RoboLike

Devlog

• Version 2
  August 29, 2021 by sarrowsmith

  This release is essentially what I wanted to deliver for 7DRL 2021 . I completed it a few weeks after the deadline, and it's been available as Quasidroid since then. However, now the results of have b... Continue reading
• ... and the scores are in
  June 27, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  Judgement Day The results of 7DRL 2021 have been published , and RoboLike did OK, all things considered ("all things" being (a) this being my first real game jam (b) using an engine I'm still learning... Continue reading
• Final thoughts on 7DRL
  March 15, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  I said on Monday "It may seem a little crazy to be doing software development as a relaxing break from software development, but the difference is in goals, audience and environment". As an example of... Continue reading
• Day 9, part 2
  March 14, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  This, finally, is the proper "what went right, what went wrong, and anything else you learned" postmortem. You'll probably need to read the design devlog entry to make much sense of it. What Went Righ... Continue reading
• Day 9, part 1
  March 14, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  I want to write a technical postmortem of what went well and what didn't, but realise a lot of that's not going to make sense to anyone reading it without some understanding of what the design goals I... Continue reading
• Day 8
  March 13, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  Well, I submitted. It was kind of touch-and-go whether I would or not (in the end I did two releases in the last five minutes as I realised I'd left my cheat codes in). it's missing a lot of features... Continue reading

  
• Hour 168
  March 13, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  Submitted. I was working up to the wire trying to get save/load working, after a morning of debugging the AI. Which is now challenging in being unpredictable rather than calculatingly hostile. But it... Continue reading
• Hour 162
  March 13, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  Calendar day 8, final 7 hours. It's 6am here. I may be too old for all-nighters, but that just means I'm up before the sun (although not the cat) and ready for the push to the line. I have artificial... Continue reading
• Hour 152
  March 12, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  Well into the last day. It's several hours since I resigned myself to the fact that failure is not just an option here, but an overwhelming probability. I've spent most of the time since the last devl... Continue reading

  
• Hour 143
  March 12, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  Day 7. By the calendar. That's what you get for starting a 7 day challenge in the middle of the day. I suppose the first day should, in true dev fashion, have been day 0. Spent the morning fixing a ra... Continue reading
• Hour 125
  March 11, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  24 hours ago I wrote the following list of requirements: spawning enemies with different characteristics enemy AI ranged and two types of melee combat player upgrades save/load/new game system and men... Continue reading
• Hour 121
  March 11, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  Habemus ludum or some such. Final win condition is in place, and theoretically achievable. In practice, at the moment unless you get really lucky on the RNG it will be impossible because somewhere the... Continue reading
• Hour 114
  March 11, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  Start of day 5. Things not looking great. Last night I stuck in the UI for quit/resume, although only the quit works. And the ability to start with a known random seed, or generate one. No save/resume... Continue reading
• Hour 101
  March 10, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  Getting into the flow of it today, which means fewer breaks for devlogging. After today's work (although I've probably got a few more hours in me this evening), I'm pretty confident that I've got a ga... Continue reading

  
• Hour 81
  March 09, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  I went full turn based. Not that the enemies do anything at the moment. Just as well, given how temperamental your weapon is. Not that you'll be armed at the start of the game, but I need to test it... Continue reading
• Hour 78
  March 09, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  Oh, go on, have a screenshot. I'm at a critical point where I have stick to my principles and do a proper turn-based roguelike and wedge turn-based mechanics on top of Godot's game loop which I want f... Continue reading

  
• Hour 70
  March 09, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  Morning of day 4. Have added placeholder enemies, and player movement with tracking view. Just don't move left. It breaks the grid system for some reason. That's the debugging session I have to have a... Continue reading
• Hour 58
  March 08, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  End of day 3. Have been down so many rabbit-holes this afternoon, including making a mess of my git branches (it's something that really annoys me about trying to use git with both Unity and Godot: if... Continue reading
• Hour 47
  March 08, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  Morning spent turning all those imported sprites into game objects which can choose how to represent themselves. I'm taking this week off work. Not primarily for 7DRL, I was going to have this time of... Continue reading
• Hour 43
  March 08, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  Just spent the last hour importing my pre-prepared sprite sheets into animations. I did have plans to have double the number, then triple that, but that's just not going to happen in the time frame. W... Continue reading
• Hour 33
  March 07, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  End of day 2, and there's finally something to look at. I'm sticking with this morning's prediction of 20% chance of playability, 0% chance of quality, 100% chance of learning stuff... Continue reading

  
• Hour 30
  March 07, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  I almost had something to show, but for reasons of multiple computers (cross-platform macOS and Linux guaranteed!) I don't. It's not that spectacular anyway. Just level generation in place with debug... Continue reading
• Hour 18
  March 07, 2021 by sarrowsmith

  Start of day 2. Reflecting that I didn't get very far yesterday, I'm revising my chances of successfully delivering something playable to 20%, and the chances of it being any good to 0%. I'm still rea... Continue reading
• Hour 9
  March 06, 2021 by sarrowsmith

  End of day 1. I've got things set up to my usual working standards ( ie it's in version control, specifically github, and obviously has this project). Most of today's work (I've not been going flat-ou... Continue reading
• Hour 1
  March 06, 2021 by sarrowsmith#7DRL

  Officially starting my 7DRL 2021 Challenge at 13:00 GMT (Saturday). I've absolutely no idea how this will work out. It's my first Jam with a (personal) goal of delivering a game, and will be only the... Continue reading