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(REMINDER: Download keys will be sent out Monday, May 4th. If you want to playtest the Beatdown in the Hollerprototype, either subscribe or email me at pete@petemakesgames.com.) Now the real work begins. Speaking only for myself, there is no true “maintenance” when it comes to personal growth: I’
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I’m still riding the high of having a completed prototype and, as fate would design, I now have some extra time in the mornings to capitalize on that momentum. Facilities issues are forcing us into virtual instruction until Spring Break and that gives me an extra two-plus hours every
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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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;
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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
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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
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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.
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I know I said that creating a simple UI was the most pressing coding concern for this week. However, something even more pressing came to me during my morning “coffee and meditation” time: How do I handle enemies in an infinitely-scrolling level? When I implemented the endless level in Just
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Yesterday, I reckoned that one of my goals for this week was to determine which coding objectives I should tackle next week. I slept on it, opened up Trello, and did this: My goal is to complete and release a “combat prototype” by Monday, May 4th. The combat needs to