Ben Hickling // MNKY
Artist / Game Dev / Current project: Ex-Zodiac (out in early access now!) - store.steampowered.com/app/1249480/ExZodiac/
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- I didn't know grackles existed until I went to Texas two years ago. My wife and I both thought a car alarm was going off until we realised it was coming from one of those
- The issue with the mac build was due to the custom build I was using. The only reason I was using a custom build was because the devs removed the rotation_degrees property and all of my animations used it, so I had to create a custom build where that property was still available
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View full threadI still don't fully understand why they removed the rotation_degrees property from the editor. They said it was because we using radians was fine, but then they gave into demands asking for degrees to be supported again-
- This was done via automatic conversation in the interface, but in the code you could still directly set the rotation_degrees property? It made no sense, and I often feel the programmers on these open source projects just force their opinion on others because they think they know best
- Eventually I figured I'd try and do something about it. I decided to ask chatGPT if it could write a python script to fix my files. I showed it the format and explained what I needed. Thankfully I only needed to tweak it once and it did the job, completely fixing my issue
- So now I'm finally able to use the regular builds without any weird custom modifications, which makes my life a lot less stressful when it comes to releasing new builds of the game
- Unfortunately the 3.x to 4.x convertor didn't take into account the rotation_degrees animation tracks. The devs had removed the property, and now the only publicly available rotation property was one called "rotation" but this was technically in radians, but via the editor it was in degrees
- So my animation tracks were in degrees, but the editor wanted radians, even though it appeard to accept degrees, but not via the animation tracks (it's messy, and stupid, and unnecessary)
- Good news, she fixed the MacOS build, so now all 2.3% of you can finally enjoy the latest stage update! 🐒 store.steampowered.com/app/1249480/...
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- It should work, it was a custom build that was the issue
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- Sorry, no can do
- just a reminder that this actually exists.
- 💚NOW AVAILABLE💚 GIMMICK! Official Arranged Soundtrack is out on Bandcamp! Listen to the full album featuring brand new arrangements from Masashi Kageyama & his legendary Brave Wave colleagues! 🌟 💫 Art by Pokémon & Mega Man artist @arigamegamix.bsky.social 🎵 bravewave.bandcamp.com/album/gimmic...
- Still waiting for the Exact OST to get ripped/released
- Almost there...
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- Sent a DM
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- Yeah, I can send you the shader code if you like?
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- Pretty much, I basically apply a dithered pattern to the areas that are in shadow. It used to be a lot more complicated, thankfully an engine upgrade avoided that!
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- Nice work!
- It's that time again, and Kyuu's found herself back on the bike chasing a runaway armoured train in the latest stage - Mirage! Now is a great time to grab the game, as it's currently on sale at it's lowest discount yet (55%!) store.steampowered.com/app/1249480/... (MacOS version soon, hopefully)
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- Thanks! There's a few more to go, I want it on par with SF64's content, so I need 15 stages
- My favourite thing about doing an update for Ex-Zodiac is finding out the mac build doesn't work and having no idea why. I completely understand why other games don't bother 😬
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- Yeah, Godot. It's fine if you use the official build templates, you just export your game with a click and it's good to go. However, I had to build my own export templates as I needed to include Steam
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- The build I made is a universal one, and it worked previously. I probably just need to update everything to the latest packages before building or something finicky like that
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- Who?
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- Plot twist: these guys are depressed themselves
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- It's like a legal requirement
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- Thanks, it's mainly cus I have a bunch of kickstarter and steam early access folks waiting for the finished game 😂
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- I know 😩 still more to do, but getting closer with each update
- It's getting harder and harder to come up with interesting & fun bosses for my game. It's like I've exhausted the possibilities, which I obviously haven't, but it often feels like it. Also a lot of times an idea seems great in my head, but just doesn't work out in reality. That always sucks.
- I tend to talk myself out of writing posts like this, as I don't want people to worry about the development of the game, but I need to shout into the void sometimes.
- I'm pretty sure I have ADHD. This graph represents my productivity as I approach a deadline. I've tried and tried again, but no matter what I cannot seem to shake the way I work
- This curve is now more exponential, like, it's leaning back on itself
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- He looks like an N64 texture
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- Yes, I believe I could produce 10 games once I'm 0.1 second away from the deadline
- Due to the exponential nature, I'm fairly certain my output at 0.1 second before a deadline is the equivalent of 10 games
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- Pretty sure this is what happened to me a while back and for some reason git didn't help (can't remember why, probably my fault), and I ended up having to completely remake the first boss of my game 🙃
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- Are you having a sale soon? 😎
- Brain: you should add a Panzer Dragoon style level Me:
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- Super cute!
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- Unfortunately not, I was invited by the Godot team a year or two ago, but it was way too expensive :( I've got Discord though if you have that?
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- We've been on quite different paths, but the outcome is similar, especially what you mentioned in your latest post. Definitely interested to hear what else you have to say
- Subscribed!
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- I'm still hoping we'll one day get something like pro builder, I know CSG shapes exist, and they're a lot better now, but they still lack a lot of functionality
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- Good thing they have a killswitch
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- Do you have an idea of when your next sale will be?
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- Might be related to this? github.com/godotengine/...
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- Not worth it for a green herb
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- Burden of proof was too heavy
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- Hmm yeah makes sense. I think with the original DOOM it was probably still the right choice since it probably helped spread the game so widely, setting the series up for success, but it's hard to say what would have happened had they gone a different route
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- Yeah it's not a great take to admit you just hope people forget to refund the game if they don't like it
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- Feels like it, but I think he's serious? Maybe he's just got a weird fixation with it, I've come across people like that before
