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not only computationally but also unaffordable as a gameplay mechanic depending on your game! Imagine trying to play Mario 64 with realistic shadows, and then remember they gave him the underfoot shadow to help players tell where in space he was. Even Mario Odyssey puts them straight down!

There's very few exceptions where colored outlines don't work universally better than stark black ones haha

You ever make yourself a schedule with daily tasks and go yes, I am starting and finishing this task today! And then that task ends up taking you four days instead?

That is me today.

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Also I'd like to note I saw that Ookami style outline render tech! Good work on it! My wife would like to add they like it's a nice dark brown and not straight black

Aw shit we're gonna need a bigger tank

Hell yeah, champion's beverage of choice

hang in there sister

solid plan, godspeed

visually, open areas suffer from the art style; the plain textures don't do much to excite the eye.

Gameplay wise, tight corridors didn't work as well as open spaces in Megaman Legends according to my memory.

So you're definitely going to have to find a balance

this used to be true, but nowadays, No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk 2077 would like to have a word. We live in different times. Not that I am endorsing the release of an unfinished product. We just have a significantly wider grey area on the topic now.

Watching this makes me feel like i am looking at what axiom verge would look like if it was 3d. Very strong vibe.

we love him
how many can you ship by next monday

He's just a little guy. Just a small little guy. 🤏🐸✨

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he hides so skillfully

oh hey i remember giving a demo/beta of this a test go a while back, coming along nicely

If the entire water is just a spherical collision shape, do you have plans/ways to make holes in the planet that go below water level but don't count as underwater?

I look forward to seeing more of them!

So if I'm intuiting correctly, you raycast through the water to find the point of the shape you're colliding with, and check that against the water height?

Is the water its own arbitrary shape or is it just below a certain depth it counts as water?

cute work!

this is some Macross nonsense and I am here for it

I'm curious, how do you detect when you're in shallow water?

That's a difficult task, especially in a medium that is largely used for escapism. Nevertheless, one must try

especially if it's already out as early access lmao

I made this as a visual aid for what it's like to develop games:

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that certainly is a strong design! I'm rooting for you to get all the fanart you can handle and more, haha

Somehow giving me strong N64 era Castlevania ibes - which is to say, the vibes are immaculate 👌

Can't wait to see how you build complexity on these mechanics, it already looks great!

What do you do when life stuff like work gets in the way of your game dev? Whether because it takes up your time or just tires you out too much to be able to work on your project?

Work week got kinda busy though, whatcha gonna do. At least I am done with what I think are the more tedious UI elements (barring one particular example) so there's not TOO much left to do on this topic.

After that it's on to finishing sound implementation!

Been kind of a busy day so I don't have much to report; just a couple more mouse interaction only features that I added keyboard and controller support to. Was supposed to have these done before tomorrow.

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