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Well, that was a horrible bout of demotivation... But, Now we've got a magical bow in, with idle, and attack animations. Down to just a few sprites i need to replace before i've redone all the art from #Kenney art. #RogueToDestruction #GameDev

Art... upgrade? Heh. Change at least. Starting to replace the Kenney placeholders. The cat? No, those aren't grenades in his pouch. Don't ask.

The greedy playtesting bot makes decisions i would.. never make. Charge/Zap is... a... build... I guess. To be fair, it's a lot more mobile than i play. #RogueToDestruction #GameDev

One advantage to having a Crowd Excitement mechanic is that you can mine it for cool hype shots from your unit tests! Here we have a rogue utterly dominating the start of Round 9. Debating if i need to replace the Kenney assets entirely before i publish it on Itch or not.

Some visual updates, some new upgrades, and a reward for hitting level 5. #Gamedev #RogueToDestruction

Starting to add in the crowd. Now, to make em useful. After all, you can already hear when you get em excited... they should be able to throw you useful things when they like you. Hopefully... they don't have anything to throw if they don't. #gamedev #roguelight

youtu.be/P7sc4v2Czeg A turn based Brotato-Like. Heh. #Gamedev It's fun enough to make testing distracting.

Any thoughts on a turn based brotato-like?

Ooooh, Dialog system.... #DecomissionedSite Oooh... Title..

Ooooh, the minimap is working now. First view of the island the game takes place on.

Slimes in games are always just piles of goo. What happens if you have a pile of sentient rgb goo? Mimics. Mimic's are what you get when you have a pile of sentient, angry, rgb goo.

Huh. Those turkey legs, and bombs keep getting knocked off the belt and into that pit. But if i poke this switch... the turkey legs go through. Bet... there's another switch for the bombs. (Well, there will be when i build it... hehehe) #ZeldaLike #solodev

fotdgames.itch.io/roguelike-ac... Well, it's out there on Itch now. The Wizard, and the Warrior are fully implemented, and 3/5 floors have some content, along with a bit of an ending when you reach the third floor boss. #indiedev #roguelike

fotd-games.com I think i've cleaned up most of the bugs i know about, and i'm in a passable spot for a game at 0.3.x. Heh. #gamedev #roguelike

Oooooh man. Just got my new logo back from www.fiverr.com/dens_saputra (Gotta advertise the artist), and daum does it look better than the poor little nonsense i made.

"Tobias wanders instead of moseying." Extract from my current bug list. #indiedev

Quick tour through the first floor of Roguelike Academy: Freshman Year, as a fledgling warrior. #roguelike

It feels kinda like a cheat that just generating a level, rotating it 3 degrees, and lerping it past makes a decent title screen.

imgur.com/a/PtQAnm8 An actual run of the little Randomizer Concept, did better than i did on my initial post. Heh.

This is the first image of a succesfull spawn of the third floor, with the miniboss room, the stairs and everything connected. I'd still call it a fail, because the way the corridor is drawn into the boss area breaks some specific corridor rules, but damn does it feel nice to have it in.

I've been working on wizard spells. Here, we get to see one of the wizards starting spells (Curse of Life Drain, a DoT), and one of the more powerful spells, Ice storm. #gamedev #roguelike

All of the wizard spells in the spellbook work. They've all got VFX, and at least some upgradability. All of the base warrior skills are in place. Seems like its time for content, balance, and polish. #gamedev #roguelike

ChatGPT just gave me a task. Hah! It actually makes sense in context api.txt is a file i generate and pass back to the llm to prevent function name drift. The llm doesn't know i generate it locally, and doesn't need to. but it's actually worked pretty well.

This is just silly enough I felt like I should post it. I suspect people on both sides of the opinion on ChatGPT would find it somewhat amusing, if for different reasons.

I just pushed another small update to DungeonSmith. This adds basic CI scripts, and configs for deploying to k8s clusters. Going to spend the next week working on the editor, before going back to finish the conversion to Helm. gitlab.com/fotd_games/7... #gamedev #dungeonsmith

This weeks progress on DungeonSmith has been almost entirely around updating the front end to talk to the new back end. Which is now done. We're back to feature parity with the GameJam version. #SoloDev #LibGDX gitlab.com/fotd_games/7... youtu.be/eX77gfxnjxc Next, testing. fun....

Why is my computer crawling?? Ohhh... i left the entire backend stack of my application running in docker.

I was just reminded i have a fully usable RogueLike engine, written from the ground up in Java 8 that i should also be cleaning up and pulling into my Employment facing public repo. Guess i have a short project to do after finishing this first pass at DungeonSmith.