Mar 3, 2021

Mar 1, 2021

This was back when I was testing layouts rapidly. Probably the only time in my art career that I trusted the process.

discord?

Jul 10, 2021

yea that's right, I made the trees move

More Terrain Stuff

More models I ended up scrapping. 3D modelling is very tuff.

(Article) Dialogue Box with Simple SFX and Parsing for Pauses

This is a tutorial for Godot 3 I used to make part of my dialogue manager. It gives me animal crossing like SFX and the ability to have short pauses.

(Video) Loading JSON files for Dialogue

This is another tutorial for Godot 3 that comprises the other bit of my system. I cobbled together a few more features using my poor understanding of the documentation. I believe the author of this video has a more advanced JSON dialogue setup that might fit what you're looking for.

My system boils down to a state machine where each line in a dialogue is a unique state. The JSON file signifies all the states in a scene and alongside what should be said I can define other things I want to happen when a line is played, The most I've done with this is change an emote image or display additional text but I plan to base my cutscenes around it too. But instead of changing an image I might call for the camera to move, the game to fade to black, or for an NPC or Some other game object to play an animation. It's a bit messy right now but I've come to realize a lot of game programming is just a state machine in different contexts.

I wouldn't be scared of making a brute-force attempt either. Iterating is part of the creative process and even if it ends in failure you'll learn something new even if that's how not to do something.

Anyone know any good tutorials on creating dialogue/cutscene systems for RPGs? Preferably Godot but if there’s other ones with easily applicable universal principles that would work too. This is something that I feel like has lots of different approaches and I wouldn’t want to just brute force a really cluttered system for it.

i feel like Mario as a metroidvania is a concept that hasn't been explored as much as it should

i feel like it's rich with potential for that

I don't think you could implement anything like the standard upgrade treadmill without doing violence to Mario's basic idiom. When I picture a Mario game with a large interconnected world, I see something less like a metroidvania and more like the sub-game "The Great Cave Offensive" from Kirby Super Star; i.e., there'd be no permanent upgrades, but a wide range of temporary, mutually exclusive powerups, most of which can only be obtained in particular regions of the map, with the open-world traversal being purely a challenge of routing – identifying an obstacle at point A as requiring a powerup which can only be obtained at point B, and figuring out how to travel between those two points using the capabilities that powerup provides.

Equip/Augment UI Mockup

Probably my favourite mockup to date. This is where the player will configure their party members. A battler can equip 1 weapon, 1 armor set, 1-2 artifacts depending on class and 4 techniques. This amounts to 8 possible things to customize around the endgame. On top of the equipment possibilities, the player can also augment 4 attributes (SPD, STR, DEF, MAG) on each of their characters using attribute points scattered across the world.

Tower

Doing the bricks on the bottom was heck. I guess this is a good time to tell you this specific one won't be in the game... not because it's bad or anything but because while porting to Godot 4 I switched to 3D. So now I have to model the bricks on the bottom... heck. At least you'll be able to jump from rooftops to rooftops... hopefully

NPC scripts

Don't mind me, just stress-testing to see if my NPCs can survive a morsel of the shenanigans players might pull. With some work I got it to fall through the floor but I'm unsure if my failsafe worked properly so I think I need to bully test it a bit more...

Aug 18, 2021

Dawn of the first slime, I have so many things I need to do...

Swords focused roguelike