#DeveloperLog

[monydragon]

Developer's Log: Introduction & Unity Template Update

Hello, I'm Mony Dragon, Director of Development at Dragon Lens Studios. Today marks the beginning of my developer log journey, shedding light on my Unity development experiences. As someone deeply passionate about game development, my goal is to inspire and guide fellow and aspiring game developers.

What I'm Up To:

Currently, I’m working on a comprehensive 2D Unity template set to launch on itch.io. My vision? A template that's robust, user-friendly, and serves all 2D development needs. It boasts features like a dialogue system, message system, and saving/loading data persistence, among others. The newest additions? An in-game console and debug menu.

Unity's Pricing Changes:

While Unity has recently announced pricing alterations, I remain committed to the platform, optimistic about its stability and accessibility.

Join The Journey:

Want a sneak peek at the template? Drop me a message, and you might score early access to its beta version. Stay tuned for regular updates, insights, and progress showcases from Dragon Lens Studios and me.Thank you for being a part of this exciting journey.

[aregularnewyorklife]

Developer “Actually On Time” Log 26/08/18

I’m starting to run out of opening sentences!

What’s new in the past 3 days? Not much honestly, well in my personal life. Just the same regular assignment hell and ignorant procrastination I put myself into! Now before you stop reading, I actually have great news: I’m finally making steady progress!

Yay! Yep, you heard me correctly, after all this delayed progress from assignments, competitions and stress in general, I’m finally making progress!

So how far are you anyways? In my regular posts here and in the CoG WiP forum, I’ve said I was about halfway done. This was not exactly right, but not exactly wrong either. After doing some calculations, I was at about 45% finished.

45%? That’s still a large amount. Well in coding and writing terms, yes, it is pretty large. Anyways, in about one day, I’ve finally reached... 55%!

Wow! A whole 10%! Yep! Though small in number, 10% is approx. a few thousand words, so I feel proud of myself! Also, looking back at my codes, I’ve finally surpassed 10k words on the current demo update! Which makes the word count from 33.6k to about 40k! 

Woo! Woo!

Yeah you’ve gotta start paying me now. Wait what?

Ignoring that strange moment, thanks for reading and supporting and I hope you have a good week!

[monydragon]

Dive into the first chapter of our year-long coding adventure! Mony Dragon and Stormi (Niki Miller) from Dragon Lens Studios have embarked on a challenge to develop every single day of 2024, and we're excited to share our progress with you.

This January, we've made significant strides on 🐾 Puppy Tasks, a .NET MAUI app designed to streamline your daily tasks with a touch of fun, and 🎮 We're Live, a streamer simulator game created during the Global Game Jam that puts you in the shoes of a Twitch streamer navigating the highs and lows of live streaming.

👀 Watch our journey, the challenges we faced, the victories we celebrated, and what's next for us. This dev log is just the beginning!

🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LDZrin_-SZo

📱 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@monydragon/video/7330712830913645867

We're just getting started, and we have so much more in store. Follow our social media for daily updates and join our community on Discord to be part of the adventure from the ground up. Your support and feedback mean the world to us as we continue this coding journey through 2024.

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[aregularnewyorklife]

Developer “LOVE TOGETHER LOVE TOGETHER WE’RE LIVING ON THE FLOOR” Log 2/09/18

Shoutout to anyone who gets the reference!

Progress? Yep! Still slightly slow for school related reasons (you burn out after writing like 2 essays), but another 1k words is getting done! I’m still around that 60% mark, so I hopefully wish I can get this update out this month! If you’re wondering, the story is still technically at its prologue, so this game is going to be a doozy of words!

It’s still the prologue?! For something around 40k words (code included), I honestly thought it would be shorter (oh boi how I’m wrong!). There’s about 8 segments in the prologue and we’re currently at segment 3! If you want to know the segments, here you go: 1. Dragon Scientist’s Lab; 2. The Scientists; 3. The Chefs; 4. The Detectives; 5. The Assassins; 6 and 7. The Criminals (Gang and Drivers); and 8. Socialising.

