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A Little Change of Perspective
So, at this point, we’re all familiar with the way this game looks. We’ve got our little guy, a camera fixed behind him, he can move up, down, left, and right. He can jump and stuff too. Neat! The Octopath Problem One of the things I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is what I […]
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Are We the Baddies?
Remember this guy? Okay, he’s a little blurry in this screenshot, but he’s really far away…. Okay, wait. Listen. Let me start over. It’s been a while since I’ve written one of these. Back in the day – meaning every day until this day – that little red guy was just kinda sitting there at […]
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A Little Respect for Authority
But first, some housekeeping… Alright, I’m removing the “Day X” part of the title post. The point of the Day X posts was to keep myself working every day. It made sense when progress was happening fast and huge decisions were being made daily. I’m progressing into features that are taking longer than a day, […]
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Day 29 – Gatekeeping
Today was an “under the hood” kind of day. Yesterday, I implemented the basics of the display part of the dialogue system. After all, it doesn’t do us much good to have a fancy editor if we can’t use it to build things that actually work. Today, it was time to make the whole thing […]
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Day 28 – We Should Talk … Again
No, you’re not seeing double. No, you do not need to adjust your television set. No, you are not stuck in a time loop. We’ve just done this before. I just spent 5 days building a graph-based dialogue editor for this game, but building the editor was only half the battle. The other half is […]
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Day 27 – Hey, Frieza! I got somethin’ for ya! HERE, HAVE IT!
I spent the little time I had today extending the dialogue graph to include events now. I’ve only implemented two – those are adding or removing items, and setting or unsetting progression flags. But as I’ve previously discussed, implementing 2-3 nodes is typically all it takes to figure out what needs to be generalized on […]
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Day 26 – Let me check that for you
Today was more dialogue tree stuff. Kinda just churning away at it at this point. The next step for today was to start implementing checks to see whether the user is or is not allowed to see a certain dialogue, or allowed to choose a certain option, or fire a certain event. I was trying […]
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No Big Update Today
I was just cranking away on the dialogue graph editor. Yesterday was mainly a proof of concept. You know, a prototype. Today I had to shift from PoC mode into final product mode, so it was a lot of rewriting things, making things work better, cleaning things up, and extending it to work with more […]
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Day 25 – Doubling Down
After having gone through the journey that was re-deciding to work with Godot, it was time to start moving forward again. And holy fuck this was quite a day. I haven’t really doubled down, I’ve like… tripled down. The next step was, I came to believe, making the server the authority over items. See, when […]
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Side Quest – Unity or Godot
I’ll admit I’ve been struggling lately. I started suffering a lot from the grass is greener fallacy. I like Godot, I see why people like it, but I’ve been feeling so much lately like I’ve been making my game in spite of the editor, rather than alongside it. Okay, let’s see… examples. Godot’s signal system […]