Chaak's Daily Thread

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So, from today, I'm gonna post want I make here too, to showcase what I do and to get feedback and improve my craft.

I'm a game dev, yeah I draw and make noises that I call music but I really want to improve and I am very committed to this new goal, to draw art and make music which are good enough to help me communicate my ideas to people in other branches of game development

Feel free to provide feedback and knock me on the head if I get too cocky, because ego hinders art

28 Sep 24
- Started working on a new game idea, pong remix!
- Made a rough prototype to test the game feel and i think there is something here...
- Juiced it a bit (Camera Shake + Trails + SFX)
- Streamed it all on twitch, so yay, im getting out of my shell!
 
29 sep 2024
- New palette
- Score is legible now
- better trail that doesn't stay too long
- subtle effects on collision
- Ring rotation effects represent ball velocity to improve the current feedback design
- SFX changed to a climbing chord progression

 
30 sep 2024 (Day 3)
- New art pass
- New trail to guide target tracking
- Fisheye, Animated grain, and Chromatic aberration shaders for eye candy
- Added low pass filter, volume and distortion based on ball position + velocity
- Longest stream so far :D learnt a lot!
 
1 oct 2024 (day 4)

- added leaderboards + silentwolf stuff
- worked on main menu
- found that the name i want is not trademarked :D
- refined ball physics
- added reactive volume
- time slows down when game is over
- colored bars that indicate closeness to game over state

 
What is the gameover state? From the early vids it looks like its not escaping the screen since it bounces back in, is there an invisible health bar? Game looks really cool, reminds me of super hexagon or bit trip with even more juice :)
 
2 Oct 2024 - Day 5

- tweaked music a bit more
- redid how the game plays out, difficulty is sustained now
- leaderboards work properly
- added game over screen (fisheye will be tweaked later)
- scoring is now different
- halfway through physics stylization now, fresh rewriting

 
What is the gameover state? From the early vids it looks like its not escaping the screen since it bounces back in, is there an invisible health bar? Game looks really cool, reminds me of super hexagon or bit trip with even more juice :)
so, after today's work, the game over state is when you dont "touch"/bounce the ball within a merciless time limit (x3 lives)

I'm very inspired by Sorath's works so I'm gonna add a understandable loop of gameplay events, but they will narrow down into a feverish pace as time goes by...
and the score system right now is bounce-count but tomorrow, im gonna make the score be time

the goal is to last longer, i hope i can share more when i find what works the best! Thanks for dropping by, really cheers me up that people are interested in this <3
 
Hello everynyan,

THE LONG ANSWER.



i was sick, then sick again, then family problems, the thing is...

on Oct 12 i think, i posted this video on youtube:
(yes yes... its is ambitious)

so, now, i have to make 12 games by the end of 2024, well, i already made 3 games so 9 games now i guess, on that note, i should make an update video for youtube but im soooooper not in the state to make a video rn haha ( the counting is different because i only count the 12 games i make AFTER the announcement)

i have a lot of prototypes now, like:
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hoping the gifs work, lets moveon, so 3 games right? what did i do?

MOROS - this game is a FLOUROANTIMONIC clone with just some ahem, interesting lore : https://chaak-007.itch.io/moros

moros didnt come to me in a adream but i sure wish it did because its one of those weird out-of-mind out-of-sight ass games that people make... you will understand it when you play the game better i beleive, i started adding "bells and whistles" to my games from this one cause, WHY THE HECKITTY NOT?

i was obv sick when making this game, then i mke the day-totype for the boxtation game ans gave up for a while because i felt like the world had a message for me and it was to take rest or die horribly, so instead of refusing the perfectly goo advice, i complied like a good boy...1732274136697.webp
although, it would have been nice to been able to keep doing weird stuff, DRAMA OLLAMA called and rented out my house for a few weeks, i was just playing fortnite and staying out of my parents sights to not be made an example... well, fast forward to now, and i made the fartbox game, im not proud of that one but it reminding me of days i had with my friends in boarding school, it also was an excuse to help design better "on-screen" apps for windows, etc as i can now "pin" my apps to the screen with very skibidi sigma poggers accuracy hehe, awesome!

The original Boxtation looked like shit, played like shit (if you think collisions are buggy now... boy, do i have news for you), so me being the stubborn, "everything is beautiful" sayin ass i am, gave it a few yanks and shanks and some new paint and it looks like... a CERTIFIED 2016 itch.io NOT-A-PORN game, wow, things do fall into place sometimes i guess

So, this is what i have been upto, my head and harddisks are full of prototypes i wish i can adapt into games now... I also stopped jamming as the last time i tried with my friends, i let them down and had to back out (HELL NAHHHH), backing out has a special shame to it you know... i still wish, my life didnt go that bad and i actually stuck with them and completed the game, because they all are working people who volunteer to make a game and alas, yes, there goes their jobless friend (me) having a quarter life crisis and dropping out of the jam

Well, thats why im just gonna be making more and more prototypes and learning 3d a lot harder, #NEVERAGAIN

And, incase you wanna make games with me, that would be awesome, im a programmer/game designer working in godot, so if you do narrative or visuals or music or basically just wanna be part of making a game, that would be cool, DM ME RIGHT NOW: https://discordapp.com/users/450268280867913750 (Dont be shy, thats my job)

I think thats the long answer, if you really read through all of this, whoa, thank you, i hope i didnt bore you. Thanks for being a direct stream of electrifying inspiration and i hope life gets better for the both of us and your health insurance has dental.

- Chaak (yet-to-become your favourite game developer)
 

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