Set up my first Slack bot and added three basic commands

ObeBot can now run three commands:

1. Respond to a ping
2. Send a message to the future
3. Display a list of available commands

So far, this has been pretty easy. I’m not planning on doing any super complex commands, so I’ll probably finish this project soon.

Added a space-themed parallaxing background and a todo list app

Making the background was a little bit tricky. I originally made the shader for a different project, SuperOrbital. I used Godot’s movie maker to render the three different parallax layers to images, then I used css to make the images repeat and slide at different speeds.

The todo list was really quite easy to make, it’s just a list of checkboxes and text input fields.

Added a new window which tells you about SuperOrbital

It took me a while to get the scrolling working on the windows, but I have now successfully added a second functional application which can show you one of my other projects.
SuperOrbital is a game I made in Godot for stardance, and it’s basically the theme of this WebOS.

Added an app that lets you check out SuperOrbital (another game I made)

The scrollbar is acting weird, and the text overflows, but I couldn’t figure out how to fix it.

I set up the basic desktop interface (mostly just following the WebOS tutorial at this stage)

I just got started on GravOS, a web OS about a fictional robot assistant named Grav. Grav is a character in SuperOrbital, which is another one of my stardance projects.

Here, I made a simple background and a window that can open and close. I used the WebOS tutorial to learn how to use HTML and CSS, and I found it very helpful.

Finished Up the GitHub Readme, Game Trailer, and Itch.io page!

I did all the last remaining steps to finishing the game before shipping. I made a trailer of about 1 minute, and wrote a section of the GitHub Readme about the making of SuperOrbital. I’m going to ship now!

FINALLY fixed an annoying physics bug, improved the intro cutscene, and made the black holes look better

I’m very happy to say that the dash/platform bug I was experiencing previously has now been solved. The player used to clip out of bounds if you dashed into a moving platform, but now, the player will get teleported back to where they were before.
I also did some work on the intro cutscene, and while it isn’t yet finalized, I think it looks much better.
Also, I made the center of the black hole a perfect circle now.

THE FINISHING TOUCHES

Yo yo yo, I am very close to shipping my game. I only have a little bit more to do. I’ve been working on improving the cutscenes, for example, making the colors look better and improving the perspective. I still have more work to do though, of course.
Next up, I’m going to polish some of the movement mechanics some more, and then I’ll get some friends to playtest it.

Devlog 2:

I finally built a file system inside roblox!!
Now you can save your class notes inside roblox as a cloud storage
This took quite a bit of time, but I added syscall support for Read !

Stay tuned to see a working linux inside roblox !

Greatly Improved Sound and Level Design

I found it suprisingly easy to make good sound effects for my game. I dropped a rock on the ground and recorded it, and now, that’s the sound that plays when the player lands on rocky terrain after falling. I took a screwdriver and hit it against a bunch of things until I found something that sounded good. It’s a fun process!
I also worked more on level design, by balancing everything so that the progression felt natural. I am almost finished with the final level, which I hope will challenging but fun.

devlog #8: fixed the whole glitch with the draggable windows, now it works perfectly and the resize buttons are fully functional now!

Added checkpoints to the levels

If you find that the game is too challenging, you can turn on checkpoints in the settings menu. This lets you respawn at the nearest checkpoint after dying, instead of starting the whole level over again. I hope that this option can make my game playable by more people of different skill levels.

Redesigned Old Levels to Work Better With New Player Movement

With player movement out of the way, I can get to making even better levels. This one in particular, which you can see below, is a level I’m quite proud of. I took inspiration from Hollow Knight’s Path of Pain a little bit.
I don’t have much left to do, but I definitely want to add some better sound effects.

Finishing the Movement and Experimenting with Dynamic Lighting

I finally got all the movement mechanics down. I still might refine the black holes a little bit, but first I want to redesign some of the earlier levels.
My teammate suggested dynamic lighting for our game, and while it looks cool, it seems to difficult to set up completely for our Stardance release.

Greatly improved the Level Select screen by making animated level buttons

I used Godot’s Tweens to make the level select buttons rotate and pop when you select them. The effect isn’t perfect yet, but it’s getting there. What do think of the effect?

Fixed a Tricky Level Transition Bug

I was experiencing this frustrating bug where, if you try to run back and forth between levels too fast, you can fall off the map. I expanded the camera boundaries to see what was happening better, and slowed down the game a bit using Godot’s awesome tools. I solved the bug by reordering the level transition code.
On the first slide, you can see the original bug, and on the third slide, you can see the fixed version.

Refined the Gravity Switch Shockwave Even More

It made the shockwave effect go by faster, and be properly centered on the player. This makes the shockwave feel just right when playing the game, and gives the gravity switch the perfect amount of impact.