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Former modder turned amateur game developer. Lead developer of Tiny Combat Arena. Buy the game on Steam!
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0.13.4.1 is now available on the main branch!
✅ AI firing IR guided missiles
✅ Nav mode and nav lighting on planes
✅ New instant action wave settings
✅ US M48 Infrared guided SAM added
✅ Fixed that one really annoying bug where the loadout kept getting reset between missions
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It seems I've accidentally made pilots targetable with recent code changes.
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Finished up the ricochet code and also made it so ricochets are more likely to happen when you hit something hard such as asphalt. You can also see the ricocheting bullets hit other stuff better.
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My mind is BLOWN. These models are incredible. Here's the Subaru from my original post.
82 triangles. It's beautiful😭
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The Mouse Flight Controller is now on GitHub! Use the mouse to point where you want to fly. This style system is IMO the best and most robust way to fly a plane with a mouse, especially those using realistic physics.
#gamedev
#madewithunity
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Ever since Squadrons was released, I've been dying to know how in the world a couple X-Wing fans tricked EA into letting them make a spiritual successor to X-Wing vs TIE Fighter and the story is now finally out.
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Next patch adds a cheat code to enable the AI planes to be flyable. As the name implies, they aren't designed for the player to fly so they will be wonky in various ways, and they lack detailed cockpits.
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I'm proud to announce that Tiny Combat Arena is being published by MicroProse!
Wishlist Tiny Combat Arena on Steam:
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I cannot contain my excitement about how good Legendary Pilots looks. This says it all:
"Unlike in any other flying game, the user experiences many other aspects of the flight, like dealing with routes and passengers, and buying and fixing their own planes in an immersive world."
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The external/chase camera now have a configurable "motion" setting. Basically it uses acceleration to convey the motion of the jet and reacts especially well to things like turbulence and minor corrections.
For reference: this is on almost max settings.
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Million dollar plane game idea: Action flying game, but with a VN style metagame between flights.
However, it's not just about cute wingmen doing cute things. That's baby stuff. Like Fire Emblem, you can also ship wingmen and base crew together, and they get into wacky hijinks.
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The asset builder tools for Tiny Combat Arena have been released! Within only a couple hours, modders have already used to tools to export new missiles and aircraft!
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The release build of the game is now locked and loaded into Steam for Tuesday. 😅
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Deleted about 3700 lines of old vehicle code today. The new code is roughly half that size, simpler, and significantly more performant. It is a good day.
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I alt-tabbed to check some code, expecting to crash into the water, but instead the ground effect from the wings kept me airborne.
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Destroying units matters way more now that bases have supplies. If you destroy enough of their vehicles to run it out of supplies, those vehicles are gone forever. Makes vehicles much more valuable than before.
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0.10.1.1 is now available on the tester's branch. This is a big one that adds the campaign framework, a short and simple test campaign, map camera improvements, missile lofting, and a spicy cheat code.
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I love all the tricks used in PS1 games to keep triangle counts low. The wheel wells in Gran Turismo 2 are created using an alpha-clipped texture instead of raw geometry. I'm curious what the real geometry looks like in this area.
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Thank you all for the overwhelming response and support! 😭
I figured there could be a lot, but nothing like this. There's a whole lot more eyes on the game than before, and the stakes feel a whole lot higher. 👀💦
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I can't wait to add two seaters with more complicated ejection sequences. The code is ready.
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Small patch coming soon with some bug fixes, while I plan out the bigger task items remaining. I'll have really exciting news to announce soon regarding the terrain.
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Munitions still do damage and impart forces, based on the kinetic energy of the impact, if they strike something before the warhead is armed.
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When flight sim grognards complain that "they don't make them like they used to", they're talking about how many old sims were about the holistic experience of being a pilot (combat or otherwise), and not so laser-focused on the flight and systems modeling of the plane itself.
I cannot contain my excitement about how good Legendary Pilots looks. This says it all:
"Unlike in any other flying game, the user experiences many other aspects of the flight, like dealing with routes and passengers, and buying and fixing their own planes in an immersive world."
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To test the new asset loading pipeline I've been working on the A-10 model. It's about half-done, but AI really struggles to fly it.
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0.10.2.3 is now available on the main branch!
✅Test Campaign
✅Pre-flight loadout selection
✅Map camera
✅Unlimited/Increased ammo count options
✅Missile lofting
✅Cheat code(s) that does something
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After like 3-4 iterations, nav lights are finally ingame.
1. They are directional and fade out of view limits
2. When far away, they become perfect pixels
3. They support blinking
4. All of this is done in the shader so it's basically free!
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Unlimited weapons option is coming in the next patch.
