This week in the Bevy ecosystem we see Tiny Glade ship a Steam demo, live VJ sets powered by Bevy, screen space reflections in the deferred renderer and more.
We've also got the usual showcases and a couple really interesting crate release for 2d lighting systems and gpu particles.
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.
I finished laying out all the rooms for the first dungeon in Enigma Heart last night. My Zelda II influences are really showing -- but I think I'm also starting to expand on it a little bit and come up with my own ideas. In particular, I'm placing hidden areas and items that the player can't get to until they acquire certain items, spells, or skills later in the game.
(In Zelda II, when you beat a dungeon's boss and get its item, the dungeon becomes inaccessible thereafter)
This map is drawn in Aseprite as an RGB-color PNG image, at a scale of 1 pixel per tile. The blue tiles are solid, the white ones are non-solid, pink are breakable, orange are platforms, etc. I do it this way because I find high-level sketching to be easier as an image than in the map editor. My map editor can read this image, look for the appropriate colors, and generate a map "skeleton" that I can then texture and add objects to.
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.
Random game thought: I’ve been thinking about a game controller with three joysticks, but I can’t come up with a good enough reason to have the extra one. Two joysticks seems to cover everything, right? Have we reached peak game controller? What could we map to a third stick? The closest to a good reason I could think of would be radial menus, but you can easily do those with a modifier and one of the other sticks right? #gamedev
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:
Bug fixing today for Stardust Survivors. Turns out our Shooting Stars ability was super broken! The level 5 version now properly has a large star with double damage, size, and pierce, as well as a nice spread firing pattern! #indiedev#gamedev
a friend of mine told their classmate about kitsune tails with "what if lesbian shork mario" and the classmate was like "holy shit send me the link" and it really just sells itself doesn't it?
Well the results for the #lispgamejam are out. This time I did 30th out of 48; or 37.5%. That's an improvement over last year's 25/30 (17%), but it's not as much as I'd hoped.
I achieved good looks (12/48) and decent entertainment (23/48), but our creativity was quite low (33/48). I originally wanted to add vehicle-mounted weapons and power-ups. But they were cut due to running out of time. Looking at other top ranking games, I think I was on the right track but probably needed to add some kind of twist on the driving game to achieve a higher ranking.
Maybe I should partner up with someone for the next Jam.
Here's a first look into how my solo game dev project is coming along!
It's an action deck builder where you play as a witch with the goal of clearing restless nature spirits. You will be able to capture spirits and summon them as familiars!
please help octo! she needs to pay her monthly bills including rent, debt payments, and college expenses. she's struggling with parental abuse. anything helps!