Working on a collaborative puzzle box idea - having fun playing with physics and shaders I'm Godot for this little intro scene.

Glitches galore that I will eventually have to fix, but I'm happy with where it's going!

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I realized I'd overscoped so I'm paring down the colour palette and gameplay complexity of my game. I'm going to keep it as a straightforward arcade experience and remove the upgrade and building elements.

There will still be powerups though, like this sauce cannon!

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Added a background, I'm not sure my main elements quite pop enough now though, what do you think?

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Steering behaviours are working well enough that I could move on to some other things. Added today:

- XP pickups
- new weapon (Farfalle/Bowtie launcher)
- explosions! (better effects TBD)

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Adding some juice to the game - I may need to tweak these sauce explosions a little. 🍕💥

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Latest progress on this goofy Pasta vs Pizza shooter:

Recruit additional chefs
Penne Turrets!
Improved enemy AI (still some work to do there)
Added XP (doesn't do anything yet)

I have nearly all the main elements in place now, then I'll start balancing and working on art 😎

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My son gave me the idea of making the turret barrels a piece of penne pasta, so here's the beginning of that 😁 It may be hard to see, I'm still working out the best sizes, but it's embedded in a nice spaghetti bolognese 🍝

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I've started work on a very silly arcade shooter - as a pasta-based alien society, you are fending off the attacks of the pizza invaders.

Still very early days of course!

I'm planning some light base building mechanics and potentially storylets for some narrative too.

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Here's the zombie rising animation on its own, I'm most proud of this one!

I've been working on my pixel art and animation for Pixel Game Jam, and I'm quite proud of how this has come out so far!

Need to polish up the zombie walk cycle and add some idle and backstepping animations on the main character next, and then add some shooting and reactions.

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Building out the start of a level and working on the bullet slowing areas - this is the most shader work I've ever done, it's fun once you get the hang of it 😁

Anybody know how I would feather the edges of an arbitrary polygon though? Shader is good except for the sharp edges 😑

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This is starting to feel like a real game! My 11yo son did the sprites which I think are fantastic - once I add some juice and get the bullet slowing mechanic in there I can start building out a level proper.

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Added some temporary assets from Kenney's asset packs, and started playing around with a gimmick that slows bullets in particular areas. I think it'll work well once I tweak the enemy bullet patterns and start visualizing the effect!

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