What's everyone working on? (tigsource inspired)

[Jasoco]

I hate blocky shadows. Even Minecraft got rid of them by adding smoothing to make the blockiness harder to notice. This is the same style everyone uses. Well except the meatball part. It only looks bad there because there's too many light sources and they're all big. I only posted it to show off the metaball style. What I have now looks better. Blocky lighting would actually make it look wrong with the fake 3D space method I use. (Tiles are 32x32x24 pixels so things like the stacked crates don't line up after the first box.)

[Jasoco]

Just experimenting with a sort of "redstone" style system. I probably won't use it though. Just wanted to implement it and see how it looked. Thing is the style of game I am making wouldn't really need a system like this. Though it's pretty cool. It's just a lot of work. I don't even know how to properly implement a system like this so it's a bit hacked in. If you notice closely in the video, there's a lot of bugs with figuring out how much power a specific circuit piece has. It's supposed to start at 15 (Like Minecraft) and decrement with each subsequent circuit block until it reaches 0. But for some reason you'll notice the circuit to the left of the pressure plate button is 16 instead of 15. And there's two 7s. Screw it. I don't have time to bother with a properly implemented redstone system in this project. I just wanted to do it and post it. Now I can rip it all out and go back to my normal script based system.

[cval]

Trying grid-snapping construction system as opposed to freehand one. This probably should introduce vibe that i get from other tiled sandbox games, i guess.

[Whatthefuck]

It has been a while since I last posted here, but here's a dev blog type video of a game dev sim type game I'm working on.
The video is 14 minutes long and I talk about all the major/interesting/visible changes that happened to it since I first uploaded a video of it back in June 30 of 2016.



If you don't wish to watch the entire 14 minutes of it, there is a quick screenshot comparison between what it used to look before and what it looks like now within the first minute of the video.

PS, the sounds you hear in the video are 100% placeholders, don't pay much attention to what you hear there.
A lot of the sprites are placeholders too, I'll need to hire someone to help me out with the art side of things later when I'm more or less done with the gameplay aspect of the game.

Edit: just realized the youtube link was broken, fixed now

[Germanunkol]

Trying grid-snapping construction system as opposed to freehand one. This probably should introduce vibe that i get from other tiled sandbox games, i guess.

That looks pretty cool! I think the light in front of your vehicle is a little weird, though, since it seems to be a point light which spreads in all directions (even backwards). Maybe decrease the arc in which it sends out light? That would make it look more like headlights.
But overall, the light and shadow effects are very cool.

[cval]

Trying grid-snapping construction system as opposed to freehand one. This probably should introduce vibe that i get from other tiled sandbox games, i guess.

That looks pretty cool! I think the light in front of your vehicle is a little weird, though, since it seems to be a point light which spreads in all directions (even backwards). Maybe decrease the arc in which it sends out light? That would make it look more like headlights.
But overall, the light and shadow effects are very cool.

Thanks! Yeah, i find that kinda weird too, but i imagine it like if there are several headlights and on sides too. Actually this is because my light engine kinda struggles with arc-constrained point lights, so i was lazy and just set up point light and a shadow behind it. I'm working on it.

[alloyed]

So I'm working on a new animation tool, inspired by a bunch of twitter gifs and this talk by bret victor in particular.

I would call it "performative" animation: instead of making keyframes and doing a bunch of tweaking to get the timing and motion just right, you just perform the motion you want, like a musical instrument, and then you can go back and clean it up, add squash and stretch, etc in multiple passes.

Does this sound interesting, generally? And what would a tool like this need to be useful, esp. if you're already using something like flash?

[Annabelle]

Working on a planet explorer game at the moment. Only at the very start of it at the moment sadly.

[zorg]

Not really a game, since i'm testing 0.11's audio capabilities; it's a module player.

I'm also considering coding in an Organya player as well (the format used by Cave Story) since it's somewhat similar.

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[Germanunkol]

So I'm working on a new animation tool, inspired by a bunch of twitter gifs and this talk by bret victor in particular.

I would call it "performative" animation: instead of making keyframes and doing a bunch of tweaking to get the timing and motion just right, you just perform the motion you want, like a musical instrument, and then you can go back and clean it up, add squash and stretch, etc in multiple passes.

Does this sound interesting, generally? And what would a tool like this need to be useful, esp. if you're already using something like flash?

This does sound pretty cool, yes!
It would be nice if this would support sprite animation as well (i.e. swapping images or quads). And maybe an "export to sprite-sheet" function? That should be relatively simple to do by just rendering keyframes to a canvas and exporting it as a .png.
I'm guessing some sort of curve editor would be useful for the tweaking (even though you want to record the movement).
A parent/child relation ship would be nice as well (so the transformation of the parent also affects the transformation of the child). This could easily be realized using the Transform lib.