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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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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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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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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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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Monday, October 18. 2021

Speaking Up

Summary: In which effects for a boss-fight see work; a means of depicting shape-changing spirits is developed; a small testing-program is made to aid that development; characters can speak out; a post-fight encounter is made; the aforementioned boss-fight is nigh-done; some writing is put in place; and basic skeletons gain spawn-effects.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows a new "encounter", this one (optionally) following the defeat of the "sequential boss" that has previously been shown:



Once again that "sequential boss" was perhaps the main focus of the week, to one degree or another, and in one manner or another--although a few other things did get done, too:

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Monday, October 11. 2021

Breaking Barriers

Summary: In which the Ossuary Moon is further textured; that moon's "sequential boss" level is polished; doors may connect rooms; breakable barriers are made; a nascent "default level" is added to the Ossuary Moon; and a decision is made regarding the relationship between levels and "space".

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows further progress on the look and feel of the Ossuary Moon:



The work of the week just past was, I think, nearly all room-related--but in a variety of different aspects:

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Monday, October 4. 2021

So. Many. Bones.

Summary: In which bone-textures are painted; a new shader is made; the "sequential boss" level of the Ossuary Moon sees progress; the Ossuary Moon's appearance from space is updated; the scale of moons in space is worked on; NPCs can pass from room to room; room-adjacency information is handled; and the mana-bar shows a low-mana state.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows a work-in-progress view of the Ossuary Moon from space:



That Ossuary Moon was, perhaps, the primary locus of the work of the week just past: in much it was the subject of that work, and where it wasn't specifically, it was at times nevertheless the location for it:

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