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Development is on hold for now...
July 18, 2022 by Magnanix
With coursework taking up most of my free time, and the other situations currently destroying my ability to do development work satisfactorily - I've decided to leave the RTS Jam and pause development... Continue reading
Experiments with Cursors, Draft Implementation
July 10, 2022 by Magnanix
Only a small update today, so much to prep before classes start (in the morning). Added a 3D cursor with different animated states (akin to DK1) Added a standard cursor override (for UI elements) base... Continue reading
Draft UI, Minimap, and Contextual Menu
July 09, 2022 by Magnanix
Over the last few days, many things have been happening - unfortunately one of those things was not: work on the game :(. As mentioned on twitter, course has started (lots of travel into the city), ha... Continue reading
New states for A.I. tasks, Item drops too.
July 04, 2022 by Magnanix#Godot, #A.I., #State Machine, #Fog of War, #Inventory, #Hauling, #Grid
More updates! Added the states: "Pickup", and "Storage" to the Worker A.I. Added the function to drop items (and spawn a representation of said item in the world), upon dropping - these items add them... Continue reading
Family Time Obligation: Complete, back to work :)
July 03, 2022 by Magnanix#Level Creation, #Fog of War, #New Tiles, #Godot
Spent the last day and a bit with the family - keeping myself social. Unfortunately this means work was light on the project until today :). What has been done? Moved map/grid initialization from code... Continue reading
Added Fog of War, Fixed clipping, and adjust lights.
July 01, 2022 by Magnanix#Mesh Generation, #Fog of War, #Godot, #Blender, #Dynamic Images, #Dynamic Textures
I keep going to start work on the UI for this game, so that I can start stepping into the other buildings and their units + behaviors, but then I notice something that seems off. Today I was messing a... Continue reading
Optimizations and A.I. Additions
June 30, 2022 by Magnanix#A.I., #Godot, #Grid, #Helper-chan, #Animation, #State Machine
Thus, another day of development comes to a close, a very fruitful one at that (albeit the majority of work, again, was backend and thus not very visually pleasing). I've added two new key states to t... Continue reading
Missed a day, heres some progress!
June 29, 2022 by Magnanix#AStar, #Godot, #Progress Update, #Pathfinding, #A.I., #Excavation, #Dynamic Mesh, #Task Management
Yesterday I managed to build out the AStar Pathfinding handler and managed to get it working for spawned units, but felt it wasn't enough to justify an update solely in itself (nothing really visual w... Continue reading
Not much time to work today, but did so anyway!
June 27, 2022 by Magnanix#3D Modelling, #3D Animation, #Helper-chan
Spent the majority of the day avoiding use of my computer, as we were meant to have an electrician out to replace things... didn't want to risk even the slightest chance of corrupting work and/or a su... Continue reading
Basic: Inventory & Tasks, + Shaders and Lighting.
June 26, 2022 by Magnanix#Task Management, #Lighting, #Shaders, #Godot, #Dungeon Keeper, #Inventory, #Items
Spent today working on a few things: Basis of the Inventory/Resource management. Evolving the inventory script I created for "Connection Booster" (previous game jam entry here on itch), and cleaning i... Continue reading
Development of map system
June 25, 2022 by Magnanix#Mesh Generation, #Godot SurfaceTool, #Godot Threads, #Dynamic Mesh, #Chunks, #Godot
The first step is to create a Grid Based system to emulate the Dungeon Keeper style, to begin - I wanted to use Godot's SurfaceTool. Previously, in past games - I've spent many hours using Godot's Arr... Continue reading
And so, it begins once more...
June 24, 2022 by Magnanix
RTS Jam 1998, the beginning. Game Plan: Create an RTS in the style of Dungeon Keeper (with alterations to the base design to fit into the RTS Jam 1998 rules, in particular: needs 1 or more selectable... Continue reading