#100daysofgamedev

[shadybugdev]

Day 4!

I spent most of today learning about textures and materials. My marimo ball now looks more like an actual marimo, and one of my test tiles is looking great! I also messed with the camera angle, did some backend code cleanups, fixed some optimization problems, started designing a character for another game, and tried my hand at a simple game design doc template for myself. Feeling very productive!

[shadybugdev]

hey folks! I’m currently doing the #100daysofgamedev challenge over on Twitter and Discord, but I’ll try to crosspost here too! Here’s a screenshot from day 1, when I:

Started setting up an actual design document, and added tasks in HacknPlan

Analyzed another game (Alto’s Adventure) to figure out its terrain generation

Replaced my existing terrain generation with a "tile" approach instead of just connecting random vertices, as i had done previously

Created several terrain tile prototypes, learning a few things about blender in the process

Implemented left-right player movement

Added some lighting and materials to the scene so it's easier to tell what's going on!

I’m really excited to share this new project with all of you, I hope you enjoy what’s to come!

[shadybugdev]

Day 2 of my 100 days!

Rebranded this game a bit! I plan on making lots of little prototypes/experiments and then combining them into a much larger game down the line. Originally I was just going to release this as a bunch of shapes, but a friend of mine suggested it looked like a marimo, so it's a moss ball game now! Working title is Katamarimo ^^

Made and added prototype textures to reflect this

Got the ground moving, and new tiles are generated and destroyed after you progress far enough

Added collision and gravity!

Added rocks that randomly generate along with new ground tiles!

The game restarts any time you hit a rock

Added a "score" in the form of airtime, will later be a source of powerups

Figured out video recording, so I can start posting those now!

I'm also going to try to start posting a little earlier each day, so I can get some more traffic. I'll still keep working on things tonight, but I'll talk about em in tomorrow's post!

(My high score is 76.5 seconds btw :D )

[shadybugdev]

Day 12 (forgot to post this one!): I spent most of the day doing this ghost sprite + effects! Still getting the hang of particles. I also did some shadow research, so I can hopefully fix my weird sprite-shadow problem with some tests soon!

[shadybugdev]

100 days of Game Dev day 10, and Devtober day 2!

Played with shadows, and got things kind of working

Made an indoor test scene!

Figured out a door system, added a scene transition, and finagled some test variables so that the player character stayed facing whichever direction you came in

Started on a character dialogue option, although if you start it you get stuck in a loop of “Hi!” over and over, so... some work needed there.

A new character??

[shadybugdev]

Day 6: coming up close on the first full week!! I made a temporary rock texture and played with the world environment - the game now has distance fog and blur, which makes it look much nicer! Tomorrow's goal is to look into a water shader I found, and also to make a dynamically tilting camera so it's easier to see when going uphill.

[photovsgame]

definitely not inspired from somewhere else and definitely not using placeholders

[shadybugdev]

Days 15/16: I forgot to post yesterday, but these past two days I've been figuring out the inventory! It still has some bugs, but you can drop and pick up items... most of the time.