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[assemblerbot]

Hi, that's nice place! It reminds me my freelance times

I'm happy to hear that you are still working on RTG. Looking forward to next update!

[JobLeonard]

Hey, nice! Congrats!

I personally don't mind working from home, but then again I have my own small separate room dedicated to be my mini-office. And also no kids yet, so that probably affects things :p

[Alain]

Hi All!

still working, still working, I'm just not here very often due to the fact that I was working on RTG just up to 60 minutes daily, so I rather focused on development itself. This will be the biggest gap between two RTG devlogs from the start of development, but my commitment is still there and RTG development IS progressing slowly but steadily. 

The biggest news from my side currently is that after 2 years of working from home, I finally have my own dedicated office! Yooohoo. Ok, now it looks more like empty storage space, as I have lot of work with arranging and cleaning yet, but I love it, as I can focus much better now.

I'm sharing first photo of my humble place how it look at very start. I just moved here bare minimum from our flat what I needed to start working. Looks crappy, but I'm looking forward to improve it! I'll share with you when I have some significant upgrade ( like 'Humble Office' Level 2, etc..  )

Awesome, thank you for sharing your new office space with us. May the creativity and coffee flow

[oahda]

That's really spacious for one person! Or do you have someone else on board too? Hope it's a nice fit either way And looking forward to seeing that bouncing charged light in the game!

[vdapps]

Thank y'all!

@Prinsessa:
Yes, it's spacious. For now, I'm working alone, but in case of expanding I have place already.

Price was good and in my little city here, there are not very much business-houses with classic offices, so I had to take a local. However, I save on car and diesel (it's something over 1km from my home) so I'm zero-emission now plus I'm walking every day (so good for health).

In fact, taking "standard" small office in next bigger city (Elche) and commuting there with a car would be more expensive, so I'm happy with my decision.

@JobLeonard:
Yes, my son was focus breaker. I love him, but having questions 100x times per day. Nope, it doesn't go together with focus and productivity.

@Alain:

@assemblerbot: I not knew you were freelancing in dedicated place. Always thought it was from home. Currently with state of my office, how empty and warehouse-like it's now, with lot of improvisation, I have vibes of garage-like beginnings of Silicon Valley giants.

And yep, new update with "bouncing charged light" (the first thing in the game which can kill player, if I don't count falling out from level) is coming soooon!

[vdapps]

-= Devlog #20 =-

(RTG is in version 0.4.1)

'Bouncing charged light' levels

Hello Everyone!

New devlog after half year (yikes ) is here! So, what's new?

I was sloowly grinding with creating of new levels and added new game element, which can be used for both puzzle and arcade. I named the element bouncing charged light and so far, it's the only element in the game which can kill player.

It's bouncing infinitely, interacts with any other collidable object and when in contact with player it kills him instantly. This meant also new challenge, creating 'die' animation in my overly simplistic art style (game consists only of axis aligned bounding boxes). I achieved that by adding camera shake, light burst and actor fade-out. Of course, there will be sound as well in final version.

Nice about this element is that it showcases ray-tracing strengths. As bouncing light always moves, illumination and cast shadows are not static but always vibrant. I'm adding 2 animations as small example.

Apart of that, I can say that 90% of regular levels are done. By regular I mean actual 'gameplay/puzzle/arcade' levels, as I plan some 'story progression' levels as well.

I hope you like it and I hope that next devlog will come sooner than this one.

'Bouncing charged light' example 1


'Bouncing charged light' example 2

[Alain]

Nice, great to hear you continue grinding away making progress! To me, the bouncing lights have an Arkanoid feel to them

[JobLeonard]

How are you introducing them? It would be fun if you mess with the player

"Oooh, a light. I wonder if it wants to be friends with me!"

[vdapps]

Thank you both!

@Alain: now, when I look at it, you're right! I did not notice it at first.

@JobLeonard: awww, unfortunately, tutorial level is some lights with floating hint, "beware of lethal bouncing charged lights.." You have point that it would be probably better to show it to player harder way.

[vdapps]

And small office update. I finally moved from storage space to main room. A bit big for me, but that's "disadvantage" of working in small city with no business centers.

I plan to make it more cozy.

[JobLeonard]

Are you on the sunny side or the shady side of the street? In the first case I recommend lots of plants

[Alain]

That's cool, congrats to conquering the main room

[vdapps]

Thank you two!

@JobLeonard: hard to say, as street is quite narrow. Direct sun into office is some 1-2 hours around noon, the rest of day in shadow. As far as I remember, no plant or flower survived living with me, but I can try again with something non-demanding.

[Ramos]

The way you organized your desk room environment is pretty similar to your game visuals, everything is simple, practical, and combined with a drop of magic

 

[vdapps]

Thank you @Ramos.

I apologize for my very late reply. I still fight with having enough time for my indie development, but I can say it's better than it was in first half of this year. And yeah, RTG development is not stopped at all, I'm working on it, even if I'm not here very often. Sometimes, I have less than 1 hour per day in average for RTG, so I want to spend it all at development itself, that's the reason why I dialed down my time spent here.

But yeah, the fact, that I logged in and I'm writing means that there will be soon another update! Still not ideal, update after 3 months, but better than before (when update was after 6 months). And there will be my "office update" as well.

[Ramos]

Glad to hear you are ok  for a moment I thought you had abandoned the game

 

[JobLeonard]

Hey, hearing that you're still hanging on is great news in and of itself!

Looking forward to the next update

[vdapps]

Thank you two for your support! New devlog will be here in minutes.

[vdapps]

-= Devlog #21 =-

(RTG is in version 0.4.2)

'Bit of arcading'

Hi Everyone! New devlog here! So what's new?

Main big thing is that RTG has finally all gameplay levels done! There's no new gameplay mechanics to show as I just created remaining puzzle levels from existing mechanics which I showcased already previously.

However, for final levels I decided to introduce some harder arcading, so that's kind of new, not seen before, as all my previous showcases were mostly about puzzling and corresponding mechanics. So, here you are, an example of level which player will have hopefully to repeat at least several dozens times until mastering it. For me it took like 50 attempts after which I dialed difficulty down, worried that players will smash their controller and give up.

From levels, what's remaining is just to make some intermediate levels tied only to story (non-gameplay levels). And then it will be big milestone for me! End of levels editing and moving with project to another phase (writing story, adding sounds, music, controller support, etc..), and I'm not worried to say, to another half of development, crossing the "half-line". I'm looking forward to that as I was already bit exhausted from all those levels brainstorming and I'm happy to see "the end of the tunnel".

Cheers!

[JobLeonard]

Congrats! Now onto tweaking I guess?

So regarding the final levels, based on how you describe it I am of two minds. On the one hand: that looks really cool! On the other: difficulty spikes that introduce different gameplay at the end of the game tend to piss people off, so I'd be careful with that. Maybe it makes more sense to have that as a "challenge" level for a "true" ending? It would be the same thing in terms of level order, yet somehow feel very different to many players.