BUNKT

[scarlet night]

Designing starter level

[scarlet trout]

This looks nice!

[vernal sand]

hey really love this isometric kind of game!

[scarlet night]

more level teaser

hey Tortle, Marv thank you

[ocean ocean]

Is this a mix of pixel art and 3d? Looks good. You might want to turn up animation blend time to smooth out the transitions

[thorny turtle]

What's the gameplay going to be like? reminds me a lot of Zomboid

[terse abyss]

I really like the character animation on it, that's very cool

[scarlet night]

only character is pre-rendered and I use shader for blood splatter. i shortened transition because i was thinking people hate to wait for that. giving the early re door animation 😆

[scarlet night]

top down shooter, i know putting shooter on isometric is bad idea but i want to make isometric shooter like Max Payne for GBA.

[thorny turtle]

max payne is always a w

[scarlet night]

shoot 'em

[vernal sand]

thought it would be a turn-based, but still looking forward to see it done

[scarlet night]

adding laser sight 🔫 🔴

you know what it look kinda wonky so idk just testing idea 😆

[ocean ocean]

It might feel better to have the laser point toward where the cursor would be in world space. Also it should come straight out of the gun or from underneath. Other than that I think it's a cool effect, just needs some editing.

Oh just realized his arm doesn't move down like that. I think it feels weird because it looks like you can shoot the floor but the bullet always flies horizontal. I'm curious how you will handle stuff like monsters that crawl on the floor for example. Maybe instead of prerendering the character you can render them in a subviewport with lower res, low animation fps, etc. That might give you more control over the animations while retaining that prerendered look.

[scarlet night]

cursor is hidden yeah end point based on cursor position. with pre-rendered sprite it is tricky to align the laser. i just want to provide guided for player since crosshair is limited to certain radius.

[scarlet night]

with 3d model? that's what im trying to avoid i don't have capable enough computer for now 😆

[ocean ocean]

You could make the endpoint on the crosshair instead of cursor?

Why limit the crosshair?

[scarlet night]

crosshair act as accuracy and laser for guidance. I'll try to tweak it later so how it goes.

if that make sense

[scarlet night]

add crawl animation to smokehead

[scarlet night]

coming out

[thorny turtle]

your pixel art is insanneee

[scarlet night]

is not really pixel art. even in twitter i never use #pixelart hashtag because is not manually drawn 🤷

it's pre-rendered

[thorny turtle]

ahh ok good

[scarlet night]

feel free to give feedback tho

[scarlet night]

Infested 👀

[scarlet night]

updating furniture

[scarlet night]

https://bsky.app/profile/spazmantiz.bsky.social/post/3ln6cbawadc2x

Alvin (@spazmantiz.bsky.social)

Really long air vent

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[scarlet night]

why can't i upload image hello?? 😥

[scarlet night]

Is the elevator too big? let me know chat.

[scarlet night]

adding top 5 gaming tropes. pushing box around

[scarlet night]

BTS making the game logo 👀

[scarlet night]

Working on stealth mechanics. In future I'll add more behavior like only peeking trough cover for more extra spook 👀 👻

[scarlet night]

watch out for the ceiling

[thorny turtle]

it looks perfect to me. i mean, compare it to Undertales fr. this looks like a normal irl elevator

[scarlet night]

done implementing roll mechanic. might add the shadow back cause it look weird 😁

[scarlet night]

adding peek animation 🫣

[thorny turtle]

is this randomized levels? or story based linear?

[scarlet night]

is not randomly generate

this supposed to be underground facility. here is early sketch

adding grass for player to hide idk 🤷‍♂️

[thorny turtle]

ahw heck yea

[scarlet night]

sewena

[thorny turtle]

:D

[thorny turtle]

looks good!!

[scarlet night]

Seriously?? 😭

even with only collision it still need different orientation

[scarlet night]

finally done implementing enemy patrol line, player outline, and shadow.

[thorny turtle]

swag glad ur back on this proj!

[scarlet night]

yep gotta back with grind

[scarlet night]

He is an iPad kid now

trying for little makeshift gadget looks

[scarlet night]

made an update on wall visibility system. i think this is better to hide wall rather than just player outline.

[scarlet night]

Adding off-screen indicator for enemy position

[glossy lynx]

holy peak

this looks so good

[thorny turtle]

real

[scarlet night]

Push box puzzle

[scarlet night]

thanks

[scarlet night]

Got the leg and body sprites separated so animations can run independently.

[thorny turtle]

true false true

[scarlet night]

strange ball

closeup

[thorny turtle]

It's good to see you back <3

:>

[scarlet night]

Experimenting with a new tileset and techniques to capture a bunker vibe, using caves and tunnels as the entry.

[scarlet night]

Just finished setting up camera management
If the room fits inside the viewport, the camera stays static.
Originally, I planned to handle this with collisions, but using tilemap custom data turned out to be way cleaner (and keeps the node tree uncluttered 😄).

[scarlet night]

Added new mechanic for undiscovered area/room

[ocean ocean]

I like the cave sprites. Instead of the walls disappearing and reappearing you could fade out their alpha closer to the player for a smoother effect.

