Yesterday, I determined I had all the pieces of the prototype puzzle, I just had to put them together. So, what are the easy-to-find edge pieces I need to place so the rest of the puzzle is manageable? This week, I plan to: * Build the prototype map (with elevation); * Implement
Let’s just forget about the unannounced, unplanned week off posting I just took. Oh, you’re not going to forget about it. Fine. Life, as always, is a pot of simmering water, ever threatening to bubble over force us to react. The myriad of bubbles in this case took
Between the time I wrote Monday’s to-do list and the time it was posted, I created the new flying enemy archetype. Most of the code was just extended from the base enemy, I just had to: * have flying enemies ignore elevation; * code a swooping pattern that homed in on
Update: the flying enemy archetype is done! That felt great to do. It’s a new week, a new opportunity to get stuff done and march ever onwards towards Beatdown in the Holler’s release. Where will that march take me this week? Ideally, I’ll pound my feet through:
This is likely going to be shorter than most weekend devlogs. My Saturday was spent traveling and most of my time went with it. I don’t regret the trip, it was necessary and mostly relaxing, but it was a momentum-breaker. I need my free time today to get back
I said I’d work on Zel’s sprite sheet this week and that’s precisely what I did. I’m not finished, but check this out: 0:00 /0:05 1× Yeah, that’s a walk cycle. I actually have one for all four cardinal directions (up, down, and
I’m back to work today so this week’s to-do list has been pared a bit. I still have a big-ish task set for this weekend, though: I’d count the following seven days a success if I could: * Finish Zel’s sprite sheet and * Implement a third enemy
First, some clarification. Just Beneath the Holler (JBtH) is the full top-down, 2D Zelda-like game I’m creating. It’ll be a few years before that sees the light of day. In the meantime, I’m making Beatdown in the Holler (BDitH), which is a combat-only, Link to the Past
One day, I will be able to accurately estimate what I can get done in a week. Monday was not that day. Did you know you can assign different elevations to specific tiles using Godot’s TileMap system? I didn’t until early Monday morning. It took some fiddling around
Another “storm of the century” forced me inside the last time I could fully devote a week to game development. This time, the weather is slated to be much more reasonable, but the goal remains the same: knock a lot off my to-do list. What is that to-do list, you
Do you want to talk about what I was able to accomplish this week? Do you want to that? Do you really want to do that? Fine. Let’s do that. I managed to hydrate and rest, so that’s cool. And I felt pretty good most of the week.
Hey, sooo, thanks for checking in on me, I know you’re excited to see how I’m doing, see what all I’ve accomplished since Monday, that’s truly kind of you and I appreciate it, yes, I’m feeling much better after prioritizing rest, oh, how much did
MondayMapOut
I’m still sick: technically, I’m more mucus than man at this point. However, breaking the chain isn’t on my to-do list for this week. The objectives that are on my to-do list, however, are: * Fix the reelshot elevation issue; * Force myself to complete concept art for Zel;
SundayShowOut
I’m fortunate that I got so much accomplished at the beginning of the week, because I absolutely did not do anything from Wednesday on. What I initially thought was a general “blah” feeling (hello, depression!) was actually the onset of a cold. I’ve spent the past three days
ThursdayTurnOut
This week has been “feast or famine” in terms of what I’ve gotten done: I started the week by knocking out most of my coding objectives (the reelshot still ignores elevation) but slowed down once my work duties started picking up again. I didn’t stop, mind you, as
MondayMapOut
I know, I know, one of my goals for this week was to add grapple posts to the Place Just Beneath but I figured, hey, the computer’s already open, I should just fire up Godot and see if I can hammer that out quickly. After fixing a few distance
SundayShowOut
Being iced into the house for most of the week is certainly a boon to productivity, and I made the most of that time to make solid progress on Just Beneath the Holler’s prototype. My objectives for this week were simple, though not easy: make a new tileset, use
ThursdayTurnOut
It’s amazing what a week off of work will allow one to accomplish. I used last week’s terrain sketch and mood scene to create an initial tileset for the Place Just Beneath. By “initial,” I don’t mean “first tileset I made for Just Beneath the Holler,” I
MondayMapOut
It’s Sunday at 5:30 AM and we’re officially iced in. The roads, wet with the slushy mixture of ice, sleet, and rain which intermittently fell all day yesterday, are now coated in the treacherous slickness brought forth by intensifying sleet and plunging temperatures. We’re in this
SundayShowOut
Last week, I talked about returning to the routine of teaching, implying that routine would carry through the entire semester. Of course, I hadn’t considered the week’s weather outlook, particularly the impending ice storm predicted for the week’s end. It’s currently 30°F (–1.1°C
ThursdayTurnOut
I said I would work on a tileset for the Place Just Beneath, and that’s exactly what I did. I don’t have a whole lot to show for it at this point, just this: I’m drawing and coloring this scene to determine which specific tiles I’ll
MondayMapOut
First: I finally, honestly, really completed a looping track for “Silver and Gossamer”: Silver and Gossamer - Chiptune0:00/76.3297921× I promised I would try, and that’s exactly what I did. There’s still a few notes that feel off, but being done is better than being perfect.
SundayShowOut
This past week was my first “normal” week back, with a regular class and duty schedule. We had our normal beginning-of-year meetings, and I volunteered as a server for our first community dinner of the semester, so it would have been easy for me to write off this week and
ThursdayTurnOut
This week has been a “I solved a problem and, in doing so, created fifteen more” week. Was I able to get an enemy to teleport with Zel? Yes, and all I had to do was: * add a test enemy to the level; * graph out where the enemy should go