Day 760 of gamedev. Monkey reached 3 years of development 🥳🥳🥳. Right now monkey is reworking the battle system to make it feel smoother. The rework is progressing pretty good. You can play the current version by downloading it from my discord channel. it is very rough tho #indigame #gamedev #indidev

Day 755 of gamedev. Milestone 4 is here with a playable package :3. Come to monkey's discord channel if you want to try this version of the game. Monkey will now continue with Milestone 5 which will rework the battle system. Did you know this is made in Unreal 5? #indidev #gamedev #indigame

Day 750 of gamedev. Monkey tied up some loose ends and added hair and cloth physics to Mira. Still janky but thats ok for now :3 Next we will add the missing save game features and add back the beginners formation and we should be done with Milestone 4. #indidev #indigame #gamedev

Day 745 of gamedev. Monkey finally finished the intro. We can get Mira's attention and finally have her as the player character. Now the intro is far from over but for this build, it is enough. Next we have to do some polish and probably start the battle code rework. #indidev #gamedev #indigame

Day 740 of gamedev. Monkey animated a lot this week. We implemented some sequence to sequence logic too. I belive Mira did not like to face plant that much but i am willing to take that sacrifice, thank you Mira. Next week, we have to make her notice us :3 #indidev #gamedev #indigame

Day 735 of gamedev. Monkey is now at the last part of the intro. We added the second console and we can enter the world again. There is even credits. Now we just need Mira to pick us up. Monkey already started to rig her. So next we will animate her to pick us up. #gamedev #indidev #indigame

Day 730 of gamedev. Monkey finished the second part of the intro. Everything looks crude but it is coming together. Can you guess what the inspiration for the crystal was? Next we will crash to desktop. #indidev #indigame #gamedev

Day 725 of gamedev. This week, Monkey had to fix so many things, but they are now fixed. Monkey also added a damaged effect to the artefact. Look at the jitter beams :3 Next Monkey will start to build the second level sequence. Monkey can see the end of the intro already #gamedev #indigame #indidev

Day 720 of gamedev. Monkey finished the first iteration of the unwinnable fight. There are now shield effects. Monkey also build a system to skip Level Sequences that have Event Triggers in them. With this i can still trigger the fight event, even though it is not played. #gamedev #indigame #indidev

Day 715 of gamedev. The unwinnable battle is kinda finished. Monkey needs to add some more dummy effects in it like a blocking shield. But the battle is now playable and works as intended. Next Monkey will finish this up and we will start with the last part of the intro. #gamedev #indigame #indidev

Day 710 of gamedev. Monkey finished a dummy version of the level sequence between the first and second battle. Monkey added system to trigger the event, made a dummy for the primal orbling and we see the sequence in action here. Next we have to design the unwinnable fight #gamedev #indigame #indidev

Day 705 of gamedev. Monkey worked on event triggers after battle so there can be a level sequence. Monkey also added a background. Monkey thinks it is very mesmerizing. Look deeeeeeply into it. Sadly there were some issues with morph targets so monkey has to solve this next week. #gamedev #indigame

Day 700 of gamedev. Monkey finished the first intro fight. It might be too long but it is the first iteration of it. I added some experimental camera flights in it too. Next would be some kind of sequence after the fight to start the second fight.

Day 695 of gamedev. Monkey was able to add the fighting sequence. It is not finished yet but a round can be triggered. There were a lot of things i had to adjust for this special fight and there is more to do. Monkey wonders if monkey should refactor the Battle System.

Day 690 of gamedev. Monkey punched trough the console sequence to load into the initial world. After confirming the console response, we enter the world... but what the heck is that? Next monkey will implement the battle logic and other visuals for the intro. #indigame

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Day 685 of gamedev. The refactoring went deeper but now the level loader and battlegroups work better. Monkey also made progress in the intro. In the process, Mira learned to fly which is not ok. You can see that in the video. Next, Monkey needs to work on the mock battle.

Day 680 of gamedev. While working on the intro, monkey's old level loader is no good anymore. We started to exchange it with a new one. It already can do most, we are only missing the Island loading and spawned actor cleanup. Next we will finish and continue with the intro.

