Ryan Miller
@ryanmiller.ca
Game Development Generalist Dad from Toronto 🎮 Technical Artist by day 🧑🎨💻 Managing Director of @ontariogametesters.com and very slow indie-dev after hours 🐌 ryanmiller.ca he/him
Continued work on my turn based battle system.
Added a bit of UI, thought this really needs characters and animations soon!
Got the Healer brain to work (heals allies below 50%) and the defend + counter attack feature (without infinite counter loop) 😅
Fun stuff!
Added a bit of UI, thought this really needs characters and animations soon!
Got the Healer brain to work (heals allies below 50%) and the defend + counter attack feature (without infinite counter loop) 😅
Fun stuff!
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Continued work on my turn based battle system.
Added a bit of UI, thought this really needs characters and animations soon!
Got the Healer brain to work (heals allies below 50%) and the defend + counter attack feature (without infinite counter loop) 😅
Fun stuff!
Added a bit of UI, thought this really needs characters and animations soon!
Got the Healer brain to work (heals allies below 50%) and the defend + counter attack feature (without infinite counter loop) 😅
Fun stuff!
Making a turn based RPG battle system today. I've never made one more simple than just back and forth attack/health turns and wanted to give it a shot!! It's just text so far but it supports multiple combatants, turn order/amount from speed, and even a few enemy AI profiles.
October 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Making a turn based RPG battle system today. I've never made one more simple than just back and forth attack/health turns and wanted to give it a shot!! It's just text so far but it supports multiple combatants, turn order/amount from speed, and even a few enemy AI profiles.
I can’t think of anything better to do on a holiday apparently
October 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I can’t think of anything better to do on a holiday apparently
Realized today that it would be kind of trivial to make the tile editor work at runtime, so I did that. Should I do a level editor or is this just a horrible distraction??? Yes!!
October 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Realized today that it would be kind of trivial to make the tile editor work at runtime, so I did that. Should I do a level editor or is this just a horrible distraction??? Yes!!
Uhh wow that's pretty cool! And the cassette player mode??? 🤯
October 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Uhh wow that's pretty cool! And the cassette player mode??? 🤯
Let’s play a game, which Unifying Receiver is this keyboard paired to?
“None” is unfortunately a possibility.
“None” is unfortunately a possibility.
September 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Let’s play a game, which Unifying Receiver is this keyboard paired to?
“None” is unfortunately a possibility.
“None” is unfortunately a possibility.
Animations in dialog, woo! I ended up re-writing my fancy playable-mixer-animation thing and am just playing these cosmetic animations on an 'extra' layer of the regular Animator state machine.
August 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Animations in dialog, woo! I ended up re-writing my fancy playable-mixer-animation thing and am just playing these cosmetic animations on an 'extra' layer of the regular Animator state machine.
Happy 3rd Birthday to @ontariogametesters.com!! We've just wrapped our best year yet. Grateful to be working with such great testers, game studios and games! Here's to many more 🥳
August 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Happy 3rd Birthday to @ontariogametesters.com!! We've just wrapped our best year yet. Grateful to be working with such great testers, game studios and games! Here's to many more 🥳
Spent some time on dialog sequencing today. Added an ID system to link scene objects to scriptable objects, making them easy to reference in dialog etc. Also some quality of life stuff: a quick “Add Opposite Dialog” shortcut and hid extra params in foldouts.
August 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Spent some time on dialog sequencing today. Added an ID system to link scene objects to scriptable objects, making them easy to reference in dialog etc. Also some quality of life stuff: a quick “Add Opposite Dialog” shortcut and hid extra params in foldouts.
And for those curious, here's what the dialog content scriptable objects themselves look like. For whatever reason I prefer to roll my own solution here than use something like Yarn/Dialogue System/etc.
August 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
And for those curious, here's what the dialog content scriptable objects themselves look like. For whatever reason I prefer to roll my own solution here than use something like Yarn/Dialogue System/etc.
