My dad's surgery went well, He had two arteries replaced (Double bypass). and is doing well (he actually comes home from the hospital today!
This was a pretty big worry for me last week, and ...
2023-01-28 15:50:47 +0000 UTC View PostThis has been a bit of a rough month for me, which is disappointing cause I had such a strong start.
Whatever illness I got from my niece morphed into a full on sinus infection, and p...
I got slowed down quite a bit earlier in the week because of illness, so I lost a few days to sitting in a dayquil induced haze, but I'm getting better at getting over being sick, and was able to g...
2023-01-14 17:51:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday, and welcome back!
Over the break I continued to work on level and character animation.
I worked it out and when I bring a ne...
2023-01-07 20:48:50 +0000 UTC View PostI'll be back with a full weekly update next week, but I did want to take a moment to say Happy New Year.
2022 was tough, but so was 2021, and 2020....
I'm extremely grateful...
2023-01-01 17:02:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This week is another not super exciting week.
I continued work on character animations, but also took a bit of time to continue some work on the dungeon map as well.
With the animations...
2022-12-18 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostNot a terribly exciting week, I spent time working on animations for a few characters to populate the new level.
I've had a hard time coming up with a good costume for the cultists, but even ...
2022-12-11 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The big thing I wanted to mention this week was the completion of the initial cut scene.
The final (as much as it can be, there is always things to be changed as funding improves) version I'll s...
I hope my American friends had a Happy Thanksgiving, and I hope everyone is ready to CONSUME this Christmas Season!
Among other things I started to put together the opening cutscen...
2022-11-27 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Big snow storm here this week end! I'm in the Western NY area, and South of me got a a few feet of snow. Luckily my area is right along the Niagara River, so it kinda keeps things calm ...
2022-11-20 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Besides taking a day off for politics...
This week I put work into set decorating part of the level I was previously showing off.
Meridiana is going to sneak into this castl...
2022-11-13 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI don't have a lot to go on about for this week, it was spent working on mundane stuff like in between animations and modification to assets, and some bug fixes.
Sometimes I don't get...
This week, I continued work on the little imp dude, and set up most of his rig. He still needs his facial animations, as well as some additional bones in the legs in order to make sure he def...
2022-10-30 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This week I took the time to finish up work I was doing on this imp dude. I want to use these guys sooner than later, so I've been working on him slowly a little every week for a while. ...
2022-10-23 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Someone had mentioned controller support needing to be updated, and seeing as how this would...
2022-10-16 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostFew things I worked on this week that I wanted to specifically go over.
First I decided to trim the opening cut scene animation I was working on, in order to get into the actual game play fas...
2022-10-09 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
September was a bit rough, but luckily its over and we can move on!
I mentioned that I spent some time this week working with AI "art" generation, and while it takes a lot to wrang...
2022-10-02 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been messing with an AI art tool (Stable Diffusion) and looking at it as a tool to help with my game dev.
I don't think its a replacement for real artists yet, but I think i...
2022-09-30 23:32:34 +0000 UTC View PostI was still feeling pretty sick for most of the week so I didn't really get a lot done, nor do I have anything significant to report.
While I still have a pretty terrible cough, I otherwise f...
2022-09-25 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostI'm hopped up on cold medicine so I keep this post brief again.
I continued work on the cut scene animations, and I've got all of them pre dialogue done except one.
I'm at a poi...
2022-09-18 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostGonna be a quick post!
Continued work on the cut scene animations. I've been studying cinematography a bit so that things might look kinda cool in the cut scenes, but I'll try to keep t...
2022-09-11 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I had been trying to write out the opening story sequence for the tutorial for quite a while, and now I've gotten to the point where I want to start animating it.
I'm still coming up ...
One of the things I wanted to do with the new swamp area I was making was rebuild the beginning of the tutorial level.
People, myself included, didn't love the platforming part, but t...
Just wanted to let people know about/recommend a new youtube channel by Kirby and Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai.
he just started it, and only has a few videos up, but already he discus...
I had some family engagements that took my out of office for part of the week(good family stuff), so I wasn't as productive as I'd usually like.
I did spend some time setting thing...
2022-08-21 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This week I'm just gonna show off some screen shots with no context!
I hope everyone has a safe week, and thank you so much for the support!
2022-08-14 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis week I spent a bit of time on bug fixes and UI set up, and then did some work on costumes for the cultists.
But the majority of the time was spent starting to set up and block out areas ...
2022-08-07 04:44:30 +0000 UTC View PostWhile I did spent a little time working on some attack stuff, I finally got back to working on characters more.
I had a lot of technical issues while doing it (LOTS OF CRASHES), but I managed...
2022-07-31 01:45:03 +0000 UTC View PostI spent most of my time cleaning things up in the project and player character class this week.
I converted all of the previous abilities I had made over to the new system, and consolidated a...
2022-07-23 20:40:57 +0000 UTC View PostI usually will say something in advance when I take a little time off, but a few things happened this week that took enough time away from my desk, that I decided to just do my summer vacation this...
2022-07-16 22:29:49 +0000 UTC View Post