Byteden Games

So I recently did a bunch of stuff, in addition to a game jam. I’ll upload what I made soon. In the meantime, I got my particle system working both on web (ES 2.0) and the pc (opengl 4.3).

• Started work on general tweening system.
• Work on animation of imgui windows.

• Started work on tutorial/dialogue system that uses lua, for extensibility.
• Completed correct color rendering for various tilesets loaded in with LDTK.

Recently completed a game jam! Here’s the game: https://tommyv2.itch.io/autorock-roulette
Some recent progress on my personal projects:

• LDTK tileset rule loading for better looking walls and environments

• Added animated transitions for when there are multiple entites on a map.
  

• Frustrated with the limited time I have (I translate multiple webnovel titles daily from Korean to English on a daily basis) to program, I took it upon myself today (Sunday) to complete a game in a day. Well, I failed to do that, mostly because I made the scope a bit too big and I got hung over some UI tweaking (making context menus disappear after mouse moves out of it in IMGUI is hard).
• I’ve got some basic UI together.
• Notable new things I’ve done include using font awesome icons, image rendering within the IMGUI context with animations, playing some sound effects and using some new gui elements I haven’t tried before such as the collapsing header.
• I worked a total of maybe 4-5 hours on this, but that wasn’t enough for me to get a basic game loop going, unfortunately. Perhaps I’ll return to this particular project in the future.
• At least I know to keep the games I want to make in short burts even shorter than I think is proper.

• Added a log window where the majority of the colony’s story will be visible.
  

• Added game over condition.
  

• Farm plot designation by mouse drag.
• These need to be actually built by the colonists (TBC)
  

• Added mouse drag events to be used later for placing objects and buildings, among other things
• An input mode to indicate what is being input through the mouse drag

• Now creatures can get hungry/thirsty and will die if they reach a certain limit.

• Added some placeholder objects to the environment.
• These objects can be inspected now.
  

• Added rocks to the map.
  

• Trying to come up with some intersting stories that can be used as a basis for gameplay.

Sample Story 1: The Serial Killer Colonist

A team of settlers embark on a remote region and start to forage and farm for food to survive. They establish farm plots and plant seeds, watering the soil from water taken from ponds. It turns out, however, that there is a serial killer in their midst who, unbeknownst to everyone else, slowly begins to kill off the colony. He has a signature–he always leaves some kind of fruit or grain behind in the mouths of the dead. Those taken by surprise are not able to react or really defend themselves. The colonists grow terrified, and going about their daily tasks begins to be a challenge. They continue to die out. Though there is a lot of grains and fruits to be harvested, no one but the serial killer remains to do so. He hides the bodies in a certain room and locks the door. He also puts aside trophies–body parts–for his collection. Sometimes he will look at them to remind himself of his achievements. He takes over the colony alone and, feeding on the harvested food, waits for new people to join the colony, at which point he pretends to be a law-abiding citizen and welcomes them in, biding his time until he can strike again without danger to himself…

Sample Story 2: Ghosts in the Soil

Colonists must collect seeds from the environment to start planting something, since they have nothing with them due to a recent bandit raid. They start walking around and exploring. This plain is a big place, and there’s even a source of fresh water, in the form of a pond. The ground here seems fertile. There are curious mounds in the soil that appear to be graves of some sort–perhaps, long ago, someone actually occupied these lands. What could have happened to them, that they abandoned this seemingly fertile place? As the colony gets under way, with farm plots being arranged and the rocks and debris cleared out of the way, the colonists begin to notice something strange. There are times when something white and ephemeral glimmers in the air in unexpected places, and multiple colonists report having fitful sleep and nightmares. It seems they are not alone here. They start writing down what they have seen on the walls and on parchment, as they value historical records and are interested to see what this new phenomenon may lead. The happiness level of the colonists drops considerably. They no longer see this place as the blessing they once did. Nothing sinister seems to happen as of yet, but these ghostly beings give the impression that they are watching and waiting.

• Water evaporating?
  

• More work on cellular automata water.
• Started baseline brainstorming of procedural stories that could be told with this farming sim.

• Line of sight integrated into game.
  

• Finished porting line of sight code from here
• Now it needs to be tested, along with cellular automata code.
• Initial testing of GOAP code complete. This will need to be used later when actual farming AI is needed

• Added pond generation back in.
• Integrated cellular automata system, which will need to be tested.

• Starting work on simple farming prototype.

• Website updates have been slow.
• Completed combat prototype and sent it off in an email to Jonas Tyroller, hoping it will get reviewed. Not much hope though, given how clunky it is.
• Added an itch.io page. Not much enthusiasm about decorating and all that, however.
• Added the game zip to the games section of the site.
• Screenshot:
  

• Mapped possible counter moves to each attack
• Data structure that serves as a record of an action, as well as a possible counter to that action (which can be fumbled)

• Removed stance
• Created more streamlined system for battle flow (first steps to make this into a real-time sim)
• Added event structures for system interaction
• Added breakable body part damage tracking
• Must add two-way combat interactions now

• Bug fixing.
• Made it so specific body parts are used for specific actions
• Removed stance (for now)

• Created basic event queue structure.
• Refined some status messages.
• Added vital body parts such as arteries, internal organs, and eyes
• Made window resizable
  

Made it so “NONE” was not being diplayed as a body part. Refactored some code. Gave individual body parts degrees of pain, and added a timer to each combat state modifier (such as “unable to breathe.”)

JSON processing is a lot less intuitive and slower than just using maps and vectors and the like. Going is slow.

Finished initial setup of json files for a combat system. Now to apply them to the actual game!

Started filling out json files as the data needed for the branching combat scenarios is best described in that way.

• Some bug fixing.
• This talk by Tarn Adams was very insightful regarding how to mesh systems together to create a story generation effect and make system interactions meaningful: (https://youtu.be/snbt0PxRvpk?si=WJn3YZINEwqjAR3C)

• Tried a little combat text generation.
• Ported over some Java cellular automata code for smoke, water, etc. in a 2D grid.

Some more planning into combat sequences.

A bit more planning into what goes into a combat system that has no hitpoints.

Working on combat slice.

Side project

Creating a combat slice for the bear game. Started by adding body parts, basic body parts linking, and some color-coding for text messages.

Side project

Bears can now create trophies randomly on the map.

Fixed issue with buttons that have the same name refusing to respond.

Side project

• A bear fetches wood, then builds a table on the map.

Side project

• Ironing out bugs in task queueing.

Side project

• Working on building task system to allow fetch + task queueing.

Side project

• Some state editing to allow bears to become inspired.

Added capability to disable buttons.

• Worked on permanent upgrade screen functionality.
• Mingw linker is painfully slow on Windows. Trying to work out a way to switch over to ld.

Implemented some shop functionality.

Shop - buy random item button functionality.

• more work on shop screen.

• Added buttons and tabs for the shop menu.

Side project:

• Refactored entity creation
• Item fetching

Shop screen planned out (in a rudimentary way). Added shop button on the top right of the screen.

• More planning.
• Added timer to wait for a short moment before spawning the next wave.

(Roughly) Planned out shop screen progression.