ZanderK

I worked on the same stuff today as yesterday. I bunch of little bug fixing and polish related to the logic and positioning of picking things up, putting them in your hand, and showing HUD tips on what keys to press. Two days. That's 1/15th of a month. This is why games take forever... #IndieDev

DevNote 3: did a bunch of polishing of the physicalized inventory so it wasn't so janky, with some actual controls on what can go in your backpack vs your hand. #IndieDev

Maybe we can call these little logs "dev notes" or something. Maybe number them. Yesterdays can be devnote 1, today's pointless one will be 2.

Been there so many times... This is why when I have something mildly complex to implement, I let it go and think through it for a bit to see if my little brain can conjure up a better way to do it.

I accomplished essentially nothing today, too busy of a day. Lots of unexpected but solvable problems. I did THINK about what I would work on next though... That's gotta be the next best thing. #IndieDev

I had some materials z-fighting in my generated floors, I ended up just spawning them with a tiny position variance on the y axis so that one would become dominant

I recently made changes to how inventories work.

Today I worked out a bunch of the wonderful bugs that come with networking a physicalized inventory system in a drop-in/out game. I also inadvertently discovered & fixed some old bug with items going into your hand weird. #indiedev #gamedev #devlog

I've been advised I should keep some sort of devlog to track the little step progress, mainly for myself, but why not make it public for the chance at some eyes on the project.

On the fourth version of enemy AI. Who knew it could be so complicated?

Finally getting around to those weird dungeon styles I've been trying to achieve #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

Sometimes I feel like I get done several days worth of work in a morning, and other times I feel like I haven't gotten anywhere all week. #indiedev #gamedev

I love pondering how many things aren't finished #indiedev #gamedev

It's all pool. All bad lighting and all pool.

An interior view of the poolrooms

Nothing's here but us. Right? #indiegames #indiedev #gaming #poolrooms #liminal #liminalspace

A first-person view of a poolrooms-like area.

Hop the tables if you have to. Just don't touch the water. #indiegames #gaming

Give me a "cool artifact" to turn into some sort of gameplay item. #indiedev #gamedev

Thanks!

So much wall, so little door...
#ScreenshotSaturday #IndieGames

Made decent progress tonight, now you can't barricade enemies from a room by knocking a pot in front of the door. #indiedev #gamedev

The interior of a sci-fi vessel.

Finishing up the vessel's interior.. eight months later #screenshotsaturday #indiegames #gamedev

If there's a name for fantasy-sci-fi aesthetic, I should probably find out what it is.

One of my favorite parts of #indiedev is spending a few hours fixing something I spent a few hours last month fixing.

#gamedev #proceduralgeneration #bugfixing

Agonizing over having to incorporate voice and text chat in the pre-game lobby until I remembered my game is drop-in drop-out and I don't even need a pre-game lobby #indiedev #gamedev

When your game's working but it's not working great, but it's at least working, and you start converting a bunch of assets/scripts to a way better flow but it's taking a bit and in the meantime your game is completely broken and you keep having to remind yourself you ARE making progress

When you're making your single-layer dungeon generator have to now accommodate multiple floors, and you're spending a week trying to tell a wall it can't be a door before there is even a wall there, some exciting music can instill motivation where all was lost

#indiedev #gamedev

Multi-story dungeon is going well. Stairways themselves had to take a backseat until I fleshed out this much.

#indiedev #gamedev #proceduralgeneration

Optimization... When I'm optimizing I feel like I get stuck in that one gif from Malcolm in the Middle of the dad trying to change a lightbulb ending up doing car maintenance
#indiedev #gamedev

The juggling act of stairs looking right and being easy to program into the existing grid system. 45 degree stairs just aint gonna cut it...
#indiedev #gamedev

My dungeons, to this point, have all been single-story. But with a playtest and demo in the coming weeks, it's time to go multi-story. How hard can it be... #indiedev

Sorry that sounds like I'm saying kys, what I mean is may your mind and body be at ease in your efforts