/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

Various old WIPs

Nothing playable yet, but I'm working on the core engine features that makes objects and shit flexible

Almost getting to the point where I can interact with things.

It took about 4-5 days, but I got the movement code ironed out so things more or less more very predictably, but there are a few edge cases to work on when things get busy.

Dragons can eat gems, rocks now.

> +Lots of progress

< -Slightly less charming

Okay, spent the last 2 weeks gearing up for Demo Day. Not quite there but I just need to redo the behaviors for objects and we'll be golden - everything else works, including text-based level editing (eg, custom levels).

I also made a new devlog and page:

Tumblr: https://jackalsoft.net/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackalsoftGames

Will post a demo soon. It's under 1 MB.

Let's see, since the last demo day, I've:

>Tore down my code, twice, and heavily restructured a lot of engine shit that will let me do what I need

>Loading certain data from files, as well as textures

>Still figuring out how to best approach behaviors

>Got a crude behavior working (vid related)

>Tile animations are working smoothly (second vid)

<Got permission from original game's author to make a clone, but several of my images are too similar to the source material, despite using a different palette and a cleaner/more detailed aesthetic, so I'll have to redo a bunch

>Almost got my tools' graphics finished (just need speed boots and a bomb vest)

Buncha other shit too

Still not even playable, you can kinda walk around but that's it

Haven't got much more done because of the holiday crunch, but I'm going from 40h/week to 12/h week in January, so I will have much more time to work on shit.

Still tinkering with the animation and displaying of graphics

Got a kind anon on /v/'s drawthread to help refine Autumn's design a bit, as well as make a SFW reference for her. Great!

Game is still under active development. Mostly been working on engine stuff some more, so nothing visual to show off.

I have most of the rendering loop done, so I can start to move onto actual game stuff, without having to rely on hacked-together draw calls, which was one of my main early goals. I really dig the art style in the OP post, so I might consider ways to incorporate that sort of visual stuff back into the game. I enjoy the look of low resolution palette'd photographs for backgrounds, pic related.

Hopefully I'll have something visually interesting in time for demo day, whether or not it's actually ready by then.

Politely bumping my thread to the first page. It's been 6 months, and the holiday crunch is well over. I've started to work on this project again. I keep getting distracted by VIDEOGAMES and work. Hopefully I can post interesting updates at least once a month (and reminder that I shitpost occasionally on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jackalsoftgames )

As for what's new, I split the game into 3 assembly projects - one is a general purpose engine on top of SFML that has all my universal things like custom collections, draw helpers, etc etc. The second assembly is a self-contained gamestate package which acts as the main mechanical stuff for the levels themselves. Finally, the third assembly combines the two (and SFML) into the game itself. It creates gamestate objects to simulate maps and replays, etc.

At least that's the plan. A lot of stuff is still barebones, but I'm hoping to have a functional demo by August's demo day, May if I'm able to ship a proof-of-concept demo by then.

I worked on a wire/logic system as well (pic related). I'm still ironing out the exact mechanics, but the idea is that you can interact with the buttons (the one with the dot) and send signals along the wires into the gates. The signal translates into an "activation" instruction to whatever tile it terminates on - this would flip gates, open traps, activate cloners and so on.