#devlog?

[aphyray]

I spent a whole day yesterday making a shader for a ghostly effect for text and character models. I will be using this exactly once in a secret portion of the final part of the game.

So if you're ever wondering, “Hey Aphy why's this taking so long?” It's because I don't have a project manager to slap my fingers with a ruler, and I chase self-indulgent joy and coding puzzles like a spoiled puppy.

[adwb]

Update!!!

I'm posting this on A date? With Blue! because it affects it the most however I will also repost it on Cat Cult Cafe because it also affects it alot.

I gave up on using renpy. It was like doing a math problem that i got it half done (if you understand that🙃). So instead I'm making the games with html (and maybe a little python we'll see😉). It will still be download able it will just open through a browser! And if you fullscreen (f11) it will be almost entirely like a regular renpy game! I will probably also make ccc like that (definitly will need python for that one tho).

Also my Chromebook drowned in soup🫠 so art will take a while and I can't do animations. I also lost all the sprites and 2d backgrounds (both for adwb) I had made and even lost almost all the writing for ccc.

If it's not clear adwb is a short, test game to get used to game development before I make ccc which is a larger, more complex game.😊

edit

this is only half true because i wrote this while manic, filled with the megalomaniac villian/gremlin power complex coding with html gives me, and on the verge of a panic attack.

[happy-hat-makes-a-game]

My TTRPG project finally has a proper name which is...

With Blood and Lead

"That to get what you want, you'll have to fight and pay for it... with blood and lead."

I was kinda surprised this name wasn't taken yet, because Blood and Bullets seems very popular, so I'm surprised no one had decided to use that euphemism (bullets are/were cast from lead). So, I'm officially calling dibs on that name.

One of the reasons I'm choosing an abstract name is because I can't decide what kind of setting I want to set my game in. When I started, I was thinking about paratroopers exploring dense judge to recover spare parts for their airship from overgrown Old Word. Then I had an idea of exploring the innards of gigantic leviathans (who might be dead or still alive), but I wasn't sure if that'd offer sufficient Role-Playing opportunities, so a Wild West would be more fitting (after adding magic, monsters, chainswords and pneumatic hammers.)

[cosmonott]

Oops! (Work Log no.8)

Work Period: April 4th

estimated work Time: 5hrs Real Work Time: 5hrs

only now. a few weeks before the semester ends. do i realize that work for game projects could have counted towards thesis. womp womp. This is an attack animation for one of the ghosts from my team's game :D

Real Talk Break :,D

Spring break unfortunately really set off any rhythm i had previously going, and I fell behind on logs and keeping track of time. The times for my next two pieces are estimates.

Session 3 was free choice, so I decided to work on something fun and interesting that was not on my list. Because I was working on this during spring break, I didnt remember to track my worktime D:

I have 3 progress shots, going from storyboard, to a rough pass to a second cleaner pass. Unfortunately its unfinished, but Id like to finish this in the future!

(estimated) Work Time: ~6 Hours?

Session 4:

This one did come off of the prompt list, and Im quite proud! i had fun pushing the expressions and i think that the balloon's weight reads well even without the presence of a string.

I also applied some of the things I read in the Animators Survival Kit to this project, and I feel like it went much smoother and efficient than my normal workflow! I want to keep applying these methods to my next projects :)

I did record my working time, but I can't recall how accurate it is and whether or not I did do work without logging.

(estimated D:) Work Time: ~4hrs

[cosmonott]

Work Log No. 1 ⟡

this one was done retrospectively so future ones r gonna look a little different :).

Work Period: Jan 31st - Feb 2nd Work done: Created pitch presentation!

Junior Thesis Production Plan

Junior Thesis Production Plan Spring 2023!

Estimated Work Time: 4 hrs Final Work Time : 7.2 hrs.... >_> Creating this presentation for class gave me an opportunity to find the large variety of animation resources I have access to, but i quickly got overwhelmed. I decided to switch from basing my studies off of my resources to instead finding resources based off my studies, so I can learn as I go instead of restricting myself. It also gave me an idea of how long things may take me, but I recently bought a physical kitchen timer to start better tracking and pacing myself.

[cosmonott]

hello :3 i am going to start posting worklogs for some classes im taking in school! they are self guided projects, whcih means its on me to keep ontask and productive (which i am bad at)

i need to have at least one a week, so ideally this will keep me posting n uploading stuff :)

Worklog requirements:

(more for ease of access for me than for anyone readin this lol)

when you worked

what you did – include visual documentation

how long you thought it would take

how long it actually took

what you learned

if/how it will impact your schedule

ill upload my schedules later hehehe :)

[happy-hat-makes-a-game]

I've finished the resolution and base combat mechanics in my TTRPG

I need to write this somewhere, because otherwise, I'd just spend days rephrasing it with no meaningfull change, like I've done before.

The main feature is that any action can be opposed by just as impactfull action, both in and out of combat. No special abilities needed.

Which means that instead of core combat looking like this:

Fighter moves to Necromancer and attacks, misses

Archer attacks Necromancer, hits

Skeleton attacks Fighter, hits

Necromancer cast fireball on Cleric and Rogue, hits and misses

It could look like this:

Fighter tries to approach Necromancer but Skeleton blocks the way and counterattacks.

Archer suspects Necromancer is up to something and waits

Necromancer tries casts fireball on Cleric and Rogue, but Archer attack the Necromancer, interupting the spell.

With that finished, I can move on to designing charcter classes. The goal I've given myself there is to give each class some spice.