Well that’s long! Yep! It might take me years to finish this game, but I’m ready to take it on!

Just don’t burn yourself out! I’ll try not to! I still take breaks to keep myself from burning out, it’s going quite well, but I think I’m taking more than I want to. But don’t worry! My holidays are in a few weeks and I’m ready to write!

Woo! Woo!

So the standard fix rate per format joke is about $20. Why are you charging me?!

Anyways, keep safe my peeps and thanks for being patient!

[aregularnewyorklife]

Developer ‘So Close Yet So Far’ Log 16/09/18

We are on the testing phase of the update!

Testing phase? I thought we were supposed to do that? Ho ho ho! I do not mean Alpha testing, I’m referring to the testing segment of the update! Also known as the ‘have you been attention?’ scene of the chef’s route!

Woo! Yes! Woo the achievement!

So when do you expect to finish the update? Next week I’m finally on school holidays, giving me a limitless limit of time to work on the update and finally release it after this on-and-off hiatus business. But I do hope I could be able to get free time during this week to finish this demo though.

So will you input another sneak peak? Shh my child, don’t spoil the fact that I will release a sneak peak soon... wait a minute.

So what’s your average wage? We really do need to negotiate this format joke rate. I’m a student with no job!

Anyways, have a good week and hold on just a little longer!

[aregularnewyorklife]

Developer ‘Gotta Make This Quick’ Log 10/09/18

I’VE GOT A LOT TO DO SO IMMA MAKE THIS ONE A SMALL BUT QUICK UPDATE

BEEN BUSY, ASSIGNMENTS AND THE SUCH. ALSO PROCRASTINATED FOR HOURS BY PLAYING THAT BATTLEFIELD BETA AND ROLEPLAYING FOR DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS. UPDATE IS ABOUT 70% DONE HOORAY. STEADILY APPROACHING THE 50K WORDS MARK. HOLIDAYS SOON, I’LL GET TO WORK FULL TIME ON THIS PROJECT DURING THOSE TIMES.

wait the format jo- NO TIME, GOTTA GO EAT SCHOOL AND ATTEND FOOD

(serious update: It’s the final two weeks of school in Aus and I’m getting hyped, but with that is assignment week, so I’ll be busy this week but not the week after. Thanks for reading this totally serious post and I hope you have a good week.)

[aregularnewyorklife]

Developer Log 22/07/2018

Wooo! The weekend is about to end and I’ve made some great progress!

So what’s new in the demo? Well if you read the update post, it should tell y’all about the new items added. But in a nutshell (for you lazy guys): Exploration and testing scenes!

So what’s next? A break! I need to start reading some more CoG related media, so I’m going to take a real short break, but I’ll come back ready and energised! But, I may release a small minor update before I leave for school related and break related reasons.

Wow! You don’t know how to format this at all! Thank You! I’m just a teenager that doesn’t know a single thing about being a dev!

[aregularnewyorklife]

Developer “It is Wednesday my dudes” Log 22/08/18 or technically 23/08/18 whatevs

Heya!

Where have you been? Why haven’t we’ve been getting our week logs???Oh jeez, have I’ve been away for that long? In a nutshell: I’ve been over in Melbourne for around a week to do a competition!

Nice! What competition though? For privacy reasons, I’m not going to explicitly tell y’all what competition it was, but I’ll give you a hint! It revolves around alpacas and awkwardness.

So no demo progress? Unfortunately, everyday knocked me out, so no progress I’m afraid… for now!

Cool! Enough about us, how was it for you? A. M. A. Z. I. N. G. From underage clubbing (well something like that) to debating random teams from Indonesia, the whole experience was filled with craziness! I’ve even got into a dance battle with a guy wearing a bath robe! Which is slightly concerning! Overall, I was the 8th champion out of 1-2k people!

Awesome! Yep… so no format joke I’m guessing?

