My dad's surgery went well, He had two arteries replaced (Double bypass). and is doing well (he actually comes home from the hospital today!
This was a pretty big worry for me last week, and I'm glad its over and he's in good shape!
I'm also feeling much better, but haven't shaken illness completely. I'm starting to think I'm just gonna be coughing and congested f...
2023-01-28 15:50:47 +0000 UTC View PostThis has been a bit of a rough month for me, which is disappointing cause I had such a strong start.
Whatever illness I got from my niece morphed into a full on sinus infection, and pretty much stopped me in my tracks cold. I do have medicine for it, so hopefully its gone sooner than later.
Before it hit my full on, I did get some animations done, so this week wa...
2023-01-21 17:16:41 +0000 UTC View PostI got slowed down quite a bit earlier in the week because of illness, so I lost a few days to sitting in a dayquil induced haze, but I'm getting better at getting over being sick, and was able to get some real work done later in the week.
There is a toddler who is has entered day care only a few months ago in my home, this means she's going through all the kid illnesses, and giv...
2023-01-14 17:51:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday, and welcome back!
Over the break I continued to work on level and character animation.
I worked it out and when I bring a new character into the game, there are about 30 animations that they need, plus whatever attacks and sex animations the character might have, AND any specialty stuff.
I managed to...
I'll be back with a full weekly update next week, but I did want to take a moment to say Happy New Year.
2022 was tough, but so was 2021, and 2020....
I'm extremely grateful for what I have, but at the same time wouldn't mind a little more luck/success in 2023. I do understand that you have to work for it, and I'm already trying to make some changes to help me be m...
2023-01-01 17:02:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This week is another not super exciting week.
I continued work on character animations, but also took a bit of time to continue some work on the dungeon map as well.
With the animations I've tried to use some motion capture with mixed results. In the end, many of the generic enemy animations are much faster just to hand animate, as opposed to cleaning up motion capture data. 2022-12-18 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Not a terribly exciting week, I spent time working on animations for a few characters to populate the new level.
I've had a hard time coming up with a good costume for the cultists, but even without it I can make all the generic human animations that we'll need.
I've even found some interesting motion capture from video software that I've been experimenting with. Working from ...
2022-12-11 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The big thing I wanted to mention this week was the completion of the initial cut scene.
The final (as much as it can be, there is always things to be changed as funding improves) version I'll save for later, but the above version is very close, minus some sound effects and music.
I had initially planned for this scene to be a lot longer and involve more dialogue, but feedback said it ...
2022-12-03 19:18:32 +0000 UTC View PostI hope my American friends had a Happy Thanksgiving, and I hope everyone is ready to CONSUME this Christmas Season!
Among other things I started to put together the opening cutscene that I had been working on. The first pass is.... rough.
Its not super clear even to me what's going on, and I wrote it!. I definitely need a few more scenes to ...
2022-11-27 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Big snow storm here this week end! I'm in the Western NY area, and South of me got a a few feet of snow. Luckily my area is right along the Niagara River, so it kinda keeps things calm for us and I only got about a foot of snow!
I wanted to show off/talk about going back and finishing up the implementation of the dirt and grime stuff.
I had previously added it i...
Besides taking a day off for politics...
This week I put work into set decorating part of the level I was previously showing off.
Meridiana is going to sneak into this castle through a waterway and the dungeon, but the castle is not the most well kept place. One wing of the dungeon has been taken over by large spiders, and is shut off from the res...
2022-11-13 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI don't have a lot to go on about for this week, it was spent working on mundane stuff like in between animations and modification to assets, and some bug fixes.
Sometimes I don't get anything super exciting done, so maybe this weekend I'll try to put together a quick saucy animation so I have something for you guys!
I did want to ask about Patreon's new ability to bill you ...
2022-11-06 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, I continued work on the little imp dude, and set up most of his rig. He still needs his facial animations, as well as some additional bones in the legs in order to make sure he deforms properly, but he's otherwise very close to done.
As seen in the video, I also set up more of the opening/ tutorial level I've been reworking.
The level will culm...
2022-10-30 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This week I took the time to finish up work I was doing on this imp dude. I want to use these guys sooner than later, so I've been working on him slowly a little every week for a while.
My goal was to surprise people with him in game, but then I spent so much time on him this week, I wouldn't have anything to talk about if I didn't bring him up!
I'd like to give him a ...
2022-10-23 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Someone had mentioned controller support needing to be updated, and seeing as how this would be the more comfortable controls, I took some extra time this week to get that all set up.
