DevNote 24: Fixed some bugs with inverse kinematics, and added the emote system I'd been wanting for forever, which was surprisingly easy #IndieDev #GameDev

DevNote 23: Made the little thingies #IndieDev #GameDev #Retro

Sometimes I just feel like it's a mess you know #IndieDev

DevNote 22: Made a lot of progress recently. Added the whole process for visiting the hub world, animated those things, made the shaders. I've run into some game sequencing issues that I band-aided but probably just have to re-write a bit to eliminate potential future bugs. #IndieDev #GameDev

I'm calling it the monolith but that's a work in progress #IndieDev #GameDev #Shaders #ShaderMagic

You know, it's just not fair how real life can do perfect volumetric clouds for free #GameDev

When I first started development, dead players couldn't come back during a 'game', just respawn at the end. Now that I've added respawning, I have to untangle this mess of terrible code that comes with having two bodies for the same player. Reminds me of time travel shenanigans. #IndieDev #GameDev

DevNote 21: Recently reworked how loot is processed. Too complicated to explain here so just look at the crude animation. #IndieDev #GameDev

That's a long hallway #ScreenshotSaturday #IndieDev

DevNote 20: I ironed out a bunch of issues involving the insertion of spawned network objects into the dungeon generator. Things were just spawning weird. And also overlapping, fixed that. There were also bugs with the custom logic system. Hopefully all squashed. I'm tired, boss. #IndieDev #GameDev

DevNote 19: After more time off, I've refined and streamlined the process of spawning a puzzle, creating the in-world indicators of the puzzle's status, and linking them to the vault. All of that networked of course (and by that I mean - non of it is, just the end that matters). #IndieDev #GameDev

DevNote 18: Refined the way puzzles spawn so that I can generate different random puzzles from the same code. Also started worked on the "puzzle display board" to show progress to the players. #IndieDev #GameDev

DevNote 17: Due to forces beyond my control I've made essentially no progress in the last week. Maybe a few hours total.

DevNote 16: Did a little work yesterday on the "treasure vault obsolete technology server" and have promptly done nothing since (not my fault) #IndieDev #GameDev

DevNote 15: Slow progress today due to lack of motivation. I got the Data Carts to spawn inside of the old analyzer devices and added the functionality to divert the vessel to the liminal hub. I probably did some other stuff but can't remember. #IndieDev #GameDev

So it's a bug but it looks cool #IndieDev #GameDev

DevNote 14: Not a lot of work these past few days but got some nice atmospherics going. #IndieDev #GameDev #ProceduralGeneration #Liminal #LiminalPlaces

DevNote 13B: Was going to work more on puzzle spawning but decided to finally round out some edges on the occlusion culling system I've barely touched in about a year #IndieDev #GameDev

Devnote 13A: Frustrating bug fixing. "Multiplayer Play Mode" in Unity just randomly throwing out errors from the virtual player that the editor doesn't have. Giving missing reference inspections for things I assigned in the inspector. #IndieDev #GameDev

DevNote 13: Worked on the procedural data rack (more on that later). Also spent a ton of time hunting down stupid bugs. I thought I'd get some work done, but I ended up barely getting started. #IndieDev #GameDev

DevNote 12: I worked out a bunch of bugs with the mini terrain generator, made a new type of location the ship can visit (the place with the terrain) and started work on the liminal computer thingy you put the loot into. #IndieDev #GameDev

DevNote 11: Spent too much time on the system to make liminal terrain around the dungeon, but I need the simpler version now and didnt want to have to just do this part later. #IndieDev #GameDev #Liminal

DevNote 10: Made some very big steps polishing enemy AI. One enemy that took me a few days to write and refine previously, I was able to make in under an hour using my new modular setup. #IndieDev #GameDev

You know things like "the door problem"? www.gamedeveloper.com/design/-quot... There's that, and then there's enemy AI in a multiplayer game when you can die, teleport, disconnect, go around the corner, turn invisible... Who knew enemy AI could be so complicated #IndieDev #GameDev

