CheesenessFixed a bug today where museum room ambient lighting/shadows weren't being saved properly. Now when you give your museum funky lighting, it stays funky.
Here's this month's progress update for my fossil-diggy-uppy game Fossil Sweeper. This time, more work on Dig environments, and an interview with the game's composer @KestrelPi https://www.patreon.com/posts/108843550
And as always, here's the accompanying video, which gives focus to the effort and thought that went into the game's soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3dvpcS_jOU
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Composing Fossil Sweeper's Soundtrack - Progress Update XXVI
If you enjoyed that and are hungry for more, there's a longer, uncut version of the conversation from the video available over in this post, along with a full text transcript. Lots of cool insights from @KestrelPi on Fossil Sweeper, our past collaborations, and music in general!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/108587230
https://www.patreon.com/posts/108587230
Working on heightmap stuff a bit more. The green channel now controls the surface albedo, suggesting bare rock on the snowy mountains here
Been poking around with grass today. More clever use of the same textures and a few extra faces gets me from the example on the left to the example on the right. Not entirely committed to this at the moment, but it's a step forward, and it looks a lot better from top down too.
Made some quick and dirty biome icons today (and gave @doctormo enough information to track down and fix a minor Inkscape bug)
Didn't get a lot of tangible work done today, but I did spend some time thinking about the level of detail density that I want to have in the map phase's final presentation. This level feels about right, where crinkly coastlines become mostly flat and I'm not inadvertently implying that the changes that happen when moving the time slider back into prehistory are hyper realistic.
Here's this month's progress update for my fossil-diggy-uppy game Fossil Sweeper. This time, more work on Dig environments, and starting to think about iconography. https://www.patreon.com/posts/110820835
And as always, here's the accompanying video, which shows some comparisons between the old Dig environment presentation and the updated stuff I've been working on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwSagPP4ZDU
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More Heightmaps & Better Grass - Fossil Sweeper Progress Update XXVII
Lost some "work" (concept/exploration stuff, so no tangible losses) thanks to Blender not saving textures, so I decided to work on something else for this week's dev stream - coordinate labels around the dig site that can follow the camera zooming in/panning, and account for perspective. These will be toggleable, and will make stuff like chat integration easier to wrangle.
First pass on chat integration for the dig phase is in. Streamers, etc. will be able to optionally allow chat participants to play the game with/for them
Decoupled chat commands actions from their actual gameplay effects so that players can choose whether or not to take the suggestion (will add an option to auto process chat commands on a timer later so that the game can still be played by chat users without a player)
Here's this month's progress update for my fossil-diggy-uppy game Fossil Sweeper. This time, chat integration https://www.patreon.com/posts/113604656
Here's the October progress update for my fossil-diggy-uppy game Fossil Sweeper. Mostly stuff for chat integration this time https://www.patreon.com/posts/115468680
And as always, here's the accompanying video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgVOoQ3vJQM
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Wrangling Coordinate Labels - Fossil Sweeper Progress Update XXIX
Here's the November progress update for my fossil-diggy-uppay game Fossil Sweeper. More chat integration work this time
https://www.patreon.com/posts/117226120
https://www.patreon.com/posts/117226120
And as always, here's the accompanying video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiE79LuRtFo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiE79LuRtFo
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More Chat integration - Fossil Sweeper Progress Update XXX
Added a height difference between the surrounding environment and the diggable area. I think this helps things be more immediately readable, and is maybe an opportunity to hint at how removing the soil and not-relelvant-to-the-dig rock (the "overburden") is a part of the process
Here's this month's progress update for my fossil-diggy-uppy-game Fossil Sweeper. This time, more chat integration, and bedding down a couple of cosmetic bugs that were apprently bothering me a lot more than I realised
https://www.patreon.com/posts/118985122
https://www.patreon.com/posts/118985122
And as always, here's the accompanying video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqktkOFFsjk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqktkOFFsjk
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Map Phase Chat integration - Fossil Sweeper Progress Update XXXI
I'm experimenting with a feature that automatically places flags on tiles that are absolutely confirmed to contain a fossil.I normally shy away from stuff that reduces opportunity for mistakes/oversights, but I've also been thinking about accessibility and repetitive strain injuries. In addition to optional "you've been playing long enough" reminders, reducing the number of clicks needed to play could make the game healthier/easier to engage with for some people
Here's the (very late)January progress update for my fossil-diggy-uppy-game Fossil Sweeper. This time, some dig site presentation work, some accessibility thoughts, and a little more chat integration
https://www.patreon.com/posts/121163647
https://www.patreon.com/posts/121163647
And as always, here's the accompanying video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YhVjhfl00k
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YhVjhfl00k
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Recessed dig sites & automatic flagging - Fossil Sweeper Progress Update XXXII
Small QOL thing I've been working on is changing the behaviour of tile colliders. I now scale up on mouse over, which means that you need to move further to move off the current tile, and when digging, I hold the collider in its current position until you move off it so that the tile behind doesn't get automatically selected.
