@Kaplin867+Day 286 / 365
Noway its 286 so you know i just had to draw the last 100 doodles but lowk im lazy and didnt draw all of it. Only got through the first 15. will finish tommorow i promise!!!!! As for what i actually did today, i was out of the house for school and errands and other stuff til 6, and when i got home i coded for an hour, and then played for the rest of the night lol. I coded some basic turn stuff for my taiyaki game, and a way to choose between the 9 miniboards when no miniboard is selected.
(also the image is blurry / unreadable since i just took a screenshot lol)
✏️🎒🎮@Kaplin867+Day 285 / 365
Sadly a good portion of today my internet was out, i suppose its not all that bad because i was able to lock in a bit. I coded some camera movement stuff alongside setup for rendering in my tic tac toe deckbuilder game thingamajig for taiyaki. Since the game is a spin on ultimate-tic-tac-toe, i made it so it can zoom on a specific "mini-board" or the full board. Tommorow i will probably maybe do the rest of the data-side for the boards
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 284 / 365
Today was a good day but i cant have anything too much to comment on lol. I played games, but i also worked on my taiyaki game!! i made a custom font, and tommorow i will start working on actual gameplay.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 282 / 365
Today I didnt do too much really. I slept in a lot, and then played a lot. i workshopped some ui for the taiyaki game. and uh yeah no other comments lol!!
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 281 / 365
5 more days until 286 :o and then 4 more days after that for my birthdays. Today i started work on a new game, one in the style of my scrapbook doodles lol!! im doing it for the new upcoming taiyaki ysws. make sure to rsvp guys so they actually run it!!! The game is going to be a tic tac toe deckbuilder, trust the process. I will send some actual images once i get good progress. today all i did was work on a character creator from pieces, which i will be using to generate kaplin86s
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 278 / 365
Today I worked a bit on my game, One Turret (go wishlist it on steam, and dont buy it until the update happens lol). I got the builder part of the map builder working, but only for base background tiles. Tommorow i will maybe possibly try getting rotations and decor tiles to be placeable.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 275 / 365
I didnt code any today either. actually, i was going to try and sleep in and just like rest for most of the day, but that got interrupted by my father lol (who apparently didnt even read the messages in the family group chat). oh well, atleast i watched my friends play games a lot today. well, i tend to do that a lot recently lol. I think i need to get used to not being productive (in like a hobby sense not school sense, im very productive there), because this past while has been pretty coding-less outside of game jams.
Also note on the doodle: i was NOT about to go through the effort of trying to make a proper sitting pose lols!
🎒🎮💤@Kaplin867+Day 272 / 365
The prize i chose from last jame gam finally arrived, that being yet another game design book. Attached is a photo of it!! My good friend regonold finally beat a game i got him hooked on. And after that, i really didnt do much. i was somewhat tired but also just generally bored. like "i want to code but i dont want want to code" yknow? anywhom the hack club happenings post from yesterday really resonated with me. very good journalism. specifically the part about how many people can start their own things in hack club. it reminded me of my wip club ysws, which... ive been in this progress state for like 90 days, waiting for the club ops lead (and the other club ops person whos helping) to do the last little bit they need to for launch. atleast thats what i think is needed. ive sorta been in the dark for most of that time, repeatedly being in a 'il get back to you' state or just being ghosted entirely. only recently was i actually told i was good for launch, and never got a reply to my response. though i suppose their either just busy, or im not bringing it up enough. but i have like a phobia for messaging people or something. it just really feels like im stepping out of my lane and that im truly bothering someone. that people will look down on me, thinking im needy from asking for their attention. this same over-thinking is what causes me to think one of them is going to read this and be like "I dont think your fit for hosting a ysws", which is something i doubt they would say, and yet it comes into my head anyways...
can you tell its been a long day with not as much sleep? sorry for ranting. i just needed to get this off my chest somewhere. and funnily enough, this blog (i guess it is kinda a blog, isnt it?) feels like one of the easiest places for me to write my thoughts. thank you hack club.
