Nullcore: Weird Fast Paced RPG

[little lake]

this looks sick!

gj

[dire marten]

thanks!

[dreamy merlin]

hey, here i'm again, nice work there! amazing

[dire marten]

Thank you so much for the support!

[little lake]

do u have any gameplay footage u can share?

[dire marten]

Yeah!

[dire marten]

here you go @little lake

[little lake]

the his looks sick! the art is really nice imo !

the camera movement would give me nausea tho , sensitive to that kind of thing

[dire marten]

hmmmm

how do you think i could fix that?

should i make it lerp slower? like an accessibility setting?

[little lake]

yea having an accessibility setting that decreases camera movement to some degree would definitely be a huge help

slower lerp could already help in some ways

the part that was most jarring was at 0:22

where u move between a lot of hard edges

2 ideas i had was either having some kind of fixed camera at these bridges so that it doesnt rotate as much

or rounding out the corners so the rotation isnt as jarring

but those are just ideas ofcs! its your game

but maybe a slower lerp would already do the trick im not sure

[dreamy merlin]

@dire marten i think if you want to really dive deep into that settings for the camera setup, you could check rocket league camera settings

its kinda simple tip, but it has some settings to control how the camera should behave

how fast it should follow the character, the POV, delay, angle

I felt pretty much like Sora—camera movement's too quick. A slight delay or smoother lerp, as Sora suggested, would help

Focusing on reorientation, adding a smoother lerp during camera rotation could really enhance gameplay

Your camera should follow the character, but it feels fixed on them—that makes sense? xd

[little lake]

i dont know if you have explored that already, but having the camera not follow the players rotation and always having the same rotation could also be a possible solution

maybe even though its 3d instead of 2d also look at super mario galaxy as an example of a camera that follows a player that has a changing gravity

[dire marten]

Thanks for the feedback!

i will get to work right now!

[red fractal]

Looks really great 💯

[dire marten]

Thanks!

[dreamy merlin]

Check the message i sent o progress dump xD i implemented kind off a stacked transition rollback on my menu

If you want to check the code, i can share

[dire marten]

Okay! I have implemented positional and rotational smoothness to my accessibility settings!

Hope it helps you guys!

[dreamy merlin]

WOW that's way better

when you made it smoother i felt way better

btw, i'm colorblind hahahaha

thank you for supporting my colorblindness hahahahaha

How about making 'smooth' the default and allowing the bar to go lower? I'd like to reduce it a bit more. Just some feedback from a dev/gamer—it's your game hahhaha but i love it

btw, i feel like it's a good game for speed runners

@dire marten

[dire marten]

Yeah Nullcore is meant to be a fast paced game, so people will probably find weird ways to speedrun my game

@dreamy merlin By the way, these are the colorblind choices I have.

[dreamy merlin]

wow this is nice

I have kinda mix of protonomaly e deuteranomaly, sometimes it's hard to see green

sometimes I mistakenly think it's green but it's red hahaha

and vice versa

this kinda debuffs me when i try to do front-end tasks

[dire marten]

Then i hope the color blind accessibility settings help! There is a planned area full of green lava, so i am sure this will help people out

[little lake]

this is way better! don’t feel dizzy when watching this anymore! gj :)

[dire marten]

I made this cool cave biome

[dreamy merlin]

Does your game take place fully underground?

[dire marten]

I think???? I havent really decided

i mean there are gonna be some big areas like beaches with pink sunsets

[dreamy merlin]

i have an idea of scenario for you hahaha if its really abount underground

[dire marten]

ok what is it

[dreamy merlin]

I just love how those bismuto looks

[dire marten]

oh yeah bismuth

[dire marten]

its pretty

[dreamy merlin]

if you get some cool shaders on that, you could make a bismuth level or smth like that

using some light and fog idk

lmao just random idea for you

[dire marten]

ill think about it! I do like how it looks a lot

[dreamy merlin]

your game made me think about an anime

trying to remember its name

ohh

sakugan

Sakugan is a sci-fi mecha anime set in a distant future where humans live in underground "colonies" within a vast, dangerous "Labyrinth." The story follows Memempu, a brilliant nine-year-old girl with seven doctorates, who dreams of becoming a "Marker" to explore the Labyrinth and find a mysterious surface location from her visions. Her father, Gagumber, a former Marker, reluctantly joins her. Together, they navigate the Labyrinth in a work robot, facing hostile kaiju and uncovering secrets

[slim solar]

Nice atmosphere, I like it

[dire marten]

I added brightness setting if the game gets too dark

[slim solar]

Everything is hand drawn?

