Notices by Cheeseness (cheeseness@mastodon.social), page 9

Spent half of today's dev stream wrestling with sine and cosine as I worked to add these dots to the end of my big travel lines. It's embarrassing, but still feels important to show/share that even with a teeny tiny maths brain like mine, it's still possible to muddle through

Added some unique materials for "full specimen" dig sites. Super temporary, but they already make these feel nice and special (eventually these will reflect rare forms of fossilisation like what happened to Eric here https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/omoonasaurus-demoscyllus/ ) #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

And the accompanying video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygrs0JAkQG4

Wrapped up keyboard/gamepad support for the museum map this morning, and also added a setting to randomise the initial unlocks for a skeleton as a possible way of getting a little more interesting variation in that always-feet-first doesn't provide. Also added an interface setting for customising the "placement shadow" colour

Made some headway on getting the musem map keyboard/gamepay friendly today, and added a placeholder cursor to make input/interaction states a little more readable

And the accompanying video! #gamedev #indiedev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzBcU4QvN4I

Ah ha! I have achieved Number Godhood and mastered the rendering of Almost Longitude and Messy Latitude. I shall now ascend to a Pure Numeric Form. Or sleep. Whichever comes first. #gamedev #indiedev

OK, so it's not a screenshot, but I've just integrated the music handler and hooked up the map track that @KestrelPi has been working on, and bam, even at the main menu with its placeholder background, it's 200% more game #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Moved dig tile variation into a shader rather than modifying the actual geo before instantiating. It more than halves dig load times, so I've made "huge" dig sites bigger (1,221 tiles here!). I'll have to see whether it hurts perf on lower end GPUs before I commit

Tinysaurs now get built on a table (this "toyrannosaurus" is an easter egg - not typical Bonesweeper fare) #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #fossilfriday

New bonesweeper test builds are up! Digs that clear multiple tiles now have a little delay so you can see that cascade outwards. Might replace it with a proper fill function later, but for now, it's nice enough.

And here's the accompanying video talking about development across the first half of April
#gamedev #indiedev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3AKwIrxt5E

Here's the slightly late mid-month #Bonesweeper status update for July. Lots of small tweaks and fixes! https://www.patreon.com/posts/69331401

Spent a bunch of time on stream replacing placeholder books for the map phase background. Had to put a few journals back upside down >:D

Finally got around to adding scroll bars to the generated settings menus. I'll probably tidy/streamline before release, but during development, I like to have settings for as much stuff as possible so that it's easy to compare different behaviours/configurations

And here's the accompanying video talking about the past month or so's worth of development #gamedev #indiedev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVIVji_6c6U

And the accompanying video - a nice short one this time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYF-yVBGck4

And, as always, the accompanying video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-lnSqHI6zM

First red! Exciting times \o/

There we go \o/