🎮💤📦@Kaplin867+Day 271 / 365
Today I came home from the beach trip, albeit very late into the day. on the way back we visited ODU again to talk with the program director guy for the game studies stuff. cool dude. though after looking at it in the car, i dont think going to that college is a valid option since my dual enrolment credits wouldnt move over for some reason. I dont remember much else outstanding happening. i am sooo tired though jeez. il probably do something interesting tommorow. hopefully.
🚗🎮@Kaplin867+Day 269 / 365
Writing this in my phone real quick because I am TIRED. today we actually went to the beach on our beach trip. So that was fun. Typically I'm not the biggest fan of the beach, but due to he extreme winds, one of those smaller Styrofoam-like surfboards found its way to me and my brother. After chasing it down and catching it, we played around with it (wasn't able to surf though since we weren't allowed to go far into the water) (also I don't know how to surf so don't expect it). I coded a good bit on my jame gam game!! Got the gameplay done, and a main menu. Tommorow I will polish it fully then submit it!!
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 268 / 365
Today I coded a lot in the car! And I was in the car a lot because im going to the beach!! so uh yeah. I also toured Old Dominion University since it was on the way and they also have some game design stuff. The campus was really nice, but im a bit sad since we went to the building that the game design stuff would be in, and we only actually saw the office of one game study professor. only one (the other campuses ive visited that have dedicated game studies atleast have like 3 professors i could easily find). this could just be because we didnt search all the other floors fully, but I doubt their office would be on the floor dedicated for religion and philosophy for example. Anywhom, good day overall i think.
📚🎮🚗@griffen0hey everyone, rn i'm developing an underwater adventure game in godot localhost this is just the movement so far and i would love feedback about what u think about it. btw wasd and arrow keys to move and shift to sprint
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 258 / 365
I dont have too much to comment about today lol. I made a readme for my jame gam / brackeys 2026.2 submission, and had to practically interrogate one of my friends to see what type of license he wanted for his one song in the game. I dont think he full understood what i was asking but we ball. And uh yeah nothing else to comment on lol. I want to add some more junk to that multiplayer test tommorow, after im done getting my photos taken :)
I was feeling a bit lazy with todays doodle but i find recurring jokes funny (hence why i do it so many times)
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 257 / 365
Today i did make programming progress stuff! I started on a multiplayer project using steamworks. it seems easy enough to get started in godot, and i started rough drafting a guide. I got it to do basic connections with a lobby code. I mean even if me and regonold dont fully make the ysws (whether that be we dont get sponsored or something else happens), i still want to make the guide for my own learning purposes as i eventually want to add a multiplayer mode into my game One Turret since its already on steam!! outside of that i just generally had a good day :)
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 256 / 365
I may or may not have procrastinated on 2 homework assignments and had to do 10 hours of homework today. :) but im still happy because i got to spend some time with my online friends! in particular, i had previously gotten one of my friends (regonold) hooked on a little game called Library of Ruina. great game would recommend, bit dark but its peak. anywhom, he finally got past the point of progression i was stuck at and is now doing the final stretch of the game. yay! i still want to code a tech demo for the ysws thing and i think i can do that tommorow. we were also thinking about changing the main appeal to be "Make a multiplayer game using Steamworks API, get a grant to publish your game on steam". i think thats a relatively good hook, though i havent actually asked any peeps for feedback yet (i still want to make a guide first and make sure its a reasonable project!!)
📝🎮@Kaplin867+Day 248 / 365
ok yeah no just played games all day no coding, but i DID do some homework and multiplayer research. In particular, im looking into peer-to-peer connections and a good way to do it. Why? Me and my close friend Regonold are thinking of trying to make an online multiplayer ysws. like make a game thats online multiplayer, get cool stuff or something idk. We really want to do it. Plus I already have a few notes from my summer internship submission (which was for party games). But before we try to get a sponsor or RSVPs, we are doing some research as if we were to make a demo project / guide. Im thinking of using STUN as it seems like a better option than basic port forwarding. im going to be doing a bit more research to find the path of least resistance, but honestly a lot of this stuff is new to me since ive always been a sorta "singleplayer video game and basic website programmer" type of guy.
