Lewis Hamer

Doing code things in my spare time

[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

I was finding that the driving wasn't very engaging, so I shrunk the course width and increased the cart speed. Even in this placeholder environment, it feels much better already.

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[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

Trying out a different kind of enemy. Instead of avoiding a crowd, I thought it might be interesting to have the player chased by another cart.

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[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

Drifting uses a traction value and turning it all the way down makes a really fun way to turn the cart.

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[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

Added drifting to the cart.

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[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

Having the balls return back to the cart when in range helps keep momentum, making it feel much better to play.

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[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

Working on making driving through the crowds a little easier. The golf cart still gets a bit stuck sometimes.

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[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

Added some guys that follow the cart and you can ram them out of the way

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[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

I'm experimenting with sprite stacking and came up with this golf cart that shoots golf balls.

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[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

Alternatively, here's the ball bursting into confetti instead

[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

I've been playing around with effects for when the ball hits the flag. This is an attempt at confetti, but I'm not convinced it works just yet.

Also the video compression might make this hard to see

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[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

Pushing the low res style even smaller and added some trees

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[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

Added a water hazard to my isometric golf project

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[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

Playing about with an isometric golf game

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[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

Getting back into isometric pixel art. I love the low-res style so I did some shapes, some kind of robot and a server machine thingy.

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[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

Working on some isometric 2D physics. Here I have jumping/falling, a vertically moving platform and transitioning between different height platforms.

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[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

Trying out a mechanic where the player (blue) is joined to their gun (red) and can only move using the recoil.

Definitely needs some work but I like it.

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[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

I am surprised how much animating the shadow adds to the feel of an isometric jump.

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[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

They do a decent job of avoiding obstacles and each other while following the player though.

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[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

They seem to be avoiding each other when crowding around the player, but the ones further away get stuck circling the player 🤔

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[Lewis Hamer @lewishamer_]

Messing around with having the crowd follow the player.

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