KoboGames

That's all for this week! Thanks for checking in as usual. A reminder that you can also find me on telegram at: t.me/fRvI_ATDHDhk...

Maph

Maph

And did some math

Slash effect

So instead of finishing the launch, I made my first VFX

Material maker example

I decided to make a hit effect, and in doing so I found www.materialmaker.org . This is a program similar to Blender nodes used to make materials and images specifically for Godot. I of course have gotten sucked into playing with it. Here's a random example.

I was working on getting that setup and working today, but then I got distracted by another neat thing... I wanted to make the launch button cool ~ And these moments of hyperfixation are both why I want to make stuff, but also why I always seem off task. I'm trying to embrace them for this though.

Simple UI

Since I wanted to get a bit of Godot work ready, Orbo was imported into there and I created a simple UI.

2 ball

Orbo

EyeOrbo

This ball was used for two days learning a bunch about blender shading. I ended up with a subsurface scattered double orb, a neat translucency effect, and a creepy eyeball. I haven't gotten it properly in Godot yet but I moved the model to there.

Yay me

Then I made a ball.

It's a squirrel, no a ferret, no an otter.... it's an ARBITRARY MUSTALID!

It's a squirrel, no a ferret, no an otter.... it's an ARBITRARY MUSTALID!

A lot of it comes back to that humanoid. Here's where I called it with that project for now. I found out I have a lot of fun making mustelid inspired critters, so they may end up showing up a lot!

A number of friends have heard my fevered ramblings about where I wanna take Kobogame now. I won't spoil it here, at least not yet, but I'm now excited for not just the game, but the world, the characters, and my story!

Then over the next several days I just played with the sculpting tools and it slowly formed. During this time I kept having random dreams about where to take the story of my game as well!

Chonker

Chonker

I found the inflate tool ~

A human.

This misshaped mess is what my sick brain decided was good. I learnt a bit about grid filling and modifiers, but largely the goal was just to get two arms, two legs, and a mouth. It looks just like us.

The next thing I did was randomly get deeply sucked into an idea I dreamt in one of my sick nights. For whatever reason I dreamt all night about sculpting in it, so I woke up and decided I was going to do so. So I created a very simple 3d model to start.

So the first thing I did this week was get terribly sick on Saturday... yeah, I started coming down with it Friday night. Remember when I said I was getting the shakes from hunger? Nah I was getting sick. I still did some neat stuff, but I didn't continue the movement, and I took it a bit easy.

It's Friday!

Wait it actually exists?!

I'm a bit disappointed but I'm going to put this here again which was what I had a month ago. It lets me see for myself that progress is being made. Thanks again for checking in, and have a great weekend.

Sadly I couldn't finish ironing it out before my self-imposed deadline so this is the current state of KoboGame. It's so close to working, but I'm struggling a bit with the facing direction, and not having the actions clash.

I had a lot of fun working on this and trying to get it right. We had some silliness like my jump impulse being a magnitude too large (Read Kobold flew into the air the first time I tried to jump, and wouldn't reach the ground until I got bored). I also didn't clear my buffer properly seen here.

Dust clouds from walking!

We have cute little dust clouds now! I can probably refine them, but again later.

I'm doing it in a slightly more complicated way than needed so that I can program my enemies to simply try to input actions much like the player. Complexity now for simplicity later.

This week was me learning how particle effects work, and getting my code to cause the character to move. I was so close to the latter working properly.

I need to stop and write this as I need food. I'm starting to get the shakes a bit. I really wanted to get it working well for this! Alas...

KOBO

Thanks for checking in this week. Next week I hope I can really show the bulk of what I have been working on. Until then!

Code snippets

Code snippets

Code snippets

Most of the week was spent designing my code in a way to allow easy changes, reuse of methods, and error handling. Here's a couple code snippets of what I've done. All these print() functions will be moved into a log component when I get to testing with others.

And finally I have started working on the code and getting him moving in Godot. I have a decent chunk of my movement code done, but not enough to show. Here's a couple teasers though.

Stick

Club

Otherwise I have created Kobo's (name pending) first weapon! He'll be going clubbing soon.

You know this is an odd feeling. This is the first time I have ever felt too excited to sleep because I wanted to go to work! I had a giddy moment on Wednesday night thinking about all the stuff I wanted to do.