🎮🔬📝☀️@Kaplin867+Day 245 / 365
I was fairly busy today. With school and some tasks after. So i didnt really have a lot of screen time in the grand scheme of things, so no programming or anything. I am also sick. so yaaaay... and im really fatigued / tired from something man. i dont even know what atp bro. and tommorow is also going to be busy toooooo yaaaay. I did try out "dont starve together" with a friend. It was fairly fun, but we lowkey suck lol. I did write down some more world building stuff for router rebellion. I would rant about what i wrote but im now realizing i never actually like... explained the world building at all. so basically theres these elements, 11 in total (13 if we count the extinct ones). each element has magic users and whatnot. the main gimmick with this though is that there exists a category of people called "idols". Idols have increased magical abilities, effectively becoming the best of that specific magic type. Idols are determined by their popularity, more specifically, "how many people are conciously thinking of them". thats just something that magic "naturally" does in that world. like theres no definitive cause or anything. theres not a machine doing it or some magic stone or anything. magic just naturally finds its way to the most popular person. anyways, the game would be open world in the sense you choose 1 of 10 tracks in whatever order. each track for one of the elements. at the end of each area, you recruit the idol to your party and they accompany you for the rest of the journey. I want to make the dialogue dynamic in the sense that htey have different dialogue based on how long they have been journeying with you, alongside who else you might have in your party. its ambitious, sure, but it makes it feel more personal in my opinion. and it allows me to give a lot more character depth without having to make dialogue actually long. theres just a lot of dialogue, but not at once. anywhom for the thing i wrote TODAY was more on the development of the characters throughout the journey, condensing it mostly into one or two sentences. idk maybe i will talk more about that stuff at a later date once i actually start like doing the story stuff in router rebellion
🖋️🎮🎒@Kaplin867+Day 244 / 365
Honestly i felt really bored today lol. I dont have anything particular i want to do. I might try to get back into the swing of coding One Turret or Router Rebellion, since those ARE my long term projects, but the more i think about making a game in the style of my scrapbook doodles, the more i want to do it, but odds are i probably wouldnt even finish it if im not doing it for a hack club thing or something of the likes. and i mean, theres not many prizes i would want from hack club. One thing i want in particular is a steam publishing grant, as i would love to have another one of those. I was considering possibly having the game for stardance, but the hours seem really rough given its voting system. Like in normal hack club standards, it would be 20 hours. On a previous project i submitted, i worked 11 hours, and only gained enough stardust (the currency for stardance if you didnt know) to cover 35% of the cost. So uh yeah. im going to have to pass on submitting it to stardance. Idk maybe another game-focused (or just non-voting-based general) ysws will come around soon.
🎮🫠@Kaplin867+Day 241 / 365
Today I had another hack club meeting! it was really productive since we fully modeled our hackpads!! yay!! Outside of that, I locked in a considerable bit on the game jam game. Im fairly tired so I wont go into depth on it today, but il probably send the game on this scrapbook once i submit it. I also think i might participate in a hack club ysws called "suncatcher", where you have to make a project thats grayscale. I would probably make a game in the style of my scrapbook doodles, and it would be a comedic joke game. And also probably a tic tac toe deck builder which i will not be elaborating.
🎮@aadi_da_noob0Had been working on this Python project, don't have a name for it yet - simply "game".
I had started with wanting to make a kind of dungeon-crawler RPG or something that renders in the terminal, without really using any external library like pygame (I don't have experience with it anyway).
