Octopus_Tophat

Indie dev making a game called RogueWorld.
Devlog:

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@BRobo82 Fair enough. Everything else looks great, it was just the first thing I noticed. If you like it, that's all that matters! 😊

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@Ondrej_Svadlena I'm an idiot. I was thinking "That is such a realistic hand" for like 8 seconds.

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Hopefully I've captured the "light peering through the leaves" look that I've been trying to figure out for years now lol.

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Lights can now have depth. So the sunlight coming through the leaves in the back affect the background a lot, but the terrain not so much. But items like torches work in reverse. I can have lights move in and out of the screen too. Looks really cool! #indiedev #pixelart #GMS2

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@Aliandrana Each light has a small texture that gets drawn with a shader using the depth map as an input. I'll post more to explain it😁

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I gotta be honest, I'm really happy with my lighting! #pixelart #GMS2 #shaders #indiedev

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@DevDanyel Thanks a lot! 😊 Can't wait to show it in motion!

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@XorDev Thank you very much!!

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@XorDev I'll have a post when it's fully polished, but it uses a mix of tile based for bounce lighting, and I also have a depth map that I use a shader on for shadows, like in "rain world". The shader also puts subtle highlights on edge pixels facing the light.

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@NoelFB But why is there code to check if keys.none is 0?

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@TheLawlDawg Pretty sure villagers tell you everything eventually. I remember them even explained feng shui in wild word, which I thought was a hidden feature.

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@_heartexp It's goooood

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@LegacyGameDev Can you roll in ball like Mario odyssey? :P

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@eigenbom I would really like to see machine learning-based voice acting, where characters could say your name and stuff. This would drastically reduce production costs and bring tons of variance. There's really just a whole lot of machine learning stuff that's exciting.

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@splaffinator @ShadowriverUB This is so polished looking! Great work! The only thing keeping it from being nintendo-level is the way he comes out of his flex pose. That stands out a bit for me.

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@TylerGlaiel I think it has to do with how long games take to develop now. We had 3 uncharted's and a last of us on PS3. We have 1 uncharted and 1 last of us coming. 2 whole grand theft autos last gen, no new one current gen. Games just take so much time now.

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@eigenbom Does it automatically detect that this is "switch like" and convert it into jump tables or whatever they're called?

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@mrapp718 Dang, gonna have to come to Phoenix then...