System breakdowns, interaction, score and round time are now all in the #Godot version of Panic Spiral!

From playtest feedback, the player now has a warning before a system breaks down, so you might be able to reach the problem quickly and fix it before it gets worse.

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Moving Panic Spiral into Godot is going well!

The framework for systems is in. Based on feedback, I've added a breakdown phase, so the player has some warning before the system completely shuts down. Triggered by console commands for now, but working properly soon!

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I built a playtest version of Panic Spiral and deployed it.

I've had great feedback from an indie dev discord - good core game loop, needs polish! So I'm porting it to Godot and will make a full version to release on Steam.

Comment if you want the playtest link.

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Panic Spiral is beginning to feel like an actual game now rather than just a collection of mechanics. This week I've added game rounds, ship and player health, along with two systems which reduce health when they're broken.

Here we see an example round of Panic Spiral!

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I didn't manage to get much done on Panic Spiral this last week, but I have added a score counter.

In Panic Spiral, the score increases every second, until the engine breaks! Then you'll need to run over to the engine room and fix it.

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There's still a lot of polishing to do, and some more mechanics to add, but Panic Spiral is actually beginning to feel like a game rather than just a bunch of objects rendered on the screen.

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I had a lot on this week so didn't do much game dev. My main accomplishment is implementing collision boxes for Panic Spiral.

Collision logic doesn't come as standard in PixiJS. It's amazing what little things I've started to miss from Godot.

Here's a little tech demo!

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I've made my initial title screen for Panic Spiral. There are improvements I want to make, but for now I'm quite pleased.

Pixijs with react is proving an interesting challenge, both from a web dev and game dev perspective. I'll go into that more in my devblog on Monday.

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I've been doing a lot of work making some important UI components this week. As part of that, I've been building up a theme for my game with the #godot theme editor.

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I made a simple loading screen for my game and someone mentioned that one of their pet peeves is loading screen tips that vanish too quickly to read. So I spent 10 minutes adding that "feature" with some samples.

Who knows, maybe I'll keep it in the game as a bit of fun!
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Last week was movement. This week has been all about doing damage - now the player and enemies can use the strike action, hitting each other for a random amount of damage. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Some bugs just make me burst out laughing. Like this one. Everyone must go to the same place. No exceptions. You cannot escape. Resistance is futile. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

It's taken me an embarrassingly long time to do, but I finally have a party icon on the map that moves along the fastest path to a quest (it starts at the bottom right). The time it takes to jump to the next hex is based on the movement cost of the current hex. #gamedev #godot