🎮@Kaplin867+Day 200 / 365
I worked some more on one turret! I got a cool little icon to appear whenever you have a recipe you havent used yet this run. I also did some cool stuff with how it behaves with combinations of two items. It only provides the notification if both ingredients are already discovered, that way you dont constantly have a notification for something you cant even get yet! yay! i love ez design! I also watched this really good youtube video by Blargis about how to make a good roguelite. I took a lot of notes and I now feel really studious!! I love studying game design!! yay!! Im probably going to apply some of this stuff in my GMTK submission when that starts in 2 days.
🎮📚@Kaplin867+Day 199 / 365
Today I felt really productive! I basically got the entire mini index thing for my game (called One Turret its on steam go wishlist) to work that i talked about yesterday. The revamp is way better than how it was originally! Man I cant wait to get this update out :) Im especially happy because I still found myself playing a lot of games. Its like that one type of table where its the 2x2 grid. The Y would be for time spent gaming and X would be time spent coding. If both are high for the day, then its a really good day. If its high in productivity, its a good day. But in any of the lower productivity ones, I guess it defaults to a bad day because I end up feeling bad lol. Makes me wonder where i got the mentality from, and also if that mentality causes me to work more. Very philisophical, hm, hm. or would it be psychological? Eh whatever. have a great day :)
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 198 / 365
How are we already so close to day 200? Jeez. Anyways, Today I played a lot of games. Most of my online friendgroup wasnt present today (two of them actually were meeting up irl since they live not too far!), and thus i worked a good bit on my game One Turret. Other then coding some small stuff, like finishing off the can-place-building stuff, I also designed some ui for a really old feature in the game. The old feature in question is what i like to call the "crafting helper". whenever you find an item in your run, you would be able to see the source and what it crafts into (with the results censored until you actually make it). Really good for the whole "exploration of crafting trees" the game is going for early on. However, not only was it buggy, but also really ugly. well, the whole game looks bad, hence why im remaking most of the ui, but uh yeah! Now its going to look way better! and have more info like damage and any special abilities items may have! so i guess its no longer just crafting helper, but instead "mini index". I say mini because the game already has a built in index (which is really like a wiki) (which also works for modded items which is cool) (i plan to rework it as well)
oh also since im talking about it, might as well get my free advertisement token in!! go wishlist one turret (or just buy the game) on steam!! and if you do get the game uh know that it WILL get better!! trust!!
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 197 / 365
Today was fairly good. I worked a bit on my game One Turret, and designed some cool ui stuff for currency and enemies remaining, alongside a wave timer. I also played a lot of stacklands today, trying out the stacklands 2000 dlc i got during steam sale. I got to moon 100 already in the city mode lol. Very fun! Make sure to stay hydrated, and remind yourself that you are awesome!
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 196 / 365
Today was basically like yesterday. Except i worked on my steam game One Turret a bit more, getting categories to show up in the ui remake for buildings. I also did some planning for how this update will effectively overhaul the combat. Honestly i might as well call this update the remake-the-game-update rather than the polish-update-plus-final-boss-update. Rather than bullets having simple effects like pierce, homing, scatter, etc. some will also have something called "Unique Effects". For example, the cog item and steampunk bullet would have one where they have increased damage based on how many of the same item are inside the storage for the turret itself. Or I could have one where the turret gains attack speed for a short period of time. etc. just things that allow more than one main bullet to be viable. my previous solution i was going to have this update for that goal was to add a whole bunch of status effects, but honestly this works better. I also helped my friend code a bit! he doesnt code a lot. and he was using scratch. im actually really good at scratch, i have quite the history with it. may or may not have competed in 12 jams that were for scratch games. but thats a story for another time. or google it, its all public. Speaking of googling stuff, aparently my name has the cool "Video game developer" thingamajig on it. According to google, im official now!!!! yeah!!! oh wait actually i just looked it up again nevermind its not there. sigh. atleast i got a cool screenshot while it was there!
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 194 / 365
While I didnt do as much programming as i would have liked one my game One Turret, I still did some stuff!! I think i finalized the new building selection ui for the polish update!! Im probably going to work on making it functional here in a second after i finish writing this. Im fairly certain once i finish adding that, the inventory, and the "discover recipes" system, the core gameplay would have been entirely recoded. Then I can work on remaking the map editor for the new format, alongside new features like status effects (well i guess status effects arent new, but they were removed for being too buggy. now that im better, i can probably implement it in a not buggy way!!)
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 193 / 365
Hi guys its me kaplin yay!! I dont have much to talk about today lol. Im no longer at the staycation. now im at my house. Im going to get back on that programming grind tommorow. As for today, I mostly watched my friend play a game i got him during steam sale. So yeah thats fun. I REALLY want to lock in on one turret, so thats probably what i will code tommorow!! and i will probably yap about how i love coding!!! so joyous!!!
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 187 / 365
Lowkey today I did no coding. I wanted to, but i didnt. i opened up godot like three times just to end up doing nothing. Maybe I need to start a new project to refresh myself or somethin man i dont know :pf: maybe i need more sleep. i dunno. Played a lot of noita today, alongside hypixel with friends. guess we are in a hypixel phase again. Maybe I will try making the "router rebellion take 2" game i mentioned previously. Its funny, Ive always wanted to make a story-heavy game, but never was able to really make gameplay to support that idea. I think this project idea might be the one to finally achieve that goal.