But while I was making it in a single file, messy and all, I got more and more interested in the actual process. I made a new file and defined some classes, some objects to be rendered, the "screen" to be rendered, etc. And so, after some time, I came to the realization that this was turning into a small, scrappy, by-sheer-technicality 1D GAME ENGINE.
That's the journey.
Today, I setup git and made a personal canvas to track todos. Haven't made a GitHub repo yet, will in the future.
Don't know if this project will end up abandoned too, but for tomorrow my main goal is to try and squeeze some time for coding and fix some bugs.
The image just looks funny cuz the main player is an "@" symbol and i experimented with some other objects, like the "E" for a static "enemy".
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 240 / 365
Today I worked even more on my jame gam game!! I modeled a cool vase relic, but also made a tutorial and a few other small things. I feel like i acomplished a good bit. Im going to try staying up a bit to get a bit more done too. I wonder why im so fine with doing that lol. i guess i just really like the craft..? idk. Reality is lemons and the internet's my lemonade /ref
🎮@Abdulgafar Abdurrasheed0Okay, first post, so i think i should start as Day 1, right?
Anyway, Day 1, and i'm learning RUST. Form the beginning, using the official book at doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book. Why? well i hear it's stupid fast, and great for systems engineering. I'm gonna be using it to build cool stuff for Stardance(Hoping it get's extended 😌).
Anyway, I already completed chapters 1 and 2, and learnt about Rust, Cargo, Variables, and some really basic stuff(Made the classic guessing game already). Anyway........
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 239 / 365
hi guys kaplin here. Today was fairly good although it was a bit busy with school and all. I locked in and made 5 new relics for my brackeys game jam jame gam game!! They are all paintings, some of which you might recognize!! i will admit i was hoping to do a bit more today but i was fairly busy and tired. Tommorow i have like a LOT of free time so i should be able to lock in big time. though there is some buisness i have to attend to tommorow, i dont really know when it will happen but dont worry its peak stuff that might imply something cool is happening soon hopefully.
🎮🎒@Kaplin867+Day 238 / 365
Once i was done with school, i got straight to working on my jame gam game!! I made some proper 3d material thingamajigs for the museum. I planned it all out and will probably finish it tommorow now that i have the pieces. I also will add some more relics since thats like also important. fun fact: i had icecream today and it was yummy :)
🎮🎒@Kaplin867+Day 237 / 365
Class. Eh i only had statistics today so it was fine we ball, but i had to wait for my brother to get out of his classes so i had to stay there for sooo long. I worked a bit more on my brackeys game jam game after!! I got the full game loop with the day end screen, and it will fire you if your too innacurate. Tommorow i will make the museum and i want it to have proper exhibits and everything. in the meta-museum mode it will show all the relics you have gotten over all your runs, so there should be proper exhibit placing and whatnot.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 236 / 365
I dont really have anny comments for today lol. I did some online introductory start-of-semester stuff since its the first day of school. luckily since its like dual enrollment college stuff i didnt go today so yippee yay. hooray. i go tommorow though sigh. oh well. I programmed the books in my brackeys game jam jame gam game. I also got the real / fake buttons working, so now you can properly do half of the game loop. I honestly dont know what to do next, but it will probably just be main menu, and like some sort of day end screen or something. I think that, if time allows, i want two modes. One more chill lofi one where its entirely focused on being accurate with your guesses. The other gamemode would be focused on being both accurate and fast and would generally feel more tense. I also want it to save what relics you have authenticated over your entire playtime and not just one run, and it will probably be its own mode called like "meta-museum" or something lol. we will have to see if i actually get those in or if i somehow end up overscoping again.
