BMCC Spring 2024
It’s a new day, which means a new dev log! Got a lot done this time, legitimately too. I’m still not 100% sure what I want the game to be but I’m thinking a fast paced platformer? Lots of pits, fun movement, etc. Anyways here’s the level I was working on! I call it “The temple of the Astral Plane”.
It’s……less of a temple but more of just a block with a pyramid in the middle. But It’s still something! The stairs lead downstairs, but there’s nothing down the stairs. So I guess it leads nowhere?
I am familiarizing myself with the Godot interface and have created a group of 3 trees and some primitives along with a player and directional lighting.
Play/Read the prequels here:
Development Video
Big things coming along for the end of week 1 so far:
-gitignore modified
-addons & external assets mounted to github fork
-player script modified
-camera head bob enabled
-player now has a flashlight
-full graphical overhaul
-world environment and HDRI added
-sculpted world landscape
-weather added
-ambient sounds added
-cave mapping
-narrative blockout
Screenshots
Play/Read the prequels here:
Devlog
Increased camera FOV and did some more block out on the cave system so that I could get a head start on external assets. Modeled a mannequin placeholder for Stag -Nozomi Ringo’s wendigo ally- as well as a small campfire prop to test the environmental lighting with ambient occlusion, global illumination, and volumetric fog enabled. Already looking ahead on what I might plan to do in regards to modifying scripts and enabling more dynamic camera motion and overlays, but we’ll get to that later. After I block out more of the cave system itself I’ll also start sculpting the actual environment meshes, but right now I have sleep for like 3 hours and go to physics class. o7
Cave Environment Blockout
In-game
Mannequin Base Mesh for Stag
Campfire Base Mesh
Level block out started, planning for a direct followup to BiB//D:_R PPoC 2D that you can check out here for context on Nozomi Ringo and the cast of Diaries:_Reminiscence. Game and itch page also include links to the first web-comic prequel for even further context.
I created a scene with a couple of obstacles and ambient shapes, although not all the collision boxes have the same shape as the mesh, they are all aligned.
Hope to learn interaction functions to make the environment make sense for the player
You already know what time it is, considering it’s in the title. It’s Dev log time! Both a lot, and almost absolutely nothing, really happened this week. We’ve got some baseline models down and a small playable area, as seen below
I also learned it is very much possible to fall off of the map you make, and there aren’t any dev barriers that teleport you back to the top. I can’t believe I have to make those myself, what kind of lazy dev doesn’t have them?? (me.)
That’s all of it for the dev log today though, check back next week for…..something new I guess?
I created a little tree with a bush and some “flowers”
Created level 1 that contains a ramp,tree and the ground as well as the player.
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