[scarlet night]

I might try that later

[scarlet night]

Tinkering with color correction and dirtying up the floor.

[scarlet night]

Updating room management system, I took different approach because old one is too resource demanding (for my 2015 ThinkPad). but still can't figuring out the wall part 😄

[scarlet night]

MORE BLOOD 🩸

[thorny turtle]

cool!!

[scarlet night]

bloody

[scarlet night]

doing some level design

[scarlet night]

Added new enemy 🐛

[scarlet night]

mold

[scarlet night]

updating layout

[scarlet night]

updating main menu add little grotesque for the background

bro i can't upload video

[scarlet night]

Playing around with steering and object pooling, I just like the feel of satisfaction when you collect orbs after defeating enemies in God of War. I might use that for the currency purpose.

[scarlet night]

hide wall if room is too small

[prime void]

Is this like 2.5d ... or full 3d.? Or both (like octopath traveler)? Cool project

(Or inverse octopath)

[scarlet night]

it's fully 2D sprites

[scarlet night]

updating hud and character design

[prime void]

That's awesome.

Are you creating the 8 direction character sprite renders yourself?

If yes... what sort of pipeline are you using to partially or significantly automate the process?

Like miximo to blender to render or so forth?

Looks really good

[scarlet night]

i use script to render character in blender by rotating camera and merge them into texture atlas.

Also same with wall i create side, corner and cross wall positioned them accordingly. I use mixamo in some of animation.

[scarlet night]

adding blood drip for feedback. still making changes to this

[scarlet night]

might add little bit of gambling ngl

[scarlet night]

update on vending machine

[scarlet night]

with in-game prop

[slow merlin]

Any itch page or blog or other place to follow, other than here?

[scarlet night]

omg hey Xan. currently there is no itch page. but i'm on bluesky and twitter with same username
https://bsky.app/profile/spazmantiz.bsky.social

Alvin (@spazmantiz.bsky.social)

Working on BUNKT

Bluesky

[scarlet night]

Have you ever working with publisher? I want to ask you about in dm.

[slow merlin]

Unfortunately not directly, but I have some experience with business deals in general, so I can maybe help a bit still, as long as you double check whatever I tell you. My DMs are open at any moment!

[scarlet night]

testing cutscene with command pattern

[scarlet night]

got dialogue working

[nocturne bay]

this was eery

looks really cool

[scarlet night]

thanks

[scarlet night]

adding cracked glass vfx.

[scarlet night]

experimenting with tilt shifting

[prime void]

that looks awesome.. you do like a blur above and below a bit too, eh?

[scarlet night]

yeah top and bottom

adding attack variation and item shortcut

[scarlet night]

adding damage number and auto aim

[nocturne bay]

looks awesome

[scarlet night]

thanks

testing out minimap hud

[ripe comet]

Great stuff!

[lost elm]

Woah dude, how do you make art like this? It looks stunning

[scarlet night]

there is nothing special i just use color correction and limit sprite color with palette.

[ripe comet]

Sounds like pure magic

[scarlet night]

healing with stimpak

[ripe comet]

Man, I'd love to playtest this, let us know when that happens

[scarlet night]

Soon, if I get funding, it will be faster 😄. I still need to make more in-game content.

[scarlet night]

been thinking turning the game into dungeon crawler with random map generation. feel like it will deliver more content much faster there also a good article discussing about algorithm
https://robertheaton.com/2018/12/17/wavefunction-collapse-algorithm/

[scarlet night]

testing level generation

[slow merlin]

I don't have experience making that type of game, but I have experience in general, and while of course procgen helps lengthen the lifetime of a game, it's much harder to control.
The recommended approach is to make a bunch of levels by hand, make sure they're fun and to playtest them, iterate on them, and only once you have a chunk of interesting encounters, weapons, and situations, should you think about which parts can be abstracted away and randomized.
This looks extremely cool, but maybe getting in that too early might render game design harder

Again I don't have direct experience, I'm just relating what I heard from other gamedevs; you do you.

[scarlet night]

Yeah quality of the level certainly much be much lower but I'm not fully commit yet.

[scarlet night]

this maybe the way to have more control of the level design.

[scarlet night]

level gen update. now i have data on each room with rect size and everything now i just need to figured out how to put pre-made level on to the scene.

I'm using BSP algorithm for anyone that want to learn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_space_partitioning

[nocturne bay]

cool stuff

[scarlet night]

Incorporating wall. some corner wall is missing but it's improvement.

I just realized start is always at top idk if that's good or not 😂 . i guess it's nature of binary tree

[potent rain]

you could just rotate the whole thing if thats possible lol

looks good tho

[scarlet night]

updated version with fix corner gap

[scarlet night]

i just pick random room as starting point

[scarlet night]

wall visibility working now. just need to setup enemy and loot

[scarlet night]

enemy working now

[scarlet night]

currently working on designing loot table using spreadsheet 📑. the more you descend through level the better the loot kinda deal 😄

[scarlet night]

for now, just populate level with simple loot generation.

[scarlet night]

add reveal area in minimap

[scarlet night]

adding seed feature. so far so good, godot already seed feature in their RandomNumberGenerator class which make everything easier .