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• Finalized a prototype game!! hey everyone, great news!! I have created the fundamental game!! I will post a link to play in a few days. additional dev logs will come with more info on what was developed with better documentation :)
• server devlog #1 - Lua integration + writing a spatial hash. hey everyone! apparently my last project didnt get any stardust because I didnt devlog (and some people being unreasonable in their feedback). so here we go! over the past 6 hours (hackatime genuinely sucks - cant record my hours properly) I have worked on integrating Lua into my server. this is for runtime modification and future plugin support. I also developed a spatial hash following Teschner’s Spatial Hashing algorithm. I dont know how well this post will fair and I dont even know how to get a newline character in these posts, so I will cut it short for now. if you want I can always go more in depth in the comments - just ask! :)
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Today was an interesting day because the brackeys jam started 3 hours before i woke up, and since i like immediately checked it on my phone, it was quite literally on my mind the whole day. Im participating because of the jame gam hack club event (you should check it out if you havent! its #C0BBFQASBV2) The theme is "trust no one". My thought process for coming up with a game was this sequence: "Trust no one" -> "Library of babel" (a bit lose but the concept of 'trusting the library of babel' is a thought ive had a few times before this) -> "Misinformation in media" -> "Storage of information that can potentially be incorrect" -> "Museum". So now im making a game where you can NOT trust your donors. You play as a newly hired museum staff for a museum, and you need to verify if certain relics are real or not. The goal is to do this as fast as possible, alongside being accurate. You get the verification info from various books at your disposal you will need to read. I dont think overscoping will be a issue this time around, since the gameplays pretty simple. So that gives me more time to polish and add content. as for actual dev progress, I got a simple 3d scene setup with camera movements, but also the ability to rotate relics around with proper movement cancellation / freezing. lastly, i got the first type of fake relic done, that being the texture-based ones that have no model differences. so if i use the fake boolean it will randomly choose a texture and whatnot. Tommorow i will probably get the full gameloop done and get books working.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 234 / 365
Today was exhausting. Not to long after waking up, I had to help my dad and brother build a grill cover outside for the grill. I mean it wasnt that difficult, but ive never been a fan of doing manual labor outdoors. After that i played for a bit, like not too long and i didnt really do much either, but then i went to go eat dinner, immediately followed by going to the movies! We saw spider man brand new day. Good movie, i approve! Though it was fairly long and i was pretty exhausted after. and it was late. so odds are im not going to do too much. Though over today, i did a bit of reflecting because summers basically over for me now. I start classes on monday, sooo... yeah. I do feel like i could have done this summer better, honestly. Like i could have made more games, made more memories, become a better person, etc. But eh, its all in the past now, isnt it? So I should go into this next school year thinking these ideals. Its honestly kinda funny though, this next week is going to be something. I have the start of school, brackeys game jam, that cobblemon minecraft server i mentioned many posts ago that is having its development repicked up, and also some hack club relating stuff. Never a dull moment for ol' kaplin. thats a lie there is very much dull moments.
☀️🎮🎒📽️@Kaplin867+Day 233 / 365
I got the main core battling stuff for Router Rebellion done, So next is to get the cool and unique card system to work, but I should probably make a proper status effect system before that, lol. and also figure out a good way to code it. The main thing is that these are cards and statuses that would have to insert themselves into the code in a good way, and id rather not loop through each one running some potentially-empty function to see if it changes a certain value. Doing that every single time anything happens seems really inefficient. Im a tad bit stumped on how to do it, because im used to just using like... normal classes that are a subclasses, which would involve having functions for everything like on turn end, on burn inflicted, on burn recover, etc. etc. just WAY too many things. Idk im probably going to pause development given that brackeys game jam starts in 31 hours as of writing this. I wanted to read more of my cool new book anyways, that way i could be more prepared for this jam since i have more time to analyze it using the lense things the book has.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 232 / 365
Didnt do any programming, mostly due to the fact i slept in and i was spending a lot of time reading this new book i got from the jame gam hack club event!! i really like it :) I also tried out a minecraft mod called "reigns of nether" which turns it into a RTS game which made it pretty fun. My friend won by a lot in our 1v1 but it was fun regardless.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 231 / 365
Today was pretty good! The full targeting and move usage junk works in Router Rebellion, and I started work on the Move Effect system that causes moves to actually do stuff. I got a base damage resource in but its not working just yet. I was more focused on doing this cool thing ive never done before: Dynamic Godot export variables. By default, when you have an array export in Godot (like an array of MoveEffect resources), you have to manually click into it, then specifically hit a button to add a new element. And it also makes it a lot more annoying to edit the move effects since the ui horizontaly shrinks with each layer of variables. So what i did is make it display new "fake variables", one for each pre-existing element in the array, and one extra one for easily adding more. It properly removes stuff when set back to null to! Now its just a list of variables rather than an array, which is WAY cleaner. If your curious on how i pulled this off, i used the getproperty_list() function. Definently give it a read on the docs! I also used an abstract class for the first time, that way the base MoveEffect doesnt show up in the resource-select dialogue. Its because the base move effect doesnt do anything lol, no reason for it to be there! man i love godot :)
and on an additional note, I got my keychain from the giftbox event last year! And hopefully my game design book from jame gam event arrives tommorow, just in time for the next one we are crashing, which is in 3 days!
