Darien
@darien.ink
Game Dev / Filmmaker / Software Engineer
Making a wizard game where you program your own spells
darienyoder.com
Making a wizard game where you program your own spells
darienyoder.com
Experimented with adding voxels to my game's terrain deformation system. It looks great but currently uses a ton of RAM. Time to optimize...
#gamedev #indiedev #godot #godotengine #wizards #wizardgame #voxels #marchingcubes
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August 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Experimented with adding voxels to my game's terrain deformation system. It looks great but currently uses a ton of RAM. Time to optimize...
#gamedev #indiedev #godot #godotengine #wizards #wizardgame #voxels #marchingcubes
#gamedev #indiedev #godot #godotengine #wizards #wizardgame #voxels #marchingcubes
July 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
July 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
June 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The spell language now supports input events, so you can set certain actions to happen whenever those keys are pressed. The events last until the spell is terminated, even if you're casting another spell.
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June 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The spell language now supports input events, so you can set certain actions to happen whenever those keys are pressed. The events last until the spell is terminated, even if you're casting another spell.
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Added some fancy effects to my game's text editor
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June 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Added some fancy effects to my game's text editor
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#gamedev #indiedev #godot #wizardgame #wizards #programming #shaders
I added particle effects and decoration to projectiles. It's not much, but it looks a lot better than the default white spheres. The projectile's color is determined by parsing the code to see what spell it casts on a hit, while the size is based on the mana cost.
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June 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This week's progress features post processing to give everything nice outlines and a mana system to limit spellcasting. Since all the spells are custom and often involve recursive casting, the game estimates how much mana is spent by parsing the spell's code before casting
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June 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
To make water flow down hills properly, I used 3 bits of each pixel in the heightmap to represent slope. When the mesh loads, each face calculates which direction in UV space correlates to downward motion, shown by the color of each pixel it covers.
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May 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
To make water flow down hills properly, I used 3 bits of each pixel in the heightmap to represent slope. When the mesh loads, each face calculates which direction in UV space correlates to downward motion, shown by the color of each pixel it covers.
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#gamedev #indiedev #godot #screenshotsaturday
My attempts at adding flowing water have resulted in some tasty looking Jell-O. I may use this for adding slime magic down the road.
#gamedev #indiedev #godot #wizards #yummyjello
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May 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
My attempts at adding flowing water have resulted in some tasty looking Jell-O. I may use this for adding slime magic down the road.
#gamedev #indiedev #godot #wizards #yummyjello
#gamedev #indiedev #godot #wizards #yummyjello
I made some new spells to test the ice and terrain systems. Most of them work by having a spell's projectile cast another spell in the air.
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May 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I made some new spells to test the ice and terrain systems. Most of them work by having a spell's projectile cast another spell in the air.
#gamedev #indiedev #godot #programming #wizards
#gamedev #indiedev #godot #programming #wizards
After a long night of writing shader code and search algorithms, I got the surface covering system fully working and optimized. It looks a little weird on sharp corners, but it's ready enough that I can start making spells that use this system.
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#gamedev #indiedev #godot #wizards
May 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Here's a telekinesis spell I made in-game using the "push," "hold," and "scan" keywords. My goal for the game is to have lots of simple keywords that can be combined into more complex spells, so coding a spell feels like solving an open ended puzzle.
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#gamedev #indiedev #godot #wizards #programming
May 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Here's a telekinesis spell I made in-game using the "push," "hold," and "scan" keywords. My goal for the game is to have lots of simple keywords that can be combined into more complex spells, so coding a spell feels like solving an open ended puzzle.
#gamedev #indiedev #godot #wizards #programming
#gamedev #indiedev #godot #wizards #programming
I added some more features to the spell editor, namely a list of your spells on the left side and a simple reference pane on the right. I also gave each spell a customizable icon to better distinguish them on the hotbar.
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May 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I added some more features to the spell editor, namely a list of your spells on the left side and a simple reference pane on the right. I also gave each spell a customizable icon to better distinguish them on the hotbar.
#gamedev #indiedev #godot #wizards #programming
#gamedev #indiedev #godot #wizards #programming
Got the spell editor working! I also played around with adding procedural effects to the text, like the wavy effect on the word "Launch".
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May 16, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Got the spell editor working! I also played around with adding procedural effects to the text, like the wavy effect on the word "Launch".
#gamedev #indiedev #godot #wizards #programming
#gamedev #indiedev #godot #wizards #programming
Got most of the mechanics figured out and blocked out a level. Now I just need to add some enemy animations and grind out more levels.
#GlobalGameJam
#GlobalGameJam
January 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Got most of the mechanics figured out and blocked out a level. Now I just need to add some enemy animations and grind out more levels.
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#GlobalGameJam
Day one of the jam over, making good progress.
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#GlobalGameJam
January 25, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Day one of the jam over, making good progress.
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#GlobalGameJam
Brainstorming some enemy ideas for Global Game Jam. This one is my favorite so far.
January 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Brainstorming some enemy ideas for Global Game Jam. This one is my favorite so far.
Made it so I can load levels from an image file. This'll make prototyping a lot faster, and aside from that just makes designing levels more fun.
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January 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Made it so I can load levels from an image file. This'll make prototyping a lot faster, and aside from that just makes designing levels more fun.
#gamedev #indiedev #fallingsand #cellularautomata
#gamedev #indiedev #fallingsand #cellularautomata