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Game Tech Discussion Devlogs Page 3

Developing the Genesis/Megadrive port
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Decades ago, my parents bought me a Sega Genesis model 1. It was love at first sight with the fast and smooth arcade action of Sonic, Shinobi, Thunder Force, Al...
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Should I add endless mode to Kiosk?
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A lot of people like the cooking part of Kiosk more than anything else so I was thinking to make endless mode for steam version . What do you guys think? If you...
Terrain
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One of the questions in any Unity game is how do you go about making a terrain. There is a terrain engine built-in, however it is notoriously "one-size-fits-all...
Shadow prototype free for a while
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The prototype “Shadow” I made in 2020 is available for free for a while. It demonstrates two things: high frame rates (30Hz to 300Hz) flashing alternate dit...
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"Tech Discussion" - Gravity Hybrid DMX Lighting
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FR: Salut les rockeurs ! Voilà quelques petites captures d'écran / vidéo de moi qui montre l'éclairage du gravity building ! (J'étais en train de travaille...
Robot Talk Pretty One Day
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Greetings lovelies! First off, we are overflowing with gratitude to everyone who has checked out ‘Love & Country’! It was terrifying to put something we pou...
Compiling Godot 4.2.2 for large world sizes
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Brief technical discussion and video today about migrating Godot 4.2.2 to double in order to accomodate huge map sizes, such as you find in space games. Writeup...
Iteration times
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Nothing impacts more a project than wasted time , and nothing impacts more the quality of the work than the iteration time between when something is changed and...
Blockbench + Construct 3
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Instead of using the default 3D objects of Construct 3, I tried to make the models in Blockbench and use Mikal's 3D plugin for C3. This workflow is much more fu...
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...
More Music: How it Works and the Biggest Mistake I Made
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Welcome to our second devlog about the music of Love & Country ! This is Guhuhu’s in-house composer Zachary Pinkham. Last time, we talked about the aesthetic...
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The Tech Behind karyogenesys
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Some of you may be curious about what the tech stack behind karyogenesys is composed of, so I'm here to shed some light on it! Our game is proudly made with the...
Why building another Adventure Engine?
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When I started playing adventure games back in the 80ies, there were basically two types of game implementations: Games written as actual programs Games using s...
#2 Devlog - Concepts, concepts, CONCEPTS!!!
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Heyo! I’m Tyler, I've been very excited to work with everyone at Speldosa and bring my 5+ years of game graphics design experience to good use. Project Shorel...
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...
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...
Modern cryptography on the NES
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Super Tilt Bro. is an online game. You can even make an account to be placed on the official ranking, to do that you simply enter your login/password and... the...
Switching to 3d models
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Not yet ready for a new release but pivoting to 3d models is a go. Runs solid at 30FPS on the Playdate! Got a simple Blender to C workflow, easy to add new mode...
Next steps before the patch
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The next patch is coming, but there is a HUGE pile of work on my plate before I can deliver it, so I'll be dark for a little while. I need to: * Upgrade to the...
#1 Devlog | 3D environments
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Hello fellow cleaners, hope you’re having fun playing Project Shoreline! I’m here to talk a little about 3D graphics, particularly for the environment – b...
Vexed for Atari 5200
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When I released the Atari 5200 version of Vexed, it worked fine on the two emulators I was using: Atari800 and Mame. I don't have actual hardware for these syst...
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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...
Patch
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Patched a warp glitch that happens in the first stage. If player does not scroll far enough to the right player will not warp to next screen. Patched a death gl...
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Designing Enemies | Project Feline Devlog
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Introducing new enemy designs for Project Feline! These precision-made police drones hunt in a pack searching all corners of the world for Gabi, the cat-girl fu...
add new sound
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We added a new sound system to make the cars sound with horns smoother for our players...
