Hi, so, not really sure what rules if any @NoxiousPluK@lemmy.blahaj.zone has in mind for this community. But just delete this thread if it’s against them, no worries.

With that out of the way, I thought it might be fun for us all to share a bit about our current project(s), along with anywhere people can find devlogs or demos or whatever else.

Sounds like a typical self-promo thread? Maybe. And maybe that’s not allowed. But I have no horse in this race, my only “game” is currently a very janky prototype and my devlog channel exists only in my mind.

I can’t get enough of other people’s devlogs and love to discover new interesting sounding projects, so here we are lol.

Wotcha making?

  • TeaHands@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Gonna be honest with you, about 90% of that went over my head lol. But I looked up what “falling sand physics” is an it sounds like a really interesting challenge! The elemental interactions are cool, and no doubt satisfying to watch something big burn up or dissolve one pixel at a time.

    • popstarfreas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The games that use this mechanic are few and far between. I’m not sure where to find a complete list, but there’s this wikipedia article on it. I can imagine why, though, because it takes what would be a small, simple game to run and turns it into a CPU using monster. I actually found quite a few game projects on github with this mechanic that were left abandoned.

      If you’ve not played Noita, Powder Game or Powder Toy, I can imagine why my description doesn’t quite make sense. I think a gif does far better than words in this case ha.

      I was hoping that because there were few games that had this mechanic (and not just the mechanic as the game) and none of them were multiplayer, that it would stand out from games like Terraria in the genre.

      Did you ever mention what you were working on?

      • TeaHands@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yeah I’d not played any of those but looked up Noita and immediately saw what you were talking about :)

        I’m making a very uninteresting, very basic newbie project. Minimalist, generic low poly city builder where the city builds itself, basically. But very much just getting to grips with Godot at the moment so there’s really not much to share! Still, having fun with it which is the main thing.

        • popstarfreas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Well, that still sounds like a nice project. And a more attainable goal than I’ve set myself possibly. Are you doing it simply as a way into Godot, or are you planning to do something with it? Like, publish it somewhere?

          • TeaHands@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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            1 year ago

            First was just to see if I could in Godot, but now I’ve got to grips with some basics I’m hoping to turn it into a real published game. Still very early on obviously, but the only games I’ve “finished” so far have been jam entries and I think this is about as small as a scope can get while still being worth anyone’s time. We’ll see how it goes!

            Generally post about it over on Mastodon since they’re the ones who got me to try Godot in the first place, although I just moved instances there so my profile is kinda empty haha.