🎮💤@Kaplin867+Day 186 / 365
Today was a pretty good day! I worked on one turret a bit and also did some thinking on how i want to market the next big update and hopefully i can revive the game 😇
Outside of that, I played a lot of noita and hypixel bedwars today. I had a really good noita run where i had the perk that makes all bullets home, alongside a wand that shot 3 saw blades at a time. the saw blades would stay airborn and automatically go towards enemies. I died because i noticed the fizzing particles of a explosive gas tank too late. and in bedwars me and the friend group were on a roll all day. turns out we play pretty good aggresively... we also play good when the enemy teams destroy eachother beds on their own leaving us the only team with a bed.
also since its day 186 i drew every one of my doodles so far for the grand total of 100 doodles in one drawing
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 185 / 365
Today was certainly something. woke up fairly early compared to usual, and me and the friend who was over from the sleepover played some more pokemon legends za. He beat the final boss, alongside doing the extra quests to get xerneas and yveltal (sorry for the spoilers) (honestly you probably could have expected those pokemon to be in the game if you know anything about the kalos region so uh apologies revoked i guess). When I tried working on my game, One Turret, today, I for whatever reason just... kept blanking. Like i wasnt able to think at all in a programming way. programmers block or something. So I played a bunch of stacklands instead! really fun game. I love it a lot. Ive had this one run going on for a while, and I finally got around to finishing the final bosses of the game. The run is at moon 203, and I got all the basegame cards unlocked + really good auto food system. So i think the only thing left in the game is just the endless waves, oooor i could buy the dlc >:) i might. maybe. This is such a long post so far but i still have more to say!! After I beat stacklands, I then worked a bit on one turret. Fully, 100% confirmed that enemies work in the new system :yay: .
I did some thinking on my game Router Rebellion. Lil game I made for horizons ysws. And I was thinking... the gameplay SUCKS. I REALLY dont like it. So i was thinking, when was the last time i made a turn based game? So i think i might retry the project since ive been dying to create it (ive written all the world and lore and stuff) but instead take an almost paper-mario-style approach to battles. There will still be a factory system where you can customize using nodes / pieces / modules. I might make a prototype when GMTK happens since I plan on doing that. well, that is if the theme allows for it :)
oh happy 4th of july to my readers in the U.S (like me i read this). my family did light some small fireworks in our backyard like we do every year :)
🥘🎮@Kaplin867+Day 184 / 365
Today I didnt program much since i was preparing for my sleepover, or playing until it was time to pick up my friend. After going to the store to get some snacks and getting boba, we went to my house and then played a bunch of pokemon legends za. hes at C rank right now, so we are going to try and get him to the end of the game tonight. But we will have to see how that goes :)
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 183 / 365
3 more days. Anyways today was fun cause i lowkey didnt really do anything productive i dont think. im trying to recall aaaand i dont think i did much of anything. I made the one turret artfight profile! Speaking of one turret, I coded on that game a bit more, and I got the new enemy system to spawn enemies fully!! yay!! well now i have to check all the old enemies code and make sure it still works.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 182 / 365
Today was a generally productive day! While I didnt work on any homework, I worked on the readme for my game Helixxed (the one i made for godot wild jam and am also submitting to stardance) so i could finally ship it. I also worked on my form thing i mentioned yesterday and its fully done! I also made an art sheet for the turret from one turret (the name of the turret is called "one turret" btw). why? because im going to be participating with artfight!! but i uh sorta wasnt able to add the character because the site went down. maybe i should have added 'em before the event actually started lol.
🎨🎮📝🚢@Kaplin867+Day 177 / 365
Today i tried out a little game called "ultimate chicken horse" with some online pals. Dispite the game coming out in 2016, ive only heard about it like once from a high-stakes competitive gameplay vid about it. idk. games pretty fun! Today, me my dad and my brother all went to a baseball game. We mostly went because my dad's work was having a banquet there since they are a big sponsor or somethin. While Im not the biggest sportsball guy, i especially didnt like this game because they kept on playing random meme audios. like pipe falling sfx and that stupid oo ee a e cat thing. like, they could have atleast do something more up-to-date?? oh well i probably wouldnt find it funny anyways. I always feel very awkward whenever i hear any sort of internet meme outside of any internet scenarios. I wonder what that says about me as a person!!1 atleast i got icecream from the game as well :)
🎮🐱@Kaplin867+Day 176 / 365
Woahh!1!1 hi guys its me kaplin today i coded a bit on my indie game. called one turret. available on steam go buy it. I worked on the recoded enemies a bit. Outside of that I played some minecraft, creating a really cool airship. i will be remaking this airship using schematic cannon in survival later. i used a bunch of modded copper blocks added by create since those are really cheap, only costing one copper ingot for two blocks. cant forget the fact of just how much copper you get from a single ore block.
🎮@PixelSaver-U0498TGUX0B0Officially Day 174
Personally Day 21 (lolz)
I'm really not that active huh.. Anyway im back from Horizons Nexus and fully recharged from (not sleeping a lot) sooooo
Working on fixing up bugs and polishing the game we made at nexus!
