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Cant help but notice that every time I post about 3d modelling guns I lose a few followers you guys *do* realize I'm making an FPS, right?

got it unwrapped poorly, but unwrapped nonetheless.

managed to break through the burnout of the week.. the general body is more or less done, need to work on the general firing controls 'n stuff.. then i get to work on unwrapping and texturing and that's gonna be a pain #blender #b3d #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

working on a new rifle model cause why not continuing with using cursed ass cartridges, chambering this in 8.3x50mm with a 9mm casing as a base.. kind of a blend of the hemlok and R-101 from titanfall mixed in with design cues from the SCAR

like every 3rd post on r/godot this week has been someone glazing how much AI helped them with their game, today i've seen a hella downvoted post asking why the community is so against AI, and now people are calling for the mod team to ban posts about AI entirely 🤨

Either I just have super impressive clips or I'm just a micro celebrity in the Titanfall subreddit right now. My last few posts have easily shot up hundreds of upvotes, easily dominate the top 24h boards and are slowly dominating all of my lifetime top posts 😕

I really hope this burnout is temporary... even before I was working on the major refactor I was barely feeling like developing the game, and the refactor gave me the motivation and energy to get that to a good state.. and now I just feel like it's not worth developing it further..

everyone and their grandma are making level editors in godot now apparently and i kind of stopped working on mine since i felt demotivated with the project and didnt have much of a use for it at that point in time...

Taking up KOOK speedrunning months after @jitspoe.bsky.social gave me a demo key, got a fairly solid strat for London1 but kind of requires a lot of dumb luck

project file management is not my specialty

i hope brand new day is like an actually good movie, however it'd be hard to beat out the absolute perfection that is no way home imo no way home is the best movie in the MCU arguably even better than infinity war and endgame!

Most likely going to be taking a lot of time off from dev from this point forward.. The overhaul isn't close to done and it won't be for a while.. I'm struggling to make progress. I'm sure I'm going to have a day of insane productivity soon, but I can't really seem to know when.

bouncy grenades!

Titanfall 2 clip from earlier, it's really making me consider adding a cannon like the 40mm cannon to deadzone i was definitely experimenting with a single shot weapon before but it wasnt to the same level

now that diesel knights footage is something being actively collected and people are playing it, i'm less interested in the game. especially for how much funding and dev time they've had, seeing the state of the pre-alpha playtest is a little disappointing.

been working on a grenade throw indicator, not a particularly efficient method of generating it right now but it's getting there. need to start working on making it actually launch the projectiles too, not sure how accurate the indicator is right now... #godot #gamedev #indiedev

browsing around to see how other games handle grenade indicators, came across this legally distinct sci-fi far future multiplayer fps banner. i bet the game is called Apogee Megastars

Since melee is literally just an ability bound to the melee key, it would open up the opportunity for customizable melee options 🤔 thought about maybe having a knife to begin with then maybe a throwing knife, possibly a sword... Possibilities are endless

Welp got nothing done all day... Began work on a grenade indicator, then moved to the splash screen.. finished the grenade indicator at 12:15am.

I've been pretty damn invested in scrap mechanic for the last few years now as well.. kind of fell out of it when content updates weren't really a thing. been thinking about taking up modding as well since i'm a much more experienced dev now than i was when i last tried to engage in it.

seems like the YT algorithm is picking up my main channel videos again 👏 i should really be uploading more to all of my channels but game dev is taking up most of my time and im rarely ever doing anything worth uploading for content

because i APPARENTLY need to mention this. don't email me asking to review your libraries, games or software. especially don't phrase it like "i found x library from you, thought it was cool, but mine is so much better"

its a good thing i went NET negative.. right? right? i'm going to be incredibly NET negative when i delete all of the old class files that im not using anymore! 🫠

been a fantastic journey for us to far. absolute career highlight for me to with the team making this

This is an example of how the city center <> building size bias can work, cranked up higher to show more apparently. Normally it's more gradual and mixed #indiegame #gamedev #procgen #solodev

Of course once the overhaul is done, which it mostly is other than some big issues, just need to bring all the old stuff over. One simple change has led to a massive cascade though..

1am but I can't sleep so I'm doom posting. Been working on frontier deadzone for nearly a year. Games pretty close to being playable and kind of just needs some polish and art. I am having genuine fun with it and it feels a lot better than it did months ago when I didn't have much hope for it.

I'm Assisting a friend with a video that I hope will come out sooner rather than later, it's already turning out to be pretty damn good. It is technically the result of a year of playing Titanfall 2, as much of the behind the scenes work comes from my end. it involves a 100+ line spreadsheet.

also added changing visor colors. forgive the window sizing weirdness.

small thing done today, skeleton meshes from sonar follow the peer color guidelines and applies to everyone

v1.3.0 of @icons, my icon pack for #godot, is now out! this release includes: 🔣 46 new icons! 🎨 2 new color variants! (purple & yellow) 🎛️ a new in-editor dock to preview and copy icons (thanks to SuperDuperSword!) voxybuns.itch.io/at-icons/dev... (soon on Godot Asset Library and Asset Store!)

4 titan kills in a single run with Tone in #titanfall2 i almost feel bad for taking time off from game dev but for this but holy shit the dopamine rush i got was insane

In other news, when scrap mechanic 1.0 comes out on the 24th I AM GETTING NOTHING ELSE DONE FOR THAT WEEK I have 2000 hours in that game, mostly in creative but I've done some survival runs Hopefully 1.0 cures the aching boredom I've had survival.

This overhaul is taking such a heavy toll on me... Feeling burned out, massive creative block.. Honestly once scrap mechanic finally releases I'm probably going to try and play that with friends to ease my mind, hopefully I'll have most of the overhaul done by then..

after doing some work towards abilities and a titanfall 2 break... got the rocket salvo somewhat working again though the projectile behavior is a bit uhh.. broken.

well at least i have the "movement" part of the movement-mech fps done. need to pay some more attention to the mechs but theres so much work to do 🥲

ahhhhh this data migration is killing me i was originally just instantiating scenes with specialized classes for players and mechs but now they're using the same classes so i use resources to load and dictate everything... and i'm using sub resources too so i cant just copy + paste the group 🙄

not getting anything done today cause im busy being a fucking sweat in titanfall 2.

the pipeline from talking about it to making a remix of it is top tier 😎

finally did another song youtu.be/EUNEDaSSrNM except its blocked in russia and belarus so if you live there i guess you cant watch it!

been listening to the soundtrack for the tetris movie and holy shit aaron hibell did such a good job with benevolence.. i don't even like kpop but aespa's "version" of it (hold on tight) is pretty good too

only 2000? ONLY TWO THOUSAND?

just spent 4 hours on a projectile system that i probably could've done in 20 minutes omfg

finally got projectiles visually working! (kind of) experimenting with using RenderingServer directly for the projectile meshes based on the position / velocity from the server, still some work to do but works pretty damn good right now. #godot #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

this may be some of the most effort i've ever put into encoding and networking optimization... hopefully it doesn't bite me later

i've maybe managed to optimize projectile sync to be 10 bytes per projectile but i might sync rotation as well, most likely going to be around 80 bytes for salvos. still only going to send updates for projectiles that have made large-ish movements.

guess im spending today completely overhauling the projectile system cause i kind of half-assed it last time and i need it to properly work 😭

Coming up real fast on a year of deadzone's development 😕 And it feels like I have NOTHING to show for it, however I hope that I can get the refactor finished to playtest and record better gameplay footage soon The 38 day countdown starts now.