VR dev running @hissingbell
Making YoFengYo, a VR arcade game where you fly a remote controlled ship around in a giant cage that's infinitely tall
I'll mostly be doing devlog/wip type posts on here
| YoFengYo Steam Page | https://store.steampowered.com/app/2439340/YoFengYo/ |
| YoFengYo Gameplay Trailer | https://youtu.be/PN5pPcj2Yr8 |
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@hissingbell/116364625017161414
YoFengYo has a steam page now, and a little gameplay trailer. Progress! It's a pretty unique VR game; feels a little bit like flying a kite, believe it or not. Please have a look and wishlist it.
Made a new animation system to work with unreal poseable meshes and now the "world scrubber" has a full redesign along with procedural sleep, wake, and climb animations. Sound FX work next week, along with multiplayer stuff.
Started running into Quest 2 perf limit, had to rethink game design, which provided a lot of clarity and now I'm happier with the direction of things.
Also now have this line of sight material swap so the player doesn't lose sight of their Feng ship.
it's been sound production for the last month. more familiarity with Bitwig, but unnerving to "leave" the actual game for so long.
worked on "FengCam" (ship POV) material today (still not ready to include sound in the videos quite yet)
Added the "FengCam" which gives you a little ship POV screen under your controls, very helpful for double-checking your Feng's alignment. Also have the new "dagger" obstacle type seen here hitting the Feng ship.
phew. Got my new playlist system running for building spawn patterns. This is essentially how I will do level design, with lots of procedural variation. Seems we've got ourselves a video game here...
While trying to get more organized I wound up completely reworking my procedural animation approach. So it goes. This blog post by Charles Boury is a great motivator anyway.
https://bsky.app/profile/charlesboury.fr/post/3l6ymjnrxsc2y
One step closer to good enough.
Decided to switch gears and do another pass on the motion control UI today. My system uses a single axis for yaw and pitch control and I really like how simple it is while still allowing very fine-grain adjustments, suits the arcade feel I'm going for.