Doesn't work great itch rn because of insert reasons so @avni@katsu and I will (probably) touch it up and make it more fun to play
still tho itch is pixelsaver.itch.io/cat-debt
🎮💖🐱@Kaplin867+Day 170 / 365
Today I was out of town. all day. teehee. We went to D.C. and i got to see the whitehouse (From a distance) so that was cool. After that we went to the smithsonian's national air and space museum. It was cool! but tbh i only really cared about the space stuff (im not a big plane guy) (nor am i a WW1 guy either). After that we got some dinner at cheesecake factory :) if your curious i got a plain mac n cheese burger (so like just a burger with the fried mac ball ontop). Then we went to "beat the bomb". If you dont know its a "real life videogame experience". second time going to one!! In this one, in the path we chose, the games were: Number game (tap numbers on screens around room from lowest to highest, with some gimmicks like bad numbers and dissapearing numbers), One where you have to walk in formations for batteries, One where each player had a specific color and had to hit their band on the colors, one where you had to dodge really buggy lazers, and then the final one (the bomb) was... a brickbreaker!?!?!? WHAT???!! THESE BRICKBREAKERS ARE FOLLOWING ME SOMEONE HELP!!1!!1!1 hehe lol anyways so yeah we had to beat 10 brickbreaker levels. We only beat 8, so we then got blasted with foam :) so uh yeah thats really all i have to say lol. Attached is a terrible doodle of biblically accurate kaplin drawn on laptop trackpad, alongside a few photos of the museum visit that i found interesting.
🚀✈️🎮@Kaplin867+Day 169 / 365
today was funny. on one hand i locked in on the jam game (3 hours) (godot wild jam btw) and on the other hand i played a whole lot of minecraft. The server im playing on has the create: aeranautics mod on it so i made a airship. Im going to be out of town for a few days so that airship is probably going to be destroyed, raided, or lost by the time i get back lol. In the jam game project i added the entire genes mechanic and a shop.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 168 / 365
I dont really have much to say about today. Woke up late. I worked on my club ysws a bit more, and i think i have it mostly finalized!! Outside of that i didnt really do a lot of coding lol. I played some noita, then modded minecraft with some friends, then i played among us :) it was very chaotic since it was like 9 people in the vc lol. anyways tommorow i really want to lock in on the wild jam game. im going to try and wakeup early!
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 166 / 365
I slept in today so intotality i wasnt all that productive lol. Other than some homwork, I did code 2 tracked hours!!! I decided that im going to be doing godot wild jam, but might as well track the hours too and submit to stardance (i should probably ask if thats okay before i fully ship). Anywhom, the theme incase you didnt know is "mutation", and given my brickbreaker / breakout streak, i thought "what if i made a kaplin flavored brickbreaker". this is eerily becoming a trend, since my last few hack club games were "what if i made a kaplin flavored pet sim" (raise a ceiling), "what if i made a kaplin flavored clicker game" (A.V.I.C.G.T.I.T.M) and "what if i made a kaplin flavored autochess game" (Engrams of chaos). Anyways, tangent aside, the game isnt actually that complex and also plays into my recent noita addiction. Basically, you can apply genes onto your very living and sentient ball (the ball will comment on your bad gameplay). Levels get progressively harder with stronger bricks, and you have a limited number of shots each round. Fail to do that, then your run dies. At the end of each round you get funds, so you can either buy a gene or get a "charity gene" for free. You dont actually know what this charity gene is until you equip it, and once you equip it you cant remove it. Those genes are fairly gimmicky, so its meant to be like "Your desperation caused a curveball to be thrown. Maybe you can adapt and make it the best thing ever?" in my 2 hours today i made some simple ball movement and paddle movement. But how on earth is that 2 hours, you ask? Well i also tried making a few things to replicate a visual effect i once saw in mindustry. So in mindustry the sprites are really smooth, evne though if you scale it up in a art editor they actually arent? So without much research i assumed that they were using some sort of shader to make smooth triangles between pixels (i dont think they actually do that, but thats what i assumed). So i tried replicating that with a shader. It failed. So now im coding my own image upscaler that generates triangles between pixels. Its NEARLY done, but has a few tiny bugs here and there. idk theres probably a name for this but im going to pretend im really smart for coding it myself.
oh also uh stardance rng i got 882 i love gambling
stardance rng day 2
🎲 882 · ranked #50 so far
🎮🚢@Kaplin867+Day 165 / 365
Today was good! I worked a lot on my brickbreaker club ysws. By that i mean i made a better example project. I updated the original project i used to even propose the workshop (the game is called autumn breakout but uh you wont find it on my itch since its unlisted). I added some new features, but i made sure to add each feature in its own branch before moving it into one combined main branch, that way if someone wanted to learn how to implement XYZ they could see it without any distractions to other things!!! :D Anyways the features are: Main menu, multiple levels, sturdy and glass bricks, and sound effects. But given how easy I found it to add each of those, I think im going to hold off on making a tutorial for those. Better to learn naturally, no? also i suck at this game, even though its just a simple brickbreaker. (meme attached drawn by my friend night emerald. long story short its a tadc reference when we were watching an episode and the steam popup for me playing one turret showed up, to say "maybe your genuinly bad at one turret", and now whenever i suck at a game he puts new text) anyways outside of that, I played a good bit of noita. I had two really good runs. The first one, I died when I got to the holy mountain right before the underground jungle. One of the enemies on that area can apparently tunnel through walls??? so they went up, tunneled into the holy mountain, angered the gods by doing so, and got the cop enemy guy to show up and kill me instantly. Love this game. And for the second run i actually got to the boss! First run i was able to do that. But i didnt get that far into beating them, only getting them to 90% but im still really happy i got that far!!!
