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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · 10d

Finally getting back into working on gameplay after 4 months of engine upgrades. Currently setting up a better test map.

I suppose this is also the first footage on here that includes wind trails and foliage sway. 👀

#love2d #gamedev

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · 19d

He's going to turn water into wine and then get sued by Big Alcohol™ for tanking their stock value.

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · Sep 4

Rare double post! Also reworked some of my particle emitter logic to support rotating whole emitters, including any particles that are already emitted. #love2d

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · Sep 4

Upgraded my renderer's lighting system to allow for more vibrant colors - at the cost of requiring more manual tuning.

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · Aug 18

Ah, I always thought the bare minimum was "mouth", "ears", "quiet environment", "no language barrier" and "not falling asleep midway through"

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · Jul 17

Been a bit since I shared progress on my renderer.

Spent a while implementing a shader for water/waterfalls and other liquids, improving the shading on foliage, optimizing performance and building a better pipeline for exporting maps from Blender to Love2d. #love2d

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · Jul 13

Thanks for clarifying, I thought you were turning down the master volume in your settings when I tried to talk to you. Good to know you were instead simply counting on my ability to fend off surprise encounters while you recharged.

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · May 30

Love seeing the progress Dan. You're making me curious though. Do you have a specific end goal in mind for this project? A game? A blog post? Or wherever the wind takes you?

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · May 29

Implemented spritesheet functionality into my particle shader & blending to handle semi-transparent particles.

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · May 21

You know you're too deep into debugging your code if you're happy to see your program change from crashing to freezing.

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · May 8

Finally added card info & made it possible to play the cards.

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · Apr 29

More progress on turn-based battle prototype. Units can now move around and attack. Cards are next on the to-do list.

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · Apr 19

Overworld -> battle transition concept. Next up: being able to select & move units, and play cards on them.

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · Apr 16

Prototyping a card system

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · Apr 10

Working on improving scene management. Generalized the process to make it easier to program scene switches in UI or through in-scene triggers.

Starting to look more and more like an actual engine.

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · Mar 29

What did you use to create the soft shadows?

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · Mar 17

And when your camera zooms in on it you can hear a faint sizzling.

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · Mar 14

Experimenting with an art-style that could fit in with the 3d renderer I wrote in #love2d. Had to rework my Blender plugin to export scenes from Blender into my Love2d projects. Definitely worth it though.

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · Mar 1

Implemented real-time shadow maps and bloom into my #love2d 3d renderer. Performance is surprisingly good given how I botched the code.

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · Feb 20

Quick and simple burning effect shader written in #love2d using a noise image as a mask.

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · Feb 11

Been playing around with #love2d a lot recently. Created a prototype for loading & unloading rooms with basic character movement, collisions, questionable click-to-move pathfinding and a simple transition UI.

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · Jan 28

A lil' splash screen I made. #love2d

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · Jan 9

Reworking my portfolio website to show off some of my recent work. Super happy with this format, especially the interactive 3d asset viewer.

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · Dec 19

We also went over phong shading and such when I was still in uni, but I decided in this case to not add any specular lighting as I don't feel it would match the style I want to go for.

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Zomebody @zomebody.bsky.social · Dec 18

In my off-time I've been learning more about how 3d rendering works and wrote a little renderer from scratch in Love2D. It supports meshes, textures, particles, basic diffuse lighting and ambient occlusion!

Hoping to expand this more in the future.

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