I've posted my first MinerMancers dev log! Finally! 😄 Do let me know what you'd like to hear about next, if you have a preference. If a particular subject gets more requests I'll be sure to prioritise it. Hope you enjoy! youtu.be/-wdz4vMpIzA

MinerMancers DevLog 1

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MinerMancers is live on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3223050/... It's a game about silly wizards going mining together. Delve alone or with friends to satisfy your employer's demand for magical resources. This is a labour of love by my wife & I; there's a ways to go, but we're doing it 😄

MinerMancers on Steam

MinerMancers is a co-op action game about under-appreciated wizards going mining together. You and up to 3 friends will cast spells, mine resources, fight monsters, and above all get back alive so you...

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Switched to an AGX tonemapper for MinerMancers, and I really like how it retains the vibrancy of the colours much better than ACES did, especially when bright. It’s much closer to how HDR looked before, to the extent that I’ll probably drop the HDR path now since it was fiddly anyway

Object scattering system is starting to make open areas in MinerMancers levels feel a little more interesting 🧙‍♂️⛏️ #screenshotsaturday

Squishy mushrooms

WIP decorative ground object growth system for MinerMancers. Kind of an L-System, everything grows out of a single point

New lobber enemy (I affectionately refer to them as my lobby boys) making poison clouds and hiding behind things, annoyingly

Explosions can now destroy diggable areas. Now we're mining!💥⛏️

Minermancers spell work this week: physics objects and AOEs! Here’s a bouncing explosive barrel spell that’s fun to play with Getting client prediction and smooth replication working on physics objects was fiddly but it works now.

Minermancers progress this week: spray-style spells. Multiplayer predicted, and the underlying damage shapes are properly simulated to match the particle effects

SUDS Pro is on sale! It's my #unrealengine dialogue plugin that lets you use text files to write dialogue, direct camera cuts, character animation and more. If you prefer writing dialogue like a script, I think this is a nice way to do it. Reposts appreciated! www.fab.com/listings/3e3...

This GUID fixer for UE saved me today. I suddenly started getting startup crashes in Game/Packaged builds in the texture streaming system, turns out that a couple of textures had ended up with the same GUID somehow. https://github.com/Nehipasta/UnrealGuidFixer

GitHub - Nehipasta/UnrealGuidFixer: UE5 Plugin for resolving conflicting material and texture GUIDs that cause errors in Unreal builds

UE5 Plugin for resolving conflicting material and texture GUIDs that cause errors in Unreal builds - Nehipasta/UnrealGuidFixer

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Another indie game that I’ve been really enjoying this weekend: Minishoot Adventures. Basically “what if 2D Zelda was a twin-stick shmup”. Lovely clean art, charming, rewards looking for secrets, top notch https://store.steampowered.com/app/1634860/Minishoot_Adventures/

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Fly into a charming handcrafted world and go on an adventure that mixes up open exploration with crispy twin-stick shooter action. Fight your way from the shiny overworld to the deepest caves, improve your ship and overcome the dungeons' bosses to rescue your friends!

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Enjoyed playing through Thank Goodness You’re Here last night. Bonkers and slightly surreal with enough “thee’s” and “thou’s” to remind me of my late grandfather. Gotta wonder how well it translates though 😂 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2366980/Thank_Goodness_Youre_Here/

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Thank Goodness You're Here! is an absurd comedy slapformer set in the bizarre Northern English town of Barnsworth. As a traveling salesman, take the time to see the sights and meet the locals, who are very eager to give you a series of increasingly odd jobs…

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Switched our lobby level back to static lighting today. Old skool tweaking lightmap resolutions. I regret nothing, it's all we need and it runs like butter

Quietly allowing people to assume you use LLM chatbots as well so they stop fecking talking at you about it

I'm not planning to have damage numbers popping out of enemies, but it's very useful to be able to see damage values in testing. I had too much fun making these. Maybe I might use it in a practice range area in the real game at least Video: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@sinbad/115293654944221548

Spending all day in this view making very careful changes so I don't break any of the multiplayer replication & prediction systems, as I chop up the spell system and re-assemble it. All appears to be working again now but 😖I hate multiplayer code

You thought bureaucracy was bad? Enter "vibe working" in Office 365! Try getting any sense at all out of the corporate world now everyone's had their brains cooked by delegating 90% of cognitive functions to a statistically biased bingo machine

What my chair actually looks like vs what my cats think it is This afternoon Merry was defeated in single combat by my chair while I was trying to do the hoovering

I use honey instead of sugar in my bread these days, and having to rescue the last remnants of solidifying honey from the bottom of the bottle with heat and water has made my routinely eyeballed measurements even vaguer than usual.

How very dare games I want to play come out of early access and remove my excuse for why they're not technically adding to my backlog 😭

Got my electric cargo bike properly serviced today. I guess I should probably learn how to do what they did myself - I can do simple things but it's more complex than my old push bike used to be (e.g. actual brake fluid!) and I haven't really found the time

The beta of GOLD TEETH has a great hook #ttrpg

This PR spam seems too dumb even for AI - it just changes my name to theirs and adds some whitespace. Suspect just a kid trying to get a PR approved for a school assignment or something. Blocked anyway, they have to learn https://github.com/sinbad/GitScripts/pull/3

GitScripts by KyUCOMRADE · Pull Request #3 · sinbad/GitScripts

Important git scripts on Git LFS

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Uuum, sure but that's not really my fault, is it? This is your default install location, maybe you should shorten *your* paths 🙄🤣 #unrealengine

I always knew gamers who cry “just add multiplayer, it should only take a couple of months” were idiots but JFC, the experience of making a game where multiplayer was in scope from the start really underlines what absolute bellendery that is

I baked my first apple pie of the year since our tree is ready. Left it to cool on the unit while we ate dinner, with a net cover over it.

I wasn’t expecting much from Skate but I thought I’d at least try it. It spent ages to start up (anti cheat), then completely locked up my PC (likely also anti-cheat since regular software can’t do that and my drivers have been stable for months). Absolutely feck that nonsense. In the bin you go