Demo still available on #Steam!

alternatively

dealing with cursed logic

will try to post more gamedev on here soon

will also dual post here while people get sick of this birdsite

uhhh you can now reroute switches to lock doors for some reason

https://t.co/QISTQe82oQ is back up since i forgot to renew a payment, though idk what use it has other than a general way to make the game look more legit on google but i also don't know what other content to put on such a site? any ideas/examples?

Pistol training, the program will simulate the bullets so you don't need to waste precious ammo learning how guns feel.

Watched a video on RELICs, a game I've not heard of until someone mentioned it as being similar to Machine. Very eerie visuals for something that came out before Metroid. https://t.co/pmu9qEQ3Yy

Still figuring it out but I find it adds another dimension. It's not going to 100% dictate the game or anything but it will hopefully permutate into interest dilemmas!

Adding a "clock" mechanic. Whenever you do something significant, time will pass. Purely turn based and abstracted (It doesn't literally take you 10 minutes to pick up an item but it's a simulacrum of you exploring and rummaging through stuff)

eventually it comes down to predicting what the player actually wants to do bolted on a mostly size fits all solution. but yeah gamedev things

Some issues with this still, it's possible for both lines to hit a single tile object in a way it feels too precise. tiles are 16x16 and the pistol is abouuuut 14 pixels from the player's feet. easy to fix though

if one of the lasers hits a valid object, then use that collision. if both are hitting a wall or nothing then use the farthest collision.

okay so draw two lines and the farthest is valid? well no again. The problem is the player might want to hit the top even though it's closest.

so maybe just visuals > logic? well no because it's easy for the laser to get stuck on walls you can clearly walk through but the laser can't

the bullshit happens when the player wants to actually hit something with said laser. it can be frustrating to SEE that it's hitting it even though in a 3D space it's correct. IRL you keep the gun center so you don't have to worry about horizontal alignment.

so aiming in top down 2d games is a pain. For awhile I've just been doing: fire a line from players feet to the destination. Then draw the actual laser/shot with an offset as if it was coming from the pistol. This makes sense... right?

back on it

repost but ftr to new follows, i am steadily working on this game still