#tootkin dev

The new goblin/imp have been successfully transferred to Godot! With all genes implemented correctly and all the colors of each trait added, that's a final count of 3 135 283 200 permutations of imps, and they ALL LOOK SO CUTE JPP

It's both a lot more permutations than the previous goblin, and a lot easier because there's almost no epistasis (when the expression of a gene hides the expression of another gene)

I can't wait to make the game now with those new assets, I love them. I could spend hours just clicking the "randomize" button.

I got a fully leucistic one at some point, which is super rare because the hair, skin, and scales each have their own color, and leucism is recessive in all three!

1: write a detailed imaginary game session, including different things the player would want to do

2: for each step of the game session, make a list of the mechanics the game would need to have

3: once the list of game mechanics is done, pick the ones that I want to include in the different milestones

It turned an overwhelming process into a very fun one, and allowed me to take a lot of notes on accessibility and controls as I went along.

I made a post on my blog about it that includes the work file I created through this process! It's several pages long but if you're interested in this method it can give you a detailed example of what it can look like.

Making progress on my game, I made the "make your own imp" form!

Getting there! I made 7 pupils, 4 mouths, 24 ears, 12 horns, 3 hands, 3 feets, and 3 types of hair. Still missing 6 skin types and 5 tails length (so 15 tail variants with the 3 different kinds of hair at the tip), then I will assemble it all with color variations in godot!

The goblins are successfully crossing o/ This was much easier to make than I thought it would be, I'm glad I spent so much time implementing and testing a robust and versatile gene system.

I've been working for a few days on a game about genetics, copying the very fun system from @pixelcatsend .

There's a minigame in the winter event about finding the genetic sequence of a pea plant, I had a lot of fun playing it so I'm making something similar to play on my phone when I can't sleep. I've just finished building the genetic system and I can now generate random individuals! Soon I'll be able to generate offsprings from 2 given parents! Exciting!

I also discovered GUT (Godot Unit Test) in this project, and made my very first test a few days ago:

upgrading the goblin I use for test in my genetics game with this funky little imp!

After a few hours and 5 pages worth of notes, I have identified 17 genes and roughly 65 assets to make... If I don't touch at the tail.

I am done!!

In Krita at least.

Now, to pay the price of my hubris (export ~180 layers as separate png to reassemble in Godot next).

TW: Math under the line