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A close-up of a doorway in my game Calyros

A procedurally generated verander in my game Calyros

A procedurally generated building in Calyros

Calyros now has walls, doors, windows and floors - all procedurally generated.

I like procedurally generating stuff in this way, because after building it once, I can can unlimited buildings of different sizes and shapes forever.

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Calyros DevLog #9 - Organising Calyros, a website, Discord and Twitch | SamMakesCode Blog It's been a while since I last updated you all on my progress. There's a few reasons for that and I want to share them with you. A lot of the time I've spent on Calyros in the last few months has been...

Been a while since I posted a proper update about Calyros - but I’ve just uploaded a devlog

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Any game devs that live stream their development? Whats your experience been? Does it slow you down? Does it work for building an audience? #gamedev #gamedesign

Game dev is allowing yourself to not fit the mould vis a vis regular posts, dev logs, YouTube updates and not feeling guilty about that

Your mileage may - and likely will - vary

And that’s cool

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Naturally

This month in 🎮 game dev:

Features aren’t always worth putting in a public devlog

Been working on under-the-hood map gen stuff that nobody will care about and that’s fine. Skipped a dev log or two

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Haven't been speaking much about game dev because I've been labouring over some functionality that's hard to talk about because I don't know how to go about it

Finally got to the point where I understand how this guy's mind works

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Damn, I haven’t got as far as IK in my game yet, but I’m going to need it later 😬

Yeah, I guess there’s a lot of complexity in making something that works “everywhere”, hopefully it can be improved though

I’m not familiar with stencil buffer, what would you do with it?

Game devs who are using Godot specifically, what’s on your Godot feature wish list?

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How labour intensive is maintaining the feed and can you do it on donations? Happy to support that work, because I use this feed often but I’m keen to avoid the small end of the monetising other people’s content wedge

I’m an unpublished, unproven and amateur game dev, but I’d suggest that giving yourself breaks and forgiving yourself when you get “stuck” is the route to producing a good, fun and decent game as an indie dev

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Calyros DevLog #8 - Character actions, pathfinding and animations Since the last update I’ve achieved a few more minor milestones towards “prettifying” the game, but also added some core functionality. I apologise for getting this update to you a week late, I...

Been a little while since I posted here - wanted to take a little break from game dev last week to reset - but here's part 8 of my DevLog

Got some even cooler stuff I've been working on coming down the pipeline

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Nice! I wanted to crowdsource my game name so that people felt a part of it but it was difficult to talk about the game without it having a name

Game developers, how’d you come up with the name for your game?

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Calyros DevLog #7 - Adding terrain, rocks, trees, day-night cycle and theme changes Another week of productivity! In my previous post, I talked about networking and project restructuring. Those things are very important, but they’re not sexy . Adding a bunch of nice visuals is sexy.....

In this devlog, I talk about adding trees, procedurally generated rocks, terrain and a day-night cycles into my game with some pretty pictures!

I'm a solo dev creating a multiplayer RPG set in an Ancient Greek style world. Nice to get to do a bit of game art stuff done

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Calyros DevLog #6 - Chatting, networking and project restructuring | SamMakesCode Blog I managed to have a nice relaxed Christmas and New Year. I didn't get as much time to work on my game as I'd hoped, but it was actually nice to put down the tools and enjoy being offline for a bit. It...

If you didn’t catch my dev log last week, you can check it out here

I’m a solo dev creating a multiplayer RPG

New post with some exciting stuff coming on Friday!

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Capsule takes their first steps! Officially a toddler game 👶🎮

Nice piece of game programming! Client tells the server where it wants to go and server calculates the path finding. It's a bit jittery, definitely some work to do to smooth it out, but it's very cool :D

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A question for all my #ADHD gamers out there - what good representations are there for ADHD in games?

Leslie Knope always springs to mind when I think about characters in TV, just wondering about games?

What kind of things made them a good choice for you? Alignment of vision? Money?

What kind of things makes YOU a good choice for them? Good following? Demonstrable experience?

(Game devs please share)

Are there any game publishers on Bluesky?

What do you look for when trying to find a new project to team up with?

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Calyros DevLog #6 - Chatting, networking and project restructuring | SamMakesCode Blog I managed to have a nice relaxed Christmas and New Year. I didn't get as much time to work on my game as I'd hoped, but it was actually nice to put down the tools and enjoy being offline for a bit. It...

Part 6 of the dev log for my multiplayer RPG game "Calyros" is now up!

If you're seeing *me* for the first time, I'm a solo dev who decided to say "fuck it" to conventional wisdom and make a multiplayer RPG game set in a vaguely Ancient Greek world!

Join me!

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So, I - and my multiplayer RPG, Calyros - are on itch now.

Here’s the link.

You can also see the dev log there instead of going to my blog, if you prefer

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Thanks, that actually means so much 🥲

something a little stricter. sqlite might be a good call. I haven't got as far as instancing yet, but it seems like that's the answer to your duplicate NPCs problem. Wouldn't allow you to have a duplicate in the same palce as the original though, I guess

Yeah, at the moment I use Godot's resources to store data server-side. I've got decent professional experience using transactional databases, so I've been able to structure it fairly well but resources don't allow you to store multiple records per file. I'll probably use json for that but I wanted

I mean creating a list of NPCs, their locations and storing them.

I always come back to “I have to make a tool for it”

I think game dev is different from my life in web dev in that you have to basically build most things yourself

Won £1 on a £1 scratch, my luck is starting to turn

Working on a very similar thing in Godot! Server loads all NPCs and just hands down the ones that are relevant to the player

Doesn’t seem to be a “quick” way to achieve this, does there? 😂