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 230 / 365
Today i did some good coding on router rebellion. got a tad bit closer to fully implementing the quick time event, but i got distracted by one thing. Polytoria, the roblox "clone". me and my friend regonold played it a bit and we had a fun time lol. I really like their quest system. The platform felt more professional than i expected, but still had that nice old-roblox charm. The avatars are cute too, but also fit the customization well. I even started making my own game for the fun of it. Its probably not going to be much because im fairly rusty with luau. I also played some among us with my online friends since the new judge role dropped!! I got a chance to use it an absolutely wasted it by using it on someone who we were all going to vote anyways.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 224 / 365
Today was pretty good! An online friend of mine was playing a game I really like. He played it for 10 hours straight. I also watched the whole time, so i didnt get too much coding done. I finished the first quick time event in Router Rebellion, but I havent hooked it up to the combat system yet. I have it to where i can easily adjust the windows for the result. Though I might give it a recode since how i have it is a bit... untraditional. Right now, the window is determined by the number of pixels away the bar is from the target (or closest target if multiple). However, the speed in which the bar moves is variable, so as more bars get added, it speeds up, meaning the windows are smaller in real world time. As far as i know, most timing windows are based in time rather than pixel position, so i might need to make a converter. Would atleast make it easier to explain frame-increasing cards. I think "Increases the Amazing! Attack window by 10" is worse then "Increases the Amazing! attack window by 100 ms.". especially true since not all of the timing things would be able to use the pixel distance thingamajig. some might have to use normal timers, like one where you have to hit 3 keys in under a certain amount of time.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 218 / 365
Today was interesting. I did a mix of things. I worked a bit on One Turret, adding some fixes to bugs / issues found within the beta test (which only really came from one guy, my good friend regonold). Pretty simple stuff nothing too crazy. But after that I felt a bit... empty? lacking motivation? idk. I couldnt get myself to code on One Turret, or on my Yomi hustle mod, so i just randomly started to mod stacklands. luckily its probably going to be a lot easier than my yomi hustle mod in my quest to mod myself into every game. I will finish it tommorow probably. ez enough.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 217 / 365
I didnt really do much today lol. I slept in a lot more than i usually would. I didnt do any coding, and mostly watched friends play games. I didnt play much myself. I did hangout with my brother at resturant though, just the two of us so that was nice bonding time :) and i also watched some deltarune theory videos with my dad :). in particular, the intro to device theory by mollystars (the video was too long we gave up) and roots theory by goldpro. I find watching old theory videos especially interesting, given sizable chunks might be proven wrong with hte new chapters and whatnot. I someday hope to have a fanbase that could theorize for whatever game I end up making thats big and famous. That would be cool. odds are im going to stay up a bit (which im used to doing) to go pickup my mom at the airport at 2 am. so uh. yeah. I got more ideas on what router rebellion would look and play like. I might try making a proof of concept soon. maybe. i have work on other endeavours.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 216 / 365
