Rick O'Shea

Devlog

• 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

  
• GameDev.tv 2026 Jam - Day One
  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