#staredowntheabyss

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Sparkly phase gem

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I’ve been doing some work on this thing lately after a really damn long time, but I’m back on this in some capacity. I decided to really ease myself back into it by fixing all of the shaders that were broken. That was surprisingly hard. At least now I can remember what my engine does :)

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On hold...

So, this was probably an inevitable thing, given the nature of life these days, but I'm putting Abyss on hold for the time being. I want to pick it up a bit further down the track, maybe re-evaluate what I think it's going to be.

It's one of those things where I spend so little time actually being interested in doing work on it due to various factors that it's worth just taking a break from.

I have some other ideas for smaller (lol) things to do which I might explore. I might check out Unity as well for another project; we'll see how it goes. Until then, we'll see how things go.

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All this procrastinating has resulted in a couple of pretty cool-looking effects. That waterfall effect was surprisingly difficult to achieve. I think it looks pretty cool, though. Will have to do something about the top of it so it doesn't look like it's just appearing out of nowhere. Polishing the turd.

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Pretty basic parallax background scrolling. It's using some placeholder art at the moment; but expect the finished result to use pretty abstract/geometric shapes and patterns. That was a lot easier to do than I expected.

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This might not look like much, but I spent most of the weekend fixing the interface layer for the main game. I've taken out the hard time limit (there will be a soft limit, which I'll explain at some other point) and added the concept of lives to the game. I think this flows quite a lot better after sending off a very rough alpha version of the game to some friends and seeing what they thought. I like the heart appearing transition the most, actually.

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I don't know if I'll actually use this in the end, but I wanted to have some sort of effect that gave you an idea of how long an effect would last without resorting to a discrete UI element. It might not be obvious enough; so might have to tweak it a little bit... or just use a discrete UI element.

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Some UI transitions and triggers and stuff - also, I think this is the first time I've actually shown this thing in motion! Eep!