So this week I spent most of it finishing the entire blockout of the map and adding the Janitors closet so you can apply abilities. At this point all i have to do is clean the game. i am making good progress. 2 weeks left. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev #metroidvania

Its been 1 week of this metroidvania month, the theme is minimalism so i decided to make a game about a janitor that is hired to clean a building. I got mostly all the core systems in and functioning with a very rough 3D model for now. 3 more weeks left. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev #metroidvania

Completely on a whim, I think I'm going to participate in the Metromania jam. which means Core Stories will be on a little break. wish me luck on this lol

Not much to say today, but heres more updated animations for Strawberry #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

Finished the entire block out of the pause menu, or at least all I can do at this point. now its back to making more animations. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

Okay made some changes, the character info screen now detects what characters you have in your team so you can properly pull up their information. One last page to block in for the pause menu then its time to move on to the next thing. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

More Pause screen things, working on the character info page its going well, but man I really am fighting to stay focused on this. Working on UX/UI is not fun at all to me. 😔 #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

Got the initial concept for the pause menu in, will add actual page flipping to the book pages and some Iconography to the little bookmark tabs later in development. overall really happy with this menu. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

Doing some main menu things, so much of this is place holder, and I'm going to have to figure out a way to put the UI directly on the book, but that's a problem for another day. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

worked on the camera today, added some damping when you jump, some camera lag when you use any boost, a wall running camera, and when you gain high speeds the camera zooms out farther so you can see easier. i will add speed lines at some point lol. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

Coded in a special jump that can be done if you time your jump with either the landing animation or the running animation. man, having a character that has to jump for most of her movements has been a struggle to animate, but at least she's slowly coming together. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

Still working on animations, but I finally got a running animation that feels like she's taking long jumps instead of running. might add little smear vfx on the arms. over all really happy with this animation. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

The Next Devlog video is out and ready! this month I worked on my movement system for Core Stories #indiegamedev #gamedev youtu.be/xaOikFMHFNg?...

Still have quite a bit to do, but today I got the initial shape for the pony tail and added a controller bone with some shape keys. Still need to add some extra geometry to the back of the head so it looks nicer. but its cool that it just works so that's nice lol. #indiegamedev #Blender #gamedev

Gonna be working on nothing but model and rig things, and I decided I wanted the main team to put their hair up in a ponytail when they fight, this is still early but it is doable with some positioning, shape keys, drivers and some additional weight painting fixes. #indiegamedev #Blender #gamedev

This is Kero Quest 64! Join Kero on a quest to stop the Prince from spreading evil Shards across the Kingdom! Coming 2026!

Everyone, I am *exceedingly* happy to officially reveal, courtesy of the talented @littlenorwegians.bsky.social: Calico Wilder is now in 3D! :D

Been drawing my characters a lot lately, it's nice to step away from 3D for a bit and go back to traditional art. I miss this 😭

I said I was taking a break but I kinda forgot about coding in her character skill. all characters will have something unique they can do, Strawberry's allows her to spawn shields, and you will get different types of shields as you level her up. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

Got the last part of the global movement working, now its time for me a take a short break from coding and work on the next devlog. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

The grind rails are working the way I want them to now. They do have some visible bugs but nothing game braking. now I can move on to the last global movement system I need before I can move to the next section. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

got it so that holding the interact button while grinding downward gives you gradual speed. if you hold the the button going upwards it will slow you down. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

did a lot of adding debug info recently, then added a system that tracks your movement that's kinda hard to explain lol. Now I'm working on the grinding system and man this stuff is actually difficult to code. I'm still having fun with it though. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

Still working on movement and blocking out animations, but the base movement is starting to feel like something. Speed values are still too high though. I want people to work for high speeds and make it difficult to maintain it. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

More early blocked in animations, I'm getting the hang of adding character to her movements. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

You love to see indie games winning! lets go!

gonna be blocking in a lot of her animations now, that most of the base movement is coded in. So here's Strawberry's wall sliding animation. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

Implemented better battle transition & working on battle results screen :) #indiegamedev #godot #psx #rpg

Working on the wall running/jumping its working pretty well, I should make animations for it next. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

Now that most of the stuff I need for the gameplay loop is prototyped in I can focus on the fun part.. Movement! First thing I added was making the camera always move face the direction your going and adding in gaining speed on downward slopes. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

Today marks the first video of my devlog series, this will hopefully let you guys know what my plans are going forward with this project. youtu.be/phQMVgw96_I #indiegamedev #Devlog #gamedev #CoreStories

Been Fighting for my life with dealing with this pause menu, my goal is to make sure all menus work with controller as early as possible and getting in important settings in the game. This is mad boring to code for me but it is important. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

Today, I worked on async loading and adding level start transitions, I just used the sonic hero's level start layout as a place holder for now. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

Working on this rig for the book, the rigging process looks good, I just need to clean how the pages turn a bit more. #blender

Didn't do anything too fancy lately, just putting all the pieces together, so you can go into combat mode and back to the platforming mode. still need a begin level state, and end level state. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

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Making this book for Devlog intro, now rig a book opening and closing for the first time, Hopefully its not too difficult!

The dev log is going pretty well. I hit a whooping 30 mins of recording, and now I'm just on clean up. It should be done in a week or so.

The applied effects from the Core pulsing is implemented and added a little placeholder VFX to it. also finally made one sound effect for the Core pulsing. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

Decided I'm going to start a devlog for Core Stories to keep me on track and to just let people know what I'm doing. So with that post will be kind of minimum this month while I set up all the ground work to get this going to be a bi-monthly devlog. Wish me luck 🤞

Lets Go!! this was one of those games that changed me as a kid, I so can't wait to experience this again! youtu.be/KZ1ZxEH7pyY?...

Its a lot flashier now, when it pulses, it will add the effects to allies and or enemies. I want this to also have environmental changes but I need to wait till I actually get environment to do it lol. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

This is still very WIP, but this is the Core Awakening, it will vary what it does based on character but this will be a big move that changes the tide of battle. I'm going to make it way flashier later but now its time to actually code the system for it lol. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

I learned today that unreal can handle shape keys directly on the animation timeline. This is going to save me so much time now!

STARTING IN 5 MINUTES GO GO GO www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf6R...

All her basic combos are in now, outside of specials and meter usage. but I love the way the combos are turning out. I really do need to speed up some of the hits though. Also this too me like 40 mins to actually hit this combo perfectly lol. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

Just added some air neutral attacks and made it so the can be canceled into each other. I'm trying not to add too much air combos since I want this game to be more grounded. but this is also an example of how some of the combos will work. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev

Today I made some changes to the grab camera system, its now on a bone that I can animate it to. This way I can set up for big cinematic moves like supers and such. And I added a camera shake system with the accessibility option ready so I can be turned off. #indiegamedev #unreal #gamedev