Thorium

I'm working on ship-to-ship docking, which means I need to define where the docking ports on the ship are. Fortunately, this is a simple problem to solve with a raycaster, which gives me the position and normal of the point I click on. #gameDev #spaceship

I just love the disk image background for my spaceship game. Warms my heart every time I see it.

Got nerd sniped and did some writing about how DMX lighting would be configured in the game. I'm pretty pleased with the result — objectively better in almost every way compared to the predecessor's DMX implementation. github.com/Thorium-Sim/... #gameDev #spaceship

Last one for now — Engineer! The one that keeps the ship running for everyone else. That's training done for all 5 stations.

Tactical training. Even faster, would be shorter if the torpedos loaded faster. #gameDev #spaceship

As I've been working on the training/tutorial, I realized that I'd probably want to make sure that I verify that it continues working in the future. So I wrote an automated test that performs all of the actions to advance the training. Seems to be working well. #gameDev #spaceship

My latest diversion is complete. Heat and coolant is much more transparent — you can even see how coolant flows through the whole setup! The way heat is modeled is much simpler too. #gameDev #spaceship

I've finally adjusted the power requirements for each system so they aren't all the same. Fortunately, everything seems to be working. Also added a little button to turn off charging a battery, if you need to divert power to specific batteries. Next, balancing! #gameDev #spaceship

Engineering Panels are done, including an integration with damage reports. Randomly, a damage report will instruct you to make adjustments to the controls on the panel in order to complete the repair, and it's working wonderfully! #gameDev #spaceship

Actually, yesterday I solved a doozy of a problem. Each cable box is its own component, but the cables themselves need to be orchestrated by a parent context, and it all needs to be aware of the exact position of the cable ports. So all stuff where direct DOM manipulation would be easier than React.

New Engineering Panels screen for damage control, very similar to the Spaceteam mobile game. I need a way to randomly generate strings for the switches and buttons, so I'm revamping the text interpolation engine I built to support text pattern includes for reuse and organization #gameDev #spaceship

Did a refactor of how data is loaded. Since so much of it is user-defined outside of the codebase, I wanted to make sure that it was parsed and validated as it was loaded. This should hopefully help plugin authors find issues in their plugin files. #gameDev #spaceship

Today's update: I realized that my training overlays might make it a little hard to see the content underneath, so I added a little ghost 👻 icon to the side. Hovering over it hides the overlay and backdrop using a CSS :has selector. #gameDev #spaceship

Work continues on the Cargo Control training. I've improved the UI for the Cargo Control card, adding icons to the search results and fixing a bug where cargo wasn't actually transferred. I've also added new events which can be triggered remotely to change the selected deck or room on the ship map.

Today as I was working on training for the Cargo Control card, I realized it might be handy to have a timeline block that can run arbitrary code. I made a low-security sandbox and created a "Run Code" block that runs whatever code you write and puts the result into the timeline's variables.

And so it begins...