Rick O'Shea

Devlog

• Code Released
  July 09, 2026 by Dragonforge Development

  If you have interest in checking out the code for this project, I have released it on GitHub. https://github.com/dragonforge-dev/game-rick-o-shea This game was fun to make, but I have no interest in d... Continue reading

  
• Day Ten - Last Day
  May 25, 2026 by Dragonforge Development#devlog, #gamejam

  Today is the last day I can work on this game. So, everything has to be finished today. I decided to start with localization. I have a Localization Plugin . It's actually quite small and just leverage... Continue reading

  
• Day Nine - The Penultimate Day
  May 24, 2026 by Dragonforge Development

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  "Penultimate" just means "the day before the last day." I'm not going to be able to work on the game on Memorial Day, so I have to finish everything tomorrow and submit my game. So, I sat down today a... Continue reading

  
• Day Eight - Level Building
  May 24, 2026 by Dragonforge Development#devlog, #gamejam

  So I ended up starting to build levels, and then just kinda didn't. I did add in a bunch of new models. That was the extent of my effort. I just didn't feel like working on the game - so I didn't. I a... Continue reading

  
• Day Seven - Loss of Motivation
  May 22, 2026 by Dragonforge Development#devlog, #gamejam

  This project has felt harder than most. Every success comes with multiple setbacks. Now that the shooting is working, it's still only correct if the gun is held level. And my movement state machine ha... Continue reading

  
• Day Five - Shooting is Hard
  May 21, 2026 by Dragonforge Development

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  Well, after a day of remaking my controller, I have something that kinda works. I followed this 3rd Person Controller Tutorial which was pretty good, but was a very long, partially paywalled, stream-o... Continue reading

  
• Day Six - Aiming
  May 21, 2026 by Dragonforge Development

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  Motivation was tough today. The aiming issue was difficult. I couldn't get my state machine working either. Which means I'm probably going to have to rebuild it with a simpler state machine. I now hav... Continue reading

  
• Day Four - Rebuilding Day
  May 19, 2026 by Dragonforge Development#devlog, #gamejam

  Today, I haven't spent any time on the game. Instead, I saw this reply to a post about architecture and it got me thinking. So I replied, and then I spent some time watching videos about the GraphEdit... Continue reading

  
• Day Three - Planning My Day
  May 18, 2026 by Dragonforge Development#devlog

  I accidentally clicked off this page while writing and have had to start over. Sigh. So now you get a bullet pointed list. The sky background is too bright and washing out my shooting gallery level. I... Continue reading

  
• Day Two - Writing As I Go
  May 17, 2026 by Dragonforge Development#devlog, #gamejam

  Today I decided to write as I work, so that I'm not spending 2 hours at the end of the day writing and staying up too late. Today I have spent some time doing research on bouncing objects. I've done i... Continue reading

  
• Day One - GameDev.tv 2026 Jam
  May 16, 2026 by Dragonforge Development

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  I'm on day one of the GameDev.tv's game jam for the second year in a row. Last year, I tried to make The Bakery at the End of the Universe . I got bogged down in technical detail, had no clear gamepla... Continue reading