[scarlet night]

level generation now is more predictable down to the debris with exact same location 💀.

enemy spawn position still not following seed

to give more challenge

[nocturne bay]

awesome stuff nice to see so much progress

[scarlet night]

thanks, reducing scope to pcg definitely made development much faster. and now i know what i'm doing to do with the game.

if you fan of dungeon crawler definitely tune in 😄

[nocturne bay]

ya once u launch a steam page or whatever i'll wishlist

[scarlet night]

add theme to floor level

basically just like stardew valley version of mines theme depend of depth of level

what type of loot and enemy spawn at certain level

[ripe comet]

I'm actually super excited for this one!

[scarlet night]

working on level spritesheet adding more theme later

I'm targeting 5-10 themes? the deeper you go the more dark/grotesque level be.

this shouldn't take long. I'll update list soon.

[scarlet night]

i think much for now 😅

[nocturne bay]

really cool

are you making these walls in blender and then exporting as an image?

[scarlet night]

yes

final floor look hard ngl

[scarlet night]

making resource spawn throughout level that player can harvest.

[ripe comet]

Hype!

[scarlet night]

I'm posting update on official discord server as well 😄

[ripe comet]

Do we have a link? 🙂

[scarlet night]

https://discord.com/channels/1235157165589794909/1453144354343620801

[ripe comet]

Hmm, got it, I'm on both as well, haha

[scarlet night]

nice 😄

do you guy like enemy is moving when player is also moving? just like good ol Rogue.

[ripe comet]

So its "real time" turn based?

[nocturne bay]

my personal preference is ARPG type thing

[scarlet night]

turn based only when player is range of enemy. it give player time whether player want to engage or not because attacking will require stamina so you want to cooldown.

I'm really trying to release vertical slice as soon as possible but idk if it's ok for game impression 😄. I'm using that build also for pitching to publisher. does itch have unlisted link?

[scarlet night]

BUNKT

[exotic leaf]

new name?

[scarlet night]

yep, to better fit the game’s theme underground bunker.

[slow merlin]

neat title

[scarlet night]

tackling more important thing for now. traversing system now working you go trough this hatch spawn opposite location from your spawn. you can't go back up for now.

I added back sway grass 😄

[scarlet night]

I have reason to use this old assets now 😆

maybe elevator accessible for every multiples of 10 like 10, 20, 30 etc so you can go back up to manage resource.

[scarlet night]

testing resource gathering with egg

[scarlet night]

I’ve been scratching my head trying to figure out how to scatter vegetation and other objects I want to “paint” on the map. Turns out you can use Godot’s built-in noise generator. I can rest now 😄. The class actually has some really handy properties, like noise type and more.

Aside from performance improvements (I’m still learning), this is how I’m generating resources for now.

Oh boy, using noise is so much more natural and headache-free. I don’t know what I was thinking before. Before this, I was just using randf() on every single cell 😂

[scarlet night]

new cursor

I was thinking this just better indicator where your action is placed. yes this is inspired by stardew valley 🤭

I made isometric tilemap template if you want to check them out
https://github.com/alvinseptiano/isometric-tilemap-template

idk if discord compress image

[scarlet night]

trying to align scene and tilemap cell. scene collection is just hard for me to make it interact with code or i just don't know how to do it.

I don't know why instanced scene keep colliding with used cell even though i already use map_to_local and check for active cell with get_cell_source_id.

and its clearly work because it spawn where player stand. and when i click cell it deleted both grass and egg 🤦‍♂️ it drives me insane

[slow merlin]

Is your tilemap not at (0,0) maybe?

[scarlet night]

no everything is at Vec 0 for now i just skip if node exist. it might spawn less than data table intended but idk what else todo 😄

func _is_node_exist_at(cell: Vector2i) -> bool:
    for child in get_children():
        if local_to_map(child.global_position) == cell:
            return true
    return false

i guess this is it for now i want to move on for something else

[scarlet night]

new resource and new cursor finally implemented

[scarlet night]

update grass color to match palette

[scarlet night]

for anyone wondering i use this awesome color palette
https://lospec.com/palette-list/waldgeist

[scarlet night]

might release demo this month 👀

This will basically be a vertical slice that shows my vision for the game, and I’ll need yall peeps input. I’m also preparing a GDD so everything is clearly structured. It will come together with a YouTube trailer.

[scarlet night]

adding herb resource that will help player regenerate stamina/health

[scarlet night]

implementing firecamp where the player is rest to recover stamina

when you trying to build firecamp there will be grid to mark desired spot with grid like this. but I haven't implement this yet.

[scarlet night]

bonfire will be use for saving point and resting area. i set it up so i will spawn randomly in each level once.

[scarlet night]

making turret. your companion during enemy wave

I want to try sprite stacking because current one is too stiff for my liking which only 8 direction. but so far don't quite like with result maybe I'm doing it wrong idk I'll update later.

[scarlet night]

testing sprite stacking

[scarlet night]

updated color and scale

[scarlet night]

in-game

I'm quite happy with result even though original design is more detail.

[scarlet night]

testing turret