Star Cinders

A collection of 28 posts

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Forge Networking Remastered

Salutations dear blog reader. Haku, c'antik (hello friend) Today I wanted to quickly share a networking solution I took some time to visit over the last couple days, Forge Remastered [https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/network/forge-networking-remastered-38344] BTW, I've linked above to the Asset Store version but really you

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Blog Posts Returning Soon (STAR CINDERS)

Salutations dear blog reader. Haku, c'antik (hello friend) Time for some game updates and life updates. Life Updates As promised I spent a bit of time away from the blog working on health improvements, I'm happy to report that I hit my goal of losing 33 lbs and building strength.

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One Year Later

Salutations dear blog reader~ Haku, c'antik (hello friend) It's now been a year since I started this whole "do game development every day and blog about it once a week" project, so it feels like a good time to get reflective about it. The First Six Months - Education For

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Pointers and Missile Boats - 6/11 to 6/19

Salutations dear blog reader~ Haku, c'antik (hello friend) Things around here have been going about the same as they have for awhile now. Continuing to do the exercise and outdoors thing after work every day, Jaemie has even joined in and so we're going on daily hill climbing adventures now.

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Clarity Update - Nameplates - 6/3 to 6/10

Salutations dear blog reader~ Haku, c'antik (hello friend) In my effort to streamline and add clarity to the game I realized that whereas I had an enemy stat indicator in the lower right, it would be much clearer if it were directly above the target and visible not just for

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Iterations and Iterations - 5/29 to 6/2

Salutations dear blog reader~ Haku, c'antik (hello friend) It's only been a few days since the last blog post but I'm trying to get back on schedule so... whatever. 😙 After playing through combat scenarios hundreds of times I realized my multi-layer design (fighter - battleship - station) was somewhat unintuitive

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Bits and Bobs and Performance - 5/21 to 5/28

Salutations dear blog reader~ Haku, c'antik (hello friend) This week was a mostly dedicated to performance tuning, I'm finding when there are large numbers of bullets/explosions on screen there is a noticable performance drop so I am attempting to counter-act this both by reducing the cost of each individual

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Space Battles Stage One - 5/13 to 5/20

Salutations dear blog reader~ Haku, c'antik (hello friend) I'm heading out to see Deadpool 2 in just a bit but wanted to pop in and give this weekly update 👋 As you can see above we now have promotional items! At least that's how I justified getting them made... Both VALKRYSA

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Navigation and Attack Runs - 5/8 to 5/12

A bit of a short week considering last week's blog post was Monday, but onwards and ever upwards we must go~ 🚀 Just about every system that was in the old 2d version of the game has now been ported over, except AI, which is next week's goal. Speaking of goals,

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Interfaces back online - 4/28 to 5/7

A few days late on this post but better late than never. This week was mostly about updating the various user interfaces to work with the 3d rebuilt version of the game. At the same time I optimized a number of systems to cut down on allocations after startup and

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Weapon online, defenses online, flight online, all systems nominal. - 4/22 to 4/27

Salutations dear readers~! We're back again with the project to get the 3d version of Star Cinders up to where the 2d version was and then forge ahead 🐱📣 I estimated I'd need about three weeks to get this conversion done, with this counting at the first and I'd say we're

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3D Conversion Begins - 4/15 to 4/21

This week has certainly been a big one for the project, as I mentioned last week I am now in the process of fully updating/replacing the scripts and assets to handle a full conversion to 3D. Before making any major change like this it's important to clearly understand and

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Shop System - 4/7 to 4/14

Another week, another oppurtunity to make progress both on the game and in life. Despite continuing to do the daily workout routine it's no longer quite as disruptive as it was initially, just took a little getting used to and now it's not as much of an excuse not to

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Shop Planning - 3/31 to 4/6

After last week's Cargo System [https://blog.valkrysa.com/2018/03/31/cargo-system/] I started planning out the shop system, with the image above being the design ultimately decided on. I made it through the prototyping phase but haven't implemented actual functionality yet. Started a daily exercise routine to offset

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Cargo System - 3/24 to 3/30

Despite all the great advancements of the future one thing has remained constant. We still all want what we don't have, but now thanks to the addition of a Cargo Bay we can get what we need. I started by adding concepts for Item's (a scriptable object of attributes such

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Dialogue System - 3/17 to 3/23

For the first time in the game, you can now talk to people instead of just shooting at them. ☮️ The first thing to do was to find some portrait art, which proved to be a bit of a tougher task than I thought it would be. Actually that's proving to

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Dialogue Planning - 3/11 to 3/16 - My Week In GameDev

This week was a bit of a weird one to write a blog post for as absolutely no features got implemented or even made progress towards being made. Instead I tried out a bunch of art assets, dev assets, and paper prototypes trying to figure out how I'm going to

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FTL - 3/5 to 3/10 - My Week In GameDev

Continuing off last week's navigation update, this week the player can actually use the navigation to get places. Started off the week a bit lighter however and played with some logo tests. I know eventually I want to pay an artist to redo probably all of the graphics, but for

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Navigation - 2/24 to 3/4 - My Week In GameDev

This week was the first week I couldn't accurately estimate my work, I believed that working on a navigation interface would take two/three evenings max. It turned out it took the whole week. (thanks a lot linerenderer) I started out with adding com chatter text that plays at various

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AI Ships Active - 2/17 to 2/23 - My Week In GameDev

This week I switched tasks from baseline systems to focusing on interconnecting systems. Systems that allow the player to interact with the world. One quality of life update was to make it easier to hunt targets that have gone off screen. Now the crosshair will stick to the edge of

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Starting on HUD and Behaviors - 2/10 to 2/16 - My Week In GameDev

After getting weapon and defensive systems working in the last two weeks, this week it was time to give some love to user interface and get a little start on AI ship behaviors. I started out by adding a player information panel in the lower right hand corner which displays

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Defensive Systems - 2/5 to 2/9 - My Week In GameDev

A bit of a light update this week as I was out of town for the start of it, but still there were some very critical core systems that fell in place this week. One feature was a hull breach system. As a ship takes more and more damage various

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Weapon Systems and a Trip to Portland - 1/27 to 2/4 - My Week In GameDev

This time around I primarily worked on weapon systems and ended out the week with a 3 day trip to Portland, Oregon for a the Final Fantasy Distant Worlds [http://www.ffdistantworlds.com/] concert. The first step was to get standard fixed mount weapons going, aka the traditional lasers firing

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Starting On Gameplay - 1/20 to 1/26 - My Week In GameDev

Thankfully Dragon Ball Fighter Z didn't come out until yesterday so this week was generally very productive. 🔥🐔🔥 Most of the beginning of the week was dedicated to cleaning up some assets [https://twitter.com/MSGameDev] so that they would have a very specific object hierarchy and be compatible with how

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Unity Teams Collaborate, AWS S3, and Data Driven UI - 1/13 to 1/19 - My Week In GameDev

After making significant progress on the GDD last week, this week was all about starting into the setup of the project. Step one was to get the flow and functionality of the UI defined, so I started with the Missions interface. After mocking up the UI I decided that the