[dire marten]

Yeah! I make it all! Its actually just high res pixel art

[dire marten]

Added messages to brightness settings

[slim solar]

Nice, I like it.

I can't wait when I get myself to making more advanced UI for my game.

[dreamy merlin]

@dire marten btw, do you have a main menu? I think i still didnt see your menu

[weak sail]

Is it possible to completely lock the rotation? I could imagine some people will still get dizzy even with lots of camera smoothing

[dire marten]

oh yeah!

here it is

ughhh one second i have to compress it so discord lets me send it

Here it is! Right now there are 4 main menu scenarios based on in game biomes

[dire marten]

thats a good idea! It might get a bit confusing, but im sure it will help others! I will get to work

[dire marten]

@weak sail I finished implementing the setting!

[weak sail]

Nice!

[dire marten]

I didnt have much motivation for working on this, but now that i have posted here and have gotten so much feedback, I really feel like this game is worth it. Thanks everybody

[dreamy merlin]

Yes! same!!!

[dreamy merlin]

Wow this is good, i like it, the background moving while you move your mouse looks so good

[dreamy merlin]

niceeee

did you do any work about sounds? this scares me a lot hahaha

[dire marten]

Wdym?

[dreamy merlin]

Game sounds, effects, your recordings are all mute

[dire marten]

oh yeahh

I dont know why but when i do screen recording on my mac theres no sound

There IS sound

I just dont have music

[dreamy merlin]

Sorry, my english is quite bad hahaha non native

[dreamy merlin]

lmao

[dire marten]

Me too :)

[dreamy merlin]

Wow, coool

Btw, later today i will mark you on my showcase, i have some updates

Just finishing some work

[dire marten]

I added an enemy system with OOP because the old one was spaghetti

Before:

After: (it has crunchy sound i swear 😭 it just wont recorddddd)

[dire marten]

Nullcore: Weird Fast Paced RPG

[floral jasper]

😮 That looks nice. How did you program the direction of the gravity?

[dire marten]

I made the player script look for the direction of the nearest core (circle floor thingy) and then set its velocity to the direction its in * gravity force

[dire marten]

I cant sleep and im so bored i animated the player breakdancing

i love it

[dreamy merlin]

Hahahahaha

same problem here, i was bored and could'nt sleep

just started coding because why not hahaha

[dreamy merlin]

That's fun lmao hahahhaa

[dire marten]

Ok i made a better version (its like this in game)

maybe its too fast

anyways its gonna be part of a secret acheivement

called

"Fresh"

where if you stay idle in a special place you start to breakdance and get a big crowd cheering for you

I am done building the tutorial zone! I love godot, but building in it is quite difficult. Once you go into the dark, theres a cutscene, and then the REAL game begins.

[dreamy merlin]

bro this looks awesome

how you create the art and textures lmao

i couldnt do that even with months of work

[dreamy merlin]

hahahaha that's cool

[dire marten]

i just use Aseprite and always try to stay strict to a color palette, and always try to make the art sizes multiples of 64

i also dont make the art too complicated

then i just use color theory with lights and stuff, and add a canvas modulate node and give it a purple color

[dreamy merlin]

ohhh that sounds so professional hahaha

[dire marten]

i know but i kinda just do it without thinking i just change stuff till it looks ok

[dreamy merlin]

yeah hahaha state of art xd

i want to create a 2d game later this next month, simple one but to learn more

btw

talking about art

i will be implementing a workflow to improve visual novel arts with AI

[dire marten]

ooohhh

[dreamy merlin]

also text revision and music generation

[dire marten]

ai can make music????

