For #ScreenshotSaturday it wouldn't be a sci-fi setting without some kind of fungus enemy right? The first real big divergence from Rock Raiders is new enemies/hazards that change how you do things. The blight infects other enemies and 'locks' down tiles until its purified. #gamedev #indiedev

Second attempt with the same reference, but this one is about 1k tris. At the project's camera angle, probably can't even tell a difference. Will have to give it a shot and see how the non-full chibi approach goes #lowpoly #indiedev

Acissathar@acissathar.bsky.social · last wk.

Learning blender is kicking my ass but its a lot of fun. Higher poly than I plan on going with for the project (~8k tris), but definitely feel like I'm learning a workflow.

For #screenshotsaturday, began messing around with making lighting an actual mechanic in addition to fitting the aesthetic. Miners work / move faster in the light, and the light helps against hostile creatures. #indiedev #gamedev #Prowl

Learning blender is kicking my ass but its a lot of fun. Higher poly than I plan on going with for the project (~8k tris), but definitely feel like I'm learning a workflow.

Lots of progress from last time. New primitives for visuals, alert system, monsters, landslides, construction and more. UI looks like an ugly mobile game, but plan is to model items and use that as the sprite so just a placeholder. Aiming for a GC/n64 in-between era. #gamedev #indiedev #prowl

Small thing, but the basic loop is finally complete as you can now win or lose :) Currently the only win condition is collecting a % of total crystals, and losing is running out of oxygen. Next up is environmental hazards I think, or maybe vehicles. #gamedev #indiedev #Prowl

Went to see PRESIDENT (so good) so had a slow start this month, but I'm trying to make a big push on gameplay so I can get art started. Went to a hex grid (came with a minor performance boost) as I think maps will look better when art lands. Also got the power system functioning. #gamedev #Prowl

Made some big optimization gains by changing how I represent the colliders for my tiles. Allocations ~900 -> ~450. Old laptop trying to load 1 million tiles (1k by 1k) went from ~10secs to load, to ~5secs with avg frame time of 22ms down to 5ms. #gamedev #Prowl #indiedev

Added a loading setup and did an optimization pass, and the results are pretty good! Most maps load instant, but the largest size 1k by 1k (roughly 1 million tiles) is still pretty quick. For reference, the original rock raider maps generally cap at around 50x50 :) #gamedev #indiedev

Some more progress, got a WIP UI now and already accounted for both window scaling *and* user driven UI scaling if it's too small (or too big!). Immediate mode UI (through Paper) is such a breath of fresh air compared to gameobject style UI, I actually enjoying making it. #gamedev #indiedev #prowl

Spent a few days trying to get the frametime under 5ms but even though all the stats went down (drawcalls, allocations, etc.) I was not making progress. Forgot I had VSync on 🫠 Down to 2ms a frame in editor though! #indiedev #gamedev #prowl

Acissathar@acissathar.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Been a few months, but long story short I engine swapped to Prowl on my Rock Raiders inspired project. I've learned and improved the project optimization so much. I'm jumping into Play Mode in around a second and at a way larger scale (250x250) than my last version. #indiedev #gamedev #csharp

Been a few months, but long story short I engine swapped to Prowl on my Rock Raiders inspired project. I've learned and improved the project optimization so much. I'm jumping into Play Mode in around a second and at a way larger scale (250x250) than my last version. #indiedev #gamedev #csharp

Both manual and automated tasks are now integrated. UI will be added to re-arrange these as desired, but chars will drill walls that are marked and auto cleanup any rubble from said walls. They've got a little icon to let you know they've been assigned something too #stride3d #gamedev #indiedev

Created a tweening library for Stride and got a basic version of grid based pathfinding working for the characters. Next I think will be drilling down walls and character tasks. It's been fun learning how the engine does things differently compared to Unity. #stride3d #gamedev #indiedev

Still very early, but been working on something inspired by Lego Rock Raiders to help learn Stride. A little different from Unity, but really enjoying it so far. Have map generation, tile selection, UI, and scene transitions working nicely. Now for the actual gameplay lol #gamedev #stride

It's not flashy atm, but I've been slowly working on a KotoR inspired battle system. Supports adding/removing/setting actions, 3 second round based system, and supports controller / m+k. Now to get multiple combatants on both sides working [ #gamedev | #indiegame | #unity3d ]

Kind of fun re-learning stuff, but man adjusting to right hand coordinates is rough lol But camera controls with MnK + GamePad, bepu physics for the character are working, so some progress is being made! #StrideEngine #gamedev #indiedev

Now that I'm back home and messing with Stride some more, another thing I'm enjoying is that I don't have to use the editor all the time. I can just build and run the Solution directly to test things out, completely removing that overhead. #stride3d #stride #gamedev #indiedev

Seeing Purple Kiss in Columbus was bitter sweet. I’m glad I got to see them live but saddened it’s over next month. Autopilot as the encore was a perfect ending though, it’s my favorite song by them.

Another small thing I'm really liking about Stride is built in support for multiple tabs open on Prefabs and Scenes. Downside on the prefabs is you *have* to open it to see the property grid / components, but not minding it so far. #stride3d #gamedev #indiedev

Impressed with Stride's composition take on shaders. Super cool that I don't need to convert my gray boxing shader from Unity, I can just apply basic functions to the standard material and get what I want. #Stride3d #gamedev #indiedev

Unrelated to game stuff but my commission for a painting of Slowbro came in today. I absolutely love this guy 😭 Artist is izcentric.art on IG!

Spent a bit of time on reworking the char controller. Made it more in-line with older Zelda (OoT, MM, TP), and am much happier with it. Auto crouching, rolling and crashes, slopes, auto jumping, moving platforms, ladder / vine climbing, tied to physics. #madewithunity #gamedev

More art experiments this weekend, tweaked the URP shader to support N64 filtering It's hitting the nostalgia hard and texture work seems a little more forgiving so might make the swap lol #madewithunity #indiedev

Made a few more small props and then combined them with a line renderer (rope). Not sure what/if I'll even end up using this in the game, but it was fun to learn at least and. #madewithunity #lowpoly #indiedev

Spent today getting a workflow together and practiced modeling some props for the project. Still no clue what I'm doing, but it's been fun learning about stuff like texel density lol #lowpoly #psx (ish)

Finally got it in a state I'm mostly happy with as a package, here's my take on an MMO styled camera and character controller, with #ORKFramework in mind. Heavily based on the controls of WoW, and not tied to any battle system. github.com/Acissathar/M... #madewithunity

GitHub - Acissathar/MMOCombatantController: An MMO style character controller for ORK Framework.

An MMO style character controller for ORK Framework. - Acissathar/MMOCombatantController

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Rough first pass at a WoW inspired character controller for the project. Maybe it's a like a decade of play time, but their controller just feels so nice to me. Has l/r mouse click camera 8 directional movement, swimming, double jump. Next is some camera smoothing I think. #madewithunity

Think I'm finding an aesthetic I like for this project. Unlit shader using vertex colors for 4 texture blending (RGB) with alpha used for painting shadows. Also included Unity's Surface Bumpmap Package (URP) to get Hex Tiling to break texture repetition. #madewithunity #lowpoly

Wanted to share a tool to get rid of NavMesh islands. Removes unexpected Destinations/Sampled Positions (and reduces size). Updated to support Unity 6 (should work lower fwiw) github.com/Acissathar/N... s/o VisualWorks for original asset and permission to share! #madewithunity #gamedev