Battles and story segments are nearing (early) release readiness! As is the rest of the game.
I've got a basic StoryEvent system working pretty well for conversations! StoryEvent is a simple chainable event that can be triggered by time, players, or whatever I need to set it off later. There wil...
I'm trying to get a public demo of JARPUG out within the next few months. That means it's time to start making content! I've done a lot of art and level production pipeline work. It's fun and I'm feeling like I'm ready to go full speed on this thing. Hopefully that pans out.
The holidays are a rough time for work. Weddings, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years: it's been a travelsome couple of months. It's been a delightful couple of months.
The time was sparse on devlogs, but not on dev.
Pug can now pick up items from contai...
I started this milestone just wanting one thing: to put a scarf on a pug.
I did it.
Playing with cloth in Unity, and making it performant, took some learning but is easy to get quick at. In Unity, cheap cloth simulation requires that you manually pick a few capsule or sphere colliders for your...
"September" Devlog. Ideally this would go up nearer the end of September than the middle of October. SEPTOBER IT IS. I was supposed to buckle down and work on JARPUG's level editor. And I did!
But my game design and development workflow changed. My todo list got fat.
This month I worked on a lot of UI and stat storing stuff. So it was a kinda rough month!
JARPUG needs a sturdy foundation of numbers and stats to play well, and it needs plenty of UI, too! But I’ll try to share that schedule space with something that’s a bit more fun to work on in the future, because ouch.
I wanted a more hand-drawn style for the battle UI. That meant making a font out of my own handwriting, making hand-drawn nine-part button art, and implementing a wobbly line renderer!
This month I wanted to ensure that JARPUG’s battle mode worked well for multiple player characters. That required work on a few different things.
Like JARPUG / PUGJAR, this brave dog can shift between two different stances, wielding a car b...
Oh, first blog post! This is about my dev work on JARPUG. JARPUG is a JRPG starring a pug with a jar on its head, made for VR. Here’s some old footage from LVLUP Expo in early May:
That expo served as an excellent deadline for focusing on controls and gameplay after piddling ar...