Monday, January 3. 2022

Iconic Maps

Summary: In which a happy new year is wished; a bit more holiday is taken; new map-icons are added; an old map-icon is reworked; the addition of objects to the world sees internal changes; tab-buttons are polished; and the player-character can now die.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows some new map-icons, as well as a bit of additional polish to the related menu-tabs:



First of all, happy new year! ^_^

As you may recall, I took the week before last as my Christmas holiday. Well, that proved unexpectedly hectic and tired, so I decided to take the first two days of last week off, too. As a result, it was a little short as work-weeks go!

Still, a few things did get done:

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in Moons in Crystal at 10:49

Monday, December 20. 2021

UI Polish and Shininess

Summary: In which music is added and implemented; a bare start to a main-menu is made; interactive UI elements become shiny; UI elements gain art; some new bits of functionality are added to various UIs; controller-support is attended to; two new gameplay-related options are added; and a holiday well-wish is given.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows updates to the game's UI, in this case via the "map" page of the status-screen:



Before I begin, a quick announcement:

Christmas falls in this week, and as such I'm taking the week off as my usual Christmas holiday!

Naturally, that means that no work will be done on the project during this week (or so I intend), and thus there will be no progress to report next week. Therefore, I intend that there will be no blog-post next Monday (i.e. on the 27th of December, 2021). Instead, the next blog-post is intended to come on the following Monday (i.e. the 3rd of January, 2022).

That said, the week just past was a fairly busy one! There was UI-work, and options-work, and even a bit of audio-work, and more besides!

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in Moons in Crystal at 11:56

Monday, December 13. 2021

Making Mountains

Summary: In which techniques for terrain are developed; a new tool helps with mountains; and the question of what the player does on planets is approached.

Greetings and salutations!

For this week's screenshot, a new planetary surface, showing in particular some progress, I hope, on the depiction of mountains:



And indeed, it was the generation of such planetary surfaces, and especially of mountains, that primarily took up the work of the week just past:

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in Moons in Crystal at 11:04

Monday, December 6. 2021

Planetary Presentation

Summary: In which planets are begun in earnest; planets gain a map-representation; the handling of doors and breakable walls is reworked; and breakable walls have map-representations, and other objects might gain them.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows not a moon, but a planet!

(Well, okay, with a moon peeking in at one corner.)



The week just past was perhaps a little slow--but a few perhaps-notable things did get done:

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Monday, November 29. 2021

On the Handling of Content

Summary: In which the codex opens; options are begun; the handling of content is reworked, and DLC hopefully supported; a proof-of-concept "DLC" set is made; the player-character becomes shinier still; and a moon is removed.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows an entry in the codex:



The week just past had just a few major changes--but some of those were perhaps particularly significant:

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Monday, November 22. 2021

BADA BOOM!

Summary: In which a fox-shadow gains an empowered version; a new spell summons bone-walls; another new spell summons METEORS; certain spell-damages are tweaked; a new spreadsheet aids in spell-balancing; artefacts and spell-icons gain art; more highlights are included into the game's art-style; a cursor is tweaked; and a bare beginning has been made towards the "codex" feature.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows the effect of a new defensive spell:



The week just past was a decent one, I think!

With a few exceptions, it had two main thrusts: "attacking"-spells, and art:

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in Moons in Crystal at 11:38

Monday, November 15. 2021

A Friendly Shadow

Summary: In which icons are created or reworked; an effect is made for "grabbing"; and a defensive spell is added to the player's arsenal.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows some new or revised icons for three of the player's "metroidvania abilities":



The week just past was a little slow, in part I think due to a variety of abeyances of various sorts. Still, some things did get done:

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in Moons in Crystal at 10:59

Monday, November 8. 2021

Player Presentation and Powers

Summary: In which health may be upgraded; healing is done by percentage; the player's ship gains upgrades with abilities; the player's ship may be customised via collectible skins; a light-effect underscores acquisitions; and objects may be grabbed.

This week's screenshot shows a fully-upgraded health-bar!



The week just past was focussed almost entirely on the player and on their abilities and traits:

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in Moons in Crystal at 13:21

Monday, November 1. 2021

Usable Interfaces

Summary: In which the currently-selected attack-spell is indicated; the "status-screen" is themed and adjusted; each of the "inventory", "items and notes", and "map" pages see work; and map -rendering and -labelling is polished.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows a new bit of (in-progress) UI work, specifically for the "items and notes" screen:



And indeed, wanting a break from enemy-work, in the week just past I instead focussed primarily on matters of UI, as I recall:

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in Moons in Crystal at 11:19

Monday, October 25. 2021

A Matter of Perspective

Summary: In which the player is presented in tilted 3D; a spiked-trap is given a "bone" variant, and its geometry reworked a bit; a "spike shooter" enemy is made; a "mage" enemy is likewise is made; and a new shader is created for one attack of said "mage".

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows two changes of the week just past: one in a new enemy, and the other in the player's avatar:



Enemies and hazards were perhaps the primary focus of the week just past--but not its sole focus:

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Thaumaturge
in Moons in Crystal at 10:52
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