Music and atmosphere
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[FR] Hello à toutes et à tous ! (english below) Ça fait un peu de temps, mais c’est le moment pour un nouveau devlog ! Aujourd’hui on va voir comment le...
v0.7.0-dev and future upgrades
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I present a new version in development of The Zero Day . It is only a testing and development version, not much can be done. Although I am planning to add sever...
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give us a new idea to add to our game
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Hello guys , since we are developing our game SERK. we have multiple ideas in our mind to add to our game , we would like to hear from you guys what do you thin...
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...
Did anyone play on MacOS?
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Quick question, but I'm trying to do some MacOS bugfixing. Has anyone tried to play the game on MacOS that wasn't using MacOS Monterey? I've gotten a couple rep...
Making a toolkit for a game engine (technical)
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If you are a developer, you have probably felt this at least once: "Holy frick! I'm a programming god!" This feeling usually comes when either A) You have spent...
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Audio breakdown
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This is an overview of the audio tech and design for UDLR_Modify. SOUND TECH The basis for the sound tech in this game is a single node with the audio handler s...
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Major Update 3.1.2024
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Big Update over the last 2 days: The player now has the ability to do the following: Pickup Heavy Ammo Store up to 8 heavy ammo shots. select between standard a...
*UPDATE* 2.26
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the game has officially been in development now for over a month. This weekend, while working on the mayor's mansion, I took some time to fix a few bugs. Bug...
magic dino platformer competition
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competition come up with new enemies, levels, compose music for the game or draw textures. For everything you send, if used, you will receive a reward, email: f...
Played Rotten Flesh? Show us your video!
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Have you played Rotten Flesh? Then what are you waiting for, post your video in the comments! I love seeing your videos, feedback, criticism and reaction! Here...
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Making a game for Playdate with Pure C. Chapter 2
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I'm writing a game for the Playdate game console in pure C. The game is a survivalist game like Vampire Survivors. Since pure C lacks many modern object-oriente...
Tires at Rest - A Deceptive Solution
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I promised a couple individuals I'd share a trick for smoothing out solving the equations for a stopped tire, long overdue. 🙏 If you're reading this after th...
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...
Why and how we used AI generative tools
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How the game happened We started developing The Nameless City 3 years ago. The core idea of the game was a PSX horror aesthetic inspired by Lovecraft’s short...
Making a game for Playdate with Pure C. Chapter 1
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Once upon a time (a year ago actually) I purchased one non typical handheld game console called Playdate. It is tiny, yellow and has a crank which can be cranke...
Week 2
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Hey sorry for the late update. So we at ultimate studios have some good news and bad news. So the good news is that we have made some characters and tiles for o...
Fix for the white screen shader problem is now on every platform!
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Hello everyone, Liminal Memory has brought a lot of attention and downloads without any particular source. I've already posted Windows version of the game witho...
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Add bug reports here
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Been working hard on squashing bugs, but wanted to have a place you can also report anything you may run into so I can make sure it all gets fixed asap!!...
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Lore Based Quest System: Adventures in Procedural Narration
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I have completed the refactored procedural quest system for GearHead Caramel. Some of you might remember that this is the big thing I've been working on for mos...
First Release On 28 Dec 2023
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The first release of the game, enjoy it. Any feedback or offer: tttriet1997@gmail.com...
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Spotlight on conversation and map systems
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Hi all! As part of campaigning for votes for the Playdate Community Awards 2023, I was asked if I'd ever done a write-up for the conversation and map features f...
Journey to Demi Daggers
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Demi Daggers was born out of multiple ‘dead ends’: too ambitious Quake engine to really fit Pico8 constraints aborted 3d platforming game using a voxel worl...
Endless Tower v.1.6.1
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ESPAÑOL - Se han reescrito y simplificado algunos scripts. Principalmente la lógica tras el sistema de disparo y algunas detecciones de colisiones. - Se ha me...
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Tavern Talk characters are several sprites in a trenchcoat
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Today we reveal a small secret: the characters have layers (literally). We are not talking about the ordinary layers artists usually have to render more easily...
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