Author: Michael

Slower than expected progress for the past two weeks (day job and mental health), but: For this dev diary, I wanted to talk about the art of the game, and how I use the Minifantasy art assets. As I’ve mentioned before, most of the art isn’t directly created by me. The main exception to that…

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The last two weeks have been relatively light on game work. The main things have been:  The LLC stuff may be a future dev diary, since I haven’t finished yet, but I’ll discuss a bit about the other two.  Settings – I’m not entirely sure what to put here at the moment, apart from volume…

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The fun thing about having three kids is the waves of various unknown diseases you collect. That, plus my day job ramping up, meant that a weekly dev diary was not really feasible. Moving forward, I think fortnightly updates are the way to go.  Anyway, the first main thing is that the new train UI is done,…

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As per usual, I underestimated the amount of effort involved in putting together a new user interface. So why did I go through the effort of redoing some of the UI? Game progression. So far in the prototype, trains have basically been random. Apart from the first train that grants you pops, gold, and wood,…

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As mentioned on the various social mediums, I was attending PAX East at the end of last week, and didn’t have time to put together a dev diary. In hindsight, it’s silly that I even thought that was feasible. For this week, I’m picking something that some of you will fall asleep reading, and some…

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First off, a new build is up, including Linux! The linux build is totally untested, so be warned – I’ll get around to testing it eventually, I just figured I’d provide it now. A couple of new features in this build: Next, the topic of the diary itself: pricing. So I’ve been going back and…

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Yet again, I’m talking about the prototype – because it’s out! I actually already posted the link on Discord (LINK HERE), but now I’m sharing this a bit more broadly. It still isn’t indexed on ItchIo though, think of this as an extra early access. There’s lots of outstanding work, bugs, and other issues (which…

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So you may have noticed that a prototype hasn’t been posted yet… Yeah, it turns out I did not make the arbitrary date I set for myself. I’ve been doing software engineering for over a decade, and I’m still awful at estimating things, although I think this has been one of my most accurate timeline…

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There has in fact been some planning to Iron Village’s development. The first major milestone is coming up, what I have named the “Prototype”. I don’t know if it fully fits the definition of a prototype, but it’s basically the first build I’ll be making available to gather feedback. It has all the mechanics, and the basics…

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It finally happened – I ran into a Godot feature that was just not intuitive. At least, I didn’t find it especially intuitive. So here’s my experience dealing with that. I went in having done my research – reading the docs, I understood that this was first and foremost designed with static levels in mind…

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One of the problems with committing to a weekly dev diary schedule is sometimes, there’s not a lot to talk about. This is one such time. I’ve done some UI work recently, mainly touching up the build menu and adding a little pop up menu to hold the load and save button. There’s a bakery…

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So this entry is going to be a lot more personal, but still related to this project. This week has mainly been some work with the train station and trees, not really enough to write a whole diary entry about. One thing that stands out to me though, is I actually cut a planned mechanic. You may…

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