The project is dead! Long live the project!

After releasing a barebones demo of Bout O' Wizards for DemoDay12 I kept fiddling around and still made some progress, but ultimately I realised I couldn't make it fun to play. So the project is buried and a new one started. Fiddled around for a week or two to get some basic knowledge for grid-based strategy going.
Now I am working on a new project, Conscription. On its page you can read the dev-diary up to the 19th. Here's to the death and rise of the dev in me. Let's hope he'll last.

Quick & Dirty

Released a Bout O' Wizards prototype. Read here.

Bout O' Wizards: Progress Post

Made some progress.
You can check out the archive here.

• Menus are working
• Spell creation is now easier due to standardising the code
• Instead of one static background image, the arena is made up from objects, like banners, windows, platforms. This should allow for some new sort of effects and eventual customisation
• Animations for wizards and spells have been standardised
• Scaling the viewport now works as intended. Beforehand there was a problem with particles and movement operating on a scale smaller than that of the sprites used
• Tested the built-in particle system and found it to be adequate for my uses
• Integrated configuration files

Starting project: Bout O' Wizards

I have started working on a little wizard dueling game. Check it out here.

Releasing GOAP approach and first GDScript based datastructure

The last few weeks I have been working on a prototype system based on GOAP (Goal-Oriented-Action-Planning), which is a system for game AI allowing agents to formulate a list of actions from an action pool given to them to fulfill a set of goals. Creating it was mostly fun, albeit sometimes frustrating, but in the end I am proud of what I have accomplished. Instead of doing the sensible thing and start working on a game utilizing this system, I have started working on other things. Just letting bitrot get to the code would be a shame, so I decided to build an example project and release the code.

You can find it here.

The GOAP code uses a priority queue datastructure, which I have decided to release again separately. You can find it here.

Hello, World.

The purpose of this blog is to post about my hobby, video game development. I will mainly try to use this as a means of amassing progress to motivate myself to keep going, seeing how far I've come and maybe to be a lesson for others. Only time can tell.

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