Mar 1, 2021

Aug 11, 2021

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Sorry for the imgur link, my gif was too chonky. Which makes sense I guess since it's a 30-second-long textbox that needs some of it's messages pruned.

Objective Screen

I sorta like it. I just wonder if it'll be a bit too disruptive. Guess I'll find out 2 years from now when I actually put it in the game and playtest it lol

Mar 12, 2022

not gonna lie I think I started to code a bit again in march... Thats good, I was convinced I wasted a year churning up ideas.

Super Fancy Location Indicator

That I will probably redesign since I want to redesign the pause menu...

Busting

Don't mind me, just bustin' up some crates.

Dialogue Box

Holy shi* the frames on this recording. Anyway, here is my dialogue box! it reads a JSON file with all the lines a dialogue has and plays them with a silly sound that I might change... It has support for some cool stuff although it's not implemented yet since I'm really lazy and suck at writing.

Don't mind the other things in the background... However, if you can't control your curiosity, listen closely. I heard there is a hidden archive on a particular discord server full of other development snippets, including snippets that haven't been posted here!? If anyone asks you didn't hear it from me (plz join, k thx bye)

NPC Reactivity

It's a small thing, but I added this system so that other game objects can pull the attention of NPCs nearby so that it seems like they are reacting to what the player or environment does. I really need to look into drawing more sprites, all my game characters have so little in terms of expression. It's a bit sad...

New Frame Plus (on Youtube) has a series called The Animation of Final Fantasy. It is a really good look at the importance of animation and its impact on storytelling. I plan to use whatever I can from the series to guide how I animate and express my game visually. I don't know if on my own I'll even scratch the multitude of means by which Square Enix did the impossible, but I like to dream.

Pause Menu Implementation

I decided to stop tweaking the look and actually start putting it into the game. Exporting assets is a lot of work so I just kinda put placeholders in...

Water Shader

Shaders are literal witchcraft, although getting this one to work was a bit of a hassle since a lot don't play well with an orthographic camera. Don't mind the jesus tech, It get's patched out later.

Options Menu

The coolest thing this menu has is keybinding. I need to tweak it a bit so that the user has to specify that they want to apply changes rather than instantly updating the game settings