Monday, November 21. 2022

Giving Shape to Stone

Summary: In which level-polishing continues; a different aesthetic task usurps said polishing; healing is separated from utilities; the tutorial is then revised; and level-polishing resumes.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows the "Hall of Flow" in the Vertical Slice Moon, now with a bit more "depth" to its walls!



The week just past was... for a change, not primarily a level-polish week. There was some of that, and other things besides, but one particular task arose to call me away:

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Monday, November 14. 2022

Skeletal Art

Summary: In which levels receive polish; lighting is tweaked; and a mist-effect likewise is tweaked.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows progress on the polish-pass of the "Bone Galleries" level of the Ossuary Moon:



Naturally, it was such polish that occupied the majority of the week just past, I believe, with a few other things besides:

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Monday, November 7. 2022

Decorating the Dark

Summary: In which a level gains polish and finish; the same is started for another level; special effects may be placed in levels; special effects may be pre-defined; breakables may reference said pre-defined effects; walls are given "depth"; and shadows are tinted.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows a location within the "Dismal Halls" of the Ossuary Moon, now decorated:



The week just past was, once again, a level-building week--albeit again with a few other things besides:

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Monday, October 31. 2022

Traps and Gems

Summary: In which another level's first-draft is (pretty much) completed; a start is made to the next pass over the Ossuary's levels; some textures are touched up; linear traps become more prompt; linear traps further become more indicative; an enemy now stops short; the interaction is tweaked between mana crystals and an enemy that takes advantage of them; and some performance issues are addressed.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot comes from the "Dismal Halls" level of the Ossuary Moon, now a bit more filled out:



Naturally, the week just past was once again a level-building week for the most part, albeit with a variety of other tasks besides:
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Monday, October 24. 2022

Bones of Stone

Summary: In which a level's first draft is completed; and a new draft is begun.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot one again shows progress on a level of the Ossuary Moon:



Naturally, the week just past remained primarily a level-building week:

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Monday, October 17. 2022

The Lights and the Dark

Summary: In which a level's first-draft is completed; the game's approach to lighting is adjusted; some extant lighting is tweaked in response to that adjustment; a few lighting omissions are addressed; a level gains a theme; a new level is begun; a hall gains a new trap; and the logic of creature-respawning is altered.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows some lighting within the "Bonehoards" level of the Ossuary Moon--and with that, some changes to lighting in the game:



As with last week, the work of the week just past was primarily given to level-building, with a few other things besides:

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The Lights and the Dark

Summary: In which a level's first-draft is completed; the game's approach to lighting is adjusted; some extant lighting is tweaked in response to that adjustment; a few lighting omissions are addressed; a level gains a theme; a new level is begun; a hall gains a new trap; and the logic of creature-respawning is altered.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows some lighting within the "Bonehoards" level of the Ossuary Moon--and with that, some changes to lighting in the game:



As with last week, the work of the week just past was primarily given to level-building, with a few other things besides:

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Monday, October 10. 2022

Skeletal Passages

Summary: In which the flow of a level is altered; that level is developed in a number of aspects; a setpiece is worked on; and a new level is begun in earnest.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows further development of the "Bone Galleries" level of the Ossuary Moon:



The week just past was almost entirely a week of level-building:

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Monday, October 3. 2022

Galleries of Bone

Summary: In which two extant levels see tweaks; a sarcophagus gains a lid; a system for simple animations is implemented; an intended level is split; moons are made smaller; "landing sites" may be placed on multiple levels of a moon; a method for level-building is perhaps found; a level is progressed; and "swordtember" concludes.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows a new "exit"-marker encountered in the Ossuary Moon, one intended not for ascents or descents but instead for lateral transitions:



And indeed, it was level-making that occupied the main of the work of the week just past, I do think, although other things were done, too:

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Monday, September 26. 2022

Sights Amongst the Bones

Summary: In which the look of a moon is updated; a level's set-pieces are begun; "decor" elements aid in that; an encounter is finished up; and "swordtember" gains more swords.

Greetings and salutations!

This week's screenshot shows revision to the appearance of the Ossuary Moon:



And indeed, the work of the week just past was primarily given to the Ossuary Moon, or matters connected to it:

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