I added a new enemy! This tanky, bullet-hell-esque guy hopefully teaches players to drill through bullets and that staggered enemies won't shoot, so they are safe to bounce on. #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Added an outline effect to show when the player can't bounce on an enemy, and will instead dash right through them #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Working on enemy pathfinding that tries to get horizontal with the player #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Working on creating more room layouts! #gamedev #indiedev

Added a new enemy, the Sand Piranhas! They're not very smart... They do be biting tho #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Decided to go with the chunky polygons #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Thinking about rendering the polygons in a separate viewport to try to achieve a more consistent artstyle #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Added more weapons to my twin-stick shooter / 2D platformer roguelike! These are very typical, but I also want to have more wacky stuff like Gungeon #gamedev #indiedev #Godot

Finally added some gun graphics! #gamedev #indiedev #Godot

Started working on the gun system. Thanks to #Godot, I can have this AtributeModifier class to change bullet properties in the inspector without having to write specific code. That way I can have a few bullet archetypes that I can reuse in multiple weapons with the tweaks I want. #gamedev #indiedev

Made a few more rooms. Still trying to figure out what makes for a fun combat arena. Right now all I have is "Make the player move and have interesting options", but I'm still working on how to enforce that. I guess it's as good an excuse as any to binge-watch nl playing gungeon. #gamedev #indiedev

Started working on the player graphics, which is kind of an excruciating process for me . I needed to show when the player has the drill available, like hair color in Celeste. For now, what I've landed on is having the character toss the drill away when they loose the ability. #gamedev #indiedev

Made some drill-bullets that are able to go through sand #gamedev #indiedev

Updated the drill effect! Doing it with sprites makes it look better and lets me clip them to the dirt, so it doesn't look wonky when exiting anymore. #gamedev #indiedev

Added room locking and a basic wave system, so the core gameplay loop is now in place. Now I guess it's time to work on the meat of the game (rooms, enemies, weapons, upgrades, ...) until I have enough to build a small demo and see if it's any fun 🫠 #gamedev #indiedev #godot #screenshotsaturday

Working on improving player expression in my platformer/twin-stick shooter by adding some contextual moves. I'm trying to squeeze many distinct interesting possibilities out of this 2 actions and directional input. #gamedev #indiedev

Got the outline and collision for the hallways implemented! Since this was the "weridest" thing that I wanted to tackle in this project, I expected to find less easy resources about it, so I'm happy to have it working! #gamedev #indiedev

I think I figured out this polygon merging thing! #gamedev #Godot

Got the basics of the procedural generation working! Still a long way to go tho. I'll need to figure out how to get the union of some polygons for collisions in the hallways, as currently there's nothing stopping you from just... leaving the map. Also an actual camera system lol #gamedev #indiedev

we've got triangles!

unremarkablehandle.bsky.social@unremarkablehandle.bsky.social · 4w ago

Started working on the procedural generation. But right now I'm just trying to figure out how to separate rectangles lol #gamedev

Started working on the procedural generation. But right now I'm just trying to figure out how to separate rectangles lol #gamedev

Added a new enemy!🦔 This *legally distinct* blue hedgehog rolls into a ball and charges at you whenever they see you #gamedev #indiedev

I added a posture/stagger mechanic to my prototype, inspired by the stagger in Souls games and glory kills from modern DOOM. I like that it rewards good aiming and committing to a target instead of "spray and pray"; and staying close rather than kiting every few shots. #gamedev #indiedev

A prototype starts to feel a bit like an actual game when I catch myself trying to pause it… even though I haven’t built a pause menu yet

Added a new enemy! 🌱 It shoots guided acorns like a turret, but buries itself underground when it feels threatened. You have to dash into the dirt to force it back out and stun it, and shoot it before it hides again. #gamedev #indiedev

Made the first grounded enemy, a cactus! 🌵 It's something simple to start with, but it's actually nice to have an enemy that doesn't constantly chase you. These guys make it harder for the player to abuse their high mobility and always run away to safety. #gamedev #indiedev

Added a ball to my roguelike. It's surprisingly kind of fun to just kick it around. Maybe it could be a grenade that enemies throw, and that you can shoot back at them. #gamedev

As a little treat to myself, I added a Celeste-style wavedash to my platformer/twin-stick shooter prototype. #gamedev

A dash? For your roguelike?

unremarkablehandle.bsky.social@unremarkablehandle.bsky.social · last mo.

Godot prototype for Celeste meets Enter the Gungeon

Godot prototype for Celeste meets Enter the Gungeon