Playing around with swarming. To prevent overcrowding, I enabled avoidance and also gave each enemy a designated "angle" around which to target the player (instead of the player's position itself). The result is funny with this many enemies, but with a handful it should feel organic

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Worked on a wave spawning system today. Those green spheres are spawn points I generate at the start by doing a bunch of raycasts in a grid pattern onto the level geometry.

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I've been playing a lot of Hades II, so naturally I booted up #godot and started making a new prototype based around that kind of gameplay.

Lots of questions to answer at this point about what it should be, but it has been interesting to develop something that uses an orthographic perspective!

Here's a t-posing tiger in a go-kart with the gizmos and most of the effects turned on...

Playin' around in MuseScore with a little melody I came up with recently

To celebrate black friday, my game Critter Drifters will be sold at its normal cost of five dollary-doos:

store.steampowered.com/app/3755680/...

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Refactored the battle logic and figured out a better way to handle 2D sprites in a 3D world with rotatable camera. The neat thing is I only need 2 versions of each animation: front and back facing. I can flip either of those horizontally to account for the other two angles

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Now that Critter Drifters is out, I've been spending more time on the "what next?" question. Still exploring ideas, but I'm finding myself drawn to a casual RPG with turn-based battles.

Think a mix of Mario+Rabbids, Paper Mario, and Final Fantasy Tactics.

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I would love to make a casual RPG like Paper Mario one day. But that is very, VERY daunting. So what I'm doing is making a bare bones "engine" without any graphical polish, characters, or story consideration.

Given enough time and effort, maybe something will come of it!

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Critter Drifters is OUT on Steam! You can play it! On Windows or Linux or Steamdeck! Right now!!

Or you know...whenever you want to. I'm just glad I can finally let people play the whole thing.

store.steampowered.com/app/3755680/...

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If you're a fan of kart racers, Critter Drifters is in #NextFest! Check out the demo today if you're interested:

store.steampowered.com/app/3755680/...

Full game releases in 3 weeks!

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Only a couple days til Next Fest! I updated the demo to end off in the main hub of the game recently, as I realized it ended kind of abruptly otherwise. Also made it so you get that beautiful tire screech even without drifting when doing a super boost :P

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