Monday, March 14. 2022

Dem Bones

Summary: In which passage through space leaves a trail; planets and moons depict both "atmospheres" and their crystal spheres; the look-and-feel of the Ossuary Moon is reworked; a "splatting" shader is made; and a race is progressed.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows an addition to the appearances of planets and moons: an "atmosphere" beyond their radii, and beyond that, a suggestion of their solar system's crystal sphere.



The week just past had perhaps two main thrusts--one visual, one gameplay:

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in Moons in Crystal at 11:00

Monday, March 7. 2022

A Field of Stars

Summary: In which "space" has stars; the view of the "Bubble Moon" from "space" is changed; moons may rotate; the look and feel of the "Ossuary Moon" is being reworked; moon-surfaces may optionally have reduced exit-radii; the "Vertical Slice" moon now has halls of "flow" and "traps"; a race is being made; spike-traps become more efficient; bumping into things now produces sounds; and breakables are provided.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows something that should hopefully make "space" more "space-y": Stars!

(Of course, when your stars are set on the inner the surface of a great crystal sphere, things might become a little odd as you fly about said sphere...)

And with an inset showing a change to the look of the sun, too.



The week just past was a varied one, with quite a few changes and changes of a variety of types, I feel!

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in Moons in Crystal at 12:10

Monday, February 28. 2022

Swirling and Flowing

Summary: In which a proof-of-concept moon is upgraded; a "vertical slice" moon is begun; currents are implemented; menu-art becomes more dynamic; and a "depiction of the game" gif is shown.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows an upgrade to a moon that's intended for use in a proof-of-concept for DLC support:



The work of the week just past was primarily given to four salient changes: Two moons, one matter of visual-art, and one new element of gameplay:

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in Moons in Crystal at 12:15

Monday, February 21. 2022

The Art of Menus

Summary: In which saving and loading is advanced; a save-load menu is added; a save-icon is added; note-taking is noted; the logo is done; the main menu gains art; and the buttons of the "Encounter" UI now animate.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows an update to the main-menu screen--specifically, in that it now has background art!



Note that I've again redacted the logo: I'm still a little wary of putting that out in public just yet! ^^;;

Aside from one significant technical change, most of the work of the week just past was visual in nature:

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in Moons in Crystal at 11:33

Monday, February 14. 2022

Sound Thinking?

Summary: In which more audio-work is done; some discussion is had regarding my approach to audio; "sliding block" traps and crystal-making require line-of-sight; the "Crystal Moon" encounter gains some changes; and objects may now drop items.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows items being dropped by a character at their defeat:


(Albeit that this is a somewhat-artificial case: most will likely not drop so much, I expect!)

The week just past was primarily a sound-related week, I feel--but some other things did get done nevertheless!

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in Moons in Crystal at 11:54

Monday, February 7. 2022

Spellery

Summary: In which a player combat-spell gains a new "empowered" form; notes may be given; another menu gains non-mouse navigation; a handful of effects-related changes are made, including objects flashing on taking damage; spell-weaving gains an effect; sounds are made; and more thought is given to what to do toward adding sounds to the game.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows a new effect, as displayed in my shader-viewer, and which is intended to convey spell-weaving! (Albeit that it's shown here at a rather larger scale than it's intended to be seen in-game.)



The week just past included somewhat of a miscellany of changes, including sound, special effects, and more besides!

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in Moons in Crystal at 14:43

Monday, January 31. 2022

Moving About the Menus

Summary: In which audio investigation continues; some sound-effects are made; a crystal pulses with light; "crystal enemies" are no longer randomised; the appearance of upgrades to the health-bar is changed; and non-mouse menu-navigation is worked on.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows the enemies encountered within the Crystal Moon:



The week just past was once again perhaps primarily split between two matters: audio work and UI-navigation work. However, this time other matters had a salient part, too:

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Monday, January 24. 2022

Pops and Glows

Summary: In which a UI is reworked--and now has more art; crystal enemies have firing effects; further, crystal enemies glow; the "Rune of Power" item gains a visual effect; some title-displays are tweaked; bosses gain titles; audio-implementation is begun; some first sound effects are added; and the question of sound-making is considered.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows another revision to the "encounter" UI:



The week just past was perhaps divided, more or less, between visual matters and auditory ones:

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in Moons in Crystal at 11:20

Monday, January 17. 2022

A Realm of Heat and Light

Summary: In which the implementation of saving-and-loading is begun; an enemy gains more shots; weapons see some polish; the "Bright Realm" is updated; a message-box is added; the key-binding UI is (hopefully) completed; and an in-game menu is implemented.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows some changes to the "Bright Realm":



The week just past was a somewhat varied one! There was work on technical matters, on polish, on UI elements, and more besides:

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Thaumaturge
in Moons in Crystal at 11:36

Monday, January 10. 2022

Metallic Bindings

Summary: In which a second holiday makes for a short week; the key-binding UI sees work in various of its elements; the main menu gains buttons and a backdrop to them; a draft of a logo is made; a shader is touched-up; and the handling of localisation is further tweaked.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows some very-work-in-progress updates to the key-binding UI:



At about this time of year, I usually take two holidays: the first over Christmas (as previously mentioned), and the second just after the start of January. This year, that second holiday fell in the week just past, resulting in a half-week for me.

Nevertheless, some things did get done:

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in Moons in Crystal at 15:07
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