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Ryan Miller

@ryanmiller.ca

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Game Development Generalist Dad from Toronto 🎮 Technical Artist by day 🧑‍🎨💻 Managing Director of @ontariogametesters.com and very slow indie-dev after hours 🐌 ryanmiller.ca he/him

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Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 1h

I think you’re probably right. It was one of my favourite games this year, it’s just so charming!

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 2h

Have you played Witch Spring R? I really liked it's handling of turn order and speed. Getting extra turns feels so good.

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 2h

That sounds like a good way to do it! I was just struggling with that kind turn order stuff this morning and ended up using a gauge system because it was the only way I could think to make it dynamically update if speed changes in combat.

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 2h

Looks pretty cool! 4v4 invites a lot of strategy.

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 2h

BEANS

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 2h

Oh yeah definitely. I'd want to go into a game jam with a skeleton of a system like this already in place. In fact...that might be my motivation here. Were you doing local multiplayer or going into the nonsense that is online?

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 2h

My preference forever seems to be:
- Desktop = Windows
- Handheld = Linux
- Laptop = MacOS

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 2h

Sorry, the hardest part SO FAR! I'm sure worse things are ahead hahahahahah

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 2h

The hardest part has been getting the speed -> turn order thing working. I wanted a system where if you have 10 speed and the enemy has 5, you get 2 turns for their 1. That's easy-ish, but when you have 10 speed and they have 7 it gets a bit tougher.

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 2h

Making a turn based RPG battle system today. I've never made one more simple than just back and forth attack/health turns and wanted to give it a shot!! It's just text so far but it supports multiple combatants, turn order/amount from speed, and even a few enemy AI profiles.

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Will Perkins @williamhperkins.bsky.social · 1d

Flow (2024)

Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 1d

the future anarchists want

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 5d

Installing windows fresh on a OnexPlayer device is a very bad time. Otherwise love this thing. Looks like I’m sticking to Bazzite.

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 6d

Sure is. Careful or you’ll get me explaining the whole scheme.

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 6d

I can’t think of anything better to do on a holiday apparently

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 10d

My implementation has a big if statement for each corner 😓 but smarter people than I have used bitmasking to do this. Performance is more than fine with my way so I'm happy to leave it.

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 10d

There are a lot of guides online, I wrote this years ago www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/... which is a little high level (no code). Each tile is 4 tiles and the child corners get their mesh swapped/rotated based on neighbours.

Creating a Dynamic Tile System

What is a dynamic tile system, what solutions exist, and why did we create our own custom solution for Fossil Hunters? I explain the thinking behind our choices and detail our unique approach.

www.gamedeveloper.com

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 10d

Realized today that it would be kind of trivial to make the tile editor work at runtime, so I did that. Should I do a level editor or is this just a horrible distraction??? Yes!!

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 14d

Uhh wow that's pretty cool! And the cassette player mode??? 🤯

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 14d

lol at the ferrite-less cores!! Wow.

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 14d

"Ryan are you going to patch all your game jam games on your itch page?"

Uh, look over there - a bear!

**runs away**

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 14d

Then of course I thought, oh, I need to patch Fossil Hunters too! But wait.. it was made with Unity 5.6.7 -- arguably the best Unity version of all time 🤣

So whatever, it's safe, it was always safe. Check it out too, why don't ya:

store.steampowered.com/app/690150/F...

Save 50% on Fossil Hunters on Steam

A casual action-adventure game about digging for fossils and building your own dinosaurs.

store.steampowered.com

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 14d

Just patched Fire Tonight on Windows + MacOS to address the recent Unity vulnerability, which helped me remember about this game I made with Reptoid Games back in 2021! It still holds up as a great short+sweet little thing, and it's on sale for almost free.

store.steampowered.com/app/1188900/...

Save 80% on Fire Tonight on Steam

A narrative puzzle game about two people trying to find their way back together in a city on fire.

store.steampowered.com

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Tuatara @tuataragames.com · 24d

By baking data directly into a texture, through different channels, you can drive position, scale, and rotation of other elements, unlocking flexible, procedural control for unique effects with optimized performance #UnrealEngine #GameDev #VFX #RealtimeVFX

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🌛Caio Santos Art🌜 @blacksalander.bsky.social · Sep 11

A little rest for Shakra and Hornet

the hardest part of Silksong is deciding if I draw or play

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · Sep 2

I think indie studios wish that too, but it's hard to get dev kits right now unfortunately. I'm sure it'll come eventually!