Today was pretty good :) I managed to get a beta test out for the One Turret Recode. I got some feedback from my friends already!! yay!! i decided to make the beta test steam exclusive since like i need to add some benefits for paying for the game lol. I dont really have much to comment lol. I didnt play a lot of games or anything since i was busy coding. One thing i wanted to mention is, when it comes to godot, if for whatever reason you need to store an image as raw data, NEVER have it be a image resource. apparently those are pixel-per-pixel. I accidentally had map resources reaching 250 mb from that... So instead i just saved em as png files as bytes, then just reconstructed on runtime. Now the files are much tinier! I could probably make it even smaller if i chose ".res" files over ".tres" files, since ".tres" files in godot are resource files with a bunch of text to define things, while normal ".res" files is unreadable binary.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 215 / 365
Today was really productive!! On my game (called one turret) I reimplemented progress bars into the recode, got enemy waves fully working, added the skip-to-wave button, readded the escape key menu that now pauses, alongside buffing the market building after some light playtesting. I also have half of a converter for the old map format (which are really just zip files with a few json and images) to the new format (which is a godot resource file). Tommorow i will probably finish up the converter, then convert all the old maps into the new format. Then once thats done... I can start the first beta test for the update :) as for after the beta feedback processing junk, il probably work on reimplementing modding for the recode system. either that or remaking the map editor to be better. I did not work on my yomi hustle mod today though. But i have a sneaking suspicion i will do a lot tommorow (i have to wake up early for some stuff)
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 213 / 365
I got the flying in my yomi hustle mod working good! See video attached :) well maybe i should have added a part where i actively use it, but as you can see in some parts of the video you can freely control the bird and its fast enough to combo with. I will probably be adding the attacks for em soon, alongside the big robot summon i plan. As for my game one turret, I got the wave and wave timer system to work now! So now its really just some small things i want to throw in before i can start the first beta test of the recode. For example, visual progress bars for buildings. I also need to remember to setup the maps for the new system, and hook up the new main scene to the main menu. But yeah really close to finishing it! I also went to the store today to look at some chairs to replace my current gaming chair. if you remember post 148, the arm-resting-part had broken and i fixed it with a sponge taped to the piece. anyways, the chair is old so its due for a revive anyways. Im probably just going to end up getting the same model though lol, its like the perfect chair :) I didnt buy the chair today because i am waiting for some coupons my mom got from the warranty stuff to fully be like processed and whatnot idk
In totality, very good day.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 212 / 365
I worked a bit on my game "one turret" today!! yay!! I got the turret inventory to work with the recode stuff :). I was debating on whether to have map manager, turret manager, or enemy manager handle adding items into the turret, but ultimately opted to just adding it as a function of the map resource. The map resource effectively acts as a save. this is actually the same on how it worked before the recode, just now its a godot resource instead of a renamed zip file. and as for my yomi hustle mod, I got the summon to be able to get influenced by a thingamajig that happens every action, but i still need to fine tune the flying.
I also had some bundt cake that was pretty good (forgot to get a photo)
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 211 / 365
Today was basically like yesterday in the snese i didnt do much lol. I worked the tiniest bit on my yomi hustle mod, and got the puppet to work! Right now i can spawn them, and they can explode on command. Odds are i can work on it a lot more tommorow since il be at the pc with it all day hopefully. I also designed the minions. Im actually going to make it so you get one big robot minion and one little bird minion rather than 5 little guys. I also updated a bit of stuff in my gmtk game for a post-jam update as its lowkey shameful to keep it in the state it is. I feel the need to update it to prove myself in a sense.