I never felt missclicks were a thing that happened frequently, but they did happen from time to time, and it's nice to have a way of addressing that little friction point
In addition to working on the latest (and now late) devlog video, I've added some extra camera movement when starting dig sites that shows off the environment a bit more.I'd like to make it a little more elaborate, but it's passable, and that's good enough! (I can improve it later if I have time)
I also did a rough concept painting/sketch for misc fossils and fancy rocks last night
Running a bit late, but here's the February progress update for my fossil-diggy-uppy-game Fossil Sweeper. This time, some UI/UX imrpovements
https://www.patreon.com/posts/123585359
https://www.patreon.com/posts/123585359
And, as always, here's the accompanying video. In addition to covering January/February work, this one also looks back on development across 2024 as a whole https://youtube.com/watch?v=6m7wTKxROVI
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Year 3 recap & UI/UX improvements - Fossil Sweeper Progress Update XXXIII
Here's the March progress update for my fossil-diggy-uppy-game Fossil Sweeper. This time, camera transitions, and a bunch of misc Map phase work
https://www.patreon.com/posts/124966399
https://www.patreon.com/posts/124966399
And, as always, here's the accompanying video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p132jLQWoNQ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p132jLQWoNQ
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Transition animations & Map phase work - Fossil Sweeper Progress Update XXXIV
Spent some time today reworking local travel lines to recursively bisect a direct path to the destination and offset based on perlin weight rather than just wandering along the lowest noise path. The result still gives winding paths, but less circuitous ones that I can more easily limit the length of. Here's a before and after.
I brought the layout icon for the dig site into the "loading" screen as a map inset at the local travel line's destination.
Here's the April progress update for my fossil-diggy-uppy-game, Fossil Sweeper. This time, some map presentation work, refactoring local travel lines, and optimising dig save data
https://www.patreon.com/posts/127788707
https://www.patreon.com/posts/127788707
And as always, here's the accompanying video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LJF6MLnMdo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LJF6MLnMdo
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Transition animations & Map phase work - Fossil Sweeper Progress Update XXXV
Here's the May progress update for my fossil-diggy-uppy game, Fossil Sweeper. Over the past month or so, I've wrapped up the Dig save data refactor I mentioned in the last post, and I've made some headway on updating the Map phase's globe
https://www.patreon.com/posts/130239365
https://www.patreon.com/posts/130239365
And as always, here's the accompanying video
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC9cXsVFhZ8
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Expanding the globe - Fossil Sweeper Progress Update XXXVI
Spent some time today updating map markers to remain visible/clickable after they pan out of view
I remembered bumping into this ages ago, but hadn't made notes on what the problem was - when triangulating meshes on export with the modified DAE exporter I'm using, the vertex order for shape key data can get out of sync - they're all still in the right place, but pairs of triangles can end up rotated. Triangulate manually before exporting sorts things out - guess I've got another tweak to make to the exporter when I've got some spare time!
Here's the May progress update for my fossil-diggy-uppy game, Fossil Sweeper. Over the past month or so, I've continued working on the Map phase's globe, refining workflows, and doing some QOL/UX improvements
https://www.patreon.com/posts/132405951
https://www.patreon.com/posts/132405951
And as always, here's the accompanying video
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItNQinjXyPE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItNQinjXyPE
