Camp Fire Craft

Devlog

• Synchronizing Multiplayer Game State - ⛺️ 🏃‍♂️
  March 19, 2022 by GomaGames

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  Synchronizing game state in multiplayer is challenging. I wanted to design a pattern that applies the least amount of cognitive load. What do I mean by that? Let’s start with a simple state change... Continue reading

  
• Multiplayer Lobby
  March 06, 2022 by GomaGames#netcode, #game design

  I didn’t want to have players wait around looking at a UI screen “Waiting for players”. Instead, I created a lobby area where players who are already connected can learn the game and get used to... Continue reading

  
• 🚀 build-220226b
  February 27, 2022 by GomaGames#alpha release

  💬 Add helper messages to remind player to build food locker 🐛 fix hack that allows player to press craft_btn while crafting, resulting in keeping original ingredients 🎮 SinglePlayer_1 waves... Continue reading
• SinglePlayer Level Design - Process time lapse video
  February 24, 2022 by GomaGames#game design, #level design, #progress, #process

  Started with a basic plan using the “game design document” . I had a general Crafting and Item progression sketched out. Only after i started actually implementing the level did I realize that the... Continue reading

  
• Game Title and Sketches for branding
  February 20, 2022 by GomaGames#branding, #art

  We’ve worked with a temporary name “Scouts” for a month until a title finally hit. Camp Fire Craft Which works in three ways, “Campfire Craft”, “Camp Firecraft” and “Camp, Fire, Craft... Continue reading

  
• 📘 Scouts Handbook UI 📘
  February 19, 2022 by GomaGames#ui

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• 🦊 ⛺️ Foxes can destroy tents ⛺️ 🦊
  February 19, 2022 by GomaGames#animations, #game design

  they also split the targets so that level preparation and lose condition is deterministic while the foxes still get to spawn from a random origin. it’s not simply targeting the closest tent on the l... Continue reading

  
• 🔨📦 New Animations 📦🔨
  February 19, 2022 by GomaGames#visual, #animations, #game design

  You can now preload items in an inventory by dragging the item scene into it in the editor. So imagine a box that is hidden in a forest that contains an exploration badge 🏅 🥡 All food lockers sh... Continue reading

  
• Updated Animations 🪓 ⛏️
  February 19, 2022 by GomaGames#visual

  🪓 Chopping and ⛏️ Mining after the last rock is “broken” the player can walk over it. same with tree stumps. 🍎 New animations! 🍎 in order Crafting Gathering Deconstruct Fence Construc... Continue reading
• Netcode Update - Inventory
  February 19, 2022 by GomaGames#netcode, #coding

  🤓 NetCode update Thinking through how to keep game state in sync with network state, I had to choose a pattern to stay organized. The problem: No consistent state change interface State changes wer... Continue reading

  
• Game Design - v3 - 3 paths to victory
  February 18, 2022 by GomaGames#game design

  ⛺️ Major GDD Update ⛺️ Inspiration for this game finally hit me! 📄 The game design document is shown below, and referenced with anchor links The major changes are: 🏅 Players can earn Bad... Continue reading

  
• Day Cycle Demo in 50 seconds
  February 18, 2022 by GomaGames#visual

  I set the times for a quick demo 0:00 -> 0:05 Dawn, changed the colors of sunrise 0:05 -> 0:10 Day, full brightness 0:10 -> 0:15 Dusk, changed the colors of sunset 0:15 -> creatures return home, Night... Continue reading

  
• Creature Pathfinding around StaticBody
  February 18, 2022 by GomaGames#godot

  this was really technical and difficult to do. there are real limitations on what Navigation2D can do, and i reached them tonight. Godot 4.0 addresses these limitations, though it is still in beta, so... Continue reading

  
• Sneaky Squirrels
  February 18, 2022 by GomaGames#godot, #animation

  Added a random “look_around” animation to make the squirrels feel more like sneaky animals... Continue reading

  
• Scouts Handbook - design progression
  February 18, 2022 by GomaGames#art, #design, #visual

  UI Draft Rules Recipes UI Rev 2 UI Rev 3... Continue reading

  
• Let there be light! Night, Campfire, Squirrels...
  February 18, 2022 by GomaGames#godot, #visual

  Dusk at day time -> 3:30 sun starts to set, at 4:00 sunset tweens to Night which is much darker, though is hard to see the difference in this demo Squirrels They are hungry little fellas Squirrel Logi... Continue reading

  
• Game Design - v2 competitive mode + crafting dependency graph
  February 18, 2022 by GomaGames#game design

  Made some progress on a one pager to act as a ‘game design document’. Major change is the addition of competitive mode. I’ve added a crafting dependency graph to ensure that the game is always s... Continue reading

  
• Game Design - v1 - survival camp
  February 18, 2022 by GomaGames#game design

  Starting to write a game design document to guide development based on a simple cooperative camping and crafting survival game, very similar to “Don’t Starve Together” Goal Go camping in the wil... Continue reading
• 'Burnable' "Interface"
  February 17, 2022 by GomaGames#coding

  I’ve created a ‘burnable’ “Interface” item.is_burnable along with an enum “Primary Material” so that anything wooden that gets thrown in the fire will burn. In oop world, one way to achi... Continue reading
• Inventory Mixin
  February 17, 2022 by GomaGames#game design

  here’s another cool Mixin which further abstracts Inventory When i say “Mixin” i’m referring to a Mixin Class which is basically a component that i can add to any other component, to give it t... Continue reading

  
• Tents, Fences, New Assets, More Pathfinding
  February 16, 2022 by GomaGames#art, #visual

  ⛺️ ⛺️ ⛺️ Tents! ⛺️ ⛺️ ⛺️ Players can enter and exit tents. When the player is near the tent, a new action button appears on the right. New Assets - Sunnyside World Our artist c... Continue reading

  
• Pathfinding progress
  February 16, 2022 by GomaGames#godot

  Creature Waves Each night, creatures will come to your camp and steal food. Players can build a fence around camp to protect the food from creatures since a Lose condition is that “If a player canno... Continue reading
• Mixin pattern with ECS in Godot for "FoodSources"
  February 16, 2022 by GomaGames#learn a skill, #godot, #coding

  Adding “FoodSources” BerryBush OrangeTree This demo shows random spawn positions. each morning (based on the day/levels we set in the game db) food sources will spawn an amount of food. BerryBush... Continue reading

  
• Autotiles in Godot
  February 15, 2022 by GomaGames#learn a skill, #visual, #godot

  I found the Autotile feature in Godot for working with TileMaps. The tilemap that i have is actually not compatible for creating an autotile, i had to modify the original tileset to support the mandat... Continue reading

  
• First Post - Starting a new game!
  February 15, 2022 by GomaGames#game design, #tech

  A devlog is born! I've worked on a bunch of smaller games with very short timelines mainly for game jams and hackathons. "Scouts" is the first game that i'll be creating an MVP of that has a larger, s... Continue reading