This here is the week 39 devlog for my game Cosmic Construct. Each week we go over development goals set forth in the previous week's devlog.
To follow the game's progress you can join me at:
My bluesky account which gives more frequent updates.
Also Wishlist Cosmic Construct on Steam and follow it's steam page.
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- Finishing the die rolling animations for Sparkle.
Yeah, this one took a while. My issue was getting the hand to look right while rolling the dice. Contrary to popular belief, I am not a good artist. I quite suck at anatomy, and even worse I'm dealing with anthropomorphic forest creatures. So a zoomed in representation of them rolling dice was a bit of a mental block caused by a lack of suspension of disbelief. I had no idea how to do this in a "cartoony" way, while still remaining visually interesting.
After a few poor attempts, I think it's good enough now that I'm happy with, and I won't be changing it.
If you didn't watch the video I put up on bluesky, I wrote a rudimentary 'physics function" to simulate bounce from the walls of the container, play die sound effects, and rotate the dice. I think the result is convincing enough, and other than the dice occasionally overlapping its a pretty solid visual. I'm very happy with it.
- More achievement icons, and achievement viewer UI.
Because the icon resolution is 4 times higher than the in-game item icons, I have to redraw them in a higher resolution. Here is for not doing that from the beginning, but it's too late now. I've finished about 1/3rd of all of the achievement icons that are planned so far. I probably have about 300 or 400 more to go. I can't wait to have to deal with uploading them all to steam and deal with the steamworks API, oh boy.
As you can see, there are alot of repeat assets in here which made them easier to do. I think I did a pretty good job of tracing the existing assets for the higher resolution. Now I'm going to have to make images for every other item in the game for the production achievements. That is going to be a real chore.
My favorite achievements icons so far are still the piles of coins.
- Structure art (If I have time)
I did not do any structure art this week.
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This week I'll be returning to core assets, as I'm now at the "slog" part of achievement images.
- Structure Art (which is a development bottleneck)
- Finishing the achievement UI
- Work on the minigame mechanics
- More achievement icons (If I have time)
Thank you for being here. I'll see you next week.