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I made some changes to the horse, and gave some attention to combat again. More in the thread! glossydon.itch.io/ventury/devl... #indiedev #godot #godotengine

Crazy how adding little animations like these just add so much more life to your game baby. What I'd give for a fuzzy friend about now...

Performance improvements and a handful of minor fixes. I managed to get 60 FPS on a little $100 mini PC that doesn't even have a dedicated graphics card on it, how neat is that? glossydon.itch.io/ventury/devl...

Multi-threading is really hard, but it's also rewarding when you've exhausted all possible optimization tricks for a single thread. Doing things with pure data and deferring any main-thread stuff is not so bad. Just be sure you're working in the right memory space when on a separate thread!

I made a video about oldschool drop shadows, and my stab at recreating their charm in #Godot. youtu.be/7pAkgcDTWA0 #indiedev #gamedev

The irresistible urge to optimize, Argh!!!

Terrain and ambient areas, oh my! Give my 3D game baby a looksie on its page! glossydon.itch.io/ventury/devl... #Godot #GodotEngine #indie #gamedev

I'm a little ways out from making another build, but I can still show with a little video! youtu.be/SxF3NyiZ29U #godot #godotengine #indiedev #gamedev

Sorry to miss the mark by a few days, I've just been so busy with other things that I couldn't make time for the project as much as I would have preferred. Either way, new build! glossydon.itch.io/ventury/devl... #Godot #GodotEngine #indie #gamedev

I made some minor tune-ups for dodging, blocking and parrying. I might push for a new build in a few days. Might be rude to ask, but do follow so you don't miss out if you're interested in trying it out! #Godot #GodotEngine #gamedev #indie

She has a flowy dress! Wowwie! #Godot #GodotEngine #gamedev

I'm happy with the new UI, it looks very clean.

Another new version up on itch. glossydon.itch.io/ventury/devl... #Godot #GodotEngine #gamedev

It's kinda neat, seeing him wheel the sword around from time to time. #godot #godotengine

29-ish notifications, holy moly I was social media-ing wrong the whole time!

new version, wowwie! glossydon.itch.io/ventury/devl... #Godot #Godotengine #gamedev

Little details were added here and there. Today I focused on the health meter. youtu.be/QW1z4-7oLwI #Godot

found a bug, had to commemorate the occasion.

Whoops, forgot to share this! New version is up, it has some optimizations for loading and resolves some issues with pacing. glossydon.itch.io/ventury/devl...

A new version of Ventury is up. Not a whole lot going on here, just a slightly smoother prototype. glossydon.itch.io/ventury/devl...

a skeleton appears in your feed!

good word of advice: making a good camera for a third-person game means a lot of work with a container that operates in global space. It'll be hard work, but it's worth it!

1440p at a decently steady 60 FPS, very exciting stuff!

Very pretty colors! Depth buffers are weird.

New test build up glossydon.itch.io/ventury/devl...

I'll probably make another version of Ventury on glossydon.itch.io/ventury in the next week or so. Having a monthly build for people to take a peek at is nice, lets me pace the iteration and polish out.

sword magic has colorful trails. trails in general are better, though they can still be improved upon.

The game looks kinda funny at 240p

Dude is NOT having fun.

Hair for when he isn't wearing it half-up!

New hair feels really nice

Please just block folks. They heard we were having fun over here and they know their existence depends on our attention. Please just block. Don't argue, don't repost, just block and ignore.

another test build is up glossydon.itch.io/ventury/devl...

knockback forces, ooh-aah

four-stock! four-stock!

New test build wake up glossydon.itch.io/ventury/devl...

game dev can be kinda tough sometimes. remember to take time off for yourself, because the game comes from you! quit trying to pour from an empty pitcher!

happiness

I don't think this is how you ride horses.

Anyone else kind of miss when faux-specularity was "the thing" for shiny stuff in video games?

I kinda wish Tuples were a thing for Godot, but maybe that's just what GDExtension's for? 🤷

I recently made textures for their fingies. Because of how the texture is set up, I'll have to make a custom fragment shader so the colors look right.

Making a doofy elf game. Here is the horse "braking" at the sign of a dangerous drop.

good dough