Manually placing buildings for my city level felt like a lot of work so I created a custom editor instead which can randomly place them for me. Now I smash "Randomize Seed" until I get a layout I'm happy with #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Here's a really minor update to improve the aiming and lock-on targets. It's much less jarring than the earlier prototype version #gamedev #indiedev

Here is the missile system in my #indiegame with added missile trails and explosion effects #gamedev #indiedev

It's been a while since I posted about my #indiegame but here is a work in progress for target lock for missiles (complete with debug overlays so you can see what is happening) #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

Getting the enemy movement to work in 3D space went pretty smoothly. A couple of funky glitches in certain scenarios but this is probably good enough to start bringing into the game #gamedev

Now I have multiple behaviours combined, including obstacle avoidance, it's time to get this running with full 3D movement #gamedev

Did a bit of work on nearby object detection this evening, should just need to calculate some some steering forces and the enemy should be able to *attempt* to avoid other obstacles in front of it

Here is an example of pursuit, wall avoidance, and wander behaviours combined. Different behaviours have different priorities so, for example, enemies will try to avoid crashing into walls above all else. Next I need to add avoiding crashing into the player or other enemies #gamedev

This morning while doing something completely unrelated (sitting in my dentists waiting room), I had a theory about what was going wrong with the wander behaviour and now I've got an initial version. Needs a lot of refinement but happy to be at this stage #gamedev

Ah yes, the exact enemy behaviour I was looking for #gamedev

The enemy AI movement behaviors were a pain to work on with the third person view and steering controls in my game so I created a separate scene as a test bed to provide a better view to observe the enemy behaviour. Here they are plotting a basic intercept path to the player #gamedev

The math primer by itself was an excellent refresher on topics I hadn’t thought much about in years

I’ve had this book on my shelf for years and I’ve skimmed it periodically. Now that I’m actually doing some #gamedev this is proving to be a fantastic resource

Adding some bullet impact effects this evening #gamedev

I had been considering adding a sideways "dodge" movement to avoid incoming projectiles. But it might be best if I stopped pissing about with random stuff and actually implemented something to shoot those projectiles at the player and *then* decide if this is fun to have

One of my favourite things about #gamedev is my ability to accidentally create effects in minutes. If I intentionally tried to do this I would probably require 3 evenings work and a bottle of wine

Adding some HUD elements and a weapon power/recharge mechanic to my game this evening