On-Day: New Project
Apr. 23rd, 2023 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
relee6:49pm - I was hoping to start at 6pm, but I'll start when I start, right?
This last week has been REALLY rough so I haven't been able to work when I expect/want to. Today this is going to be the main thing I do.
Specifically, I joined onto a new project the other day. I still want to do my own projects, but I've never worked with a team like this and I want to see what happens. I'm the first coder on this project, but they already have money and a history of other work and artists and stuff, and other coders working on other projects. Specifically it's a metroidvania. I want to avoid details due to privacy concerns for the rest of the team and the project in general.
Platformers are the easiest games to make in modern game engines, and Metroidvanias are arguably a sort of advanced platformer, or alternative platformer.
7:11pm - So far, I've started by opening a lot of YouTube tabs, for a lot of Godot devs and support stuff. What we agreed to start with for the metroidvania game was a really basic prototype. They mostly want to get the movement right first, and while I agree that's important, I also feel we need to have level transitions from the start, and some sort of level loading as well. I'm going to start by seeing if there's any public domain stuff I can use, otherwise I'll begin from scratch making my own in Godot 4.0, which is what we'll be using.
Also, I've got this playing in the background. Orchestral Arrangement of the theme from Dwarf Fortress. It feels so weird to share that using an HTML anchor tag after all these years. XD
I also opened up a bunch of stuff on itch.io to see what I might be able to use.
I'm not going to use this today but I really need to try it. https://dui.itch.io/virtual-cottage
7:35pm - I had to deal with a sudden thing in there but I'm back.
I own this book by Pigdev on itch: https://pigdev.itch.io/top-7-godot-recipes
It's good. Pigdev is also good, so I'm probably going to buy this other thing of theirs, given what I'm doing right now: https://pigdev.itch.io/platformer-essentials
8:09pm - I'm still going over various resources I have, just figuring out what I've got. I'm watching a vid by pigdev from like a year ago about Platformers.
Do you know what he just did? He pointed out the unthinkable yet clearly obvious in hindsight fact that Metroidvanias and even the first Metroid, was essentially a cross between Platformers and Escape Room games. The essential change between the two? You explore to find new tools or abilities to allow you access to more places, to do the same again in a loop.
Metroidvanias are escape rooms, and ESCAPE ROOMS ARE METROIDVANIAS.
8:23pm - Back to work...
9:00pm - Technically I should work for another 49 minutes if I want to get my 3 hours in, and I DO but I also want to stop, and I'm going to do that. I'm feeling weirdly burned out already, I want to play a video game before something else I have to do tonight, and I'm also having some mild illness I need to take care of.
Alas! Perhaps more in two days.
This last week has been REALLY rough so I haven't been able to work when I expect/want to. Today this is going to be the main thing I do.
Specifically, I joined onto a new project the other day. I still want to do my own projects, but I've never worked with a team like this and I want to see what happens. I'm the first coder on this project, but they already have money and a history of other work and artists and stuff, and other coders working on other projects. Specifically it's a metroidvania. I want to avoid details due to privacy concerns for the rest of the team and the project in general.
Platformers are the easiest games to make in modern game engines, and Metroidvanias are arguably a sort of advanced platformer, or alternative platformer.
7:11pm - So far, I've started by opening a lot of YouTube tabs, for a lot of Godot devs and support stuff. What we agreed to start with for the metroidvania game was a really basic prototype. They mostly want to get the movement right first, and while I agree that's important, I also feel we need to have level transitions from the start, and some sort of level loading as well. I'm going to start by seeing if there's any public domain stuff I can use, otherwise I'll begin from scratch making my own in Godot 4.0, which is what we'll be using.
Also, I've got this playing in the background. Orchestral Arrangement of the theme from Dwarf Fortress. It feels so weird to share that using an HTML anchor tag after all these years. XD
I also opened up a bunch of stuff on itch.io to see what I might be able to use.
I'm not going to use this today but I really need to try it. https://dui.itch.io/virtual-cottage
7:35pm - I had to deal with a sudden thing in there but I'm back.
I own this book by Pigdev on itch: https://pigdev.itch.io/top-7-godot-recipes
It's good. Pigdev is also good, so I'm probably going to buy this other thing of theirs, given what I'm doing right now: https://pigdev.itch.io/platformer-essentials
8:09pm - I'm still going over various resources I have, just figuring out what I've got. I'm watching a vid by pigdev from like a year ago about Platformers.
Do you know what he just did? He pointed out the unthinkable yet clearly obvious in hindsight fact that Metroidvanias and even the first Metroid, was essentially a cross between Platformers and Escape Room games. The essential change between the two? You explore to find new tools or abilities to allow you access to more places, to do the same again in a loop.
Metroidvanias are escape rooms, and ESCAPE ROOMS ARE METROIDVANIAS.
8:23pm - Back to work...
9:00pm - Technically I should work for another 49 minutes if I want to get my 3 hours in, and I DO but I also want to stop, and I'm going to do that. I'm feeling weirdly burned out already, I want to play a video game before something else I have to do tonight, and I'm also having some mild illness I need to take care of.
Alas! Perhaps more in two days.
