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Work in progress 3d model of an old saw mill

Another day, another decision to add a big piece of art to Sierra Gold. Currently you just chop on a fallen log for wood. But why stick with that when I can make a sawmill you need to fix up to use! WIP obviously.

I swear I'll finish this game someday...

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Looks just like one of the Chrono Trigger lesser bosses. Can't remember their name though.

If your project doesn't exist in 3 places, it doesn't exist! Use source control! Also make regular manual backups and store those on a separate drive. A copy in Dropbox is good too.

I know a rookie dev who just lost everything due to a failed drive. Don't be them!

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Sierra Gold was envisioned for mobile. I've since been part of a team who launched a successful mobile game. I've learned that if you aren't making a "free to play" title you will fail. Sierra Gold is transitioning to desktop and a lot of the decisions I made are biting me in the ass.

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Thank you!

I've been working a lot on my title screen and I think it's looking great! God rays need some work and I'd like to add a bit more life to it, but overall, very pleased!

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I used to play a ton of multiplayer games back when all the servers were locally hosted by people with good internet connections. I even hosted a Soldier of Fortune 2 server in my room for a long time. Reading the logs was fun. These days it's all single player for me.

But not to this extent. Randomizers are still limited to whatever art assets and mechanics exist. This could be anything and everything from one second to the next. Any genre at all mashed together in ways that don't need to make sense. I'm a game developer by the way.

Ok I've given this some thought. AI fails horribly to create a cohesive real world with rules and logic. However, I could actually see some fun in a game that is constantly changing everything,always. If the only rule the AI has to follow is the player can indeed progress it could be wild.

Hahahahaha

Well we've established that AI games will be an endless run of insanity.

Well, when you start studying art, the world is suddenly filled with horrible art. You actually do need training to see details in things. Your eye will gloss over so much.

I had this dream last night. Macaulay Culkin was in it even.

Saw your talk at GDC!

And they were correct.

It's coming along slowly but steadily. Top is editor view so you can see whats happening. Bottom is game view. I'm still working on the cameras and such to make this cohesive, but you get the idea. Needs easing on everything. Left the [Dev] menu on in the bg.
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Sorry for the long absence! My day job has been sucking away my motivation. This contraption is finally in the game though! Still need to finalize the textures and animations, but I'm moving ahead with puzzle logic in the meantime.

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Love the idea. I had toyed around with doing something similar with the long gone Mine Train through Natures Wonderland at Disneyland.

I don't think the national guard wants to be there.

Thanks! The tank won't be so bad since I'm going to make it look like it's riveted on and the big seam can go on the bottom where it will never be seen.

Still super busy. Slowly making progress on this contraption though. Once I get all the parts in there I'm going to loosen everything up a bit to give it some character. UVing this is going to be ...fun...

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Weird steam powered machine

Work has been insane lately. I haven't had the energy to work on my game much at night. I did finally start modeling the last missing puzzle though. It's incomplete, and needs to be relaxed a bit.

Can you guess what this contraption is?

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I mean, good?

I've been working on my game for 3 years now. I just got the opening scene locked down a month ago.

But I followed the reference!

That merchant is a real stickler when it comes to union rules. Best to try and stay on his good side!

Character portraits are placeholder.

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Looks good. How long did that take?

I wish people were more punctual.

I finally added telemetry to Sierra Gold so I can keep track of how often things are done in the game. I'm now tracking basically everything a player can do including how many input taps the player made and how far the character has walked.

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I'm well aware of the James Foley story. There are many countries where you need to be careful, that's been the case for decades. But your post implied that traveling everywhere was dangerous for Americans which isn't true.