And here it is, my finished VRChat Avatar

Day 675 of gamedev. We started work on the intro sequence. Here is the console that will create the world. It still needs some fine tuning and is only the initial version but monkey thinks it turned out good. What do you think? Next week we continue with intro. #gamedev #indidev

Day 670 of gamedev. Monkey finished the dialogue system and reached Milestone 3. Monkey updated to unreal 5.7 and has a latest build of the game which runs. Monkey started concepting more of the world. If you want to do concepting, it doesn't need to look pretty. Next week more. #gamedev

My VRChat Avatar is coming along :3

My vrchat avatar is almost done :3

Day 665 of gamedev. Monkey got distracted by more dialogue system functionalities, but it got way more powerful now. In the video you can see how Tibi can laugh or be sad when you leave without using Tibi's services. Monkey believes next week we will be finished with the system.

Day 660 of gamedev. Monkey improved on the dialogue system. Monkey added sound, some graphics and more. Soon the dialogue system should be done and i will make a new package. Next week i will polish more on the functionality and try to make my own font.

Day 655 of gamedev. Monkey added the tagging system. A very powerful system where text can be customized. Imagine at one part it is small and slowly writing with no sound to be a whisper and the next BIG WORDS ONE BY ONE WITH A LOUD SCREEN SHAKING SOUND. Monkey continues working

Day 650 of gamedev. Monkey finished the important parts of the dialogue system logic. You can see the type writer effect in action and choices. You can also see Mira's portrait thx to @Pecokun_999 on Twitter. Thank you for your fast work. Next monkey will polish here and there and continue

Day 645 of gamedev. Monkey started the dialogue system. We have to consider many things like scrolling or translation workflows. The data asset part is done. Sadly unreal does some strange things with new line symbol. Monkey will not give up tho and continue next week. #unreal #gamedev

Day 640 of gamedev. This week monkey fixed a lot of things all around the game. Monkey also implemented an outline shader so you don't get confused when you don't see mira for 1 second :3 Next week we start the big journey to the dialogue system.

Day 635 of gamedev. Monkey finished the temple shaders. With that out of the way, monkey could go to the dialogue system or work on the island jump animation. There are also a lot of little things too. We will see next week :3

it didn't work before this clip and i didn't change anything

Day 630 of gamedev. Monkey spent unusual amount of time this week to work on the temple and it is still not done. The material hider was challenging in this layout. At least you can see the general idea of the room. Next we will polish and add some more shaders. #gamedev

Day 625 of gamedev. Shrine is done and monkey started on the concept of the temple. We are almost done with the interiors and will start with new stuff soon. #gamedev

Day 620 of gamedev. Monkey build the tavern. Monkey also added a new shader that is kinda like a portal. You see objects only if you see trough this. In the gif you can see it in action trough the doorway. Monkey can use this to free up clutter when zoomed out. Next is shrine

Day 615 of developing a game in unreal. Monkey finished the arena reception and library interiors. There are 3 interiors left and we started with the tavern today. #gamedev

Day 610, Monkey finished 2 dummy interiors, fixed a nasty bug and set up the transition system. Next week we will be creating the rest of the interiors. 💪 #gamedev

Day 606, monkey implemented the time system. Here is a sped up gif of the sun in motion. The time will be also saved if you save your game, meaning anything that is set by time like the ships position will be kept. This week monkey is working on interiors. #gamedev

We reached day 600. This week monkey implemented the time system. In the picture you can see a ship arriving at certain days of the calendar. Just a minor detail in the background :3. Next up we will continue figuring out how to make the sun path #gamedev

Day 595, Monkey managed to simplify the islands for the world map. Now Monkey goes into a tangent and implements a time system. do i need it? no? i don't care

Day 590 monkey finished the first version of the background. Monkey started working on the worldmap look

Day 586 the texturing took long and it really is rough. Now i have to get the actual crater textured.

Day 580, the texturing looks terrible but it beats cubes. Monkey finished half of the temple, lets do the rest next week

#art #digital_art #fan_art @kanpekisaru.bsky.social monkey)

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saru is troubled. monkey is at a point on monkey‘s project where monkey has to choose a path to take. saru is troubled

Monkey finished world map module today :3 #gamedev #indigame #unreal #ue5

Hello, i am monkey gamedev. Monkey thinks, nice to meet you. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #unreal #ue5