So the past three days I’ve made a slight detour and may have started prototyping another project…Borough….
I’m sharing the long thoughts below. You can follow the new project at @boroughbuilder.bsky.social

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Alright here's the better version.

Movement is almost there. Just need to animate the hand poses.

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Wanna see a cool trick? And trick I mean glitch! 😂

Working on refining animation today and turning the player character into origami.

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Loona is now in the game! Going to use her as a stand in for the player character for now. Character customisation will come one day, but it's low priority at the moment.

Going to start designing some other coaches for the test level.

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Exploring Cascaduer for creating animations today. It has been saving a ton of time in fussy tweeting stage.

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Does research count towards #screenshotsaturday ?

Hanging out with the minks down by the beach.

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Working on wayfinding today.
Who needs a pole when you have a perfectly good dead tree?

Inspired by the cottage road signs of back country lake roads.

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Just spending the next little bit rebuilding up the environment for my test level.

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With basic game programming done, I'm building up the environments again.

Doing some testing to make sure the foliage shaders plays nice with the weather system.

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Made myself a cel-shader as a little treat.

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The skeleton of the Showdown System is done!
It now works with wild packs and other coaches.

It's pretty bare bones at the moment, but now that the turn orders have been ironed out I can start adding all the other ingredients.

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Very much in the build it and make it pretty later stage.

Proud to have rebuilt the battle system to work with multiple ShoNiMals showdowns in the wild.

Nothing too fancy to see right now. Just getting those core turn mechanics in place and ironed out.

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Hey Bluesky it’s been a while.

I’ve just been optimizing some code and shaders (and enjoying the short Canadian Summer… ) so I haven’t had much to show the past couple of weeks.

Just got a better refined movement Ai running now.

Still have to rebuild my test level and polish the weather system.

Spent the day setting up ShoNiMal Packs and programming their movement AI so that they don’t stray too far away from each other.

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They’ve been released into the ravine by my place. Hope it enjoys its new habitat. 🍃

What’s up Bluesky?!

Finished a day job gig and have more time for ShoNiMals!

I’ve been slowly expanding the world scale to work better with the ShoDown battles in world. Also did some texture updating.

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Needed to take a break from programming the Shodown gameplay so I made a nifty rain droplet effect for the water bodies.