Guildies

Devlog

• After The Jam - Major Performance Improvements!
  July 16, 2024 by averagedrafter

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  Well, it took me about two weeks to get back to tinkering with the game, but... hurricane. Whaddagonnado? I was only without power for about 2 days, but between prepping for it and recovering I wasn't... Continue reading

  
• Learn You a Game Jam - Published!
  July 03, 2024 by averagedrafter

  I'm about an hour away from the deadline, and I got MOSTLY there. I feel short of a few polishes and NOT mandatories that I would have liked, and in particular I don't like how I left the end. There w... Continue reading

  
• Learn You a Game Jam - Day 14: Final Day!
  July 02, 2024 by averagedrafter

  I'm not going to be logging much, but here is what is left to do: Finish the "game script" with the director controlling the flow of the game from one event to another from "press start" to "we did it... Continue reading

  
• Learn You a Game Jam - Day 13 Home Stretch
  July 02, 2024 by averagedrafter

  Almost there! So much MUST DOs left to Must Do. I got a lot of work done yesterday - Autoscroller is working, side borders prevent the player from going past the scroll, but not the other Characters... Continue reading

  
• Learn You a Game Jam Day 12 (I think) - UI/Map/Character
  June 30, 2024 by averagedrafter

  Itch ate my notes from yesterday. Plus I think I've been misnumbering my days at some point. So DAY 12! Yesterday I put down a Map and fleshed it out a bit. It looks great, although I haven't done any... Continue reading

  
• Learn You a Game Jam Day 11 - Character Night!
  June 29, 2024 by averagedrafter

  Obviously I will be working on characters throughout the rest of the jam, but tonight I need to get all the infrastructure built to produce more at will. I am almost there! So first thing, I had a on_... Continue reading

  
• Learn You a Game Jam - Day 11 Work Notes
  June 28, 2024 by averagedrafter

  Didn't get to the Guildie actually picking up the Item last night, very unsatisfying. I mapped out the remaining days and I have tonight to: 1) Get the Guildie to pick up the item and transform into t... Continue reading

  
• Learn You a Game Jam - Day 10 Work Log
  June 28, 2024 by averagedrafter

  Going to log as I work tonight, see if it can help me stay focused. I did a lot of pacing and thinking last session, but not a lot of coding. First up is the lottery upgrade! Right now its a hack with... Continue reading

  
• Learn You a Game Jam - Day 9 Recap
  June 27, 2024 by averagedrafter

  Little slower progress than I'd thought I'd make, but I accomplished two major tasks so I shouldn't be so hard on myself because they were a little tricky. The first was I got the GameManager Characte... Continue reading

  
• Learn You a Game Jam - Week 2! (Day 8)
  June 26, 2024 by averagedrafter

  I didn't log my work last night, but I got a lot done. No time to stop and log...but that's what Work is for amIrightfolks!? Got a Guildie and up and running, but with very basic behavior. Everyone is... Continue reading

  
• Learn You a Game Jam - Day 7
  June 25, 2024 by averagedrafter

  Excited, but there is still much to do. Got the colliders working correctly, although there is no inner core as of now. The easiest way to implement what I want is a bit compromised as it forces the F... Continue reading
• Learn You a Game Jam - Night 6 - Structure!
  June 25, 2024 by averagedrafter

  So I had a bad night, but woke up in the AM hours and had a break through. I was having no end of trouble with colliders not working the way I thought they should, and spent most of the evening trying... Continue reading

  
• Learn You a Game Jam - Day 6 At Work Thoughts
  June 24, 2024 by averagedrafter

  Ok, so was having issues with colliders before I went to bed. No combination of collider layer settings was working, and the best one still had the MainTank pushing past the Slime's Zone of Control co... Continue reading
• Learn You a Game Jam - Day 5
  June 23, 2024 by averagedrafter#Learn You a Game Jam, #Game Jam, #DevLog

  Ok, getting down to serious business. I decided against doing separate guildies and enemies and am diving right into making a "character" scene that can do both. Not going to worry about any neutral o... Continue reading

  
• Learn You A Game Jam - Day 4
  June 22, 2024 by averagedrafter

  Ok, had a some progress and notes in a log but my machine rebooted on me. I was working out the structure of the guildies and the characters in general. Ok for NPCs (Enemies, Guildies, and Neutrals) t... Continue reading

  
• Learn You a Game Jam - Day 3 Friday!
  June 22, 2024 by averagedrafter

  I'm going to keep a work log tonight. First thing, tried out animating the Slime... DamageZone's.... Collider. Basically I'm making the slime's "attack" a pulsating DamageZone that shrinks briefly bel... Continue reading

  
• Learn You a Game Jam - Day 2
  June 21, 2024 by averagedrafter

  Bit of a rough day two, not going to lie. Got the Slime added in, and started building a hit/damage system when things got trickier. Same with the Guildie management, I ran into a frustrating problem... Continue reading

  
• Learn You a Game Jam - End of Day 1
  June 20, 2024 by averagedrafter

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  #Learn You A Game Jam, #Game Jam, #DevLog

  I made a lot of progress day 1! I got the Main Tank, Archers, and Priests up and walking around. The MT is controlled by the player, using either WASD, Arrows, D-Pad, or Left Stick. The guildies are s... Continue reading

  
• Learn You a Game Jam - First Day!
  June 19, 2024 by averagedrafter#Learn You a Game Jam, #Game Jam, #Dev Log

  First jam, first day! Theme is ONLY 1 INVENTORY SLOT ! I'm not going to over complicate things, I'm pretty far out of my comfort zone already. I have played around with Godot for a while , but only re... Continue reading