Notices by Cheeseness (cheeseness@mastodon.social), page 3

I've been a bit slack on posting progress to social media. Not much has been happening that's visually interesting (and balancing contract work has been tricky). Here's a little something I did today. The temp chunk selector UI for the Research phase is now paginated (loads way faster) and has a nice spinny effect when mousing over chunks

Here's a more concise overview of how metaprogression in #FossilSweeper works
#gamedev #indiedev

Here's the mid-month progress update for August. Avatar footsteps, new music, and museum interactions \o/
https://www.patreon.com/posts/87884067

Still need to do some stress testing with a ton of objects, but it's already a lot snappier than it was!

I spent some time earlier this week improving my click and drag box selection implementation. To avoid redundant calculation, when multiple input events are received per tick or when no relevant input events have been received, but I'd forgotten an important line :D

Today I spent time on drag selection. Turns out that Godot's camera's far clipping distance to project_position() technically represents a point outside the frustum and gives weird values - makes sense, but it took a while to realise what was going on :D

Been working on being able to select multiple items at once in edit mode. Makes rearranging things a lot more comfortable!

Here's the mid-month progress update for July! Specimen placement/positioning is in much better shape.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/86482874

Shipped new test builds for the first time in over a month last night. Nearly got skeleton mount and display case interactions behaving

Initial Rodney clip from yesterday's stream (I hadn't considered that Rodney might be a diamantinasaurus)

And as always, the accompanying video with my handsome face doing handsome talking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJH2M7VlncI

And as usual, here's the accompanying video
#indiedev #devlog #GodotEngine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Pch1djf20

Another late mid-month Bonesweeper status update for May. Thanks to the #LinuxGameJam2022 and the #HiveTime patch that just shipped, I haven't made much Bonesweeper progress, but I did find time to do/plan a few little bits and pieces. Enjoy! #gamedev #indiedev
https://www.patreon.com/posts/66768861

Figured I've been working hard enough on stuff that I deserve a day off, so instead of doing that, I implemented a new/faster skeleton preview for map markers

Added more dig meshes to help show more variety in what you're digging up. Skeleton chunks can define a specific dig mesh to use (species-specific skull, or be assigned one based on the chunk name (generic tail vertebrae), or fall back to use a random generic mesh (generic femur)

Did a bunch of misc fixes/little tweaks today. I think my favourite is showing the site name at the start of every dig (just says "Ready! Set! Dig!" in practice mode). The temp museum got similar treatment, which is less exciting, but nice to have.

Spent a bunch of time writing out a new abstraction between dig sites and locations. Look and feel is still pretty temporary, but it's nice to be able to show information like what species can possibly be found at a dig site and what has been found at a visited site.

Fixed a bunch of bugs today and then took a break to make a silly skeleton. It's very good.

Here's a quick look at the current state of Bonesweeper. Very excited to announce that @KestrelPi has joined the project to compose some lovely music! #gamedev #indiedev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-_5zHiok0

Starting to work on implementing misc fossils (only placeholder amber for now)