Robert Panichpakdee 🦧

Thanks! :)

Testing and optimisation! Seeing some frame rate drops here, but there are a few hundred zombies, and once you kill a few, it drops back down…

Cleaning up some code; ideally I want about 2-3 times this many. But close!

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Death animations added! Debugging the whole death and reload section as well

Button mashing/ multihit deaths were setting off some triggers early; adding “restartunlocked” bool and turning off collisions on death fixed it.

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The thought of “what if lay flat on my stomach and work that way? Will it cancel out the previous damage?” Did cross my mind haha

Powering through the “to fix” list between yoga, light exercise, and hot water soaks.

Pro dev tip: don’t spend an entire year hunched over working 12 hours a day, every day. It’ll fuck up your back.

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I added lights to the towers!

Which seems simple, but was super glitchy: apparently Godot only registers 15 light objects on screen at a time, and it was flickering on and off on the tilesets.

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So I’ve got a butt load of zombies spawning, and the engine seems fine with it!

Small panic when one of the gems was bugged, but luckily just the one I happened to pick up, and not the whole system.

Some testing footage:

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Rough death animations!

There is a slight bug that came out of nowhere on death. Barely noticeable, but I hate not knowing where it randomly came from.

Adding in this animation should help track/clean up that section.

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Recorded new sound effects for the zombies and the magic towers. Lowered lvl requirement for some skills to speed up pacing.

Also pinched a nerve in my back causing headaches from working hunched over. It’s getting better.

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Getting around to fixing up some tileset errors; some edges require some custom “fittings”.

General debugging is going well!

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Ok, I think I have everything kinda working!

Debugging and tentatively starting to focus on actual balancing/ drop rates.

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I removed strength requirements for equipment, but added equip load to the weapons.

Individually fixing the UI, but it is far easier to read at a glance now.

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Thank you! :)

Enemy wolves!!

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Building out and testing. Things are looking happy!

It seems to be fine with all these things existing in the world at once, so knock on wood, hopefully that continues and optimisation keeps trucking along!

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Oh yeah, it’s because the heads at blizzard are terrible and fired the creatives behind the success of DII.

I saw some screen shots of the original DIII in progress, and it’s so annoying they axed it as to not compete with WOW.

Just destroying art to secure profit.

Yeah, I think that comes from the same cow king Diablo II formula. Which was great for that, but I figured my logic is:

Once I get the items and mechanics sorted, I can start focusing on enemies and begin building out!

And the tower defence is still always there, so difficulty always increases!

Yeah exactly! I want to incentivise reruns, and I feel like all that padding is just to try and stretch out assets;

I figure I can also be generous since if I need, I can just draw more things, so I’m pretty de incentivised to nickel and dime my players’ time! :)

All the swords and bows socket systems done!

Also a chance to test out the rng; I’m having the sockets reset each run, so you have to find socketed items again, but I can be generous with the drops. About 7% feels good.

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Finalising and debugging sockets: adding in this little notifier to let the player know when a socketed item is picked up.

I might change the animation a bit, the one I drew reads a bit like a loading icon.

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Alright, Zombie RatKing boss is up and running! Spawns zombies on death.

I picture him as a sort of early game mini boss that becomes a regular enemy later.

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Thanks!

It was the first thing I worked on for the project! I worked on the spites for the main character, an enemy, and the tile set for about a month, not even quite sure it work would.

Then I put it together and luckily it did :)

I’ve finalised the “light” element: originally it had a conversion mechanic, but it was too weak as to be useful, or completely destroyed the game economy.

So now it acts as an effect/damage multiplier for other elements.

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“Walking” and “attack” animations for 3 directions done!

Back turn animations in progress; back “walking” and “attack”, then “death” animations to go!

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Equip-load/ movement speed set up, and debugged summons for the gems!

Moved the inventory system UI elements around; this feels easier to read, and I also chunked some of the information better.

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Afternoon debugging: making sure the elemental skills in the weapons don’t conflict with the gems in them.

I had coded those differently (and in a far less organised way) than the gems/ rings.

Things are looking good!

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Hey folks! I am very proud and delighted to say that Helmet Head now has a Steam Page. Woohoo!
👇 Wishlists and shares are greatly appreciated 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/4285450/...

Thank you all for your encouragement this past year, it means a lot to me 😊

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Attack frames!

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Thanks! It’s for my Diablo inspired ARPG/ tower defence! It’ll spawn more zombies on death that continue attacking the player/ moving towards the town :)

Walking animations!

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