Dev Diary #16: This Week At A Glance (Plus A Video!)

Here’s a quick glance at what I got up to this week with gamedev:

• Updated dungeon appearances and colour palettes for several areas.

Continuing to tweak visuals and color palettes. Here's a windy day with a few cherry blossoms sprinkled around #indiedev #gamedev #gamemaker #Ambience pic.twitter.com/OoddeJGGiG

— Rhombus Game Dev (@RhombusGameDev) January 8, 2019

• Updated sandstorm effect with some cool rolling clouds.

Updated the sandstorm effect in #Ambience with some rolling clouds – looks heaps better than before! #indiedev #gamedev #gamemaker pic.twitter.com/3Zggz0IH13

— Rhombus Game Dev (@RhombusGameDev) January 11, 2019

• Implemented and tested some gameplay-relevant weather effects. I also tweaked the procedural generation algorithm for dungeons – can now generate rooms with central “pools” of water or sand, as seen here.

In #Ambience, you can use weather effects to your advantage – for example, activating the Ambience of Sun causes sand underfoot to become scorching hot, burning enemies nearby. #indiedev #gamedev #gamemaker pic.twitter.com/HItN7BaUcW

— Rhombus Game Dev (@RhombusGameDev) January 10, 2019

• Gameplay re-balancing for both dungeons and bosses.

Just a glimpse of a boss encounter in #Ambience #indiedev #gamedev #gamemaker #screenshotsturday pic.twitter.com/wid0dZZUfA

— Rhombus Game Dev (@RhombusGameDev) January 12, 2019

• Finally, I started playing around with video capture to see if I could get some videos made of Ambience gameplay, rather than just silent GIFs. I’ve been working a fair bit on the game’s OST and have been looking to show it off for a while. However video export to Twitter always seems to result in poor quality so here y’all go, you can have this little clip instead… 🙂

A glimpse of the first boss encounter in Ambience. Complete with soundtrack!