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Written by Tearcell Games on 2025-02-01 at 23:00

3 and 3 in the local #starwarsunlimited tournament today! Not as good as last time, but I regret nothing about playing Obi Wan!

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Written by Tearcell Games on 2025-01-26 at 16:06

Where it started vs how its going!

Team is working on art upgrades for our 'MVB' map, first version vs second version!

Both are running on my potato machine, which is our 'minimum' aimed for requirements.

[#]godotengine #screenshotsaturday #steelinsecticide #tanksvsbugs

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Written by Tearcell Games on 2025-01-26 at 14:50

NOPE! The random freezes are doing it on my godot 4.3 build too after a bit of time. Gotta be the video driver upgrade. My poor NVIDIA 980 just can't handle driver v566.36 i guess.

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Written by Tearcell Games on 2025-01-26 at 14:10

GRA it seems to be Godot 4.4 beta =( reverting to the 4.3 build and it no longer freezes the system.

Wish I knew how to find a meaningful root cause and report it up, but as it stands, it just freezes with no logs written for a few seconds. COULD be using the built in Jolt Physics, could be one of my shaders, could be anything.

Guess I'll test again with beta 2.

[#]godotengine #bugreport

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Written by Tearcell Games on 2025-01-26 at 12:48

Okay my computer did some upgrades lately and now occasionally my 3D #godotengine project will freeze the WHOLE system for seconds at a time. This sound like a driver issue? Maybe the graphics card? It didn't freeze the whole system prior.

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Written by Tearcell Games on 2025-01-25 at 12:19

Yays... #godotengine 4.4beta really ends up being great for Steel Insecticides performance! Or at least perceived performance, my potatoes computers fps is still the same, but it just runs better!

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Written by Tearcell Games on 2025-01-22 at 20:15

Sometimes you gotta just build fast with spare parts and see how it feels.

Trying a slay the spire sort of approach to mission selection first. Requires some minor reorganizing but functionally seems to be working.

Not sure if the rogue like menu necessarily fits yet, butonly 1 way to know.

[#]tanksvsbugs #steelinsecticide #godot

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Written by Tearcell Games on 2025-01-01 at 02:20

Didn't quite get the steam page up this year, but we did a lot of other things!

Cya in 2025!

[#]steelinsecticide #tanksvsbugs #happynewyear

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Written by Tearcell Games on 2024-12-17 at 18:21

Work shopping names and logos for the game formerly known as Tanks vs Bugs. Anyone got thoughts on any of these?

[#]artwork #logo #indiedev #gamedesign #gamedev #steelinsecticide

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Written by Tearcell Games on 2024-12-04 at 21:54

Forgot to show it off in combat too.

Definitely needs a slower firing rate, but its fun to use against the chargers for sure!

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Written by Tearcell Games on 2024-12-04 at 21:51

I played around with a lot of different ways to handle the ramp... Ultimately I'm not THAT happy with it, but its at 'good enough' for the time being.

It's a static body that spawns along side the effects. The effects actually do damage and have a 'hitbox' while the ramp only interacts with the player.

There is probably configuration where a RigidBody or CharacterBody makes more sense, or just a plane perhaps. Love to hear thoughts on better ways to implement it.

2/2

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Written by Tearcell Games on 2024-12-04 at 21:48

From a technical level the rock effects are adapted this BEAUTIFUL effects repository I found here:

https://github.com/gtibo/VFX-sketchbook-Godot-4.x

This stuff is still voodoo to me in a lot of ways, so I'm glad when I find something good that I can start to hack at.

[#]godotengine

1/2

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Written by Tearcell Games on 2024-12-04 at 21:45

The 'seismic deformer' is probably not going to be in the final game in this particular form... it REALLY complicates level design etc.

But then again who knows. I'm having alot of fun playing around with it as is.

[#]godotengine #indiedev #gamedev #tanksvsbugs

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Written by Tearcell Games on 2024-12-02 at 15:40

Really happy with how the mortar launcher is progressing. Its the first weapon I feel really gels with our games camera swapping ability.

Really nice when all these systems come together.

[#]godotengine #tanksvsbugs #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

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Written by Tearcell Games on 2024-11-23 at 23:58

I'm pretty amused by how 'hacky' the 'crate' room is behind the scenes. Definitely understanding why you don't show behind the curtain much.

I definitely had little idea of what I was doing, and the 2d/3d mix was probably fully unnecessary and only made things more difficult.

And since the 'background image' is a placeholder anyway, was definitely a lot of work for not much ultimately!

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Written by Tearcell Games on 2024-11-23 at 23:43

"Okay so we need to open these crates carefully... maybe we can buy a key from someone..."

"F*** KEYS! I HAVE A TANK!!!!!!"

You get crates for finishing missions or finding them during a mission. Still tweaking the drop tables and the like (not much variety yet), but wanted to make sure opening them up was fun.

And well, shooting things is on theme.

[#]screenshotsaturday #gamedev #tanksvsbugs #godotengine #indiedev

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Written by Tearcell Games on 2024-11-22 at 22:42

Best part about making games (for fun or profit) is meeting amazingly creative people.

This guy did some of the portrait work in Somnipathy, as well as the jigsaw puzzle thing in stage 3.

He's doing some concept work for the bugs, and I don't how close we'll get or if we SHOULD get this close art style wise, but its definitely worth showing off!

[#]conceptart #artwork #gamedev

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Written by Tearcell Games on 2024-11-22 at 18:06

Ugly as sin, but functionally the whole tank customization process now works! (Can't wait for our UI person to make this look nicer)

Whole thing is driven by a lot of #godot resources. The 'profile' resource driving most of this, as it contains all the references to what is equipped and slotted where.

Overall it was 'easier' than I expected but still alot of work left to polish it all up.

[#]indiedev #godot #gamedev #tanksvsbugs

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Written by Tearcell Games on 2024-10-28 at 15:23

She's a Killaaaaaa

QUEEEEEEEN!

Shoots you, with a ball of web

Spawns bugs, that are seeing red

Walks right up and bites your head off!

Anytiiiiiiiiiime!

The 'brusier' concept became the 'queen', and was pretty straight forward to make. She uses a 'mortar' style launcher and tries to lead her shots to immobilize you. Right now if she gets close its a 1 hit kill, but upgrades you can find later will help there.

[#]tanksvsbugs #godotengine #indiedev #gamedev

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Written by Tearcell Games on 2024-10-24 at 15:26

Just showing off the 'shot deflection' which should hopefully give some fun accidental destruction potential! Can't wait to pop this guy in some of our maps.

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