I'm using a custom dialogue system that breaks up long lines into sizes that'll fit the speech bubbles and treats each new line as a new bubble. I'll be adding Camera/Animation/Movement/etc DialogueActions to dynamically handle speech "cutscenes" entirely via these resources.

WIP: conversations are all coming together! I'm using Snork's walk animation as a placeholder for talking (the Woolie NPC will have one too) and I still need the camera to move, but we're getting there! #indiegame #gamedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

Got the stem working on the speech bubble! Going to add thought bubbles next but it should use the same code. Usually you won't have movement control during speaking scenes, so it'll just let me not have to manually position the bubbles. #indiegame #gamedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

I feel like it might read as yelling more than it would otherwise because it’s next to the lower-case option 🤔 Love an excuse to bust out my old Thor comics though haha. Definitely planning on using color and text effects to add some variation and volume too!

Hmmm, all caps or lower case? #indiegame #gamedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

Set up a speech bubble that moves so it won't cover the speaker's mouth! Don't have the stem yet to point to the speaker, working on that now. #indiegame #gamedev #godot #n64

An icy slide has appeared in my sandbox level! #indiegame #gamedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

Me learning #godot, very dumb: Forward is -Z, not +Z? I'll flip the character model so it faces +Z and base all my physics on that, there's no way that'll bite me a year from now. Me now: Huh getting some weird bugs when I adjust the model's sliding angle #gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #n64

Been busy but found time to work on sliding! Being on terrain in the Slide group triggers it, and it'll be a forward or backward slide based on how he's facing at the start. Adding the animations now, should make for some fun levels! #indiegame #gamedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

Moving platforms 🚫 Easily-configurable moving platforms ✅ Settings for looping, boomerang-ing, flickering/lingering before despawning, respawning after a delay, auto-starting, and exposing sub-scene shapes and mesh to the parent scene! #godot #indiegame #gamedev #lowpoly #n64

I’m gonna do it

Hadn't done a ton with tool scripts or property list overrides, it was fun figuring out how to make the dropdowns populate with all the available animations! This Animation Manager isn't a full AnimationTree replacement by any means, but it meets *my* needs and now I can add to it if I need to.

Bit the bullet and fully replaced the AnimationTree with a custom tool script. I needed: - some animations to auto-advance when they finish - simple centralized custom speeds for certain animations Best time to code it right: from the start. Second best time: right now. #godot #indiegame #gamedev

I love #godot but man I've got to believe there's a way to make animation trees usable or at the very least legible once you need more than like ten animation nodes. Most things in my game so far don't, but my player character is ROUGH. #indiegame #gamedev

Eventually (after doing the forward-facing versions of these animations) I'll need to add things like swimming versions, animations of him getting flattened, burned, etc. but I'm for sure waiting until I've got enemies coded that actually deal those damage types first.

Adding all the different combinations of damage recoil animations is taking longer than I expected. I think they're looking good though! Grounded hit backward, aerial hit backward with a landing and getup animation, etc. Halfway done! #gamedev #indiegame #godot #lowpoly #n64

Dust clouds when the bellyflop lands: 10 dust clouds spawned in a circle, spaced with a radius of 0.6 units, moving away from the center at a speed of 1.5. Sparkles when collecting a moon: 6 sparkles spawned every 0.25 seconds, appearing in a random direction 0.3 units from the origin.

Upping the effects in my game! Sparkles, dust clouds, and bonk stars. I'm using #godot 's particle system for the passive sparkles on coins and moons, and I made a custom particle manager for the circular moving effects. #gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #n64

Mission accomplished!

Bellyflops so big they cause a crater! I think my next task will be to update my effects and particles, adding passive sparkles to coins/moons, adding impact dust/pow-stars/etc to the bellyflop landing, maybe a screen shake as well #gamedev #indiegame #godot #lowpoly #n64

Wall Jumps Will Work! Simplified the jumps from games like Mario64 where you'd bonk and fall if the timing wasn't tight; I want it to be a tool in the player's kit, not a hard skill check. You'll slide down the wall rather than bonk and can jump at will. #gamedev #indiegame #godot #lowpoly #n64

Added another jump type, the sideflip. For sure the trickiest one to nail down the animation look for, and to figure out how to balance the turning around angle + the angle at which the animation starts. His base moveset's close to done! #gamedev #indiegame #godot #lowpoly #n64

A 3D platformer HAS to have a backflip. #gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #godot #n64

Another angle. I'm really happy with this animation! This is a run->crouch->jump move, like Mario's long jump.

If Majora's Mask taught me anything, it's that the absolute coolest thing in a video game is when the little dude does a flip #gamedev #indiegame #godot #n64 #lowpoly

Saw it trending a few weeks ago so I added scuffed pig physics and gave Snork the ability to crawl #gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #n64 #godot

Health bar is finished! I really like how the sleepy snot bubbles turned out and how lowkey kind of stupid it is haha, it fits the vibe I want. So here's a comprehensive UI demo video! #godot #gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #n64

Brainstorming what to use as health in my game. Levels are dreams you enter, and “dying” is taking enough damage to wake up, so I want it to indicate how deeply you’re asleep. Hearts? Nah. Z’s? Maybe. Then it hit me! 🐽🫧 #gamedev #indiegame

3. Coffee beans aren't shown on the HUD any more, since they'll be a limited collectible (think red coins or jinjos). They make a billboard sprite now that shows how many you've collected in the level so far. The pause menu will still show your total at the top.

2. Tokens/coins are the only thing in the upper-right now. They slide in faster and animate when they tick up.