Today was also my brothers birthday so thats cool :)
🎂🤖🎮@Kaplin867+Day 210 / 365
Today i didnt do much lol. I started the day by playing some games, then watched my friend play games, and then i wasnt able to work on my yomi hustle mod since i was on a different pc. But when I did get back, i added a slide kick thing move (like the one from ninja) and also started work on the puppet mechanic. I think im going to have to be very careful with how i design it, since most puppet characters are like just one puppet, but im planning mine to be multiple. I made it so the character can summon (one) minion. Hopefully tommorow i can start adding the commanding stuff! and more than one minion, which might actually be easier than i expect. Ive also been debating on whether to update my gmtk game or not, but odds are im going to continue this project of modding kaplin into everything!!
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 208 / 365
Since Im not really in the mood to work on my long term game or any other actual game, i had a brilliant idea!! im going to self insert my little oc guy into all the steam games i own that support modding!!! I think it would atleast be a funny youtube video :) that is if i turn it into a video im not promising anything. Today i started with yomi hustle! I got most of the core movement stuff down and will focus on the moves tommorow. I had to remove his arms for budget cuts though. dont worry they re appear when most important (like jump anim and punch anim). im thinking the gameplay will be summoner-based. I dont know exactly what core archetype though, id need to research that. I think hes closest to a zoner from my design
🔬🎮@Kaplin867+Day 207 / 365
Today itself wasnt half bad. I was mostly just playing games to recover from my lock in lol. Il get back to working on stuff tommorow. I even booted up some pokemon go and drove around town with my brother. There was some event today that allowed you to get a free mega rayquaza so thats sick :) Il be honest im not really feeling good with my GMTK game. While the idea is good, its sooo overscoped and janky and whatnot. Theres no tutorial (except one easily skippable piece of text), barely any actual content, and a few other things. I suppose i feel like its undercooked? I feel like its undeserving to be a contender, and I feel bad for making it. Feel bad that im saying 'This is a thing i made for one of the most popular jams ever'. Shameful. Which makes me wonder if i should go through the effort of updating it. I mean, I know how i would make it better, but whats the point if its after the jam? Its not like if the game is good, it would suddenly get a second chance to become popular. Since I suck at marketing, I feel that if the game was good, then GMTK is a great way to get a project off the ground, no? Maybe im getting a bit greedy with that mentality. I enjoyed development either way.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 206 / 365
Most of my day was taken up by going to my brother's swim meet. yay. when i got home i got back on that grind for GMTK. I will be finishing it tonight, even if i need to stay up late for it lol!! I love the grind!! Yay!! The game will atleast loop, but il see how i feel about trinkets once im done. I think i need to focus on more items first. Maybe I can add trinkets in the little time at the beginning of tommorow before the jam closes.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 205 / 365
Today I worked a bit more on my gmtk stuff! I dont have much to say lol im nearly done with the game loop (i said that yesterday but im not lying this time)! Honestly might need to scrap the whole trinket gimmick to add more food items. maybe.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 204 / 365
If the weight all went falling down at once, would it be enough to crush?
wow that was such a tough aura line oh my days im such a cool guy wow (im never going to speak again bro 😭 lowk dont know why i put that there). anyways today I worked a bit more on that gmtk game! Im like not far from the main gameloop being done. After that, its just a matter of adding and implementing trinkets, adding a lot more food items, and maybe some more machines.
🥘🎮@Kaplin867+Day 203 / 365
Today was really cool and good because GMTK started!! yay!! i decided to team up with my friend regonold (same guy who helped me make gnArp bAll, Souletrakk, Month of management, Culorz, and To Scale A Mountain) and since the theme is "Counting down", we tried to think of games with a lot of counting down. One that came to mind were those cooking games where every single little thing had a timer, so now we are making one of those. Except we are taking a page out of the gnArp bAll book with space theming. So now its a game where your in a space food truck, moving from planet to planet, and you need to cook meals on your journey before you reach the planet. Well you dont have to, but you will be penalized if you dont. and we are also going to try adding engine building. we will lock in more tommorow since my partner in crime had a tiring day before the jam started so he wasnt able to do much.
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