CloudyFocus · Wishlist Adamant Heart!

My very first indie game now has a name AND a Steam page! If you like Megaman Legends, make sure to wishlist Adamant Heart! store.steampowered.com/app/4332020/Ad… It's coming together, little by little. #indiegame #megamanlegends #indiedev

Added some decent menus, finally. Took a lot of inspiration from BotW, honestly. Going for as much usability as possible and those were the best, in my opinion. Thoughts on a Megaman+Zelda? #gamedev #indiegame #megamanlegends #adamantheart

@xPaxion They are all pixelart, at exactly 32px per meter. They're done by hand, with maybe a bit of semitransparent brushes. I don't consider myself a great pixel artist though:

@iamcloudyfocus Reminds of Phantasy Star Online. How did you make such polished ground textures?

A small followup: managed to implement looking at targets directly! It's a cute little detail. Also made a custom model for the grenade launcher and improved the kaboom. #gamedev #indiedev #megamanlegends #adamantheart

@GobaDev Thanks for the advice! I mostly guessed that it’s cutom tracks in Blender (Godot still sucks for posing), then importing and piecing together a scene. Still, it feels so… clunky. Feels like interactions between characters is hard.

@iamcloudyfocus for most cutscenes though, I animate them entirely in blender and do all camera direction and stuff bespoke in a Unity Timeline track. never really thought I needed a more cheap approach but it definitely saves time at the cost of quality

Nothing super crazy, but I finally wrote my own sequencer system so I can make stuff like this, where it's *like* a cutscene without being fully hand-animated, much faster. Hopefully this means more side content in general 🤞 because now it's a lot cheaper to produce

@BenjiGameDev I mean, Pokemon is the worst franchise to measure on games alone. They make the bucks from merchandising and even TCG.

Pokopia is currently the highest rated Pokemon game of all time

my understanding of relative franchise popularity is way off

@TMoruma Not yet, since it's a hobby project on my free time. I'll need one if it gets serious, eventually!

@iamcloudyfocus Do you have a music composer? i got very interested!

Finished a long stretch with UI for saving/loading, as well as area titles. Now back to the fun stuff: a grenade weapon! Still working on making them throwable while moving. #gamedev #indiegame #megamanlegends #adamantheart

@literally66561 Totally. This train runs on nostalgia!

@iamcloudyfocus Literally just Mega Man Legends

@BilsuArt Always a treat watching these! For the ledge climbing, why don't you use a vertical raycast? You could check for ground to ensure there is a platform in front to climb onto. Also, I'd suggest reorienting the camera when grabbing so you're facing the ledge.

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By the way, this is the aforementioned bench. Koti will save your game, give you tips, and somehow bring all your weapons and tools into the deepest ruins.

I'm debating whether to allow switching your 3 active weapons at any time inside a dungeon, or only at benches. The benches are fairly common and are also save points, though. Thoughts? #gamedev #indiegame #megamanlegends #adamantheart

@ArodoraaLP Loving the gremlin energy. :>

Lil' D thinks and feels now #godot #lowpoly #solodev #gamedev #indiedev #animation #3danimation

@ArthurVyater Loving to see some expressiveness! Is she going to be mute throughout the game, or will we have some lines from her?

inside of you there are two wolves

@BilsuArt @GobaDev Key here is no financial factor. People say 'make small games' so they make a living. For Trinity and Adamant Heart, we're doing it for love so maybe the most important thing is to not go crazy with scope.

@BilsuArt Depends how big Trinity 64 will be. A first game with limited scope, then an Act 2 or something with a more refined experience. Like the child part of OoT. Maybe @GobaDev can say about his experience with an Act 1?

Should I pursue releasing a smaller game(s) before Trinity 64 as my first game for more experience at the risk of not having passion for it? Also, financial success of Trinity 64 isn’t a factor.

@loopinears23107 It’s fine. MML did have transitions but they are very fast. Given I started 3D from zero back in August, the animations are not the best, and the idea is to eventually go back and refine it up. Still, I’m cherry picking the best and updating the bad from MML.

@iamcloudyfocus Hi, I don't want to be that person to provide unwelcome feedback, but every time I see this game I wonder if you've ever tried disabling interpolation between animation states? Legends didn't have that, for example coming to a stop from running was an instant change. Just an idea

When you try to run away from a melee boss, and turns out it's deadlier from a distance. #gamedev #indiegame #megamanlegends #adamantheart

@Brentleworth I’ll add it to the list. I’m still getting ideas for minor upgrades you can mix and match, like faster recovery, attract pickups... A small movement boost could be one of them.

@iamcloudyfocus It could always be an upgrade to the boots later to get faster movement! :D

@FurretFunky Oh, it was used. Blew through all the ammo… but it was still standing.

@iamcloudyfocus why is whatever the character name is not just using the MUCH LARGER GUN on the other arm to just shoot a hole through that thing

@Brentleworth Also, worth noting this is the tutorial boss. It’s supposed to be easy, hahah.

@iamcloudyfocus The only thing I'd wish for is like 10% faster overall speed of everything. I know it's very much matching Megaman Legends speed but it'd be neat to probably be just a smidge faster. Maybe a gameplay speed toggle? :D Love it still