Slowing down the execution time and popping the hood

Making my map prototype interactive took me back to drawing maps as a kid.

Exploring some player-driven flock behavior. Sheep are the obvious choice.

Maybe my procedural keypose-to-keypose spring interpolation isn’t ideal for full characters, but it was a fun idea overshooting rotations. Hyaa!

This is what happens when you've exhausted your creativity.

Now and then, I open this up and watch the procedural animation, amused by how silly it looks.

An unexpected Christmas gift to see @GameGrumps tearing their hair out over our game, struggling with something as simple as putting a sausage in a bun.

Our game is reaching players in Korea - have a look!.

In a few days you can try to break our sausage physics!. #wishlistwednesday.

How did I go from procedural stuff to this?. "Put the Sausage in the Bun." Wishlist it on Steam!

Swapped the placeholder characters with some lively small fellas. Helped make the pacing more apparent.

A trick i often find myself using in stylized context is fading objects into the background color. Basically crossfading from shaded to emissive without shading and towards the background color.

Ported my map generator to Godot aswell. Decided to try it out in 3D.

Same squad joystick control setup, testing out group center + joystick axis to direct attacks.

Trying to figure out vertical traversal for joystick-based agent steering.

Migrated most of my things to Godot. Exciting to finally test out some potential gameplay.

My humble approach to adjusting tile border mesh normals. Kind of a smoothing groups approach, without merging meshes.

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Tried porting the generator to Godot. No fancy tiles nor collapse heuristic, but a navigability flood-fill, placing trees at unreachable tiles.

Last couple of years have been a journey from art into design and programming. We'll see what 2024 will bring.

Playtesting multiplayer mechanics by myself. I am struggling to hold two joysticks.