Game Dev Adventure 1

Game Dev Adventure 1

Oh, I'm a week late aren't I!

I’m trying a new style, inspired by @the-seelie-court-official

Well, no time better than the present!

I'm changing the upload schedule to Tuesdays instead of Mondays, as Monday now conflicts with my schedule.

My friend who’s helping me make this game can be found at @whythehellnot5

The game will be open source, you can find the github repo here

You can also find a website containing my notes here

Hey! what's that, I've started using numbers instead of roman numerals! You know what that means, that means I've finally started to work on the game!

As a first order of business, I'll reveal the genre! It's going to be some sort of roguelike/roguelite

I'll need your help (because I'm indecisive) to make a few choices

And seeing as I have access to Tumblr polls, I guess i should use them

If anyone is worried that I can't submit this to my school's graduation project board, don't as I'm going to make a separate version for them

I was late for many reasons, but most importantly Godot was throwing an error that I fixed by downgrading the libx11 library

These first few devlogs will be numbered with roman numerals as I have not yet started work on my actual game

Context and warning

This project is my graduation project for high school, I do have a partner for doing this, but they’re behind me on learning the engine. Imay publish the result or even keep working on it after my senior year, saying this, to people who would push for me to release my project earlier than my senior year, no. This is a school project and I will not be pushed, the school comes first.

Mario Clone

To learn Godot, my engine of choice, I have been working on multiple small projects, such as a Tarot reader, a mobile game on the Godot docs, and more recently, a Super Mario Bros. clone.

Today I will be going over:

The movement script

The bounding box and signals in Godot

My plans for this project

Movement Script

In the movement script, I may have been caught in some feature creep. The movement script has:

Side to Side movement

@export var speed = 300.0 @export var friction = 10 ... func _physic_process(delta): ... if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_right"): velocity.x += speed if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_left"): velocity.x -= speed else: velocity.x = move_toward(velocity.x, 0, friction)

The "ui_right" is set to right arrow key and D, the "ui_left" is set to left arrow key and A. When "ui_right" or "ui_left" are pressed the velocity vector (Vector2(x, y)) is incremented by speed, and when neither are pressed the move_toward function is used. The move_toward function takes the arguments “what value does it start at, what is the end value, what value is it decremented/incremented by”, in my case, the starting value is the current x velocity, the end value is 0, or standing still, and it is decremented by friction, which equals 10.

Jumping with Jump Buffering and Coyote Time

@export var jump = -400.0 ... var coyoteTimer var jumpBuffer = 0 var isJumping = false ... func _ready(): coyoteTimer = Timer.new() coyoteTimer.one_shot coyoteTimer.wait_time = 1.0 add_child(coyoteTimer) ... func _physics_process(delta): if jumpBuffer > 0: if is_on_floor(): velocity.y = jump isJumping = true jumpBuffer = 0 else: jumpBuffer -= 1 elif Input.is_action_just_pressed("ui_accept"): if is_on_floor(): velocity.y = jump isJumping = true elif not coyoteTimer.is_stopped(): velocity.y = jump isJumping = true else: jumpBuffer = 5 elif Input.is_action_just_released("ui_accept"): velocity.y = max(velocity.y, jump)

Let’s look through this line by line, starting with the variable jump, why is it negative if you want to go up, well in Godot, the vector graph is mirrored over the x axis so -y is up and +y is down. The other variables apply to jump buffering and coyote time. I haven’t told you about jump buffering and coyote time yet have I? well, they’re both fairly simple features that make the game feel smoother and more responsive. Jump buffering makes it so that if you hit the jump button ("ui_accept") and you're not quite on the ground, you'll jump when you land. Coyote time is named after Wile E. Coyote and makes it so that if you jump just after leaving a ledge, when it seems like you'd still be able to jump, you can. The _ready() function is the first thing to run, as it runs on startup, this one sets up the coyote timer The _physics_process() function runs every physics frame , yes, there are even more kinds of framerate! This first if statement checks to see if the jump buffering frames are still active. If they are, and the player is on the floor, then the player jumps, sets isJumping to true and sets the buffer frames to 0. if is_on_floor() is false, then the code decrements jumpBuffer by 1. If there aren't any buffer frames, it checks if "ui_accept" was pressed, if so, it checks if is_on_floor() is true, if so the player jumps, else if the coyoteTimer is active, and if so, the player jumps, else, it activates the jump buffer frames. I'm not entirely sure what that last elif statement does , it probably just jumps.

Bounding Box and Signals in Godot

Signal are an incredibly powerful tool when used correctly, "Signal up, call down" is a saying in Godot that helps to make organized code . Signals can connect nodes to trigger things, but they can be ignored, which helps for reusablity.

func _on_bound_body_entered(): get_tree().reload_current_scene()

The _on_bound_body_entered() function checks if a phyics body has entered the bounding walls. the get_tree().reload_current_scene() reloads the level.

Future Plans

I hope to finish world one by the end of this week, but we'll see when we get there, and hopefully by around the end of january, me and my partner can start working on the actual game.

TCHÜSS

Game Development Adventures 6

I'm going out of the country for 5 weeks so I'll be missing a few devlogs

I have made no progress

I am once again looking for a new algorithm

I have three separate tabs open for that

more work will get done when school comes back around

o7 CMDR

Game development adventures 3

Sorry i took so long

please forgive me

Our artist has been hard at work, and I completely rewrote the wave function collapse algorithm

I don't know where that red squiggle came from

This is a dict that contains all the data for our new tile set, and I have have to set it up again for the , hopefully, final time

The original script was made in GDscript v1, I'm using GDscript v2

It was also made in 3d, I'm doing 2d

So most of the original has to be changed and I'm not finished with that yet

I've started to work on the actual story! so far your ship crash lands on a random planet, when you go looking for someone to fix it, you come across a fledgling resistance. They agree to fix your ship if you join them

Hopefully I can do more this week

I might open a ko-fi to pay for the few things I do need to do this like fl studio

I may change the algorithm, it all depends on what works

anyways

o7 cmdr

IT HAS BEGUN

Game Development Adventure II

Unfortunately, I lost a ton of my data and files, so there's not much to say today.

the upload schedule is every other Monday starting today.