Notices by Cheeseness (cheeseness@mastodon.social), page 7

This is going somewhere, I promise

Me: Oh yes, I'll be doing much better looking skeletons in the full version of Bonesweeper.
Also me: Behold: Testodon!

Continuing to work on dig gameplay, I did a first pass implementation of special abilities. Default dig actions are now defined as abilities (but without a cooldown), which unifies a bunch of code. Eventually these will have icons rather than text. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

The march mid-month Bonesweeper progress status update is up, which talks about how I'll be tracking progress and where things are at right now. Enjoy! #gamedev #indiedev
https://www.patreon.com/posts/63910193

I spent some of today working on an in-game way of communicating development progress. This will be nice to have moving forward (test data pictured - the game's a long way from being that finished :D )

Finally making some forward progress on dig site surrounds. Eventually this space will be populated with tables and tents and buckets and doodads, but for now, it's just nice to not have the dig site hanging in space

There we go. This feels a bit more like ground. That'll do for now.

Better

Debugging some of my surrounds generation code. That doesn't look right...

Wrote another Blender addon to handle exporting fossils' dig meshes, and repositioned/re-exported them all. Still a bit of fine tuning needed to guarantee they're not hovering/entirely underground, but it's already looking nicer and more varied.

Closer-to-on-time mid-month Bonesweeper status update for June is now up! Mostly cosmetic changes this month, but I've also been working on music and museum editing systems https://www.patreon.com/posts/68006288

Working a bit more on the map screen background. Thinking of having a chance for a memento to be placed at the black marker points as you progress

Getting closer to something usable #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

Cubetastic

Added a setting that allows dig numbers to be highlighted like I had in the prototype today. Also works with coloured numbers.

Been doing mostly non-visual work for the past couple of weeks, so I haven't had much to share. Here's a little voxel experiment I started this evening while exploring stuff for museum customisation. Won't look or behave *anything* like this if I go with it ^_^

Added a few ground texture variants to suggest different environments/biomes. It's a first pass, but it already adds some fun variation and sense of place #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

Rock \m/

Gave the placeholder Bonesweeper website a little tweak last night to remove the last of the prototype imagery (might need to refresh caches) https://bonesweeper.jbushproductions.com

Got a first pass on dig phase UI for current skeleton progress/found fossils. Super rough, but having this feedback helps ground the dig phase within the surrounding gameplay loops #screenshotsaturday