An Endless Pile of Unfinished Stuff

HE SPEAKS!

Oh and I guess I also did some neat stuff with raycasts and distances to determine which camera the game should use, and some work with animation controllers so Red Guy isn't moon walking all the time. But that's honestly way less cool than my precious boy Colin doing a jig and talking.

With a lot of stuff done on this, I'm gonna put this project on hold for a day or two. Don't wanna neglect the other stuff I got in the pipeline. So tomorrow and Saturday, look forward to some more Rimworld-Like content with Space Pirate Action Manager and my weird first person survival game I fear every day will be compared to FNAF.

Oh, and since Twitter is imploding as we speak, feel free to check out my Linktree to see other places where I threaten to actively post stuff.

Digital Styles!

Been kind of a weird day in terms of productivity. And that's entirely because I got completely sucked into modeling and tweaking Colin the Computer. Because a DHMIS game literally set inside a computer just wouldn't feel right without the lad hanging around.

Red Guy, Absolutely Moving

At last! My weird fan modeling project has made the leap to some kind of interactive movement simulator that looks a bit crusty! O frabjous day!

But the journey never ends. So here's another of these apparently daily logs documenting stuff I'm working on. Besides the above, I also got a lil gif of Red Guy dancing his heart out.

Now what I've done to justify what you see above is tell myself that I did this in order to check whether the skin weighting was good enough. Otherwise, there can be clipping issues and general ugliness down the road.

Again, not really much to physically show off for They Will Overrun, but I got a ton of conceptual progress done on SPAM, like generating some dynamic floor tiles and adding full planar movement to the camera that I definitely can show off.

Here he is! PS1 Yellow Guy. Honestly, he was a way bigger pain than both Duck and Red Guy due to YG's stringy hair. Originally, I had no clue how I was gonna get that looking even close to accurate, but by slapping on some planes, I think it turned out pretty good.

On top of that, I also got some more stuff done for They Will Overrun and my Space Pirate game i'm tentatively calling SPAM (Space Pirate Adventure Manager). While the They Will Overrun stuff is mostly just minor refactoring since my code looks just awful, I can show something pretty neat from SPAM.

Now that the project has a menu, I'm like 2/3 of the way towards having an actual game on my hands. Once I plop in the levels / failure states I'll be golden. 👍

Once this is done, which I'm hoping will be in the next week or so, I'll start on prototyping two different projects:

1. DHMIS Point-And-Click / Resident Evil

Weird combo, but hear me out. The way I see it, at least in 3D, Point-And-Click adventure games have the same point of view as fixed camera survival horror like Reaident Evil. So, for a horror point-and-click game, I think it would be fun to play around with that and switch between the two during gameplay. I'll see how it actually plays once the prototyping starts.

2. Space Pirate Simulator

Admittedly, this is a bit more of a pipe dream than #1. But sci-fi is my absolute favorite genre, and ever time I play a sci-fi game, my favorite playstyle is that of a pirate! ☠️

The concept for this one is essentially a mix of Rimworld and Homeworld set in a semi-persistent solar system. The movement of the ship would happen in a 3D interface ala Homeworld, while the crew of your ships would happen in an isometric / top down view ala Rimworld. The idea is essentially to make you really feel like a scrappy pirate operating on the fringes with a ragtag group of scoundrels with their own unique personalities and relationships.

(And yes I'm taking massive inspiration from The Expanse's Camina Drummer and Klaes Ashford. Great show, watch it if you haven't)