I got all the UI elements in place and then set to making sure all the controller buttons where ma...
2022-10-16 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostFew things I worked on this week that I wanted to specifically go over.
First I decided to trim the opening cut scene animation I was working on, in order to get into the actual game play faster. I realized what I had initially planned was a lot of info dump, and I'm gonna spread that out between gameplay segments.
I did still work on some animations from the new cut scene, as...
2022-10-09 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
September was a bit rough, but luckily its over and we can move on!
I mentioned that I spent some time this week working with AI "art" generation, and while it takes a lot to wrangle it in, I did get what I consider a few wonderful depictions of our heroine, Meridiana. I think right now, this AI stuff shines most as an inexpensive/free concept artist. Its not as goo...
2022-10-02 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been messing with an AI art tool (Stable Diffusion) and looking at it as a tool to help with my game dev.
I don't think its a replacement for real artists yet, but I think it does work as a low budget option for small projects that might be a little funds limited. Specifically I wanted to see how useful it would be for stuff like background art, textures, and conce...
2022-09-30 23:32:34 +0000 UTC View PostI was still feeling pretty sick for most of the week so I didn't really get a lot done, nor do I have anything significant to report.
While I still have a pretty terrible cough, I otherwise feel better (I can breath and think now!) So I'll getting back at it right away.
Sorry for the short update!
Thank you for the support, and have a safe and happy week!
I'm hopped up on cold medicine so I keep this post brief again.
I continued work on the cut scene animations, and I've got all of them pre dialogue done except one.
I'm at a point where I'm going to need to either hire a voice actress, or use some AI stuff to do some dialogue. Its all gonna depend on the cost.
My week got cut short by a pretty bad cold I got fro...
Gonna be a quick post!
Continued work on the cut scene animations. I've been studying cinematography a bit so that things might look kinda cool in the cut scenes, but I'll try to keep that for bogging things down.
I can build the scenes first, and always go back and move cameras around once things are there.
I also took a bit of time to transfer over some ma...
2022-09-11 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I had been trying to write out the opening story sequence for the tutorial for quite a while, and now I've gotten to the point where I want to start animating it.
I'm still coming up with different ideas and wanting to change things, but I figured its about time to put something down, so I'm just gonna move forward and new ideas can be written down for some other area of the game ...
One of the things I wanted to do with the new swamp area I was making was rebuild the beginning of the tutorial level.
People, myself included, didn't love the platforming part, but that is something I want the player to get some experience with. I've rebuilt it so that instead of needing to climb a waterfall, the objective is to navigate a swamp without getting all wet and ...
Just wanted to let people know about/recommend a new youtube channel by Kirby and Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai.
he just started it, and only has a few videos up, but already he discusses design decisions he made in his games and why, as well as talking about important game concepts people might not think about.
And he's been in the industry for a long time, so this i...
I had some family engagements that took my out of office for part of the week(good family stuff), so I wasn't as productive as I'd usually like.
I did spend some time setting things up with the interaction system so that I can further reduce the number of buttons needed for the game. As well as optimize and fix the system to allow me to have more then the current ty...
2022-08-21 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This week I'm just gonna show off some screen shots with no context!
I hope everyone has a safe week, and thank you so much for the support!
2022-08-14 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis week I spent a bit of time on bug fixes and UI set up, and then did some work on costumes for the cultists.
But the majority of the time was spent starting to set up and block out areas for the town, and reworking part of the tutorial level.
I did decide on a bit of a western theme I think for the town, and so I started to lay a bit of that out.
The asset set I...
2022-08-07 04:44:30 +0000 UTC View PostWhile I did spent a little time working on some attack stuff, I finally got back to working on characters more.
I had a lot of technical issues while doing it (LOTS OF CRASHES), but I managed to get the make figures rigged all finished up. So while I build costumes for it to make the different characters, I can also work on animations at the same time.
2022-07-31 01:45:03 +0000 UTC
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I spent most of my time cleaning things up in the project and player character class this week.
I converted all of the previous abilities I had made over to the new system, and consolidated a lot of classes.
I removed unused components from the player and enemies, and hopefully they're load up a little bit faster!
I've also set up the ability to switch be...
2022-07-23 20:40:57 +0000 UTC View PostI usually will say something in advance when I take a little time off, but a few things happened this week that took enough time away from my desk, that I decided to just do my summer vacation this week.
So I'm feeling a bit refreshed and I'll be back with a real update next week!
Thank you so much for the support, and I hope everyone has a happy and safe week!