Phyoke

modeled biddy blas in the style of star wars episode 1 racer lol

First fully-working platforming challenge! Wired up mini cutscenes to switches and to golden moons spawning in. Feels like a real game now 🥳 Getting closer to being done grayboxing this level, full speed ahead #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

It's not an #N64 inspired game if there aren't rings of alternating colors that spin and shrink as you jump through them. Also built a system to reveal challenges at the press of a switch! #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #lowpoly #godot

I love the process of making #lowpoly objects out of renders of high-poly objects. #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #blender #godot #n64

Finding little bugs in the middle of whiteboxing #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

Been a minute since I've posted an update, life's been busy but I've also started whiteboxing my game's first real level 👀 #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

He has no style, he has no grace, this Kong has a funny face (used squares for the treetop platforms because I haven't modeled proper climbing trees yet lol) #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

Now THIS is climbing! #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

HEARD. Added a clean little leapfrog hop to get up ledges 🐸 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

Adding a quick hitbox to bounce off enemies' heads and WHAT hahahaha #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

Ledge hang! So far I don't have a clamber-up action...but the jump has enough movement where you can get up with it? I'm 50/50 on leaving it as is or making some kind of hop-up. 🤔 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

RigidBody3D vs CharacterBody3D on the slide, and MAN I'm happy I was able to make them work effectively the same way. Should make for some fun challenges! #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

One of the last parts of Snork's base moveset: carrying things! Tried to lean as far away from a "modern game engine's physics object" feel and as close to what feels like #n64 physics as I could (the weird egg is a placeholder lol) #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #godot #lowpoly

Wanted to put some personality into the different fidget animations that play when Snork talks, I'm happy with how they turned out! #gamdev #indiegame #indiedev #godot #blender3d #lowpoly #n64

Oh yeah, we can talk now. Talking animations, speech bubbles, and zooming camera are all working! So many moving parts in a full dialogue system 😫 #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #godot #n64 #lowpoly

Got the stem working on the speech bubble! Going to add thought bubbles next but it should use the same code. Usually you won't have movement control during speaking scenes, so it'll just let me not have to manually position the bubbles. #indiegame #gamedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

Hmmm, all caps or lower case? #indiegame #gamedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

Set up a speech bubble that moves so it won't cover the speaker's mouth! Don't have the stem yet to point to the speaker, working on that now. #indiegame #gamedev #godot #n64

Making speech bubbles that move dynamically to not cover the speaker’s face, thinking I’d need some complicated math to get the speaker’s 3D position mapped onto the 2D view. Nah, cameras just have an `unproject` method. I love #gamedev haha #indiegame #godot

An icy slide has appeared in my sandbox level! #indiegame #gamedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

Me learning #godot, very dumb: Forward is -Z, not +Z? I'll flip the character model so it faces +Z and base all my physics on that, there's no way that'll bite me a year from now. Me now: Huh getting some weird bugs when I adjust the model's sliding angle #gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #n64

Been busy but found time to work on sliding! Being on terrain in the Slide group triggers it, and it'll be a forward or backward slide based on how he's facing at the start. Adding the animations now, should make for some fun levels! #indiegame #gamedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

Working on a devlog + being on-call at work + kiddo having a couple rough nights of sleep + brainstorming about the backend of a dialogue system without having any UI yet = a real lack of updates to post about huh lmao #gamedev #indiegame

First devlog script is done! Now to record a lot of B-roll and the actual voiceover. Then learn the basics of editing in DaVinci Resolve 🤨 #gamedev #indiegame

I’m gonna do it

More Pokopia 🥳 New Xenoblade 😮 "In a kingdom ruled by the gods--" "In a land where one kingdom remains--" "In a world where kingdoms rise and fall--" Thumb wrestling 👍 Link with RTX on 🫪

The more I do #gamedev the more things I assumed would be complicated turn out to be really simple (working with #godot 's particle emitter right now) I'll still get stuck on something dumb for hours, but it's nice when something I expected to take a while is done in minutes

Bellyflops so big they cause a crater! I think my next task will be to update my effects and particles, adding passive sparkles to coins/moons, adding impact dust/pow-stars/etc to the bellyflop landing, maybe a screen shake as well #gamedev #indiegame #godot #lowpoly #n64

Wall Jumps Will Work! Simplified the jumps from games like Mario64 where you'd bonk and fall if the timing wasn't tight; I want it to be a tool in the player's kit, not a hard skill check. You'll slide down the wall rather than bonk and can jump at will. #gamedev #indiegame #godot #lowpoly #n64

Added another jump type, the sideflip. For sure the trickiest one to nail down the animation look for, and to figure out how to balance the turning around angle + the angle at which the animation starts. His base moveset's close to done! #gamedev #indiegame #godot #lowpoly #n64

A 3D platformer HAS to have a backflip. #gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #godot #n64