[dreamy merlin]

yeah, i am using that with my friend to create our first prototype visual novel

xD

and its pretty perfect

lemme send you one music i created

i mean, i dont want to destroy artists jobs but i want my dream to be created faster and cheaper xd

we want to create a group with artists that like AI so we can create more visual novels with higher quality and faster

https://suno.com/s/oAXFiUrXZqKD0AT2

https://suno.com/s/b06FDjwLUxlTs4GN

[dire marten]

is this the main menu theme?

[dreamy merlin]

nah, those are old generations

just some tests

i have generated more than 2000 musics last months hahaha

[dreamy merlin]

tho this one could be a main menu music, its one of the bests i created

[dire marten]

Remade coralite arcs to be inspired by architecture from my birthplace

it tiles

and this is how the old one looked

[dreamy merlin]

you are really good with that

[dire marten]

I am working on the first cutscene for my game!

[dire marten]

Sorry i havent posted, been busy

but i did change the player code so it has useful functions

[dire marten]

I am helping to organize my stuff with a to-do list

i was kinda just forgetting and remembering stuff

[dire marten]

Made it so the player can actually learn to slide in the tutorial

[dire marten]

I added a rock on which there is a stick that you can pick up. This is the first weapon of the game.

[dire marten]

What gun modifier should i add? Gun mods change how your gun works, but im out of ideas 😭

[dreamy merlin]

Same here, got a lot of busy days on my work

:((

I will check your posts later today, I will be back!

I didn't have any big advances on my project

[dreamy merlin]

Just some random ideas, but implement bullet count and gun reload, so you add reload speed, ammo increase, shoot speed, also different types of ammo that makes you kill easier some enemies but others you will struggle if you upgrade only one of the damage types

Maybe gun variations, modifications, like more speed or more damage, more simultaneously shoots like a high caliber or sequential shoots but fast like the gun "famas"

maybe area damage, or secondary guns or other perks

if sounds cool, you could add some orbs that attack automatically and those also have his custom perks as well with different combinations of type of damage (fire, ice, darkness, holy,...)

if you intend to add more battle mechanics, more enemies...

bosses

check the game "Magicka"

you could get cool inspirations for your perks there

[floral jasper]

Nice flares lol

[dire marten]

Ok! I will check it out

[dreamy merlin]

@dire marten

BTWWW

there's a brazilian game with a cooool perk system (they recently refactored it)

9 kings, i think you will like it

i'm so inspirated by this game right now hahahha

[dire marten]

Added Parrying to Nullcore! Swing your sword at JUST the right time to reflect bullets and make it faster!

[dire marten]

Hey everybody! Major update here:

Honestly, Nullcore has gotten way too difficult to manage.
But this game is my baby, and I just don't want to stop working on it.

Yeah, the code is bad, but I genuinely feel that I can make it better this time.

I admit have done so many things wrong, and it got very overscoped, but thats just part of growing as a developer, right?
Nullcore was actually my first project!

To Nullcore!

[dire marten]

Update 1: (v0.1)

I added the basic assets back in, and I am refactoring the old player script.

[dire marten]

Update 2: (v0.2)

The code works! I have implemented all of the old movement features, and it feels fast and responsive now!

[dreamy merlin]

Refactoring is the best thing to do, honestly when I am working or coding in godot I refactor my logics a lot of times until i find it intuitive and performative

[dreamy merlin]

Wow

it feels way smother

yea?

from the previous gameplays

[dire marten]

yeah it feels more fun

Update 3: (v0.3)

Added jumping and multiple core support.

[dreamy merlin]

i have been working on refactoring for at least 5 days, that's why i'm kinda disappeared hahaha it's taking too long to improve the code and make it better

[dire marten]

yeah i understand

but i enjoy refactoring

[dreamy merlin]

wowwww

10/10

💯

[dire marten]

:)

[dreamy merlin]

btwww

i was thinking about your camera

it is attached to the player or its kinda "magnetically" moving to the closer sphere?

i just thought about this

nice work

[dire marten]

its attached to the player

but the cores do have some effects on it

[dreamy merlin]

cool work

[dire marten]

Update 4: (v0.4)
Visuals! Added Player Animations, Decor, and more Core variations!