CheesenessAdded a few new room shapes - eventually I'll need to adjust them so that they follow respect some common length/width intervals to make piecing stuff together easier, but for now, it's fun to just have some variety
Mid-month status update for December is here. Since most of the past few weeks has gone to other projects, I've also included some reflections on the game's progress over its first year or so of production https://www.patreon.com/posts/76220967
This month's progress update video has the same. I enjoyed digging up old recordings/checking out older versions of the source to make new ones #gamedev #indiedev #devlog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPBNdZIoEF8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPBNdZIoEF8
Bonesweeper Progress Update VII
Here's a little concept I scribbled last night while waiting for a rough cut of the most recent progress update video to render.
I'm a little embarrassed to share it because it's not even remotely accurate, but a) it's important to overcome that (with a disclaimer, of course), and b) concept pieces are about communicating ideas/intent rather than being perfect ^_^
Made my own colour picker so that I could have something a bit more compact/focused than Godot's built in colour picker
#Bonesweeper is now #FossilSweeper! Here's a quick post about the name change https://www.patreon.com/posts/77254470
#gamedev #indiedev #fossil
#gamedev #indiedev #fossil
Made some headway on getting the musem map keyboard/gamepay friendly today, and added a placeholder cursor to make input/interaction states a little more readable
Wrapped up keyboard/gamepad support for the museum map this morning, and also added a setting to randomise the initial unlocks for a skeleton as a possible way of getting a little more interesting variation in that always-feet-first doesn't provide. Also added an interface setting for customising the "placement shadow" colour
Very, very, very, very late Fossil Sweeper mid-month status update for January \o/ https://www.patreon.com/posts/77892519
And the accompanying video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygrs0JAkQG4
Fossil Sweeper Progress Update VIII
Been adding highlight outlines for nearby/hovered items in the museum to make interacting a little more intuitive.
#ScreenshotSaturday
#ScreenshotSaturday
Offscreen indicators so you're not lost when you're lost (will make these look nicer later)
Adding a first pass for informational displays ahead of implementing the research phase. Exciting times \o/
Dinosaur names are mostly Latin, so I may as well just make the informational displays Latin, right?
Late-but-not-as-late-as-last-month mid-month status update for February \o/ https://www.patreon.com/posts/79123502
Fossil Sweeper Progress Update IX
It's still just a first pass, but I've finally got the research phase implemented. You can now spend your surplus fossils on extra bits and pieces to customise your museum with (only additional rooms for now, but that'll expand to include skeleton mounts, display cases, informational displays, lighting, etc.). Once started, research progresses as you visit dig sites and work on assembling skeletons.
This represents a significant milestone! Every gameplay phase is now represented in the game to some extent. Until now, there was still a gameplay loop missing, and while I need to fill in a lot more content, do a visual pass, make it TTS-friendly, etc., I feel like I can now better demonstrate the "shape" of the game as a whole and it feels a little exciting to come back from a dig site to find some research has finished.
Still a long way from done, but this already feels like somewhere (also there's only two models here - it's amazing what a little rotation and scale will give you for "free")
Knocked together something quick to help illustrate Fossil Sweeper's Dig->Assembly->Museum gameplay loop
Here's the even-more-late-than-last-month "mid-month" status update post for March \o/ https://www.patreon.com/posts/80800973
And the accompanying video, which includes a visualisation of the flow of fossil chunks through the game's various gameplay phases now that the bare bones (ho ho ho) version of the Research phase is implemented.
