Looking Back on September

Hi friends, I hope you had a great week!

To start off, I wanted to reflect back on September a bit.

At the start of the month, I challenged myself : I’d be gamedev’in 10 hours a week and releasing a micro game every month. Well, so far so good! In September I released a micro platformer , and I even released a new game this week!
To be fair, the scope of both these games is incredibly small, but they got me started. With 3 weeks to go in October, I’ll aim for a little bit bigger scope - in the form of a multiplayer game.

This week though, I didn’t do much game development. It was still a pretty productive week. Let’s dive in!

loupyestu

I released loupyestu, the puzzle game I was working on, on itch.io. Here is the page if you want to try it:

The first 3 levels are tutorials, while the last 2 are a bit more puzzly. Nothing crazy though, I found very difficult to come out with good puzzles. First I’m not a big puzzle player, and the set of mechanism I added is a bit simplistic.

Anyway, here’s what the todo list looked like at the end:

• Turn based actions
• Wolf pathfinding
• Loose condition
• Obstacles
• Door
• Opening the door with Wolf -> Loose as well
• Hunter kills wolf
• Transitions
• Gramgram can be eaten by the wolf, which gives us a little more time to escape
• CI/CD
• Better indication that we need to kill the wolf before escaping
• Sound effect
• Win screen
• Plate to open locked door
• 5 levels
• Menu
• Options
• Save
• In game menu
• Better death animation

As you can see, I didn’t add menus and saves. That’s because I already added them to my other project of this week:

godot starting template

I started working on a template for all my games. It’s open source, and you can find it here: https://gitlab.com/thibaudio/godot_game_template . There’s still a lot missing, but I’m planning to add more features while I’m building new games.

rust-nested-windows-manager

Another project I started this week was a custom window manager, inspired by the one Kebabskal built.
The goal is to be able to tag a window, for example godot, and have it handle by the window manager. Then it will just stacked all the tagged window in a dedicated portion of my screen. It’s in rust and not finished at all, but you can still check it out here: https://github.com/thibaudio/rust-nested-window-manager .

cherry on top

This week I even spent some time revamping my site : I updated the front page a bit, and also added a space to showcase my projects .

Next game project

With that said, it’s time to get back in the gamez! This week I’ll start working on my new project. For now, all I know is that it will be a 2vs2 multiplayer game with 10-15min session time.
More on that next week!

All right, thanks for reading!
See you all next time.

P.S. This awesome tweet