🎮@qwwertyz0day I don't even know
• I just woke up and had a very weird and long dream(read below if youre interested)
• I've been playing the card game hearts, it's so infuriating but I'm trying to be grateful everytime I'm not bullied into taking a card. it's much easier to live if you focus on the good parts actually. like it didn't rain when i was biking to prom or that summer vacation will begin much earlier this year
• I am playing piano and drawing again after a long hiatus🌸
dream:
One of the most chaotic dream ever. First I was a doctor. I was standing somewhere when one of my coworkers came over all red-eyed. Apparently they had turned into a vampire and wanted either a blood bad or my blood. I started running away in the empty hospital, all scared. However, the door was locked and I couldn’t get out through the window. Panicked, I made the time stop(lucid dream?) and restarted the run, this time getting out through a narrow gap in the window(like 2 cm) and went hiding in the bushes. All the grass was fake anyways and formed chains of plastic. I covered them onto me and lay still. My coworker then left through a medieval fancy carriage. I was relieved until they came back and spotted me. At that point I was like how could you do this to me?? Then the dream went to the second stage.
I was inside and the coworker was now a friend? I threatened to break their favorite kettle and cup if they didn’t listen to me. Now they were all scared and I watched the kettle boil while I checked my phone. Whatsapp now has all sorts of popups. Ad every time you click somewhere. I tried calling someone but the app wouldn’t let me. I couldn’t leave the building. We were isolated with no way to contact the outside world. My friend told me that it’s the apocalypse. The world is ending. This group of people has taken over the world, and that there are seats for the selected few to survive, but limited places. His dad told him. I asked how I should get a place, and he said to just ask whatsapp. So somewhere I typed “I want a place”. There was an immediate answer, asking basic details etc. I told them everything and the price was 200 million. I tried contacting my family to let them know, but in the end I could only tell one. And then the dream shifted again, we now lived in a typical american 3 story house, friends and family and strangers came over, we ignored the apocalypse, took a lot of fun pictures and sent it to the sus organization, which was very surprising. (this is definitely inspired by the dystopian sci fi stories my dad sent me when i was very young. One was that capitalism became so extreme wealth became more and more concentrated, in the end only 1 person had all the money and the rest had to pay for air etc. in the end we were shipped to another planet because the rich guy didn’t want to see us in his backyard anymore. Oh and also there were robots watching your actions so you can’t even steal or plunder.)
The third dream was simple. I was on a trip, i needed to find my hotel room but it was soo dark and blurry. I couldn’t find my hotel room or ask for help. My teammates had already found theris and i don’t remember which rooms they had. Some boys threw a stink bomb so I went downstairs. We(me, coach, a random professor) were on the second floor balcony overlooking a fancy lobby. More stink bombs so i kicked them off the balcony but they were still inside. I went downstairs to get them outside. It was a cute hotel, made of colored glass and had a middle eastern twist to it. I walked through the garden, talking with the flowers and looking at the exotic flowers. The air was moist and warm, and everything had this gaussian blur to it. In the end I had to use my flashlight to look at the room number plates one by one to finally find my room. Sadly the inside of the room is pretty dark too, the lights sucked and I didn’t have enough time to check my setup before tomorrow. Oh well.
🎮🎹🌧️☀️📷@Kaplin867+Day 163 / 365
Hello everybody, kaplin here, back with another scrapbook post. Today. I uh. existed :) woke up early, did my chores and summer schoolwork, played some noita, and got good progress on 2 projects. Project 1 being my club ysws site. I added a small gallery section. Also added the hackclub flag to the corner like all of the club ysws sites. I think I only really have to just figure out the numbers now!! and also run through the tutorial to make sure its all good, alongside maybe even making some miniguides to help with specific features? Idk. Might just make a total one with all the features in the mini guides. Idk. Project 2 of today was the recode of my game One Turret (available on steam btw go wishlist it or buy it) (dont buy it yet its not really good right now. this next update is all about making the game better rather than new content). I got the decors to load! I suppose i will explain how one turret does its maps. You feed it a tileset and then you can place the tiles and all that. You can rotate these tiles and also edit them to be not-placable-on for gameplay. You can also add full images called decor as decoration for maps. These are handled differently, since its one big image for one tile, rather than a normal tilesheet. anyways its now loaded with the new resource-based system (compared to the old .zip based)!!! So in totality, i think that the map loading is done. Next is the enemy manager!!!
