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Tech Discussion Devlogs From Those You Follow Page 6

An Overview of the Cave Engine!
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Hi everyone! ! It's been a while since the last update, but here it is with a bunch of exciting news for you all about the Cave game engine! Hope y'all enjoy it...
Animations of Octo Curse
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Animations were important part of Octo Curse. We wanted everything to feel alive and playful, which meant a lot of animations. We wanted animations to be smooth...
Update to Godot 4
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Hey! I recently updated the code to use Godot 4.2. You can find the source in the downloads section, on GitHub, or in this post. Tech-wise, I also changed all t...
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Variables and maxing them out
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Choosing to make a game on the Gameboy is about limitations. You’re faced with them at every turn and your game gets shaped by them. Want an extra frame in yo...
The Importance of C# Extensions in Unity
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Unity is a great tool for building games, it offers a ton of features and makes it almost painless to export your game to multiple platforms. However it it stil...
Peter The Giraffe: Making of
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Hello guys, I'm Luife, developer of Peter the Giraffe. I participated in #TuJuegoAJuicioJam, a gamejam organized by youtuber / video game developer Alva Majo. T...
Rise of Piracy Development Update - 1/31/2021
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Hi Guys! As the game development progresses on my Twitch (link on profile) with the new version, I am aware this demo is still being downloaded quite a bit! Th...
The Podium Update / La Actualización del Podio
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We Gladly present the first update of Kawaiiju. Now that the team could regroup and increase the communication, we can deliver a lot of features that we intende...
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Brief look at the demo and WIPs
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Hello there, Abstract_Panic is here. I am the only programmer for Croaking Hill. ;) We released our little demo almost 2 weeks ago. So I wanted to talk about t...
one sprite = one hundred cowboys?
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Game consoles of old use palettised sprites, a range of colour indexes that could be swapped out to make sprites different colours. The most famous example of t...
Writing a simple save/load system with backups
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Why have a persistence system? So saving/loading is a key thing with any game that wants to have state beyond running the app once. You have a wide variety of o...
Coding & testing multiplayer | Soldat 2 Devlog #3
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Want to know how making and testing dedicated servers looks like? Want to see a surprise Zombie Mode? :P Watch my Soldat 2 devlog, have fun and educate yourse...
Lighting part 2 - shadows
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Should shadows should be part of the Bad Pixels look? Old 3D games seemed like they didn't use shadows. If you look a little closer, it seems that most games di...
Tiny Technicalities: What's in an Action?
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Hi everyone! I’m Ell, the creator and lead developer of Tiny Life, and this is a new sort of series of devlogs that we’re starting. We’re calling it Tiny...
The core of the Lancer Tactics engine.
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Burn it down, start again Step #1 of post-Kickstarter production was to start over in a new codebase. If we're going to be spending the next ~2-3 years on this...
How does one fix AI starvation?
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Knights Province AI opponents in Skirmish have a known occasional issue of not producing enough food for their servants, resulting in citizen starvation and ear...
The Making Of OutRun Chapter 1: The Long Road!
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For the curious and the hardcore, I’m launching a brand-new video series that dives deep into the legendary OutRun arcade hardware -unpacking how it worked an...
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Artificial intelligence on the NES
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Introduction The implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in games is certainly not something new, but this art matured greatly in the last decades. In th...
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First technical demos
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Some technical demonstrations. Optimizations behind player's screen...
Shadowgate progress (And inventory deep dive)
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Hi all! It's been a little while so I thought I'd share an update on how Shadowgate PD is progressing. TL:DR, it's going really well! In this devlog I will be d...
Recreating a classic Soldat map in Unity Soldat 2 Devlog #5
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Do you recognize which map I'm recreating in this new devlog?...
Yamada Hoshi Devlog #5
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How do you do, everyone? Mangoku418 here! And welcome back to an all-new devlog for April 2021! Truth be told, I don't have too much to update at the moment. Th...
Level Design in Somnipathy: Building the Apartment
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Making Somnipathy Saturday 4/2/22, Around 1 PM: Zaknafean : HVC, make the apartment. HVC : Uhh. sounds like an art team problem to me. Zaknafean : Nah, all the...
