Diehexegy

Devlog

• Back to basics
  June 02, 2024 by aebersoft

  Hi all, The 3D printer rut continued into May but I am just as keen to get back into this. I've been working on the tutorial system to increase its capability which is a bit of a dull piece of work, I... Continue reading
• May I go forth
  May 01, 2024 by aebersoft

  Hi all, April was a tough month gamedev wise but for positive reasons. I got a 3D printer..... And as a father of 3 with limited personal time I ended up spending most of my spare time using it. The g... Continue reading
• Loading success
  April 01, 2024 by aebersoft

  Hi all, Time flies when you are having fun. This past month is the first time I have been able to finish all the goals I had set for myself. This was a mix of better estimation beforehand as well as b... Continue reading
• Throwing shade(rs) on tutorials
  March 01, 2024 by aebersoft

  Hi all! Feb flew by as all months do but work continues. I have been consistently chipping away at the game and worked all month on the tutorial system. Unfortunately, there is lots more to do but onc... Continue reading
• Onwards to playtesting
  January 31, 2024 by aebersoft

  Hello all! January was a good month for my work on the game. I have started the year aiming to work on the day 7 hours a week. 1 hour a day is the main goal but doing it weekly allows me to take days... Continue reading
• Merry Christmas and a happy Tech Spike
  December 31, 2023 by aebersoft

  Hello all! It was a busy Christmas from a family point of view but I still had a pretty productive month from the GameDev point of view. Most importantly, I have submitted Diehexegy to the GDWC! I do... Continue reading
• Probable probabilities
  November 30, 2023 by aebersoft

  Hello! Another month rushed by! I was able to achieve all my goals this month which was nice, even though my goals were only two items they kept me fairly busy! I had to figure out how to calculate di... Continue reading
• Titillating Translation Tooling
  November 01, 2023 by aebersoft

  Hi all! I had a lot of fun this month working on a translation tool. One could argue that I should concentrate on the game itself but the software is such a robust long-term investment that I couldn't... Continue reading
• Back from the backend (ish)
  October 01, 2023 by aebersoft

  Hello! Another month rolls on, and some more goals get ticked off. I am happy with this month, I was able to take it (relatively) easy but still get some important work done. I am very proud of the lo... Continue reading
• It's Ai-live!
  September 01, 2023 by aebersoft

  Hi all, A massive month of work! I am pretty impressed with what I achieved this month! I even nearly finished all my goals. As usual, I procrastinated on remaking the trailers, I did the Steam page b... Continue reading
• Life with a Steam page
  August 01, 2023 by aebersoft

  Hi all, Another successful month development-wise, though classically it was a touch short of my intended goals, but I am getting better at creating objectives. Marketing wise it was a bit of a bummer... Continue reading
• Steaming forward after steam page
  July 02, 2023 by aebersoft

  Hi all, I am proud to write that I have published my coming soon Steam page. It was quite a journey to get it up, but I got there in the end! Still, some tweaking to do but that will get done too. I a... Continue reading
• Riding that refactoring high
  May 31, 2023 by aebersoft

  Hello! What a month it has been! I have done nearly 60 hours of work on the game over the month and have much to show. As expected I did not implement all the current features of single-player but got... Continue reading
• Turns out you don't ship a prototype, the refactoring
  May 01, 2023 by aebersoft

  Hi all, A ton of work this month! But not what people were expecting. I spent a good three hours restructuring git and solution setup to get some branches going. I also got the build server to use som... Continue reading
• Even commissioning art is hard
  April 01, 2023 by aebersoft

  Hi all, March few past! (in lieu of marching past). Lots of work chipped away at which is really enjoyable. Alas, my second attempt at commissioning art failed (almost catastrophically). My fiver arti... Continue reading
• Onwards and fowards
  March 01, 2023 by aebersoft

  Hi all, February was productive but my steam page still feels ages away. I had to part ways with the artist as I believe his workload was too high and the work was not progressing. No hard feelings as... Continue reading
• Playtesting is dopamine
  February 04, 2023 by aebersoft#devlog

  Hi all, And that is January done, I missed my 1st of the month dev log, my apologies. I've set a reminder in my to-do app instead of just trying to remember. My youngest child (7 months) is in hospita... Continue reading
• Merry Devness and a happy new bug!
  January 01, 2023 by aebersoft

  Hi all, And thus we enter 2023. I am very proud of myself for the progress made in 2022. As for December, well art is still delayed which is holding up a whole bunch of stuff. I also avoided my first... Continue reading
• Dev man the business man
  December 01, 2022 by aebersoft#devlog

  Hi All, The first month where I have not achieved the majority of my goals! It is not a huge deal as I usually overcommit myself. Additionally, the first week was spent fixing a bunch of bugs from las... Continue reading
• Automation is king. Also art
  November 01, 2022 by aebersoft

  Hi all, October was a reasonably productive month. I smashed out a Jenkins server and can now automatically Build the game in as many export profiles as I want Upload the game to itch Build the game s... Continue reading
• When you identify as a die
  September 30, 2022 by aebersoft

  Hi all, That month flew past! But good news! I was able to achieve a fair bit. Dice are now their own thing as opposed to just a counter. They have their own health and experience levels which change... Continue reading
• On Multiplayer and Dice
  September 01, 2022 by aebersoft

  Hi all, It has been a very productive (for me anyway) month. The basics of multiplayer are all but done (I am still working on the game over step) and the basic UI rework has been done. UI Things that... Continue reading
• Not dead, just in the backend
  August 01, 2022 by aebersoft

  Hi all, I made some nice changes in the UI (and I am excited about where it led me) before I started thinking and tinkering with multiplayer. The little research I did (aka www.reddit.com/r/gamedev) m... Continue reading
• Prototype successful
  June 23, 2022 by aebersoft#prototype

  Hi all, After posting this prototype to a few places (friends, discord and reddit) the feedback I have received is generally positive. I needed to know "is this concept worthwhile". I was pretty sure... Continue reading