🎮☀️@Kaplin867+Day 160 / 365
A few important things for me today. For starters: Deltarune chapter 5 release date got announced, so i cant wait for that. My game router rebellion finally got fully approved for horizons (after 30 days including the reship), so now im comfortable with working on it again. I wasnt comfortable before because it felt like i needed to reship because i added new content since my first ship when i was talking with the reviewer. and to be frank i dont really blame horizons or really anyone involved. hack club seems very busy right now, and last i remember fraud squad (or is it called fraud department? lowkey i dont remember) was going through some stuff or smth i dont pay enough attention. In one turret, im working towards getting the drill building to work. but first i need ores. and to get ores i need maps. and im going to be recoding how maps work. Previously, maps were stored in zips. like it would just dump the images there. But im going to be switching to godot resources as they are more scalable and just easier to work with all around. it will shorten my scripts by a whole bunch. im still slightly on the fence about it, because one of the benifits of the zip is that you can disect maps. maybe i can make a special button somewhere that allows you to export a map as a zip? one way, of course. im not going to add a zip -> resource, that removes the whole point of switching in the first place imo. also played a whole bunch of noita. I got a quality of life mod that allows you to keep track better of where you have been, so now i can properly clear the floors and get all the collectibles without going in circles (cuz going in circles causes you to get attacked by enemies which means you need to beeline to the holy temple to heal which sorta locks you out of that floor until you get to floor 3 in which you can backtrack, which at that point there really isnt anything valuable on the earlier floors).
Also tried making some cookies but there was too much dough in the pan so it came out as a large tablet of cookie. the inner parts were still raw though so i took off the edges then rebaked the center... for some reason whenever i try to use this specific type of only-add-egg-and-butter batter it always ends up being a clumpy mess instead of... cookies. the image is the inner portion after i rebaked it.
🎮🚢@mileswk0Working on my stardance project! This is a fictional AI coding agent, but when you go to sign up, or go anywhere, it is actually a captcha game! So far this is what I have for the Captcha (just HTML, CSS, JS)🎮@Kaplin867+Day 159 / 365
I really wanted to like lock in today but most of that locking in came in the form of working on the self-paced chemistry class im taking over the summer. I finished the midterm. And other then that, I helped my family with some stuff (like picking up the dogs from the groomers) and also playing a lot of noita. I was having a really good run right, i had a wand for teleporting, a good destruction wand, and a near-one-shot wand in the form of lightning bolt. My run ended when i found this one perk in the holy temple. The one called "Electricity Immunity". It makes you immune to electricity. Knowing this, I tried blasting some lightning near me to see if i took any damage. I then proceeded to get one shot and my whole run ended :heavysob: i suck at this game and that was my first run that actually resembled a good run!!!! so yeah turns out lightning bolt also does explosion damage...
And also my ceiling plush finally arrived!!! for those not in the know, there was a ysws called ceiling that gave this specific seal plushie!!!11 :D so cute
🎮☀️📦@Kaplin867+Day 158 / 365
Today was fun, since I went to the movies. But not for any normal movie, no, i watched The Amazing digital circus final episode premiere :D i like the episode it was good. im not going to spoil it dont worry. but it was like really cool since it was the first time ive: 1. driven that far alone, 2. gone to the movies alone. Very interesting. And i also went to dennys after :D and then once i got home i uh. played a lot of noita, and coded a bit on one turret, just for half of it to be conflicting with a version i forgot to commit on the upstairs studio pc when i was watching the dogs last time up there. oh well. in particular, im working on getting it so the tileset is FULLY procedural in the one turret recode. its functionally the same as modding. I think its a good way to approach designing a game, to make it as if your modding the game. A game i used to mod a bit, called dysnced, had a similar mentality. like. the vanilla gameplay WAS a mod. you could disable it if you wanted to. idk. i like good design like that.
📽️🎮@harshexperiments00Using HTML, CSS, JS to build a 2D timepass game 🔥
2nd project on Macondo :yesyes:
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 155 / 365
hi silly scrapbookers and scrapbookers who choose to not be silly, kaplin here. Today was fairly productive. I worked on the recode for my game One Turret, and solved a massive problem with the new odd-shape-building support. The issue was that rendering would always use the bottom left tile as a pivot, which would become an issue because lets say you have an L shaped building, and you rotate that 180 degrees. now theres no left corner, so where would the tile be rendered from. So my solution was having it where inside the tile definition json, you define where the "root" of the tile is. Now, rather than rotations being done (and then being offset to be in the same place), it now rotates around your mouse cursor, the tile at your mouse cursor being the root. The texture is also placed at that root, since that root would always exist. I got offsets and such working, which also handles the rotations perfectly. So now not-rectangular buildings work on One Turret yeaaay!!! Outside of that mess, I worked a tad bit on my club ysws site. I WANT to dedicate tommorow to it, but i have some important thing tommorow morning so i lowkey dont know how i will feel after
on an unrelated note, today i had like 4 instances where i randomly remembered dreams i had in the past? and not like a oh-hey-i-remember-that type of way, more like a dejavu way where i only remembered it for like a second
🎮@Hanako0Day 152/365: (more of a general update than a daily post)
Updates from last post:
• 80 days without an update is kinda crazy...
• In Europe now for summer vacation. Was in Sweden for a week, now going to be in Greece for the next month.
• The Macroepad has been fully soldered, but I wasn't able to get the firmware working. As I didn't bring the Macroepad to Europe, I won't be able to work on that until I'm back home in August. The case also ended up being badly measured and the Macroepad doesn't quite fit, but I can fix that just by cutting off the top ledge over the hole for the USB-C cable (shown in picture)
• Haven't worked on the rp2040 project in ages. I think I'll still finish it eventually if just for the practice with pcb design, but it's a low priority as of now.