Volume Warning 🔊
With cluster bombs, this creates explosions so loud that I've had to put a compressor on the game to prevent it from clipping like crazy.
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I'm really proud of the database viewer. I'm a huge sucker for these sorts of in-game model/stat viewers.
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Working on closing out a bunch of water related bugs, which includes updated visual effects.
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Armor is getting a slight revision, and bullets ricocheting in a cool way is part of that.
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A flight of four Harriers in formation! This is a HUGE deal because previously there wasn't even a concept of "flights", let alone the AI or physics to fly in formation!
#screenshotsaturday
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#indiegame
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Finally did a long-overdue revision to how cockpit rendering works. The plane exterior is no longer duplicated in the cockpit model, and instead specified meshes get hidden when in cockpit view (e.g. the third person canopy frame).
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0.11.1.4 is now available on the main branch!
✅ IR guided SA-9 SAM
✅ Player ejection
✅ Brand new HUD with a ton of new features like:
✅ Pitch ladder, new options, more weapons info
✅ PAPI lights on the larger airfields
✅ Traffic cones!
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I've extracted out the Freelancer style mouse flight system from that FL Simulator into a separate GitHub project. All the code is done, I just need to write a readme for it.
#gamedev
#madewithunity
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Polishing up the HUD. When in third person, the HUD switches to a "wide" mode so you can see the cool plane in the middle better. Cockpit HUD meanwhile uses the narrow format.
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Finalized PAPI lights and the associated scaling required to keep them visible at range, but also look normal when up close. I'm really happy with how this came out.
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It's only taken like 3 years but there's not just incoming missiles, but also incoming missile warnings!
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Okay, between the terrain, buildings, roads, and fields, I think I've got something that's working.
#gamedev
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The basemesh for the big island is finally in place. There's still a lot of work to do, but it involved a lot of messing with shaders and other effects to help clarify where the ground is.
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Very short video I put together for when people ask how they're supposed to take off from the short runways. With this technique, you can take off from any airfield in the game, with any loadout, in the AV8B.
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If a plane loses a critical piece, the pilot will attempt to regain control for a second or two, and then eject.
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The new point light rendering tech is super stable, and mimics the old fashioned pixel point lights of old DOS games.
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I set out to do a lot today, but instead I ended up just fixing a bunch of bugs and adding a bridge.
#gamedev
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This game is already really good! Lite-sim gameplay, a huge map, multiple planes, a mission editor, a crazy damage model that almost has more in common with mech games, a really sick Macross style multi-lock mechanic, ground vehicles, radars, SAMs, a database, and even nukes.
I tried Nuclear Option today. It's pretty good. Easy to get into and really fun. Seeing the nuke going off for the first time was pretty chilling.
You can try it for free right now, there is a play test currenlty running on Steam:
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I was messing around with the community made Haunted PSX Render Pipeline and I'm so impressed by how easy it is to really nail that look. My favorite is the way it handles reflections, which are normal based like Gran Turismo rather than true reflections.
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Big milestone! The plane that spawns in is a fully data-driven plane with working landing gear, animations, ground handling, and all that jazz. This was something that old AI planes 100% could not do, but now all planes, including the player, use the same code.
#gamedev
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0.9.0.7 is now on the public branch!
Features include:
✅ MASSIVELY overhauled/optimized vehicle code
✅ Huge optimizations to turrets, guns, bullets
✅ New supply system for bases
✅ Improved targeting (prioritizes anti-air!)
✅ Flying below radar
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Tiny Combat 0.8.2 is now released! This is a huge patch focused on addressing concerns with flight and camera controls, through a plethora of new options and features.
Highlights:
✅ Mouse-driven free look
✅ Adjustable FOV
✅ Mixed keyboard/mouse/joystick input
✅ Quick zoom
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Did a fun little thing in a couple hours because I'm going insane working on all the HUD stuff I made a little helicopter. The physics are complete nonsense but it looks nice.
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As a weekend side-project I was messing around with raylib to figure out how to handle arbitrary rotations in it. I ended up making this little thing where you can fly an arcadey spaceship around with either the keyboard or gamepad.
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Took care of a TON of little things today, but the biggest one is the new VTOL HUD mode. When in VTOL flight, the flight path marker changes design, gets caged to the HUD, and uses the pitch ladder as a vertical speed indicator for super smooth and controlled landings.
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This week has been a very "fix one thing which then exposes previously hidden bugs" week. One of the random things now fixed (and has appropriate FX) is dud bombs, i.e. bombs or weapons that impact something before arming.
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