Progress and Roadblocks

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Hello again

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Been really busy with life stuff, but still messing with godot. Found a shader for color replacement, so now I can have three shades of replacement. Useful for team colors and stuff.

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it has ninepaTCHIUNG AHHH My GUIs are gonna look so good

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I just downloaded Godot (and found some Super Star Saga sprites). It’s pretty cool. There’s no sprite editor, but it feels a lot more powerful than game maker so far, and has keyframe animation and rigid bodies and stuff.

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Recently participated in a game jam. Got started pretty late, but I got all the base functionality I wanted. A nice Anon made art for me, plus brood war assets were the right resolution. https://beeeswith3es.itch.io/mechjam

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Trying to get back into things after a while away. Thought this would be fun.

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I made a thing

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More work. Been slow, having been busy graduating from college. Officially unemployed and seeking, whoo.

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Been a while. Working on engine stuff to make it smoother.

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Check list

Spring break is coming up, and you know what that means!

Stay inside with a lot of caffiene and do work, alone, so by the end of it all you can feel accomplished and proud of yourself.

Been taking a break from game stuff and mostly relaxing/half-assing school work, and it's about time to jump back on the dev train. Gonna start a new build of the platformer, this time with a better plan. Aaaand here it is:

-Implement the sprite animations using a single atlas that's split up at initialization (as opposed to loading in 40-some sprites every time I want to change anything)

-Tweak the way collisions work so that the player reacts differently when it hits its head as opposed to landing on its feet

-Implement the four enemies: fire-plushie (which may need renaming, since my artist isn't into making it look like a doll), armor-slug, bully-bull and cybee, each with their own AI. Might need to rename all of them, since its sort of silly in general...

-Differentiate ability pickups which last forever vs fade away after a sec (need a pedestal setpiece to put them on)

-Remember to put in falling floors this time, how did I forget

-Simplify the code for pushing out of geometry, just up and to the right. Screw figuring out a good direction. Better yet, kill 'em. Just kill the player. They deserve it for running into corners funny.

-Hash out the control object? This is more difficult, since I haven't put enough thought into the editor. I don't know if it's better proactice to have a few specific controls for each room, with one persistent generic that keeps track of data between them, or just one master. I think the former is more within my realm of comfortable ability.

-Work on editor planning when I'm not too tired to do math. Need to get the tiled view working, and for that I need to decide on a good view, and the proportions for the gui which requires simple algebra which is a lot easier when you've eaten recently.

-Have eaten recently. Also water. Maybe some wine.

-Tweak movement more. Need to make executive decisions on exact jump distance/jump heights, and fix the way short-jumping works. Current implementation is *trigger warning* retarded.

-Fix animations, especially for jump. Circé wants her assets to look nice in the game, I guess I ought to oblige.

-Make cash money so I can hire someone to do all this tedious programming for me so I can just design and nopt worry about the hard part.

Okay, so that's a pretty good start to that list. In addition, there's a playable build posted on AGDG's demo day itch.io, linked below with my game linked below that. A lot of cool games on there, I was happy to be a part of it, go check the games out! If you have an account, be sure to leave comments. Someone commented on mine and it made me feel really good.

http://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day

http://beeeswith3es.itch.io/geared-up-a-placeholder-title

Have a good day!

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Well, I think that's enough for one night. And morning. All powerups in, conveyers, spikes, fans, flippy dealies and half tiles in. Everything in need of fine tuning.

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Got pickups working, had some fun with the old one ejecting out of you. Green gives you slide, yellow a sort of double jump. The other two are a shield and a fireball, yet to be implemented. The pickups probably shouldn't fly so far; it'd suck if the one you wanted flew off the map Edit: Noticed the background wasn't tiling correctly. I fixed it, and tested the airdash some more. It's super dependent on how early you hit it, not sure how I feel about it.

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Small update: Going back and cleaning up some of the tangle with the player's handling. The code was getting really nasty. Finally put in variable jump height and changed his acceleration a bit. If there was a way to post exe's, I would, since there's more to feel here than there is to see.

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Not related to previous game, but here's a simple paint program I did up for my gwafects class in java.

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Here's some gifs of progress on a platformer I'm working on with a friend. All art that isn't placeholder is by her, and any animation that looks nasty is my fault on the implementation side. I'd post a tumblr if she had one, but you'll see more from her here. I've got 4 enemies working with their basic AI, and a few set pieces, like spikes fans and conveyers, too. Gifs of some of those things will have to come later when I find out why they aren't uploading.

todo: Ladders and flippy platforms, enemy deaths, enemies drop powerups, powerups working.

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A quick gif of the editor for a platformer I'm working on (gifs of that upcoming, once I get the colors to a place tumblr will accept them >_>)