• Have a new laptop now! It's my first device running Linux (Ubuntu), and I'm definitely liking the OS so far, though I haven't learned how to do much on it yet.
• Fully caught up with JJBA anime, it may have peaked in part 2, but the rest was still great. I'm not going to read the manga until Steel Ball Run finishes airing.
Goals for June:
• Make a game for snake ysws.
• PLAY SILKSONG - I haven't touched this game since January and I need to finish it so bad
• Practice animating (will have to get a new drawing software since Krita does not like my stylus)
• Get OpenUTAU and practice UTAU tuning
• Maybe also work on general music composition, we'll see how much free time I end up having
🎮📷☀️@Kaplin867+Day 151 / 365
Today was a pretty simple day. I just worked on one turret recode lol. I did some totally complex math stuff to figure out tile rotating better as im starting to implement the 2x2 tiles. I probably could have just looked up what I needed lol. The main issue is that in my game, tiles will always have a root at the bottom left, so rotations arent truly around one tile, but rather the center of the building which gets a bit icky. So ultimately its just the rotate around 0,0 but offsets are applied based on tile size. I still need to add placing them, but then im nearly done (excluding the very special behaviors like the constructor / combiner and the drill which is a producer tile that has to read the map tiles). So yeah overall fairly productive in that regard. Dont have much else to say lol.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 149 / 365
Today was... somehow more unproductive than yesterday!! >:C But it was a generally fun day even though I didnt play that many games. I worked 20 minutes on my horizons quiz game project thing, adding in some cool preview images for each of the gamemodes. I also got "deleting" datasets to work. In reality it just changes it so it hides the quiz. If you attempt to add a new quiz using the same csv, it will just toggle it back to being visible, that way all the configs for that quiz are still saved! Rest of my day was spent out of the house with my dad and brother. I dropped my brother of at swim and ended up just having a bonding moment with my dad at the closest mall. Its a generally unoccupied mall. not a lot of buisness happens there (in terms of the internal mall stuff. the clothes stores and resturants on the outside of it do get a lot of buisness though). me and my dad walked through and had a chat, even walking into a craft store. didnt buy anything but still chatted. We also got some handsoaps that we thought my mom would like :) We got two of a vanilla almond one. One for me. Because I liked it. :yay: i love vanilla smelling things. and cinnamon! anyways after that me, my brother, and my dad went to applebees. im mentioning this because thats like a once-in-a-blue-moon-during-a-solar-eclipse thing and its lowkenuinly been like 3 years. when we got home it turns out my mom had recently gotten hand soaps. so now we just have 15 things of hand soap. please help. 5 hand soaps per sink including the kitchen😭
and on my horizons stuff. I think ive ultimately come to the conclusion that im NOT going to be going to nexus for various reasons. One of the reasons is the hours required. Especially given hackclub stardance is happening soon. I plan to be starting a thing with my club to get them into stardance so they can make some stuff. Also that club ysws, and other stuff. Im going to be getting a lot busier soon so im less confident in getting the hours. other reason is I dont think i really want to go anymore. Dont get me wrong it sounds fun but like. is it really worth all the hours? I mean I definently think I had great memories at hackclub shiba, but that was a whole week. nexus, last i checked, is a nonstop hackathon over a weekend. So yeah uh. i think im going to cash my hours and possibly move my study app to a different program (i hear macondo has a lot of good prize options). If i were to ship my moved aces project as is, i would most likely get 2 steam game grants (for publishing a game on steam) and 4 blahaj plushies :)
🚢📚🎮@Kaplin867+Day 147 / 365
Today was a nice productive day! I woke up earlier than usual so I could get to working on stuff :) I coded for 5 hours on my horizons study app project. I made the flashcard, memory match, and spelling modes for the game (er i guess its an app but like whats the difference LOL!!!). I also got the mastery tracker working (in quiz and flashcard, if you get a question right or wrong it stores that with the quiz. the mastery just refers the average of the past two attempts on each question). I also did some hardcore cleaning in my room. so yeah overall incredibly productive!!! I think tommorow I might try to make another hytale youtube video since recently hytale updated to update 5 and it added a ez command that cuts 4 minutes off of my old tutorial. plus that old tutorial is outdated anyways.
Also yes. the spelling thing is a slight reference to a different game.
🎮📚@glitch_purge0Back to making my family game for Macondo after exams!
So far I have finished:
50% of the first game Tic Tac Toe!
I have the player turn system and an indicator for the same! Now i just have to make it so my code can detect currently occupied squares and hence check win conditions!
I think I'm going to loop through all the squares next to one square and check if 3 in a row matches in any direction (up down left right) to check win. Similar to like a brute force attack you could say on win conditions.
