Gamedev blog in need of a better title.

Developing  a danmaku shooting game using the Godot Engine.

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Been forever since last post. What's new:

-Player bullets look a bit different and they create sparks when they hit stuff instead of just vanishing like before. Also enemies flash when they're hit. -Enemy bullets have graphics, and there are a few different types instead of everyone shooting the same pink mspaint ball. -Point pickups have graphics. -Explosions have graphics. This gave me a bit of a headache because I needed two types of explosion to differentiate when an enemy just dies normally and explodes from when it dies to a special shot and explodes harder, damaging nearby things in the process. Hopefully you can tell which is which just by looking. Also the explosions take a bit longer to activate so chain reactions propagate slower as intended, compared to the previous videos where it was practically instant. -New enemy type, it's the one at 0:17 that looks like a square cutout of the mid section of the big ship. Doesn't have graphics yet :( -A bunch of tweaks to enemy behavior and stuff.

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New enemies are in:

Suicide drones follow you around and try to ram you.

Tanks move in pre-programmed paths while shooting.

Dropships spawn other enemy types, probably just tanks.

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Added graphics for the 2 enemy types currently in the game. I have another 3 modeled but they’re not programmed yet, should be coming soon.

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New since last progress:

-When you get hit you actually explode and become invincible for a while so you can't eat 3 bullets in a row and game over all at once like last build. -Added bombs, clears screen of bullets, damages everything and makes you invincible for a while. -Scoring is in, it's so broken that you can see me counterstop it in this less than 40 seconds long video. -Placeholder HUD added with lives/bombs/score/combo_multipler/etc. Cannon cooldown also got a meter indicator next to the ship.

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New video of the current build with most of the player ship graphics in.

Also new is the ability to damage enemies with the exhaust flame from firing the cannon.

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Messing with explosions in Blender. I’m gonna need a bunch of these.

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One flying cannon shell coming up.

Still have a lot to learn about shaders and lighting but I think this is looking ok for now.

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Turned out pretty cool I guess. Now, I’m pretty clueless about texturing, and haven’t even decided on a color scheme yet. This is going to take a while.

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3-view of the player ship. Will try to turn this into a 3d model tomorrow as the idea is to use pre-rendered 3d graphics.

Only problem is I have to learn 3d first.

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Video of the current prototype, mostly showing off the newly added secondary weapon, all graphics are placeholders.

-Secondary weapon makes things explode when you last hit with it. -Runs on a cooldown. Cooldown reduced by grazing bullets. -Explosions turn bullets in point pickups, which get vacuumed into your ship and do nothing because there’s no score counter yet. -Explosions damage enemies caught in it and cause more explosions if they die, leading to big, Twinkle Star Sprites style, chain reactions. This should be important for scoring.