castor-games.bsky.social
An aspiring solo game developer.
https://castor-games.itch.io
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Getting Started
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Thank you! :) I'm still mostly trying things out and building tools before I start making the game for real, but it's slowly coming together.
Godot has great support for pathfinding, you should look into it at some point, it could be very useful in your game as well.
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Bugs are slowly piling up, so I'll probably focus on clearing them up throughout the next week, before adding any new features. :D
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Static (permanent) objects are baked into the navigation mesh to help with pathfinding, while fully-destructible objects such as barrels are not. These will use local avoidance until destroyed.
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Yup. I'm making it so you can have one melee weapon and one ranged weapon equipped at the same time, and then use the one you want based on enemy distance.
It seems a lot more fun this way. :)
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Thanks, following! :D I also like the idea of a goblin running a shop, so you still deserve a lot of credit.
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Nice. :) I like the speech bubble because it's basically them saying the spell.
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Really cool. I like the art style in general. :) Looking forward to seeing more.
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Enemy navigation was a real pain, had to rewrite it multiple times. It works great with standard pathfinding, but I can't get mutual enemy avoidance to work so I'm implementing a custom solution with raytracing.
However, I'm learning a lot, and this early prototype is already kinda fun to play. :)
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Thank you! :) I still just have a rough vision of what the game will be, focusing more on building tools and learning Godot & C#, but it will be an RPG with precise realtime combat and multiple companions, which is why I need good pathfinding.
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Navigation region is built dynamically by the Level generator. This took some tinkering, but works great, and will enable smart navigation for any generated level.
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That's true. Maybe do an experiment where the gap is ~2px, but instead of this strong dark color make it based on the tile pixels, darkened/lightened by some amount.
Maybe darken the first pixel and lighten the second so it gets that 3D groove look of tile cards placed next to each other.
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I vote no grid, or maybe just a 1px grid that's semi-transparent.
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The game is absolutely beautiful, I really love the art style.
I did a quick playthrough of the demo, some parts are great, some need more work, but I'll probably play it again when the new demo comes out and give more detailed feedback then.
Keep it up! :)
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Happy birthday!
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Love the style, seems so relaxing. Looking forward to trying it. :)
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Time well spent! :)
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Looks amazing. 🙌
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I love the style, this looks beautiful. :)
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Nice, thanks!
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Thank you! :)
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A dungeon crawler to start with, but deeply atmospheric and with some unique mechanics. I think it's a good first choice because most learning resources are geared towards 2D RPGs.
I also have some strong ideas for a story driven adventure game, but that will come later.
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Thank you. :)
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This looks really cool! :)
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Thank you, best of luck to you too! :)
I started with this, and it really helped me to understand the basics of Godot: www.youtube.com/@dev-worm