It's 2's day!

(Actually it's a Thursday and it's 2024 but you know what I mean.)

And not too long ago I announced development of my side project, Room Service, and shown its prototype footage from my YouTube. Today I got something pretty neat to show you, Here's more footage on the Project: NG Twitter:

https://twitter.com/PROJECT_NG1/status/1760764361680073085

And as you see the game looks more polished than the last few days ago, let me show you a small little trick on how I made the ground collisions seem pixel perfect.

"Sticky Landing"

As you can see from this gif here, the character is always sticking to the pixel of the ground after landing on the ground, In GameMaker this doesn't do that by default, and pixel perfect collision is hard to code, That I have an easier solution to that, not as tedious as coding it all in,

Here's how it works

The red line you see on the ground is known as the "Character Y Snapper", it snaps the character right back to its bottom y position, since it's a 1x1 game upscaled 3x each 6x6 pixel is considered a 1x1 pixel to them, thus sending the player back down on the very pixel where they're neither away or in the ground. Only after they land, or is close to landing.

Here's a better look on how it works.

You can see from the y position string that it's an even number every time they land.

And the jump_land_timer prevents the player from landing as soon as they leave the ground, making it too sticky.

Why am I doing this method exactly besides this being hard to code otherwise?

Here's what it looks like without the y snapper:

If you squint you can see that they sink below or float above the ground a bit each time they land, which causes an inconsistency,

Here's a better look:

You can notice how the y position is inconsistent.

With the y snapper placed on the ground it makes the landing seem more polished and pixel perfect without having to code the pixel perfect collision detection.

That's pretty much it for today, tomorrow I shall discuss the door mechanics.

Ciao!

Not too long ago I've stated that I will be making smaller projects before I make Project:NG as it's very ambitious for my first project, so I thought maybe I can fill the void of my lack of experience with a smaller, newer game, I call it "Room Service (Working Title)".

Basically this game is a mix between Hotel Mario and Mappy, stylized after the 3rd gen namco games. You're a hotel employee, and you've been ordered for room service, but then the whole complex is infested with giant rats and other baddies, and their big bad plan is to open every door in the complex, probably also steal their food, such rudeness! It's up to you to close all of the doors while you avoid the enemy, and save the hotel.

Here's a few things about it so far.

Prototype Footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8-M4MouQu8

The game's engine is gonna be GameMaker, as I needed to use it anyway since I bought it years ago.

I plan on releasing the base game online in here, if the numbers serve me kindly then I might improve on this and release it in portable form.

Since last year I've gave out my goals for Project: NG, hoping to reach these expectations by the end of it, but sadly I couldn't make it this far, at least got 1 character almost done. But this just came to mind, how can I make a game without primary experience for it? My experience came from animating sprites and making chiptune covers. Plus Project: NG has a lengthy scope that is set in stone, even so it's ambitious for my first project. So I need a plan to justify it, how can I even label myself as a gamedev if I didn't release a game yet? I mean I had gamemaker studio in my library for a long time and I haven't found the time to use it. Well here's my plan...

I'm planning on making small side projects, games I mean, but not the special kind something more so arcade like, it's cheesy, chiche'd and bare bones but just bare with me here, I need experience, I need to justify myself being a gamedev without a game to label myself with. I still got my character Selena, she probably needed a proper debut anyway besides art.

Don't take this as me going on hiatus from P:NG, I just need to stretch the muscles that's all. I'm still gonna make the main game, but I think it would be more ideal if I can make something fun and playable before I start calling myself a gamedev.

As for art, I can still do that alongside the games, even music too, I still plan on making my music more original, as the market demands diversity and creativity. Euphoria was a hit, not as big as the other covers but you know what I mean, I believe that kind of music, especially euphoric music, is easy to make and I love listening to them, it's a win win.

I found my old pc lying around and it was working like shit, so I installed Linux Mint on it, and now it works like new again! too bad it costed the hard drive, at least i archived my stuff beforehand hehe

here's a shot of it btw

looking neat, huh.

Now i can officially say that I can port Project NG to Linux! As for Mac ports i have no plans for those until I find someone with a Mac.

Today this morning Bluesky went public, so I don't need to share invite codes anymore.

Here's my account https://bsky.app/profile/notakin.bsky.social

I got a vm working to see if i can use windows xp again, works as good as it was 20 years old.

I've been uploading chiptune covers of VGM's for a while now, it's been rough trying to have more people listening to my tracks here as the music portal is more strict with its rules than all the other portals, nothing wrong with that I mean it's not our fault any one of us can get sued over this easily. However, I may have come to an revelation that one of the reasons im not getting much reception with the tracks is because they don't have very much to offer besides being the same song but on different hardware, and I may have broken this rule about covers, so, I may need to go back to the drawing board and write something i can claim as my own, as for covers, i'm still gonna do those mainly for fun. From what I see recently is how original tracks tend to have a higher chance of getting front pages, and least likely to get nixed, so maybe now's the time I have to make something original as well,

Heya, it's been a while.

I thought I share a few things about my game in time for the new year.

As you're reading this right now I have officially released gameplay footage of Project: NG at last, showcasing Pico

https://twitter.com/PROJECT_NG1/status/1740138759981822157

I also shared a couple of things as well, such as techs.

Here's one for Parrying:

https://twitter.com/PROJECT_NG1/status/1741243057499242533

And here's one for Dashing:

https://twitter.com/PROJECT_NG1/status/1741517973129670905

I will be releasing each snippet of content as Things of the Whenever posts on Twitter, and as i collect enough tweets I'll compile them into blog posts, you could follow the Twitter, at least until the site goes belly up then I'll think of something to share my progress here, not sure I can post video footage like this, but I can still embed gifs.

In other news, I couldn't get the demo done and ready for this year, but I SWEAR ON YOUR RELIGION, this year shall be

DIFFERENT!

I'm planning to finish Pico and Hank and beta test with a few people, then do one more character and release it as the alpha build. I won't make any promises on when it's going to release but i assure you I hope we can actually get something out soon.

One last thing, I may have another thing planned, something to shake things up a notch, keep a close eye on it.

Happy New Year!

After all these years of having hard drive issues, the dying hard drive, I got a new PC, that was one of the reasons I'm not getting any work done recently.

Just look at her.

I got a special surprise coming up, I hope you guys will like it