Terry Cavanagh 🎲Ok, here we go! I'm going to make an FPS this week
Technically this doesn't start for another couple of days, but I'm starting early to work around a busy holiday schedule. I checked the rules and they seem to say it's ok
Game jam thread time! Ok. I don't have it all worked out yet, but here is my vague plan:
I'm interested in doing some first person platforming, doing something a little bit masocore. I know a lot of people really hate first person platforming, but yaknow, it's 2022, it's time to try again
Here are some things I'm inspired by at the moment, and am hoping to draw from for this:
Been playing some old DOS games recently. In particular, I've rediscovered this old maze game Get Lost!, which came out in 1996 (but got rereleased as freeware a few years back!). I really love how evocative the huge open spaces are, and how it does so much with really simple mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O_waoEhd0I
Get Lost! | 1996 DOS Game | Level 33
Another old DOS game I've rediscovered, 1992's Clyde's Adventure, which I just 100% completed for the first time a few days ago. It has this almost Kaizo Mario thing going on with the level design, and it's another game that's doing a lot with very little:
Have you seen those TikTok videos that are like, a robot voice reads out a reddit post while somebody does minecraft parkour in the background? Fascinating! https://www.tiktok.com/@the.vault.of.reddit/video/7113716800696651014
Since I've been trying to get better at 3D lately, I went back and looked at 3D Construction Kit, which I had a tattered copy of for my Commodore 64 when I was a kid.
The old VHS instructional video is still on youtube and is worth watching! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_RuvDoyypk
3D Construction Kit (VHS, 1991)
Finally, a couple of Roblox inspirations too - I've really been enjoying the genre of liminal space/"dreamcore" games on the platform. It's kind of a backrooms adjacent thing, but less about Horror. This is a good example: https://www.roblox.com/games/7688194227/EXPLORE-Dreamcore-Weirdcore-Doors
❓👁🚪 EXPLORE 🌈☁️✨ Dreamcore Weirdcore Doors
Check out ❓👁🚪 EXPLORE 🌈☁️✨ Dreamcore Weirdcore Doors. It’s one of the millions of unique, user-generated 3D experiences created on Roblox. ❓ Vibe, Hangout, Roleplay, Explore! No jumpscares. 5+ graphics recommended! 🚪 Game is still WIP. Like, Fav, Fallow for updates! Join the Server and group ALNDN: https://www.roblox.com/groups/12976405/ALNDN 🔨 UPDATES: (Full list on the Server) - Rain Storm Cloud Room. TV Stack. Dreamy Window. Mushroom Art Exhibit. - Rainbow Ocean Eyes, Wooden Playground, Mushroom Cave, Static Room. - Sand Sky Office Building, Sparkling Rainbow Door Room - Living room, Sky Clocks, ToiletFlowers, Original MUSIC by JxstR3Y - EscapeThisSimulation, OrbsRoom, ChildrensHospital. - Dream Trains, effects and graphics update. 260+ Hours developtment. TAGS E❓X👁P🚪L🌈O☁️R✨E dreamcore drmcr dremcor dremcore dreamcor dramcoredreamcr oddcore odcore weirdcore wierdcore werdcore wirdcore space nostalgia nostalgiacore dereality unreality lucid dream surreal explore exploration mushroom backrooms void playground kidcore antfarm cats doors
I was also really into Sky of Secrets, which I posted about on my free game of the week blog a while back: https://terrysfreegameoftheweek.com/sky-of-secrets/
So, yeah! That's what's in my head right now; let's see what comes out of that this week!
progress: got some nice floaty jumps working
Ok, got a bit distracted and had a think about how I'm going to do graphics for this thing. I came up with this: the Omnicube
I discovered that if I colour individual faces in Blender and import the model into Godot, it will create these individual material files - so, I found a palette I liked, and imported them all at once!
