William Kidd

I like video games.

Procrastinating making any games by working on my coding skills.

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

pew pew pew ... rewrote everything and added gun #pixelart #animation #gamedev #indiedev #unity2d #aseprite

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Rebuilding the action system in a clean project for a clearer understanding of what I've built so far.

Already clearing up confusion with communication within systems, and realising some areas of redundancy. Will solidify off-screen simulation too.

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Quick test for off-screen household character actions.

Up till now I've been focused on in-scene actions, so I forgot to consider off-scene simulation.

Learnt a lot at this point, thinking it might be worth working the action system from scratch.

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Quick test for off-screen household character actions.

Up till now I've been focused on in-scene actions, so I forgot to consider off-scene simulation.

Learnt a lot at this point, thinking it might be worth working the action system from scratch.

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Spent the past few weeks changing how I'm building everything; getting a better understanding of events, and project structure.

Reinforcing some concepts I should really be leaning into.

Added time controls and stat UI animation in the meantime.

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Slowly moving toward proper scene loading.

Characters load in from script instead of being pre-placed objects that are a part of the scene.

Some steps away from loading from save, but I'm learning a lot.

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Spent the past few weeks changing how I'm building everything; getting a better understanding of events, and project structure.

Reinforcing some concepts I should really be leaning into.

Added time controls and stat UI animation in the meantime.

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Coroutine test w/ action queue (AQ) + control switch test

AQ animates via coroutine when actions leave the list, and control switch rebuilds the AQ for the change of character.

Thinking about committing to UI design and modeling for a little while

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

@ChubbyPixel Neither.

The control switch is basically an independent system that just changes the active character, and broadcasts that it has so other systems know.

UI like the stats UI or AQ that are listening for the broadcast will rebuild to display the new data.

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Coroutine test w/ action queue (AQ) + control switch test

AQ animates via coroutine when actions leave the list, and control switch rebuilds the AQ for the change of character.

Thinking about committing to UI design and modeling for a little while

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Nothing new here *visually*, but I've converted lots of hard dependancies into events: QueueUI, Stats & Time Logic.

Feeling pretty good about this, like when I started leaning into StateMachines.

New structure solved some QueueUI logic/errors.

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Hoping to continue leaning into events; The more I wrap my head around the concept, the more essential it seems

It helps getting rid of hard dependancies, and refocuses logic around "broadcasting" information for "receivers" to listen in, rather than sending direct lines

GREAT

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Nothing new here *visually*, but I've converted lots of hard dependancies into events: QueueUI, Stats & Time Logic.

Feeling pretty good about this, like when I started leaning into StateMachines.

New structure solved some QueueUI logic/errors.

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Working on leveraging Unity scenes.

Here I start from a "main manager" type of scene, with an additive main menu, which then loads the test scene I'm working on.

Going to work on loading the main (test) scene with coroutines and events next.

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Working on leveraging Unity scenes.

Here I start from a "main manager" type of scene, with an additive main menu, which then loads the test scene I'm working on.

Going to work on loading the main (test) scene with coroutines and events next.

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Inbetween practice modelling + learning nuances of shape keys, I've been using at a separate (but similar) project as a workspace for job prototyping/UI testing.

Learned about static events/relearnt coroutines. Useful stuff.

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Inbetween practice modelling + learning nuances of shape keys, I've been using at a separate (but similar) project as a workspace for job prototyping/UI testing.

Learned about static events/relearnt coroutines. Useful stuff.

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Body sliders + resource load + colour swap test

Still looking to improve modelling, and finish models for m/f templates.

Using resource load for customisation prototyping, plan for addressables later.

Primitive colour swap, needs more thought w/ textures

#gamedev #indiedev

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Body sliders + resource load + colour swap test

Still looking to improve modelling, and finish models for m/f templates.

Using resource load for customisation prototyping, plan for addressables later.

Primitive colour swap, needs more thought w/ textures

#gamedev #indiedev

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Figured that since I'm turning focus on character development (traits/skills, storaging data etc) that I'm eventually going to work on appearance.

Not much of an artist, but throwing in some Blender practice and learning shape keys for body customisation.

#gamedev #indiedev

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Figured that since I'm turning focus on character development (traits/skills, storaging data etc) that I'm eventually going to work on appearance.

Not much of an artist, but throwing in some Blender practice and learning shape keys for body customisation.

#gamedev #indiedev

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Trait/Skill requirement test for actions

Thinking about how skills & (especially) traits work since I figure they're the next upgrade for actions and autonomy.

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

While I ruminate over autonomy logic, I thought I would apply mounting logic to the bookcase to see how easy the setup is.

Regarding autonomy, added a simple way to track queued "need actions", so the character doesn't keep queuing actions for needs.

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[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Things like personality traits, skills, likes/dislikes, and how they affect behaviour; autonomous action selection, weighting etc.

Hopefully, as I approach these concepts, I'll find that the action system has been setup in a way that these become simpler to integrate.

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

While I ruminate over autonomy logic, I thought I would apply mounting logic to the bookcase to see how easy the setup is.

Regarding autonomy, added a simple way to track queued "need actions", so the character doesn't keep queuing actions for needs.

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Spending a lot more time thinking, or procrastinating (matter of perspective).

Made what feels like more permenant revisions to action logic, hopefully as I clean up I will feel more confident expanding things.

Occupied seat test w/ new revisions

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Now that I'm at this point, I sort of realise how much there is to consider with autonomous behaviour.

I have some idea of how to approach certain aspects (need action priority, idle behaviour) but once the simpler parts are sorted, more complex things will need exploring ...

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

That being said, once I've cleared up the standards of process, the hope is that expanding from here should be a breeze.

Still some things adjacent to the system to clear up, like autonomy, priority action queuing etc. But how those things work shouldn't affect process itself.

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Spending a lot more time thinking, or procrastinating (matter of perspective).

Made what feels like more permenant revisions to action logic, hopefully as I clean up I will feel more confident expanding things.

Occupied seat test w/ new revisions

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

Giving some consideration to how cancelling an action should work: what it looks like in the UI, and contextually how it happens within character states.

Revising the action system to accomodate the new logic, and also to better centralise the old.

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

[William Kidd @WilliamRKidd]

... so when cleaning up after the fact there's been some confusing dependancies that I've had to resolve.

While I like to think of myself as a problem solver, I'm still pretty mediocre at coding, so it's just taken some time for me to wrap my mind around what I've written ...