Tonight: I get harassed by some deer, Aria gets chatty about my getup, and Tinsel does her best impression of a croissant. glossydon.itch.io/ventury/devl... #godot #indie

Tools are really hard to make. There's so much less margin for error when you're making a tool versus a video game.

Two pieces of art, both individually featuring characters from my game, were illustrated by the giga-talented @geahgeah.bsky.social! Thank you so much!!!

I made a few minor adjustments, additions and optimizations. Figured I should post progress on youtube! youtu.be/bZm4geItcLc

Goblins that ride stags? How fantastical! #ScreenshotSaturday

Made some performance fixes. The culprit was not what I thought it was originally, but I have my frames!

Goblins riding Stags that chase after you on horseback. Horseback combat, yes please! youtu.be/QgjyD3AmIN0 #godotengine #indiedev

It's been a while since I modeled a non-humanoid anything. Nothing here's final, I'm just trying to get a feel for how the rig'll look before I commit myself to the model and finish it. I'm better at rigging, anyways...

Swinging swords astride horses should be in every game. It makes no sense biomechanically, but I want it.

Probably goes without saying, but don't make code with any dependence on classes like EditorInterface for release. I spent a few hours because I wanted to visualize something in the editor!

I have reins, but no reins I want. Geometry likes to throw a fit, so I'm thinking better ideas instead of bashing my head into the wall for the fourth time. Making things more dynamic is probably better for me, anyway!

I think I'm getting the hang of it! #godot #indiedev

New build for Ventury! Here's what happens! Tonight: I fight Goblins Aria finds faith in skeletons and Tinsel chews up my headphones glossydon.itch.io/ventury/devl... #godot #indie

More in thread! Goblins are basically done, they just need to disappear when they are defeated. Blocking, losing their posture, knockback after a flurry of attacks, dying, attacking, being parried - the whole nine yards! #godot #indiedev

This is such an incredible bug, I just have to share it. #godot #indiedev

Made some progress on the animations for a goblin enemy in my game. I think I want these guys to be more simple than the skeleton enemies I already have, since those guys are harder for people who tested the game before. #godot #indiedev #godot3d

Gobbyblin

Moving platforms are a door problem in and of themselves. Also, prototyping any level takes a lot of time. Make the space navigable and interesting in terms of layout and tangible features before you make it look pretty! #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Holy moly I was using blusky wrong the whole time, again?

Currently looking into a new prototyping environment for most of the game's mechanics and features. Might take up until mid-November to get done?

frog

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.