DevNote9: Past few days were spent simplifying some code, refining existing code for spawning stuff in dungeons, and a bunch of polish on enemy behaviors. #IndieDev #GameDev

Which door should we try first... #IndieDev #GameDev #ConceptArt #Liminal #Fractals

Some old concept art for Recursive Riftfall #IndieGames #Gamedev #IndieDev #ConceptArt #Liminal

DevNote: Created a simple and universal code structure for spawning stuff in a dungeon under more controlled conditions. I had too many context-specific methods for this and it was a mess and I never fixed it. #IndieDev #GameDev

#IndieDev #GameDev #Unity #UnityEngine

DevNote 7: Hadn't touched enemy AI, so got back into that, fixed a few bugs I didnt get around to the first time. Also spent a bit of time fixing little lighting for things like torches, thanks to the asset's developer for that help. #IndieDev #GameDev

Do you like cold or warm? Which is more enticing to explore? #GameDev #Liminal #LiminalPlaces #LiminalSpace #ProceduralGeneration #IndieDev #PoolRooms

DevNote 6: The last day-ish was spent fixing a bunch of little bugs I found hear and there when I tried to get a fully fleshed-out dungeon working without bugs at all. There were some issues and improvements to be made that I had been putting off or didn't see before. #IndieDev #GameDev

I've been spending so much time adding little features to everything, instead of just putting a procedural dungeon together. So that's what I did today. #IndieDev #GameDev #Liminal #LiminalSpaces #ProceduralGeneration

Some screenshots I like #IndieDev #GameDev #Liminal

DevNote 5: Last night I made it so stairs can go into floor layers that aren't exactly 1-unit high, and fixed some bugs with that and with puzzle spawning behavior. #IndieDev #GameDev

DevNote 4: Spent an hour debugging something that was actually just a boolean I forgot I added. Also added support for carriable large items to be "inserted" at a point, like a key. I wanted this cube to 'settle in', but that's proving hard, so it'll float. #IndieDev #GameDev

I worked on the same stuff today as yesterday. I bunch of little bug fixing and polish related to the logic and positioning of picking things up, putting them in your hand, and showing HUD tips on what keys to press. Two days. That's 1/15th of a month. This is why games take forever... #IndieDev

DevNote 3: did a bunch of polishing of the physicalized inventory so it wasn't so janky, with some actual controls on what can go in your backpack vs your hand. #IndieDev

Maybe we can call these little logs "dev notes" or something. Maybe number them. Yesterdays can be devnote 1, today's pointless one will be 2.

I accomplished essentially nothing today, too busy of a day. Lots of unexpected but solvable problems. I did THINK about what I would work on next though... That's gotta be the next best thing. #IndieDev

I recently made changes to how inventories work. Today I worked out a bunch of the wonderful bugs that come with networking a physicalized inventory system in a drop-in/out game. I also inadvertently discovered & fixed some old bug with items going into your hand weird. #indiedev #gamedev #devlog

I've been advised I should keep some sort of devlog to track the little step progress, mainly for myself, but why not make it public for the chance at some eyes on the project.

On the fourth version of enemy AI. Who knew it could be so complicated?

Finally getting around to those weird dungeon styles I've been trying to achieve #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

Sometimes I feel like I get done several days worth of work in a morning, and other times I feel like I haven't gotten anywhere all week. #indiedev #gamedev

I love pondering how many things aren't finished #indiedev #gamedev

Nothing's here but us. Right? #indiegames #indiedev #gaming #poolrooms #liminal #liminalspace

Hop the tables if you have to. Just don't touch the water. #indiegames #gaming

Give me a "cool artifact" to turn into some sort of gameplay item. #indiedev #gamedev

So much wall, so little door... #ScreenshotSaturday #IndieGames