Just pushed a demo for my game. dafluffster.itch.io/planetar… Soon to come to the Steam store. But wanted to get eyes on it now to get some input. Let me know what you think. Join the Discord or visit the webpage. planetaryplains.com/

Up to ten chests on every floor. Walk into one and it pops open, spins through the weapons, and lets you pick one of two. Fireball got real fire: a glowing core, a flame trail into a shockwave when it goes boom!

The enemies became steampunk robots. Then the frame rate tanked again. 600 robots standing still ran fine; 600 walking ran at 17 FPS. Skeleton animation on every one of them, not the drawing. Who knew?

Worked all day on the animations for my bosses.

Built the player in Blender: Stick figure with a backpack. tried to give him parkour moves: running jumps turn into flips, landings roll. Simple shape, so you can see him in a crowd.

A timer is ticking. At 10:00 it’s BULL RUSH TIME: enemies pour in ten times faster, and get stronger every minute. Get to the gate before you die, or hold on as long as you can.

First World performance problems: 20 mobs and the game crawled. Rocks collisions were built from models with 2,000 points, Every mob checked against them. Swapped them for simple shapes and physics went from 41 ms a frame to under 1. (For 60 fps)

Weapons fire on their own. Your job is to move, dodge and pick upgrades. Every level-up gives you three cards to pick from. That's the moment it started being a game.

Still looking for someone to make me 2 songs for the game. If you know someone let them know to reach out to me. Please no AI music, as I want this to go on Steam without saying it was made with AI. Thanks

Early on I scrapped the single tower. Every floor became its own arena on a different world: forest, desert, ice, lava. That's when the game got its name, Planetary Plains. Weird how you get 1 thing in your mind on how it should look. Then that changes in an instant.

Still looking for a SOUND GUY who can make me 2 looping songs for my game.. Hard to believe there is no one out there that can make me songs.. Not AI..

Having friends play your game is very eye opening.. I would have never played the game like that.. And yet here they are breaking your game without even trying.. Time to make massive changes to fix those flaws! PS. One of my friends thought he was Forrest Gump. RUN FORREST RUN!

Right now I am using GDC Sounds.. And I added so many and started going through what I was using and what I wasn't.. Come to find out.. I was 9.8MB heavy with unused sound files in the game. Really need to figure out the bloat!

Feeling a little ganged up on

I am looking for a Musician that can give me 2 songs that will loop for my game. Please reach out to me in this thread so we can DM about getting a price for doing that work. CAN NOT BE AI DONE!

Pro-tip in gaming dev... Literally just adding lighting for mood is a game changer for the look of a game! I just learned that :)