JoeHazelnut

The last time I used Godot was Version 3.something. A lot has been improved since then. I just implemented a prototype version of beaming cows and aliens back up to the mothership using tweens, and man, tweens are so much more userfriendly now than back then....
#GodotEngine #gamedev

Me reading Godot Docs:

Read: „InputEvent is... InputMap...“. Click on InputMap Link: „InputMap is… using InputEventActions...“. Click on InputEventAction Link: „Contains a generic action…. in Node._input()...“. Click on Node._input() Link: „...“

And down I go another rabbit hole....

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not really I worked through the godot-docs and the "your first 2d game" part to get to know the desing ideas and now I am just trying to implement a sokoban style game...
I started just after the new release (4.6) so I can not say anything about compatibility issues, because I am all 4.6

Did check out Godot the last couple of days and man I must say I am pretty impressed....

#GodotEngine #gamedev

Overworked suggestion feature. Improvements:
Checks into the underlying directory are made so that the suggestions are not wrong even if one deletes a file through a file explorer.
The editor recognizes if some changes have been made and were not saved yet or if no file is linked to the canvas.

Have been working on this quality of life feature that suggests level files in the level directory when I type into the load bar. It's just a first prototype implementation, but it works for now!

#gamedev #indiedev #raylib

After a very busy december, it feels great to be working on the sokoban game again in the new year. I'm about to finish what is probably the hundredth revamp of the level editor, however this iteration feels pretty solid! It also looks better!
#gamedev #raylib

I need to stop putting so much time into unnecessary features, like this one, where you can now resize the window and the game will try to find the next best 16:9 ratio to cleanly render inside that window size.

#indiedev #gamedev #raylib #odin

made some progress on the ui-side of life...

that being said, implementing settings for a game is a ton of work!

#gamedev #raylib #odin

“I don't need raygui, how hard can it be to make UI elements?”

Answer: Much more work than I thought! Slider elements in particular are somehow complicated! Checkboxes not so much...

#gamedev #raylib #odin

Still struggling coming up with good levels!

Feels like I can only create a decent level if it serves a specific purpose or teaches the player something. Otherwise, all the levels just feel arbitrary and I can't really say if they are any good...

#gamedev #puzzlegame #sokoban

Disco Snake by Joe Hazelnut Small snake game, with an additional color change mechanic. Really just a programming exercise!

Updated the first game I did to check out odin and raylib. This whole thing really is just a programming exercise and really crappy but it is playable on itch and I am happy I got it to work as a web build.
joehazelnut.itch.io/disco-snake

#hobbydev #programming #odinlang #raylib

I have implemented all that I wanted for the Sokoban Raylib clone and could straight up design levels now, but it is also the first time that I have a holistic overview of the project as a whole, and immediately the urge for refactoring and restructuring the codebase bubbles up inside of me.

Team Cherry making a big countdown to announce that Silksong is canceled would be the most hilarious thing ever! I would genuinely love it!

Jokes aside, I really liked Hollow Knight and can't wait for Silksong!

Today I reworked the scene layer so that objects that are purely for decoration do not snap to the grid. I can also select one of 5 different backgrounds (just one color for now).

#sokoban #hobbydev #raylib #odin

Today I added some buttons to tweak the camera in the editor so that one can focus the level into the center (or not if that is what I want to do) and to zoom in on smaller levels.

#gamedev #hobbydev #raylib #odin

Sokoban games need an undo feature! So I implemented one that can restore the last 10 actions the player did.

#gamedev #hobbydev #raylib #odin

Often, after building a level, I realize that it is off by one tile, which previously meant that I had to basically redo it because my sh... editor could not select and move tiles.

I am glad this is now a thing of the past!

#gamedev #indiedev #raylib #odin

A level a day keeps the doctor away!
#gamedev #indiedev #raylib #odin

So here is a piece of wisdom that i came up with and which sums up what I learned today:

"Designing a good puzzle is often a real hustle!"

It even rimes, so it must be true!

Today was the day that I would build a bunch of levels for the Sokoban clone. After 3 hours I only had one relatively bad and half-finished blueprint. Made me realize how wrong I was in considering programming to be the hard part of gamedev and that design goes by itself. #gamedev #raylib #odin

Had this idea for the sokoban clone that made it necessary to refactor a lot of gameplay code. It took a long time but was worth it. Not only is the new system much cleaner and more expandable, but it also saved me around 1000 lines of code. #gamedev #indiedev #odin #raylib

Working on a sokoban-clone and took some time building a small level-editor. I kept it simple:
- place tiles on 2 different layers
- save/ load to/from .json
- swap between playable level and editor

Despite the minimalism, it already makes the process of building levels mush faster and enjoyable.

I don't know much about music, but these 4 bad boys in LMMS are really fun to play around with. I'll just keep turning some wheels with strange names until a somewhat passable chiptune comes out... fingers crossed...

still working on game 2, learning a lot about odin lang... also worked on the pixel art a little....

sorry for the bad art, but the animation system works!

Parallax Background and Title Screen done. Now gonna start implementing some gameplay.

Decided that "game.after.game" challenge 2 in Odin and Raylib is going to be a Ninja-themed endless runner. Nothing too special, just jumping, dodging, collecting coins and throwing some good old shuriken. Also, gonna use pixel art, because I am not capable of anything else.

Updated game 1 "disco snake" to correctly deallocate some sound ressources and also made a linux build, that runs on Ubuntu/Debian.

gameaftergame.itch.io/disco-snake

I am also doing some small Raylib tests for the second game, on which I will soon start working.

Challanged myself to learn game-programming with odin and raylib by doing "game.after.game". Finished game 1: "Disco Snake". Nothing special, just a programming exercise really.

gameaftergame.itch.io/disco-snake