Game Development

Tuesday, October 18. 2016

Cutscenes

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot/gif is a short test/demonstration of the new "motion comic" cutscene system:

A quick test/demonstration of the new cutscene system. (Cursor not intended. >_<) #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev pic.twitter.com/JyTak7RRwK
— Ian Eborn (@EbornIan) October 16, 2016

(Don't worry, this isn't the quality or art-style that I intend for the cutscenes in the full game--it's just something that could be produced fairly quickly and easily for testing and demonstration purposes.)

As you may have gathered, the work of this past week was primarily dedicated to implementing "motion comic" cutscenes, alongside a simple editor for the creation of these cutscenes.

It feels a little strange--and pleasant--to have a single, central element of progress to discuss, rather than the miscellanies that have occupied the past several updates. It feels... more focussed, perhaps.

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Monday, October 10. 2016

Prologue Complete!

Greetings and salutations!

The prologue level is complete! I believe that there are a few relatively-minor issues that will likely call for my returning to it later, but as of today one can play through the level in its entirety.

In place of this week's screenshot, then, I'm posting a full playthrough of the level. This includes the solutions to all of the puzzles, and the location of a hidden collectible item, so beware spoilers!

(But then, this is the prologue/tutorial level--these aren't major spoilers, I feel!)

So, what's next?

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Monday, October 3. 2016

Culling the Geometric Herd

Greetings and salutations!

First of all, this week's screenshot/GIF:

Portal culling! It's still a little buggy, but it's a start, I believe! #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev pic.twitter.com/XiIaoQPZJ0
— Ian Eborn (@EbornIan) October 2, 2016

(The colour of that interior room isn't correct--a bug that I've subsequently fixed, I believe.)

This week past was a fairly productive one, I feel!

Perhaps the biggest change made this week was the introduction of portal culling--more specifically, implementing support for Panda's built-in portal culling.

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