DIGITAL DICE AVAILABLE
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https://michael-klamerus.itch.io/dice-o-matic-2000 Michael was very kind and added my custom dice to their Dice-O-Matic 2000...
Video devlog 2/6: procedural walking from scratch
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A lot of dev, not so much log this time :). I was so unhappy with the old simple walking system that I completely rebuilt it from the ground up. This new system...
Development Notes #4 | Technical Blind-Spots and What the Game Maker Profiler Doesn't Tell You
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Hello, this is Garrett Thompson, sole member of Act-Novel. In the last Development Notes entry , I wrote a bit at the end about a potential VRAM bottleneck disc...
Post-Jam fixes
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Just fixed a major game-breaking bug where if you get shot while in dialogue the game essentially stops working as well as a few spelling errors. I also added a...
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Lighting & the cutting room floor
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A lot of my effort lands on the cutting room floor. Have you ever watched videos of a certain game, and thought "how did they do that?". This kind of research o...
So, About Unity
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You might have heard the recent news about Unity, the game engine software used to make all my games (excluding Uncleft, that was Gamemaker). It is incredibly i...
Introducing MKFX
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MK effects (MKFX) is a new suite of single, built-in nodes made for quick effect. MKFX simplifies setup for commonly used effects with specialized parameter con...
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SIEGE OF OSAKA | Tech Stuff
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Tech Breakdown Disclaimer: I'm not a programmer at all. Somehow this stuff works, but there are probably better ways of doing it. ----- VFX So for a long time...
Infinimoes Transition Effects
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When I was posting some gifs during development, some people were curious about how I achieved some of the effects in pico8. In this post, I'll be going over so...
Programming in Game Maker as a non-programmer
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Hi folks, South Cliff was released yesterday, and I thought it might be interesting to look back on my experiences working with Game Maker Studio 2, as I basica...
We fixed the main bugs
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Hey ! We discovered several bugs with your feedback so this is a list of bugs fixes : - Spamming space bar - Several fight appearing We have also reduce the h...
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Mr. Krabs v1.18
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Major improvements to overall bugs and known issues, new items have been added Health Bar Ketamine now gives additional health Ketamine increases overall speed...
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Basics of the Illustration Process
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I wanted use the devlog feature here to share some of my working process, starting with a basic explanation of the mix media method I have going. If people are...
How did I Accelerate Game Design, Development and Build
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There are many aspects to consider when building a game. This requires a lot of knowledge, skills and time to build and integrate all the components. Fortunatel...
Optimization: what I did to make the game 300 times faster
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A major point of feedback for evolution simulator The Sapling is that the players wanted larger levels. To make this possible, I spent three months optimizing t...
Doom Guys: change enemy damage
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Added a bigger credits section and raised the enemy bullets from 5 damage to 15 damage. The game is still easy and accessible though...
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Fixing issues in the new gamemode | Soldat 2 Devlog #4
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Want to see how I make Soldat 2? The new devlog shows an example of a day where I fix typical issues after making a new gamemode. Check it out...
Сreating a Telegram bot
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Announcement! creating a telegram bot Statistics based on your feedback show that "Tuesday JS" is used for more than just visual novels. A small part of the aud...
Minimum Viable Roguelike Tiles
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Lately I’ve been doodling some hand-drawn 2.5D tiles for Roguelike games. Here’s a page from my sketch book to give you an idea of the vector style I’m go...
Fitness Controller available for download on the Android Playstore :)
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I'm super proud to announce that the FitController is now officially ready to download at the Android Play Store (And soon also available at the Apple App Store...
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A midnight in February in the year 2400
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As I near final release, I was tidying up what happens when one of the quick minute-to-minute transition animations (fade or slide) crosses the boundary between...
Flaws that you have revealed...
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have been a great help! Hi, this is Corporate Entity, LLC and you have revealed flaws in the Theian Engine used to power Goblin.Life merely by visiting corporat...
How does this all work in Pulp?
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Hello! Thanks for following the project. In this devlog I'd like to showcase how Shadowgate PD works in Pulp. For those who don't know, Pulp is a web based deve...
Filler post: creating a crafty custom camera
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Hello again. If - for some reason - you're avidly following the project, you may have noticed it's not out yet. Put simply, this is because our eyes have been b...
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