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Polychoron maintenance update 1.0.1 is out on Windows, Linux, Android and Web: https://www.fractilegames.com/polychoron/

Release notes: https://www.fractilegames.com/posts/20211215-polychoron-1.0.1-released/

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Beginnings of a landing site selection menu.
#screenshotsaturday #lowpoly #gamedev #indiegamedev #godotengine

Forced myself to do some boring refactoring so that I could add this impressive intro sequence and a menu. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #godotengine

Made killed enemies drop score items (the tiny glowing white cubes) that bounce on terrain and fly towards nearby player.
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The player finally has proper walk animations to diagonal directions! Also added nearest drop pod highlight and an option to trash unwanted weapon mods. #screenshotsaturday #lowpoly #shmup #gamedev #godotengine

Some progress on weapon management user interface. #screenshotsaturday #lowpoly #shmup #gamedev #indiegamedev #godotengine #ui

It's hard to make good looking splatter effects using untextured quads only (any textured particles look horribly out of place in otherwise untextured world).
#screenshotsaturday #lowpoly #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

Ballistic aiming and damage radius indicators are now working at all distances. I will need a better indicator because the glowing sphere looks too much like some sort of force field. Any ideas? #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #godotengine

First attempt at ballistic projectiles for the enemies only made them good at killing themselves. #screenshotsaturday #lowpoly #gamedev #godotengine

Added some dynamic lights, fine-tuned explosions, created proper weapon models (if you look really closely). #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #lowpoly #shmup

Another thing I fixed this week: The walkers now steer away from level edges and only look for footholds inside the level area. Looks much better. #screenshotsaturday #lowpoly #gamedev #indiegamedev #godotengine

Added a bit more animation to the power-up drop pods. #screenshotsaturday #lowpoly #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

Instead of full-blown navigation I made the enemies find their way around simple dynamic obstacles (the container) based on physical contacts. #screenshotsaturday #lowpoly #gamedev #indiegamedev #godotengine

Mostly I've been working on enemy movement but I did also add a space skybox and containers. #screenshotsaturday #lowpoly #shmup #gamedev #godotengine

Added randomized level colors and some light streak particles to explosions. #screenshotsaturday #godotengine #gamedev #indiedev

Some more work on enemy deaths: Rigid body based "gibs", minor particle tweaking and now the explosions affect bodies and particles. #screenshotsaturday #lowpoly #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

Testing large colliding particles emitted from killed enemies. It does feel pretty good but I don't like the looks. Perhaps I should try "chunks of flesh" using actual rigid bodies.. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegamedev #godotengine

I got nothing new to show for #screenshotsaturday, so here's just a random screenshot from my #lowpoly twin stick #shmup project. #gamedev #godotengine

This is what I call a #lowpoly character model (136 vertices). I'm kind of proud of this even though it's crappy programmer art (and first iteration at that). Attached weapon model is currently just a box. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #blender3d #godotengine

I'm not dead, I've just been stuck trying to figure a good animation work flow. Nearly there, I can finally get my animations from Blender to Godot without something breaking. #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

Polychoron running on Steam Deck for the very first time! Installed through Itch.io app. There are some minor issues but the game runs perfectly smoothly and even controls work out-of-the-box.

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