So I got my bulletml engine running ~4k projectiles with active tasks (e.g., changeDirection, changeSpeed, and accel). 4k is roughly the upper bound, though, because once you hit 4.5k it churns pretty badly (due to physics). Also, 100% GDScript.

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So I got the bulletml markup format working in #godot. It's mostly feature complete, but I have a few edge cases I'm still debugging. I plan to release the importer, at least as a plugin, at some point, with the physics server-based projectile manager bundled.

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Haven't posted updates in a while, but it's surprising how many projectiles you can slap into #godot with some special behavior. Last run is 2k!

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While the animations may need some tlc, the monopod is now fully test-ready and has a better jump algorithm. It sometimes misjudges and falls in spikes, but I think it's hilarious, so it stays in.

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Integration testing with gdunit4, as I have a large number of states used by multiple actors.

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So if you follow me, you'll know that I have a terrible habit of working on tools instead of gameplay. But here's a cool visual.

Basically, I was tired of programming animation sequences by hand/consts, so I wrote something that extends my animation selector for cycles.

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I added a new attack animation for the fang worm enemy to help deal with some of the weirdness of how the chase looked.

I added a tunable wind-up, too, to help make the attack readable/fair.

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Visualization is a pain. Here's my attempt to make things a little better for visualizing my state machines:

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The latest tool development diversion is visualizing my state machine transitions and making the transitions as close to fully data-driven as possible. The end goal is to make states more drag-and-drop.

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That feeling when you spend two weeks implementing a fully featured behavior tree plugin for your game and decide it's not really worth using because it's messier than the code.

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Less exciting update, but I've been working on iterating on visuals for the different areas in my game. I generally draw them per tile in Aseprite and then pull it into LDtk to see how it looks on an experimental map.

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I'm playing with some visual effects right now, and I may have made the accidental raddest-looking effect I've ever made. It exists because even though I take some liberties with the GameBoy aesthetic, I have some hard and fast rules that I stick to.

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Here's my little chase dude I call the Fang Worm (very original, I know). I'll probably add a turning animation in the future, but that requires an adjustment to my pipeline, and I don't know how much of a value it will add.

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Work continues on the EyeDrop. It's not particularly bright, but that's mostly by design. I decided to make it chase the player without actual pathfinding and rely on a search mechanic to adjust to the surroundings.

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I've been working on the EyeDrop pretty seriously lately. It's a bit of a strange enemy, but I'm trying to make it very expressive. Here's the animation test for the attacks in the primary eight directions; I think I've got the arcs looking good/the feel down.

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New animations for the eye drop monster, but it still needs an attack animation.

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Here's a video showing the current state of the game, including some new mechanics and the new sound manager I've been working on. I'd post a link to a demo, but that demo I have is actually appreciably worse than this version and it's only 2 weeks old.

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First post (I think)! This is a demo of a piece of pipeline code I wrote for my game to export SFX made in Hammer-FX to the .wav file format. It uses PyAudio and PyBoy to extract the audio and run the ROM, respectively.

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