I spent most of last night and the first half of today designing the icons for the new radial menu system. Not completely happy with all of them (the resource production ones definitely feel like a cop-out), but it's pretty great to see them in all together in-game :) #gamedev #indiedev

We're bringing @KestrelPi onboard as a composer to help bring #HiveTime to life. Music can be such a big part of the experience, and we're super happy to have an experienced tune carrier joining our small band of bee lovers :) #gamedev #indiedev
http://kestrelpi.co.uk

Finally got the honey refinery production/pause/resume animations that I started during yesterday's stream looking/behaving better. Had to redo them three times >_< #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev

Spend some time messing with main menu stuff today. It's still a long way from done, but it's a start! #HiveTime #Gamedev #Indiedev

Cool hives #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev

Finally got the main menu in and behaving today. Still needs a whole bunch of work, but it's fun and functional, and that's what matters \o/ #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev

Workin on a new crown for the Queen #HiveTime #indiedev #gamedev

The Queen's new crown in-game #screenshotsaturday #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev

First pass on save and load screens (also added autosaves) =_= #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev

Added a little HUD icon for when vignettes are active, which zooms the viewport onto the relevant cell when clicked. Makes finding them in large/complex hives heaps easier. #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev

Neeeearly done with menu stuff. Got this cool transition working this afternoon. #HiveTime #indiedev #gamedev

I'm going to make that Queen sit in the throne by the end of the day if it kills me #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev

Ship it, I guess #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev

I'm just gong to make a game about bees in wheely chairs now #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev

Shipped a #HiveTime update tonight that I had hoped to ship on the 10th to coincide with when the Queen's birthday is celebrated in my corner of the world. In Australia alone, we have the Queen's birthday on 3 different days in different months.

I'll be the first to admit that the colonial heritage we put so much effort into celebrating should instead be commiserated, but in this rare case, I was happy to lean into it and reference the silliness #gamedev #indiedev

A bit late for #screenshotsaturday, but I finally got #HiveTime's research menu in and working \o/ #gamedev #indiedev

A quick look at what I'm hoping to achieve with #HiveTime's research system https://cheeseness.itch.io/hive-time/devlog/85917/2019-06-16-build-preview-37 #gamedev #indiedev

Making a start on giving a bit more feedback on the outcomes of events, aaaaaand I think I'm going to need bigger info boxes #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev

Expanded some of the research options (research items can now can require other research items to be completed before becoming available) last night #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev

Did some tweaking of age related stuff today. Bees no longer have negative age (previously there was a global lifespan and varying starting point to give variance). Also added an "effect" (bottom right) to communicate encroaching Queen mortality #hivetime #indiedev #gamedev

First pass on large construction obstacles #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev

A little bit more variation #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev

Got some smaller obstacles in now, which are helping to give a sense of scale #screenshotsaturday #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev

Four large and three small obstacle variants. That should do for now #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

It's really hard to take a screenshot of this, but there are some UI sounds in the game now. A screenshot of the volume settings will have to suffice #HiveTime #indiedev #gamedev

Been working on some particle effects to make bee deaths more readable. I'm worried that they might be too subtle. #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev

Also working on a spawn effect. Always make the same mistake twice, I say. #HiveTime #indiedev #gamedev

Probably still to much, but it's less insane now #HiveTime #indiedev #gamedev

Had our first bit of game-ready WIP music come in today. It's super exciting to see our little game with big music :D

Here's a minute or so of #HiveTime gameplay featuring the first bit of @KestrelPi 's work so far (apologies for the Twitter link - video's a bit big for Mastodon) https://twitter.com/ValiantCheese/status/1149748838187462656

You can hear more of it over on Peter's soundcloudy thing
https://soundcloud.com/peter-silk-kestrelpi/beeginnings-work-in-progress

#gamedev #indiedev

Here's a screenshot of some of the new particle effects that happen when bees drop resources that they've brought in from outside the hive 🐝

For anybody who's not up for reading the entire dev log, here's a recap of the past couple of weeks' worth of work https://www.patreon.com/posts/28345376
#HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Added a transparent preview of the to-be-built cell when hovering over a construction option (which turns red when it's unbuildable). Goodbye feedback on not knowing why stuff can't be built. #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev

Gave the population menu a bit of an overhaul today. Probably going to shorten the heading, but in general, it's looking more Hive Timey than the default Godot UI did #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev

I also popped in some fun particle effects to help communicate when research is progressing #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev

Today's seen a bunch of cool additions - not the least of which is a new track from @KestrelPi ! It's been fun and exciting to "see" Peter working and to witness the iterative growth of the stuff he's bringing to the game :) #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev https://soundcloud.com/peter-silk-kestrelpi/peace

Today's close enough to the 50th anniversary of humans stomping around on our natural satellite for the first time, so I decided to paint an event featuring the moon in the background (based on concept art by Mim) #Apollo50th #HiveTime #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Added optional role-specific floor colouring to help make it easier to identify which bees are related to what cells/add extra clutter when zoomed out. When adding things like this, it always takes iteration to find a balance between subtle and useful #gamedev #indiedev #HiveTime

Haven't been doing much visually interesting stuff on #HiveTime over the past bunch of days (mostly been refactoring and doing audio stuff). Did tidy up the icon a bit this morning though #gamedev #indiedev

Been working on upgraded storage cells for the past week or so. #hivetime #gamedev #indiedev