working on my vegetation script and water shader a bit while physics testing of state engine rewrite is happening in the background. just layin 1 brick at a time #gamedev #godot #blender

A bunch of refactoring is happening right now which isn't super entertaining, so I decided to take a small detour into adding 3D assets, tweaking the POV, vegetation script, running water.. it's starting to feel more real, I'm building up the layers gradually. #gamedev #godot #blender

frankly this was inevitable #cute #cricket #gamedev with #blender

it's been a minute with hectic new agency day job and building systems for my wife's business. but we're chipping away at v0.2! you can.. probably guess where this is going. these base assets are used in lots of games already but they fit perfectly already with only small tweaks. #gamedev #blender

I got made redundant from my day job. ergh. I guess more #gamedev will be happening while I look for work.

v0.1 demo is out now! free! all the way live! go play! solo! or local 2 player! physics! stats! 🏏🙌🎶🎉 secondslip.itch.io/3-wickets-in... #gamedev #cricket #dicegame

3 Wickets In Hand by secondslip

A cricket-themed dice and card duel game for 1 or 2 players!

secondslip.itch.io

almost live on itch.io !! getting there! #gameadmin is a huge part of #gamedev it seems lol

meanwhile #godot is heckin' rad, web build now operational on localhost . gonna throw it up on itch once i've got the SFX done to try and get some more playtesting happening!!! Has been another super intense week at day job so this is therapeutic #gamedev

Big for me.

Anatoly Shashkin💾@dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 6mo ago

NetHack 5.0.0 was released today, and MS-DOS is still one of the official platforms: nethack.org/common/index...

hah well if I was impressed by the first recorded century in 3 Wickets In Hand history, then the first recorded double century is even more bonkers 😍 i need to suppress the batriarchy somehow!! #gamedev #cricket

🏏 the 3 Wickets In Hand alpha playtest is under way!! currently it's 2 player, windows only. more platforms soon, join the list for first notifications!! AI opponents, 3D grounds, on the way 🏏 join now!! forms.gle/fEEKhDwWvEbt... #gamedev #dice #pokemontcg #gamedesign #cricket #boardgames

a #gamedev story i awake from a feverish dream with a new idea about how to fix the compiled build and get it running for the first time, it's finally out to alpha testers. they're already gleefully finding critical, glaring bugs that I had no clue about... thx for that...

Officially the first registered century in 3 Wickets In Hand history!! Appropriate that it was hit by the Working Class Hero. 107 off 41, not bad! And the Hornets got home by a long way! #gamedev #cricket #godot #buzzinhornets if you can't pick it up I'm so hyped how well this proto is going 😍

#gamedev update: corrupted my registry, lol.

Tonight's #godot #gamedev session includes all sorts of changes: state machine, UI tweaks, decks, titles, bg for transition phases, Extras cards working in scoring phase.. i'm gonna play this build with my kids tomorrow and i'm really looking forward to it ✨ can't wait for them to break it haha

Well I just finished playing through my first proper end to end game with the new shiny state machine. It's quite buggy still but it's another of those moments that makes the #gamedev toil worthwhile. Now onto individual card effects... and a million bugfixes and visual updates. then 3d 😵🎉🐱‍🐉

New hand animations, I dig it! Still working on that dice select UI though. It's being an arse, and there is a lot of work left to go there. But glad to make progress in any case. I'm learning that's all #gamedev really is- an hour of ideas, and then a year of incremental gains 😅

well the consistent time on #gamedev is paying off, you can now move through a huge part of the state machine, there are win conditions, still a huge amount to go, mad bugs lol but I feel really satisfied rn. i missed #screenshotsaturday so here it is yo!!

No #gamedev update today but thought I'd share my github contributions chart lol. This gives me satisfaction, even though it's only representative of a couple of weeks of work. No design work is on here, that's what I was hammering away at earlier in the year.

Next up, scoring! Once the dice settle we go to the bat/bowl/score phase. Just did basic animations for confirming individual roll scores for now. The run total at bottom left also increments but I need to implement the skill re-rolls next, they will impact this. #gamedev #gamedesign #juice #godot

I think this is a powerful statement. It's not just AI helping with code or assets. The empowerment you have now as a #solodev is the real unlock for me. As a designer I have agency to bring my concepts to life - and the fact I can get it to 90% with AI code tools & open source engine.. thread/

Alice Harper@aliceharper0101.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Solo devs now have more reach than 10-person startups from 2010. Tooling simplified, distribution multiplied, coordination overhead vanished. Limiting factor is taste, not resources.

Good: CSV data parser working! Bad: The card UI rendering bugs are super annoying and in my face and I have to fix them NOW otherwise every time I see them it will be like feeling a pebble in my shoe. My brain is so cool and good and I'm such a useful person lmao /s #gamedev #godot

UI framework is coming along! scoreboard is framed up, deck and discard zones, cards alternating colourway depending on which team they're on.. only to-do left is the hand of cards for each player. Then we can move on to the CSV card data handler! thread... #gamedev #gamedesign #godot

Card layout finished- GREAT SUCCESS. Knowing how a box model works helped a lot with this layout. And tell you what, Godot works a lot better than CSS does here 😅 #gamedev #gamedesign

No gif today, just a quick snapshot of progress on the card layout. Going well with this but need an early night 😴💤✨ been a full on week and continuing tomorrow. enjoying making incremental progress on the game, impatient for it to be done!! it's just one literal brick at a time. #gamedev

now we are broadcasting data, jiggling off edges and other dice, mass, gravity, linking through to basic card UI, and catching the dead ball too! wow dice dynamics are actually super complicated who knew sheesh. but im motivated now. steady stackin green cubes #gamedev #godot

zomg I managed to fix this dice edge case! watch the green die at bottom left near the clubhouse ^______^ a small thing that players are unlikely to experience often but happy to be able to handle it gracefully. next is settling outputs.. eek. enjoying while i can 😂 #gamedev #bugfix #woohoo !!!

this die needs to respawn 👀 only 1 of 3 were successful roles there, this is fast turning into a feature rather than a bug lol. I suppose you have cocked dice IRL.. ? 😅 #gamedev #gamedesign

the d8 is in play ✨ could keep adjusting sprites to get them perfect but this is fine for 1st iteration. next up- dynamics, dice settling check and outputs! every step forward with this feels great, ngl. feels significant. finally got some github cubes in my graph lol #gamedev #gamedesign

My giddy aunt, I exclaimed!! loudly! when this worked properly. These are only the D6s but they are coloured and labelled correctly! I'm gonna tweak the dickens out of the colours, typography, rotations etc to make things legible & include low vision folks. but OH MY GOD IT WORKS #gamedev