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I don't use this site anymore, but I'm ramping up again on Nightshift, and posting progress and details on bsky if you want to follow along: littlepolygon.bsky.social

Good stream today! We got the wheels swiveling and rolling in sync with the movement! VOD link in reply. 🎶 DISCO PRINCE (Katamari Damacy) 🎶

Post-stream update: chassis cleaned-up and imported into the game engine. #ScreenShotSunday 🎵 Project A-ko Versus (1990) 🎵

Thanks to everyone who watched the stream this week! VOD: twitch.tv/videos/2516062571

Streaming modelling the last part of the Mecha Tank miniboss (the chassis): twitch.tv/tinygalactic_games

Some weekend sketchbook pages of our Player Characters.

From yesterday's stream -- a little digression on why I switched from Blender to Adobe Substance for making + baking material maps. #indiegamedev youtu.be/Pv4qRNl8mVg?si=4kGe…

That's a wrap! Thanks for watching: twitch.tv/videos/2497538432

Nightshift Galaxy devstream today in about an hour (noon PST) -- link in reply. 🎵 NEXZR 🎵

Pursuit Test #ScreenShotSaturday

Nine-Guide Scaling in da custom level editor #indiegamedev

Small quality-of-life improvement in the level editor -- surface styles are now propagated when extruding/bridging/subdividing new geo. #indiegamedev #screenshotsaturday

Scaffold Stylization update -- I'm not just texturing quads, but spawning "panel" meshes and using planar boolean-cuts to trim them to fit, form nice corner-joins, etc. #indiegamedev

I now have the beginning of a surface-style inspector in my level editor, and all it took was a mere 1,000 lines of code 😭

Apologies 🙏 There was no stream last week for a wedding, and no stream this week because I have another commitment. I'm going to try and plan things out more so that we can get back on a regular schedule next week.

Sorry, no stream today, just debugging which doesn't make for good theater, haha. Here's some behind the scenes stuff, though: I mathed-out "insetting" the links between navigation volumes, so that pathfinding units don't "cut corners" all the time. #indiegamedev

Mathy followup -- Decomposition isn't the only way to extract convex features from geometry -- another is Reparameterization. E.g. for spline-regions I do navigation in a "locally convex" coord-space using the distance-along-spline and offset-from-closest-point. #indiegamedev

I'm blogging again, baby! Breakdown of the motivations and inspirations for my new level editor, Scaffold: blog.littlepolygon.com/posts… #IndieGameDev

Update from yesterday's stream -- the Scaffold level editor is now generating nav-data for AI-pathfinding in addition to blockout wall collision. #screenshotsaturday