How the dialog appears is up to the PlayDialog that requests the DialogContent get played. It's an enum that goes into a dictionary lookup, so it should support 100 different dialog styles (please no, I'm kidding, I think I just want 2???)
August 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
How the dialog appears is up to the PlayDialog that requests the DialogContent get played. It's an enum that goes into a dictionary lookup, so it should support 100 different dialog styles (please no, I'm kidding, I think I just want 2???)
I've decided to keep both dialog bubbles and the text box. Figure they'll be useful in different contexts. That's enough time working on Dialog UI, time to get back to ... gameplay? art? level design? 🤔
August 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I've decided to keep both dialog bubbles and the text box. Figure they'll be useful in different contexts. That's enough time working on Dialog UI, time to get back to ... gameplay? art? level design? 🤔
Made a stem for the dialog bubbles 💬
August 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Made a stem for the dialog bubbles 💬
Working on a 'bubble' version of the dialog player UI. I got positioning + screen clamping working. Next up will be the 'stem' graphic and placement. Maybe some padding.
July 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Working on a 'bubble' version of the dialog player UI. I got positioning + screen clamping working. Next up will be the 'stem' graphic and placement. Maybe some padding.
Ok don't get too excited, I put together a graphics settings screen. Contain your excitement!! It is only a menu screen.
July 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Ok don't get too excited, I put together a graphics settings screen. Contain your excitement!! It is only a menu screen.
Why am I making things in Godot now? It's pretty cool actually. Much improved from the last time I tried it. I gotta get back to Unity so I don't restart this project again 😖
June 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Why am I making things in Godot now? It's pretty cool actually. Much improved from the last time I tried it. I gotta get back to Unity so I don't restart this project again 😖
I moderated a panel at XP Game Summit a couple weeks ago, which was a really rad event! They just recently sent some cool photos 🤩
June 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I moderated a panel at XP Game Summit a couple weeks ago, which was a really rad event! They just recently sent some cool photos 🤩
It's been a little while! I have been adding a health bar, as well as items and food that you can eat to heal. There's a whole Item Manager / ID / Pooling thing too, but that's hard to show in a video.
June 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It's been a little while! I have been adding a health bar, as well as items and food that you can eat to heal. There's a whole Item Manager / ID / Pooling thing too, but that's hard to show in a video.
Oh, finally got respawn working properly too!
June 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Oh, finally got respawn working properly too!
Put together a simple scene loader + transition + checkpoint saving setup. Now we can wander between scenes with the right entry/exit points, and even load into a save game in the right place.
June 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Put together a simple scene loader + transition + checkpoint saving setup. Now we can wander between scenes with the right entry/exit points, and even load into a save game in the right place.
Anyone else headed to XP Game Summit? I'll be there repping @ontariogametesters.com and on a panel with the @interactiveontario.com Indie Superboost Committee, talking about the indie balance between creative and business realities. See you there ... ?
May 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Anyone else headed to XP Game Summit? I'll be there repping @ontariogametesters.com and on a panel with the @interactiveontario.com Indie Superboost Committee, talking about the indie balance between creative and business realities. See you there ... ?
Everybody's favourite - smashable props!
Also realized I had been calculating knock back wrong. Fixed!
Also realized I had been calculating knock back wrong. Fixed!
May 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Everybody's favourite - smashable props!
Also realized I had been calculating knock back wrong. Fixed!
Also realized I had been calculating knock back wrong. Fixed!
Made a little editor thing that lets me read/write parameters from another script directly in animation states. The fields don't actually exist in the animator state. Neat and hopefully not confusing later, haha.
May 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Made a little editor thing that lets me read/write parameters from another script directly in animation states. The fields don't actually exist in the animator state. Neat and hopefully not confusing later, haha.
I've got some simple combat up and running nicely this morning. Contemplating a dodge roll 🤔
May 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I've got some simple combat up and running nicely this morning. Contemplating a dodge roll 🤔