I thought I was being really smart by using sockets on weapons to position melee attacks so that you can just trigger overlaps via anim notifies a little before potential impact, and if you make the overlap boxes big enough you get a nice directional element to attacks for cheap (good for making particles fly and directional knockback)
Reader, this does not work well under varying frame rate conditions. After this I'm definitely going to test the game with t.MaxFPS=20 more often 🤦♂️
In early 1993, Commodore hadn't released hardware specs for the new AGA Amiga computers. So me and my game dev partners decided to create a demo trilogy, using self-discovered AGA chipset features.
The second demo was called 'Mindwarp', and I still love to listen to our music composer Ramon Braumuller's 4-channel soundtrack.
clickyland by my friend Aran (part of Sokpop) is out on Steam now!! It's a really fun and very underpriced tower defense game / village builder where clicks are your main resource. Check it:
If you follow my (now-)friends-only account, you may remember me wondering how I can make vertical transitions between rooms in a dungeon flow well. I didn't want to use elevators, because Zelda II's lifts are so iconic, and I'm already copying so much from that game.
But, I said "heck it." Elevators just plain make sense. But I decided to put a visual spin on it -- these have a much more elaborate design (especially that ironwork at the top), and will be pulley-operated. I'm going to include an animation of Zalia working the pulleys. Probably with an exaggerated pose and sweat flying off her head 😅
As far as the player is concerned, they work exactly like Zelda II's lifts do (press up or down on the d-pad to move; let go to stop), but visually, they're going to have a distinct flavor that works for Enigma Heart.
Here's a look at my process designing upgrades for Rootin' Tootin' Lootin' & Shootin'. I have one big image file where I sketch out new ideas and refine them.
I haven't drank alcohol for several years... The last time I drank 0-alc beer was six months ago. My wife and son went on vacation for a month and left me alone at home. Therefore, I will be a Troglodyte for a whole month, living in a cave and do #gamedev
On the left can of #beer it is written that it contains vitamins, the best format of taking vitamins... this is the most delicious non-alcoholic beer I have ever tasted
Hi! It's time for this week's edition of the #bevymergetrain. If this is your first time here, every week a do a round up of the community-reviewed PRs for @bevy, the #opensource#rustlang engine for #gamedev that it's now my full-time job to help maintain!
There's a whopping 20 PRs ready this week; let's check in on and each of them and I'll make the final call:
Not only an OpenGL triangle, but also a proper GUI!
I now need some roadmap for moving PixelPerfectEngine first from SDL to iota, then from CPU to GPU rendering. Will be an interesting battle, especially when I need to limit myself to OpenGL 2.0.
I feel more confident and ready to make a Sci-Fi adventure game. My result of studying the Unreal Engine for May 2024, the 3rd month of the transition from Unity to Unreal
This livestream will live on in the halls of Valhalla for eternity… or as long as YouTube is around.
Come join this #JetBrainsRider#Unity livestream and see how to improve your #gamedev workflows and build custom UIs for your designers with a few #csharp attributes thanks to #Odin.