NPC nade throwing seems to work alright and I can now easily adjust how often he throws them when he thinks the player is standing to still. Some more edge cases to consider here, but real happy to see this in action finally! #GameDev #Godot #SoloDev #IndieDev

Working on that grenade throwing logic for my enemy NPC's again today. The logic of how and when I trigger it needs a little extra work so that not every NPC instantly starts throwing nades whenever the player seems stationary from it's perspective. Maybe an NPC manager for coordination? #GameDev

Man, Control Resonant is stealing my free time these days... Kind of makes me want to try making a 3rd person hack'n slash some day. Great game! #Remedy #Gaming #ControlResonant

Spending some time today trying to get the enemies in my games to use animation and correct state machine logic for that grenade toss that I've been working on. Definitely the most demanding part of my finite state machine so far 😐 #GameDev

I've built my NPC as a finite state machine so far, but spent a little time today learning about behavior trees. Might be worth trying for a future project... Seems there's also some plugins for Godot that let you set up these things more easily. Next time baby! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeSh...

5 minute Behavior Tree tutorial

YouTube video by Petter Ögren

youtube.com

Grenade throw test. Enemy grenade throw now uses a custom implementation of a parabolic projectile trajectory. Ashamed to say I needed a little AI assistance for the physics equation derivations, but at least it works... 😅 #Gamedev

I want my enemy NPC's to throw grenades, but I need to make thrown grenades fly along predictable trajectories so that the enemies can throw at specific target positions and check if the trajectory contains obstacles. This is gonna be a pain, but at least it's educational 🤔 #Gamedev #Godot

Got a little keycard system running opening doors tonight. #GameDev #Godot #SoloDev

Spent a few minutes tonight putting together a quick little health bar following this tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f90i... #GameDev #Godot #SoloDev

Gosh Nabbit! 😅 Realizing I've tied my hitbox and health system a little to closely to the PhyscisBone3D class in Godot. Gonna have to dedicate some time for iteration, but it's an expected part of the game dev process I suppose. #GameDev #Godot

Attempting a little clean-up in my state-machine logic. My way of doing reaction time for NPC state transitions was incredibly messy so trying to just handle it with a function in the state class itself instead of the spaghetti code I was starting to dive into 🤪 #GameDev #Godot #GameAI

Trying to work on getting enemies to react to guns being fired close by so they get alerted if the player starts shooting while their backs are turned. State machine for the enemies is quickly getting really messy though so might have to take time for some clean up soon.... 😅 #GameDev

First time I got melee attacks working! #GameDev #Godot #SoloDev #IndieDev

Every day I have to remind myself that my first game SHOULD NOT be my dream game, but I keep getting carried away 😅 I went overboard with the fidelity of the models I used for my reload animations. Getting a whole game to that level would take years and I want to move a little faster. #GameDev

Took some effort, but managed to get some directional damage indicators working today. #GameDev #Godot #SoloDev #IndieDev

Another combat test. Managed to get NPC's to respect a short reaction time and got their ragdolls to work a little better although they still get messed with when other characters step on them. Should be a simple collision layer issue. #Godot #Gamedev #Solodev #IndieDev

Made a little camera knock/shake effect for when player takes hits. #Godot #GameDev #Solodev #IndieDev

First time doing a combat encounter for my game! Big milestone! Some jank to fix and lots to do to improve enemy behaviors, but seeing it all come together is so rewarding! #GameDev #Godot #IndieDev #Solodev #FPS

Starting to get to the point where I need to build some environments for my shooter game, so I'm familiarizing myself with 'greyboxing' for prototyping levels. Also worked a little on the player UI so that the amount of grenades held by the player is displayed and updated properly. #GameDev

Spending some more time on explosion damage and physics logic today. Trying to use a curve for damage, stagger force and physics force falloff over distance from explosions. #GameDev #Godot #SoloDev #IndieDev

Polished up some logic on my grenade throw which should help it's behavior stay consistent as I create more game entities that can be knocked around or take damage. Also added a little placeholder grenade throw animation. #GameDev #Godot #Solodev

Got some basic grenade logic working this weekend. #GameDev #Godot #SoloDev #FPS #InideDev

Got a couple of animations working for a heavy marksman rifle. #GameDev #Blender #Animation #FPS

Some placeholder visual feedback on shooting. Already makes the game feel a lot better. #Gamedev #Godot #Solodev #FPS

Found a pretty decent model that I'm going to use as a heavy precision burst rifle. Model by LuddlePudde, but modified it a little by giving it some larger optics and a longer barrel. #GameDev #Blender #Godot #Solodev

More dynamic motion on the enemy along with some more weapon and projectile functionality. I think pretty soon I'll try and import those weapon animations I've been doing. #GameDev #Godot #SoloDev

Finally getting back to this. Currently doing some bullet magnetism to keep in line with my Halo inspirations. Had to include some target lead so that the magnetism doesn't make the player miss moving targets... I'm pretty sure my code isn't optimal, but it works. #GameDev #Godot #SoloDev #Indie

Beer and guns yay. Sitting around doing some shotgun reloading animations for my FPS game project #Animation #Gamedev

Did a shotgun equipping animation today. Not sure I'm as happy with as I am the others I've done so far so I might return to this one and polish it up. Also edited the gun model to look a little beefier. Gun model by Nebula075. #Gamedev #Animation #Blender3D

Hmm, working on some shotgun animations, but not sure this is the right shotgun model for the job. Looks a little to small compared to the SMG from earlier, and I'd like this one to look a lot more chunky. #GameDev