🎮📚@Kaplin867+Day 145 / 365
Hi guys. Kaplin here!! Today was a very nice and chill day :) I did some concepting for a game idea that me and my friend group might try making. basically its a not-so-cozy farming game where theres a bunch of procedural plants. these plants have attributes (like spiky, glowing, explosive, etc.) that determine a lot of stuff. But also the plants dont have names, so you have to put your own name for each species in your logbook. You also have to experiment to find certain traits in a plant. You could also use a camera item to add photos of the plant to a book. I also played plenty of games today so thats not out of the ordinary. I didnt work on any of my horizons projects... and lowkey im wondering if i even want to go to horizons to begin with. I also have to ask about the flight grant stuff, and if I can get those after and still have a proper reimbursement. My parents are also worried since the venue really isnt public. Which is good, I dont think it should be public, but they are worried about me going if it looks like hackclub hasnt havent figured it out yet themselves.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 144 / 365
Got some well needed sleeping-in time. Though, despite this, I cant say I did all that much important stuff. A lot of my day was spent watching anime with a online friend over discord call lol. I did fully implement the quiz game to my horizons study app. I also have some plans for a cool mastery tacking thing by just storing your last two attempts on any of the minigames. If you manage to get all questions right in two game sessions in a row, you would have maximum mastery for that dataset. How cool. anyways im going to be real for a second. Im extremely worried about horizons nexus. The event is in exactly 26 days. You are required to buy the ticket 2 weeks before the hackathon, so I need to get the 15 hour ticket within 11 days. Of my three horizons projects, I have one shipped. The previous ship took roughly 10 days to be completed, only to be denied in order to do a reship with my new hour count. Assuming this ship goes through with no reductions, I will hopefully be able to get the ticket in the next two days. This leaves 23 remaining days until the event. Lets say the hypothetical that I REALLY need to get the flight grant to go. Assuming that ships take 10 days to get accepted, that only leaves me 13 days remaining. A flight from my city to SF costs 550 dollars, and under horizons $8.5 grant per hour, that makes 68 hours. This means, I have to do 5 hours a day. Man. I dont know if i can truly go to horizons at this rate. Lets say in a hypothetical world where it only takes 3 days for a ship to get reviewed, I would only need to do 3.4 hours a day. Rough, but a lot more achievable. So uh. Yeah. Kaplin fun fact. I guess. IDK. I feel generally down today. probably because my little brother was just being a general nuisance for most of the day. but hey, thats little brothers for you.
TLDR: Today was a great day with no flaws since i got to sleep in :)
📚💤🎮🚢🎟️@Kaplin867+Day 143 / 365
Today was really fun! I attended a cybersecurity CTF hackathon locally. I got second place. It was pretty fun, even though I basically knew nothing. I atleast could recognize bitwise stuff from previous experience (i used hashes + bitwise for the generation of fully unique fellas in my hackclub giftbox game last year). We even held a ping pong tournament for some reason. I got lost in both my first match and my losers bracket match. Oh well still was very fun! Dispite getting home pretty late from that, I managed to get a hour of tracked coding in. I added a game definition resource to my study app horizons project. Now I can easily add new games to the game menu. I finished off coding a simple string-to-boolean-check function for the quiz resource, allowing me to add restrictions for some games without having to hard code it. For example, to play the quiz, you atleast need one column defined to be incorrect answers. In my string formatting, the string "incorrectColumn.length|!=|0". Using that, it checks if the incorrect column variable (uses godot's get() function. really handy.) has a length/size/count that isnt 0, meaning atleast 1 exist. Depending on that, the games will not be selectable + have an indicator :)
🚢🎮@Kaplin867+Day 139 / 365
What is up fellas. its me. kaplin. Back with another scrapbook post. Today was interesting. So my day started out by not having internet from some random internet shortage. Because of this, I wasnt fully certain hackatime would track (it would have), but i didnt want to take the risk so I held off coding. I instead played two peak downloaded offline fangames: PVZ fusion and pokemon infinite fusion. Kinda funny how both are fusion themed. I started a new save for the pokemon one. I also attached image of my team if anyones curious :) Anyways once the internet came back I got to the coding grind. I added a lot more polish to the game. i added a cool effect for when the players load, made the sky background have a zoom-like effect on load, made the players bob up and down, and I also made it so the other players are color modulated to fit their current aquired followers. But my most important addition was doing cool math stuff to effectively make a cinematic camera generator. I pass in a player position, it calculates face position, and gets a random location based on set angles and a distance. Im going to be using this at the start of a turn, and probably add some cool text that says "Player ??? Turn XYZ". Then it shows them roll the dice and which cards they use. But for now its just moving the camera to cool places. Had to learn a bit on how transform3ds work in godot. I still dont fully understand, but im getting there!!!
On a side note, I did some baking. Found a recipe for some low carb pancakes or something and it looked interesting. It was just eggs + cream cheese lol. Turns out i suck at flipping pancakes so it ended up all mushed lol.
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 138 / 365
Today I did not do that coding grind i talked about yesterday. Only 30 tracked minutes. Then again, I did spend my morning trying to figure out some stuff for my online summer self-paced chemistry class. But more importantly, I spent a good bit of time planning. Im picking up the game from the aces ysws to continue working on it. I mean it already got moved to horizons, so it would be unwise to just let those hours rot. So I did a bit of analysis of my own game. In summary: It sucks. The game is lowkey bad. But I have devised plenty of things to help make the game better, with a bit of feedback from my friends. Started by making a 3d model of the little follower figurines for the board. Previously those were a bunch of 2d images but it looks so much better in 3d. The 30 minutes today was spent switching systems (from 2d image color modulation to swapping textures for the model for the various follower colors)
Also did a bit of talking with an online friend. He wouldnt have been able to go to horizons nexus (san francisco), but he said that given the timing and the distance, he could go to horizons europa (Berlin). It would also be cheap hour-to-flight-grant-wise for him since hes in the uk. And if I work 3 hours a day on my projects, I could definently meet the required hours to go all the way there. I will be asking my parents tommorow if its fine with them.
