Feeling a lot better about this iteration of metal refinement. Now you can actually see the pulverizer, well, pulverizing the ore into ore dust. It already feels a lot more satisfying than just clicking through menu prompts and watching a progress bar fill.

Told our artist that his main job right now is to practice and get better at making 3d models while I'm still working on building the foundations of Strike the Earth's code

His progress has certainly not been disappointing...

Happy second anniversary of Strike the Earth development!

Our artist whipped this piece up mostly as a little treat for the development team featuring a lot of allusions to bugs that we've been tackling during development, but it's too good not to share.

In Strike the Earth, your player built Hold will be a pool of light and safety in an ocean of darkness and peril. While your portable lantern is always burning through fuel, permanent light sources constructed in your Hold will never burn out.

So. It turns out there's just an option in Godot to use triplanar mapping for texture coordinates. What a huge waste of the last week trying to calculate UVs manually, lmfao.

Yeah, I don't think that the UVs for the procedural cave mesh are fixed yet...

What I see in my branch vs what my artist sees in his branch. I really gotta get to a good spot for a pull request so I'm not stuck in "debug lighting hell" anymore.

The game development experience is rapidly oscillating between "I have no idea what I'm doing" and "I AM THE GREATEST PROGRAMMER ALIVE!"

Relatedly, I've finally figured out how to get my base building blocks to snap together correctly and sanely every time.

I love how smooth the voxel deformation in Strike the Earth turned out. Sometimes you just gotta look at a system you built and think "I did a great job here!" It's a ray of light in a sea of "AAH WHAT AM I DOING??"

Soon you'll be able to dig all sorts of metal ores out of these cave walls!

Doing a little "Ambience" test with our voxel terrain system (sound on). It's still a little empty, but soon it'll be full of little cave creatures and precious ore to discover

#gamedev #GodotEngine

Still plenty of work needed to flesh it out, but getting rudimentary base building working (and in multiplayer!) is a satisfying end to the work day in my book!

What a difference 8 weeks of practice makes! Still plenty of room for improvement too

What a polite looking gentleman. Riddle, on the other hand, is trying to sabotage my computer as we speak.

Can't make a game about blacksmithing if you don't know how to blacksmith, after all.