What I did today

[Sickan]

Updated my Pico Editor to include syntax highlighting for Ruby as well as line numbers.

[cygnus]

New character texture:

and new weapon texture:


Also I've been messing around with the level layout - this is the first time I've truly been stumped. I have no idea what is a good idea. Any examples from the creators of a 2d top down game where performance is a fair concern would be GREATLY APPRECIATED.
EDIT - just finished the ore miner texture too:

EDIT again - I don't think I've shown this yet - this is the main menu logo:

[Apo]

Next game for my advent calendar is ready. =)

Games published by our own members! Check 'em out!

[Ecumene]

Almost reached the end of my GUI building fun.

I smell rimworld / prison architect!

^{(I'm going that direction with my game too, honestly )}

[Gjallar]

Took the advice of some crazy cowboy-hat guy from a GDC presentation video, and wrote a tool to make my life easier.
Sadly I couldn't find the video again, but he mentioned that he did a port for @princec so he might know who I'm talking about. (He seemed to like doing silly voices, idk if that helps) nvm I was thinking about someone else there

Anyways, I made a very bare-bones editor to create normal maps for png images:

[Herjan]

Started programming a little game today after three years of wasting my free time!

As you can see it is not java, but it was fun!

Also came across this documentation which might help any novice game dev like me or somewhone who wants to step up to 3D.
It is clear on game loops, basic 3D theory and so on:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Games/Anatomy

[ClaasJG]

Ups, I pressed the Appreciate-Button by accident, I cant even see the gif for some reason :/

But I guess you earned it anyway

ClaasJG

[dime26]

Following advice (tutorial) by orangepascal played with some simpler lighting, Box2DLights was my first option and have played with that a lot but this suits a pixelart game more I feel.

Needs refactoring but here is the code:
https://gist.github.com/tyler6699/58a00ba6e679990984f8b090558ac3b4

Lighting Effect in action

[Guerra2442]

Create a custom taskbar.

[theagentd]

Spent approximately 20 hours split between today and yesterday working on........ something I'm not going to reveal right now. It's AFAIK something new that hasn't been done before with the quality I'm getting. I'll be writing one of my super long posts on this tomorrow, but right now it's like 10 in the morning and I REALLY need to sleep.

EDIT: Dammit, Archive, you prematurely made me reach 1000 medals! Thanks! xD

Games published by our own members! Check 'em out!

[dime26]

Spent approximately 20 hours split between today and yesterday working on........ something I'm not going to reveal right now. It's AFAIK something new that hasn't been done before with the quality I'm getting. I'll be writing one of my super long posts on this tomorrow, but right now it's like 10 in the morning and I REALLY need to sleep.

Reminded me of Silicon Valley 

[theagentd]

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[Slyth2727]

Learned about and played with metaballs yesterday. Currently working on a DE formula for them so I can raytrace 3D ones. Trying to work it out myself for the practice and fun.
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4s2fDz

[cylab]

@theagentd video or it didn't happen  

Seriously. Great stuff. If you come around captioning a vid, would be great and much appreciated!

[theagentd]

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[Riven]

I think he meant capturing

[orange451]

Reworked the decal shader in my engine. Decals can now modify specularity and glossiness. So... SSR can reflect from decals now!

I'm still trying to figure out how to correctly get them to modify the normals. The problem is that decals are technically "planes", so if they are on a non-planar surface (but have depth to still draw with "thickness"), they will break the normal of the surface (as they will be pointing in the direction of the plane not how they are really oriented)

[Stampler]

Started working on a small android game with two friends. We used to talk about making games a lot in school but never started. Now we have jobs and actually use the skills we learn there to develope in our freetime.

[theagentd]

Deleted.

[Slyth2727]

Whipped up a little orbit trap shader after reading up on it. I'm also trying to figure out how I can get a linearly increasing value in pure GLSL, or at least a somewhat smooth sine function that doesn't speed up a ridiculous amount. I was thinking that I could use sin + cos (ya know a circle) and step across a circle instead of the exponential endpoints that just sin produces but I can't seem to get that working. Any ideas?

Orbit shader for those interested: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lsjBD1

[orange451]

Revisiting the gen code for my project. Making it room based now to allow for more realistic building feeling

[matt_p]

Added a progress bar for the generic loading screen


Added health bars to menu


... and battle


Also, and not screenshotable (will check for gif sometimes):
Facesets for dialog boxes can be animated:
Either just the whole time (e.g. having 1 normal and 1 closed eyes frame, displaying the first one all the time and occasionally switch for a sec to the second one)
Animate only if the text changes (e.g. having the animation moving the mouth, so only when the text appears and is updated, the mouth moves)

[J0]

Not exactly today but over the course of the past week I've really started improving my test webcomic website, most notably adding comments and animated panels Still a lot of bugs but I believe I'm on the right path

[orange451]

Starting to re-implement the gen!



This is going to take a LONG time!

[kingroka123]

Here's a quick and dirty look at the game I've been working on for the past month.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/YMPYCGtUCSA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/YMPYCGtUCSA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=</a>

Deep (working name) is a roguelike dungeon crawler with a robust and creative spell system (which I am still developing, I'll make a post here once the spell system is finalized).

[dime26]

Big refactor job of current code base, creating classes etc and also blogged for first time in a while to capture the posts I have made to this thread recently https://carelesslabs.wordpress.com/2017/07/19/zero-hour-gamedev.

Not quite ready to post my game to the "wip-games-tools-toy-projects" section just yet.

[Slyth2727]

Just moved into my first dorm room. Going to court in a couple weeks to try to get a couple possession charges dropped and if that succeeds I'll have completely moved on to my new life. Things are going great right now!

[theagentd]

Deleted.

[orange451]

Finally released an alpha trailer for my game:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/3WeDVtZAdSk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/3WeDVtZAdSk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=</a>

[FabulousFellini]

Finally released an alpha trailer for my game:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/3WeDVtZAdSk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/3WeDVtZAdSk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=</a>

Wow I'm really impressed dude, that looks great!