#gamedev #indiedev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwu7GPdw8tI
#gamedev #indiedev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwu7GPdw8tI
Fossil Sweeper Progress Update X
I've been a bit slack on posting progress to social media. Not much has been happening that's visually interesting (and balancing contract work has been tricky). Here's a little something I did today. The temp chunk selector UI for the Research phase is now paginated (loads way faster) and has a nice spinny effect when mousing over chunks
Running very late again this month, but here's the regular mid-month progress update post. Topics include the Research phase background and a few quality-of-life tweaks https://www.patreon.com/posts/82270020
And here's the accompanying video talking about development across the first half of April
#gamedev #indiedev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3AKwIrxt5E
#gamedev #indiedev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3AKwIrxt5E
Fossil Sweeper Progress Update XI
I've been slack with posting #FossilSweeper progress lately. Amber now gets rounded/polished after being sorted, and might have some different things (still placeholders for now)
Almost on-time with the mid-month progress update post this time! Topics include misc fossil gameplay and Research phase UI https://www.patreon.com/posts/83235903
And here's the accompanying video talking about the past month or so's worth of development #gamedev #indiedev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVIVji_6c6U
Fossil Sweeper Progress Update XII
Between Hive Time's World Bee Day update #LinuxGameJam2023 and #AdvJam2023, *and* contract work, progress has been pretty slow on the Fossil Sweeper front for the past few weeks. Have been working on display cases for misc fossils, though!
Here's the mid-month progress update. Not a lot of work over the past could of weeks thanks to other commitments, but I was able to make a little forward progress on some important museum stuff
https://www.patreon.com/posts/84750897
https://www.patreon.com/posts/84750897
And the accompanying video - a nice short one this time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYF-yVBGck4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYF-yVBGck4
Fossil Sweeper Progress Update XIII
Getting skeleton mounts into the game
Rodney! RODNEY! You're too big, mate!
Initial Rodney clip from yesterday's stream (I hadn't considered that Rodney might be a diamantinasaurus)
Shipped new test builds for the first time in over a month last night. Nearly got skeleton mount and display case interactions behaving
Here's the mid-month progress update for July! Specimen placement/positioning is in much better shape.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/86482874
https://www.patreon.com/posts/86482874
And, as always, the accompanying video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-lnSqHI6zM
Fossil Sweeper Progress Update XIV
Been working on being able to select multiple items at once in edit mode. Makes rearranging things a lot more comfortable!
Today I spent time on drag selection. Turns out that Godot's camera's far clipping distance to project_position() technically represents a point outside the frustum and gives weird values - makes sense, but it took a while to realise what was going on :D
I spent some time earlier this week improving my click and drag box selection implementation. To avoid redundant calculation, when multiple input events are received per tick or when no relevant input events have been received, but I'd forgotten an important line :D
Still need to do some stress testing with a ton of objects, but it's already a lot snappier than it was!
Here's the mid-month progress update for August. Avatar footsteps, new music, and museum interactions \o/
https://www.patreon.com/posts/87884067
https://www.patreon.com/posts/87884067
And as always, the accompanying video with my handsome face doing handsome talking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJH2M7VlncI
Fossil Sweeper Progress Update XV
As part of assessing how the current museum music implementation is likely to scale/map against a growing museum with a diversity of themed rooms, I put together a little example museum with a dozen or so rooms full of placeholder models and varied the lighting a little.
I think walking around the extended space does a better job of communicating where this is headed, but still feels empty without customiseable light placement and wall displays. This'll do for now though!
Here's the September mid-month progress update for Fossil Sweeper, a palaeontology game I've been making in #GodotEngine for a while now. Mostly museum work again this month! https://www.patreon.com/posts/89483806
And as usual, here's the accompanying video
#indiedev #devlog #GodotEngine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Pch1djf20
#indiedev #devlog #GodotEngine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Pch1djf20
Fossil Sweeper Progress Update XVI
Here's the (late) October mid-month progress update for my fossil diggy-uppy game Fossil Sweeper. Mostly focused on museum music UI and implementation stuff this month!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/91445864
https://www.patreon.com/posts/91445864
Cavalcadence@Cheeseness
Lots of exciting things!
This caught my attention in particular, though: "updated mouse controls so that players can click on a door they're already running to in order to just jump straight to the next room". ^_^
Aral Balkan@Cheeseness @lashman Lovely updates; keep going, it’s looking great :) 💕