It's a shame there's no easier way to do this, I assume
The palette is Arne's Amiga 64 colour palette, which sorta gives me the limited colour look I want here. (There's not really anything you'd call an identifiable DOS palette)
Basically, the look I'm going for is low res, zero lighting, big polygons. It might end up looking terrible, but at least it'll be consistent! And it should be pretty easy to make assets like that for the jam.
Day 2 is going *ok*. Nothing exciting yet, but I'm getting the structure of the thing to work
everything in godot is taking just a *little* bit longer than I'd like, because honestly I'm still learning the basics. This is what jams are good for, though!
spent a *while* trying to get 3D rotating platforms that move the player working, and...
you know what, never mind, I don't need these anyway
Basically trying to fill out a little playground full of props I can use to make the rest of the game
Dan Johnson@terry as someone who worked on the "floating worlds" and zipline systems in BioShock Infinite: welcome, my condolences, and good call. 😂 Here there be dragons.
Alistair Hutton@terry 40 years later: Moving platforms, still hard.
Anders Stenberg@terry I feel like I often need to do workarounds and custom stuff to do what I want, but it mostly allows me to do so which is cool.
Chris Klimas@terry really interested in your opinion on how Godot compares to Unity. It seems pretty similar at first glance but hope springs eternal…
@klembot I can only assume Unity is "better", but I like open source things. Probably I'm not qualified to compare the two
hi waporwave!@terry reach out to the nerds if you need help
Andrew Ulysses Baker
Ale Cámara@terry I think it’s looking quite good already! Looking forward to playing what comes out at the end! 🤩
Chris P 🏳️🌈🍁@terry I am extremely excited for this
Scario@terry I'm very curious about this. I was the kind of person that hate platform in first person, but I recently play "Refunct" in Steam and it change my mind!
Canadian Corndog@terry You could just do it with vertex colours.
@CanadianCorndog I assume I'll learn the proper way to do these things as time goes on, but for now, I'm fairly satisfied with my little hack!
Kibikirby 
@terry CGA begs to differ! #CyanMagentaWhite
@kirby oh, sure, technically, but you know what I mean
Sophie 🎲🏳️⚧️@terry the math checks out.
Bram@terry I've done this with uv's in the past. Make a 1d texture of the palette and shift the face uv's to the color you want. For a custom 3d engine thing I made the exporter find the palette id from the uv location
@Leukbaars This is kind of what I wanted to do, but I couldn't figure out a workflow that I liked! Still lots to learn about 3D
Jamie D@terry that's pretty smart!
@uk_resistant I mean, I think so!
Abdou Bouam@terry If you make gradients with those colors you can play with the UV's and get some interesting results using only one material. It's a neat trick!
Max Danielsson
@terry ALL HAIL THE OMNICUBE!
_slowblink@terry when I don't know how to go about something, I tend to make a New Cube
Zoe Landon@terry why am I aesthetically reminded of the music video for Dire Straits' Money for Nothing
Ben Cole@terry Jumping Flash?
BrittleBack
xananax@terry loving all those inspirations, it sounds logical that I like your games so much.
Have you heard of SkyRoads (https://youtu.be/26y5PsEJiLA)? While not really fitting with the inspirations here, they reminded me of it and I feel you might like it
Have you heard of SkyRoads (https://youtu.be/26y5PsEJiLA)? While not really fitting with the inspirations here, they reminded me of it and I feel you might like it
Skyroads - Full Playthrough (All levels) (17:45)
@xananax I never actually played SkyRoads, but it came up a lot when I made Triangle Run!
Zeb L West@terry Love it! The sales pitch just goes on and on! 😂
Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎
Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)@terry i know its not the same thing but this is giving me 3d skyroads vibes... which is weird since skyroads was already sort of 3d >_>
Adam 😲@terry this screenshot has awakened memories I forgot I've forgotten
Wowfunhappy@terry Mirror's Edge shows that first person platforming can work!
Adam Hartling@terry first person version of Don't Look Back
Dragon1Freak 
@terry funnily enough i was thinking the same thing, though something fast paced like Neon White. Might be more speedrunning than pure platforming though, either way I loved it lol
