Sam

Today, we ran our first live test of Calyros - our crafting-focused, Ancient Greek themed MMO.

Windows, Mac and Steam OS all working well across the network.

Now the focus moves to reintroducing environment assets 😁

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I’m preparing a first build of my MMO and on a whim I thought “maybe it’ll build for steam deck?” 🎮

It does 😏

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Is discord actually going to start requiring ID checks? Or do we think they’ll walk this back?

Also, where are people gonna go instead? For all the problems with discord, people like it and are used to it. Getting users to join your anonymous group chat is gonna be way harder now

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It’s been a while since I posted an update about my online RPG, Calyros

But, today I got the game servers up and running. Plugged into the router in my living room, like the old days

Probably a few weeks away from a playable version, but still very exciting

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The advice to build something small instead of your dream game for your first project it great, it’s just that building something you’re not excited about is haaarrrrddd

Wild how so many people are enthusiastic about building a technology specifically designed to send you to the poor house

I’ll look into that, thanks!

Thanks, I’ll check that out! Initially I rendered thousands of leaves in a multi mesh which was beautiful but had terrible performance haha

Got sidetracked and spent a day reworking trees in Calyros. Now I have unlimited procedurally generated and animated trees! I want to work on the foliage a bit more, but it's pretty good, I think!

Any suggestions?

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The only feature JetBrains has added for a while that I’ve really loved is the many islands theme in EAP. They released the version without the theme 😢

…example. I can’t draw at all, I don’t have a visual imagination. But I can create “architecture-style” buildings with maths and then style them with textures and effects.

I think art comes in many forms and we need to change the conversation from can/can’t to “what can *you* do?”

I don’t think we should be using generative AI and we’re already seeing a negative response to its use.

Some people are gifted though and that doesn’t detract from the hard work they’ve put in the hone their craft.

I think we need to encourage people to find the art that works for them. For…

Any game devs had this feeling? Theres probably a name for it in German.

My games not good, it’s not finished, it’s not even remotely like the final product, but it “feels” like what it’s supposed to for the first time. What’s that called?

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That’s very nice of you to say! It’s linear at the moment, I might prefer something a little faster with a fade in or something

Added doors to Calyros, animated and everything!

Okay, the animation is pretty terrible, but it's a good start given that the objects themselves are all procedurally generated

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Thanks, that’s the impression I get. That, and lots of tutorials being “copy what I do, see, get it?”

Yeah, when I started learning, I did HTML first which, call it coding or not, felt like producing something and had lots of rewards

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For game devs who don’t/didn’t know how to code, what are/were your biggest hurdles?

I came to gamedev from software dev so took writing code for granted but I realise game devs come from lots of disciplines.

Curious to know about peoples experiences?

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This feels very original dungeon keeper and I love it

It’s the Skyrim effect, I guess. Skyrim was mass appeal (and still enjoyable) but it took out a lot of the fun stuff from morrowind and oblivion

I have zero experience with this phase of gamedev, and therefore have something to say!

Make sure keys are included in the email. Better uptake if they can go and check a thing out without having to engage you first

Calyros DevLog #10 - Walls, doors, windows and floors! | SamMakesCode Blog Having recently completed some project restructuring that wouldn't have been very fun to show off in a dev log, I was really excited to get back to building visual things! If you didn't catch my previ...

Here’s the latest calyros devlog!

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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 😬