荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev

Indie dev making ANTIAGER,
a strange fantasy action RPG.

Unity beginner.
Dev logs, cats, ninja,
and random stuff.

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

ANTIAGER is a fantasy action RPG.

Travel with three aging heroes who can manipulate age, and two young companions who got caught up in it all.

Build strange gadgets.

Restore the world's balance.

Welcome to ANTIAGER.

👇 Want to know more? Keep reading below.

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[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

Day 139 of game dev

I thought it was "just" making the fireball hit walls and enemies...

Turns out there's a lot more to it than I expected.

Maybe it's harder because I'm still a beginner.

...Then again, I think this would be hard anyway.

#indiedev

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

Day 139 of game dev

Spent the whole day quietly tuning yesterday's fireball.

Nothing flashy today.

I got about halfway through today's work.

#indiedev

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

The fireball finally flies, so I'm calling it a day with a drink. 😁

Made a little progress today!

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

Day 138 of game dev

Take 3.

Yesss!!!
It flies!!!

...

It's sooooooooo slow!!! lolololol🤣

#indiedev

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

@WeVennStudios The particle effect is actually a really nice asset I got from the Asset Store.

I finally got the fireball to spawn looking the way I wanted... and then it refused to move. 🤣🔥

So now I'm fighting with that part.

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

Day 138 of game dev

Let's launch the fireball!

Go!!

#indiedev

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

Day 138 of game dev

Take 2.

The animation works now.

Come on, fireball!
Roll!!

#indiedev

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

@RussianNotation It usually looks something like this:
https://t.co/htsWgOe3ww

And at the bigger festivals, it gets much more elaborate!
https://t.co/v6g7gJAC6z

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

We have an event in Japan called Tanabata on July 7th.

People write their wishes on strips of paper and hang them on sasa bamboo (bamboo grass), and it's said those wishes might come true.

I was thinking, "Oh right, Tanabata is tomorrow. Maybe I should write a wish."

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

@RussianNotation Haha, around here, supermarkets often set up big sasa bamboo for Tanabata, with little wish cards next to them so kids can write their wishes.

I live in a slightly rural area, so bamboo and sasa bamboo grow nearby. I can just hang my wish on the sasa at home. 😄

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

@WeVennStudios Thank you! I'm really happy to hear that!

I post a lot of my failures, but I promise I'm making real progress too. lol

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

Day 123 of game dev

Take 5

Whoooosh...

BOOM!!

Nice!

#indiedev

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

Day 137 of game dev

Yesss!

Grandma Mia is a witch.
She can finally create fireballs!

Now I just need to make them fly.

#indiedev

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

aaaa…

"You need this one too, right?"
👁️👁️
　👄

Noooooo!!!💸

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

I just looked at the calendar.

It's the 9th. lol

How did THREE DAYS disappear!?

Time really does slip away when you're making games.

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

Day 136 of game dev

Is 8 seconds really this short!?

No wonder humans age so fast...

8 seconds of work went by in an instant.
But somehow, today felt incredibly long. lol

#indiedev

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

Day 136 of game dev

I checked everything I could, and still had no idea what was going on.

Then I timed it with a stopwatch.

Those 3 loops were exactly 8 seconds. 😂

#indiedev

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

Day 136 of game dev

I spent the whole day trying to figure out why an animation that was supposed to loop for 8 seconds was ending after 3 loops.

Nothing looked wrong...
Why!?

#indiedev

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

It made me realize why translating Japanese inner monologues is so hard.
If I translate them literally, they end up sounding really weird. lol

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

I noticed something interesting earlier.

When people talk to themselves in Japanese, it often feels like they're talking to empty space.

But in English, there's usually someone clearly present in the sentence, even if it's just yourself.

[荒雲ninza 🥷 Antiager Dev @ninza_game]

@RussianNotation I like it! 🍣

I can't really explain why, but there's something about how smooth and fluid it feels that makes me think, "Yeah... this definitely took a lot of work." 😂