#7dfps

We made a new game for #7dfps jam!

Just before the holidays, a little present for you! We made a first-person arena shooter where you have to protect your BIG SOUL. Play it on itch today!

Rat King is doing 7DFPS again! In 2020 we made Meat Shift which was so much fun, and we're very excited to see what we can put together this time around >:D

7dfps jam entry's dev diary 0x0, braindump for a non-violent retro toy

Raw brainstorming about making my very own first person game jam entry. (Two-to-four itch games were 2D cool pieces to learn and will continue some with Mosi before actually making more diverse entries engine-wise)

DAY 0x1:

Keywords

Moodboard

Mindmaps

Study some games and make a research document (Table of credits, specifications and all things documentation)

Imagination cardboard tests and writing prompts on paper "thesis"

Tools, game engine & other technological choices and narrow it down to MVP vague specifications

DAY 0x2:

Choose and gather free public domain assets (especially audio & misc multimedia boilerplates)

Engage with 7dfps dev community

Start thinking about how go with the competition, the "requests" and accessibility in mind

Prototype gameplay loops

Playtest by myself and fix issues as they arise

DAY 0x2

Sketch map layouts

Sketch game assets

Summarize engine-related systems

Implement at broader scales

DAY 0x3:

Tinker around with initial game assets

Craft the feature core of my tiny-packed systemic design

Learn the relevant documentation for the project's engine

Take advantage of engine features

Get started with alpha playtesting it to other people and gather the feedback

DAY 0x4:

Beta players' responding and tweaking from feedback

May expand with swappable assets, additional gameplay systems and level scriptables

Open up the infrastructure for modifications (FLOSS repository, website page entry, seek peer-review for technical documentation and all things making it more community-friendly)

DAY 0x5+0x6

Fixing last bugs

Quality of life

Polish

Creative frontend assets

Writing down-to-heart descriptions and tags

Publish

Curate

Promote

Pitch it to my family

Gather reviews data

Respond to comments & reviews

NOTE

Also yes, I thank each one of you so much for sticking by with my 30k+32 posts (99% are reblogs apparently, welp), 310 following comrades and a handful of awesome conversations since I registered back around July 2015. It really make me blush and it motivates my humble brain as to keep going.

Another jam game - this time for the 7DFPS, where the task is to create a first-person shooter within 7 days. Of course, when we (voxel and myself) decided to participate as a team, we neither wanted to do a shooter, nor do it in a week. Instead we worked a horror stealth game that we planned and prepared within a month. The result is 666 Coins, and you can find and play it on itch.io!

I took the character controller I created for the stealth game project I already talked about, and changed it only marginally. It became the foundation for what would become the gameplay of 666 Coins - which is mostly about hiding in the dark, evading enemies (as you don’t have weapons to defeat them) and stealing loot.

Voxel was responsible for generating the level out of map sections (built with bloed), and creating the textures; he also made several decoration objects and a deadly trap. Thanks to him, the game actually came together.

holy shit i missed creating shit. 

this here might not look like much but it’s something i’m working on for 7dfps.

i decided to join 7dfps because i felt like creating things again: i had a huge creative block over the last few months and i think i’m finally snapping out of it!

i love to create things. i love showing it to other people and i love it when people like my shit. 

i love being surrounded by other creators. i never want to stagnate and i never want to stick to people who stagnate, i never want to stop studying and experimenting and i want to be near other people who also do the same, who think the same way

creating is my drive and it will forever be my drive. no substitutes for the feeling it provides me.