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Started on a turn based tactical strategy game in Unity based on the course from CodeMonkey. I am about 50% done.

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Learned a little about MetaSounds and Niagra by making this.

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Familiarized myself with the basics of Unreal by applying some basic vector math in the engine through blueprints.

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Finished a course about Godot a week ago. I learned about the basics of the engine, signals, groups, GDscript,different nodes and other systems such as the animator. Here are the various course project

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Experimented a little bit in Blender. Is this something worth finishing?

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Some progress on the 3d character that I am making.

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Progress on a 3d model that I am making.

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Here is some more progress that I made one day later. I added rotation and movement to the camera. I also made sure that the camera can be manipulated with both keyboard, mouse and game controllers.

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Continuing to learn Godot. I am currently trying to make a functioning camera controller. I have currently only programmed in zooming by manipulating the spring arm length.

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Did some sketching and thought it would look better if I turned the sketch into pixel art. Which style do you think is better?

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Decided to mess around a little bit in Unreal to see how it differs from Godot. So far I like the landscaping tools and the out of the box rendering quality. Though it is heavy in terms of storage.

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Followed GDquests tutorial on movement for tactical rpgs. Got introduced to concepts such as the A* search algorithm to do pathfinding. Tutorial can be found here:

https://www.gdquest.com/tutorial/godot/2d/tactical-rpg-movement

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Did you know that the Splatoon characters where blocks of tofu in the prototype or that they where bunnies before becoming squids? I found an interesting interview about the development of the first Splatoon.

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Continuing with learning Godot. Just made my first 3d game!

I followed the official Godot documentation that had a guide for this game: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/first_3d_game/index.html#contents

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Finished my first game. Followed the guide on the official Godot documentation: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/first_2d_game/index.html

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First time using Godot. It sort of feels like Unity. So far I have had fun using the engine. The official documentation has a lot of helpful info: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_by_step

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Command patterns

I found some recourses on command patterns. It looks like it is a useful topic for rpg games.

I will also try to do some programming later in Unreal to see if I like the engine more.

I have also polished the overall script for the story. Need to work on everything else though to make it useful.