🚢🎮@Kaplin867+Day 136 / 365
Today was very chill. Didnt program lol. Its okay though, assuming I reached the deadline for the cool horizon stickers (i cant tell because on the announcement image it says due today while the text says due tommorow), i have the necessary 5 day streak. Not to long after I woke up, my family went to this one resturant. very country-side themed. all you can eat resturant. very small menu though, with only 3 main dishes: Chicken, ham, and roast beef. I didnt eat much of the chicken as im not the biggest fan of eating things from the bone lowkey. I drew meat on the bone in todays doodle because i am not going to try and draw a slice of ham. Either way this place is important as me and my family used to go here a lot a long time ago, back when i was a little kaplin. It had closed down around the time of the pandemic (but we stopped going there a bit before that). Not to long ago, they reopened after 6 years of being closed, so we went there as a late mothers day gift (my mom was out of town on mothers day). So once i got home (roughly around 3pm in case you wanted to know) I mostly just played and chilled. I helped my friend regonold with his cave generation for his macondo game (macondo is a hackclub ysws btw). He consults me for help since im fairly good at hytale's world generation, so I can give a few pointers to help him. Its even better when your doing the generation yourself, since your not limited to the nodes. Ive also been considering making my steam game, one turret, open source. Im consulting the people of the one turret discord server on what they think, and I will probably ask regonold tommorow when hes online since he is the biggest one turret fan.
✏️🎮@Kaplin867+Day 135 / 365
Today was a very lock-in type of day. I had to wake up really early to drive my dad to work (he has vision impariment and thus cant drive). But I used this early morning to my advantage, getting a good chunk of work on my horizons game done really early. I worked on getting models to load for dialogue, and also being able to search the model for the animation player to find available animations. Outside of coding, I really just played some mindustry and hypixel bedwars. I also tried to do some world gen stuff in hytale. i was hoping with their recent updates it would be easier to make a dungeon system, but turns out thats not the case and I gave up. I probably would need to find some guide in the hytale modding discord servers. I finally got my horizons ship back. I was told some changes i need to make (like make a full proper level), so I worked on that a bit. The level looks okay. its using some placeholder assets since i havent made any props yet. Its supposed to be a sorta city outskirts type of feel. In totality I did 4 hours today! Im probably going to ship it immediately after this post!
🎮🚢@Kaplin867+Day 134 / 365
I lowkey didnt do all that much today since I slept in + had to immediately go tutor at the local church. this is the last day before the group we tutor has summer, so that means last day. I coded one hour on my horizons game to keep the streak (i want the holographic stickers they have for doing a 5 day streak right now) and in that hour i was sorta just debugging the custom dialogue editor. I was having some strange issue where godot wouldnt let me edit an array of a loaded resource? strange. anyways the way i fixed it was just creating a new empty dialogue holder resource and loading all the information in manually. Seems to do the trick!
🎮☀️@Kaplin867+Day 133 / 365
Hi guys! I did some pretty cool stuff on my horizons game today :) I gave godot editor scripts a try for the first time so I can make a dialogue editor for my game to fit all the things i need (since doing it by hand would be a nightmare). I had a lot of trial and error. At first I was trying to make it so when it starts the command, it asks for a file, and then once you choose one it loads that resource into my dialogue editor, but for whatever reason it just... wouldnt work. i was running a simple await on a signal, but it never emit the signal? anyways i just reworked it so you press a load button in the editor to load the dialogue lol. Also played a bit more mindustry with friends :yay: (we didnt get too far into the map even after 3 hours)
🎮@Kaplin867+Day 131 / 365
My summer starts today but its probably going to take a while before everything settles down. Did a psych test and public speaking speech. so now im finally done!! yippee!!! so i lowkey just played for the rest of the day. I ate a celebratory dessert at a mexican resturant. this is sorta a tradition my family has been doing since I first started doing dual enrollment lol. Anwyhom I worked on my horizons game for an hour, I added a cool enemy trigger system where if you enter an area it will make all its child nodes visible and processing. this works for walls as well to box players in. I wanna lock in tommorow (and hopefully my horizons ship from 7 days ago will be accepted lol!!)
🎮🚢☀️@Kaplin867+Day 130 / 365
HELLOOO MY BEAUTIFUL AND AWESOME SCRAPBOOK POST READERS!! kaplin here. Today i got to sleep in! its been a while since i did that lol. Spent most of my day working on school to prepare for my final speech and psychology test tommorow. Also worked on getting that team project done for computer science. we got it done, with only 9 minutes to spare (submitted at 11:50 pm). i edited video for it since that was one of the requirements. I didnt work on my horizons game today sadly though :C anyways im going to go sleep i need to wake up early tommorow!! this is also why the doodle today is very basic i wanna go to bed
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