It’s 10pm on a Wednesday man. I’m tired. Ok, ok, we’ll just put a rain check on that one.

That is all guys! Thank you for being patient, love you all!

[aregularnewyorklife]

Developer “AHHHH” Log 12/08/18

Another week another developer log filled with nothing!

I’m presuming not much progress? Well I have finished one half of the demo, which bigger than you think! I’m not kidding, that’s about 5k words! Ok 5k of probably low quality words, but shhhhh.

5k words!? That’s awesome! Geez don’t need to praise me... ok please praise me writing with no time is a literal hell to go through and it’s the only thing I have hELP.

Is it that hard to write? It’s harder to write when you’re a student, especially when you have more assignments coming your way. It’s fun when I’m not pressured by time constraints, I’m also usually productive during these times as well. So you can probably see why I need to take slight breaks.

*insert format joke here* *insert witty or desperate reply to the joke here*

And that should be all! I’ll see you next Sunday my peeps!

[aregularnewyorklife]

Developer “I didn’t do the other logs on purpose, I swear” Log 7/10/18

Hewwo OwO

That’s an interesting way to start off the log. Shhhhhh.

So it’s been awhile since you did the last log, what happened? I was originally going to do a ‘Developer Demo Update Log’, but then it took me a week longer than I expected so :V I could’ve, and should’ve, done a developer log in its steed but I was too focused on doing the update. Sorry guys!

Well at least you got the chef update out. Yes I did! And it was the most satisfying experience to do, after two months, seeing that sucker get released has finally rid me of stress... until school starts again tomorrow and I have to finish a minor update and also the ‘Detective’ update as well... so yeah :))))))))

So what in store for you now? Well I’m going to try finish a minor update, create more choices in the tests/exploration (as one of my followers suggested) and introduce the detectives, before the end of the week so I can get full-focus on the detective update. 

Also note: I will be away from writing for about a week or so next week, I’m going to a school camp and will be away from technology for that period. Sorry!

So another two months of waiting? Unfortunately, probably yes. Though I’ll try and beat my record with one and a half months, gotta get that work ethic pumping through my blood!

So are we reviving the format joke or not? Well you just wasted the potential by asking for it, so we have to wait for the developer log.

Aww. Well I can make it up to you, dinner per chance?

Are you just trying to create a character arc for me? I mean, might as well?

That’s the end of that log to revive all logs, thank you guys for your patience! Also I love all the questions y’all ask, so keep sending them please! Foxboi out!

[aregularnewyorklife]

Developer Log 29/07/2018

Another week another log! This time... I did not do much!

Wait what?! Yep, you heard me, I did little this week. I am totally productive.

Come on dude! Why? To put it simply, school. It’s been 2 weeks and I’ve already been hit with assignments and preparations for assignments. On top of that, I have to prepare for a competition that’s happening in 3 weeks, so I have to shift my main focus on that as well!

Well that’s disappointing... I know right! It’s sad to not be able to work on my project substantially. I’ve been writing occasionally, but that’s starting to stagnate, and after this week, I’m going to go through literal work hell! But do not fret! I will still try to get that short minor update to get my reader’s taste buds going (hint hint)!

YAY! You still suck at formatting this though! Don’t need to rub it in!

[aregularnewyorklife]

Developer “I Forgot About Updating Y’all”Log 06/08/18

What’s going my peeps, how are y’all?

Update? I’m working on it! But assignments are still kicking my ass like there is no tomorrow! I’ll have to shift most of my attention towards it, but I’m 1/3rds of the way done.

1/3rd? That’s small. That’s where you’re wrong young student. If you follow me on my WiP thread on the CoG forums, I’ve changed the update to a moderate one! Which is larger than you think!

Wooo! I guess? Yep, my advice is just to keep waiting patiently as I slowly get this project on the roll!

So is this format joke still a running joke, or... I’m not the one who started it! (ok technically I did but shush!)

That’s the end of your weekly update and I hope y’all can wait for me, ciao!