes damaged enemies away from it's center. Useful for pushing enemies into hazards! #indiedev #solodev #rpg #strategy #godotengine

No RPG is complete without at least 1 nautical encounter! Missing a decal for where people go below decks, and a room for the captain's quarters, but this was a much more complicated model than I usually make, pretty happy with it! #rpg #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #pirates #godotengine

A classic ability today: Fireball! A large AOE of fire damage the also burns targets, to synergize with DOT builds. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #rpg #strategy #godotengine

Showing off Electrify! After a delay, this status effect will deal a burst of damage that scales off how many instances of lightning damage the target has taken! Also in the video are Call Lightning and Doublejolt, which each deal lightning damage! #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #godotengine #rpg

Strapped for time, so no video, but here's another ability showcase: Finishing Blow! This ability allows the user to act again if it drops the target to 0 HP. #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #rpg #strategy #godotengine

Today's ability showcase: Leeching Spores! This ability inflicts a status effects that drains the targets health when their turn starts. #indiedev #solodev #godotengine #strategy #statuseffects #DOT

Part of the Rogue character's build potential leans into critical hits, so here's 'Knife Throw' a ranged ability with less than ideal range, but if it's used towards it's maximum distance it will always be critical! #indiedev #solodev #criticalhit #godotengine #rpg #strategy

Relics have been fun to make lately, so have another! This dusty old tome is hidden away in a chamber early in the game. Explorative players can find it and equip it to a character for passive health regen! #indiedev #solodev #rpg #devlog #fantasy

New relic added! The assassin's ring gives there wearer a flat 5% extra crit chance (effectively doubling the base crit chance) just for keeping you SKL stat above your STR. #indiedev #godotengine #rpg #strategy #solodev

As I've been making abilities to support a DOT build within my game, I started wondering: what are strategies/synergies from other projects that you feel are under supported? I always hate when games let me cast DOT spells but then make bosses immune 😅 #rpg #indiedev #strategy #feedback

Showing off the wizard's 'Soul Burst' ability! This ability, after 3 turns, will deal damage to the target that scales off the amount of status effects currently on the target. I think players who try to lean into this will put up some impressive numbers. #godot #indiedev #rpg #solodev #synergy

Spent this evening working on some additional props to start working a small tavern scene. Been thinking about ditching a quest journal and instead leaving hints to nearby quests in each tavern, thoughts? #gamedesign #godotengine #indiedev #solodev #rpg #questdesign

More ability synergy! The Tremor ability, applies a slow to everything it hits, meanwhile the Arrow Rain ability will deal increased damage to anything it hits that's immobilized or slowed! Hoping players will enjoy discovering and building around combos like this. #indiedev #solodev #rpg #godot

The Bruiser character, trained in nature magic, uses the 'Energize Other' ability allowing them to set 1 cooldown of a different character (the Wizard's Gravity Well in this case) to 0. The ability is chosen randomly from abilities on CD. #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #godotengine #rpg #strategy

Today, a combo of abilities! This is the wizard using gravity well to combo with the ranger's bramble ability. Trapping the enemy on terrain that damages them as they move through it. Definitely feels more consistent to do this on smaller maps! #indiedev #solodev #godotengine #rpg #wombocombo

Experimenting with making encounters smaller. I want environmental abilities to feel impactful, and I think making the levels smaller helps achieve that. It also makes for less turns just approaching the enemy so the player gets right to the action! #srpg #solodev #gamedev #godotengine #indiedev

Finished up some new enemy AI design today. Code should be easier to maintain going forward, and now enemies will weigh both targets AND abilities, compared to past version which only weighed abilities. Pretty happy with it so far! #gamedev #solodev #srpg #indiedev #godotengine

New status effect: Electrify! This status effect 'charges' every time the afflicted character is struck with lightning damage, and will deal damage scaling off the amount of instances of lightning damage when the status effect expires for any reason (including cleansing it off someone!).

No huge changes atm, mostly been working away on some abilities and status effects, but I did add flavor text to many different items/equipment. Here's my two favorites at the moment! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #rpg #flavortext

Critical hits have been a super fun design space to play around with. Here are some the tool tips for some abilities I got working recently, hopefully they sound as fun to others as I find them! #indiedev #solodev #indiedev #srpg #criticalhit

Finally implemented crits! The system I settled on was a default 1/20 chance of crit that isn't effected by the player stats. Players have certain effects that can increase crit chances or guarantee crits if they're willing to jump through some hoops! #gamedesign #indiedev #srpg #solodev #godot

Realized my character xray effect had broken, so I fixed it and combined with auto focus I think it makes it really clear what's going on during a battle! Really happy with the clarity this gives to the user, maybe it's time to go back to sidequests? 🤔 #indiedev #solodev #godotengine #srpg

Added some movement smoothing to auto focus and combined with the new spring arm on the camera I think it feels really good! Excited with how this turned out. #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #godotengine #srpg

I've been messing around with the camera, and settled on a camera orbit feature for rotating in battles. This keeps in consistent with the exploration camera and also makes it easier for the user to look at a fight from multiple angles! #indiedev #solodev #godotengine #srpg #gamedev

While I consider the fate of my camera auto focus feature, I decided to work on something that I'm more confident users will enjoy. Now when a character begins a wind up animation, the name of the ability they're using pops up #indiedev #ui #solodev #godotengine #gamedevelopment #srpg

Thoughts on this auto focus feature I'm working on? The intent was to show the user which ever character is starting their turn. But even when I allow any camera movement to override the feature I still feel like it's going to get annoying? #indiedev #feedbackplease #solodev #godotengine #srpg