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@majormcdoom.bsky.social

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Canadian indie VR dev / founder @cozycubegames.bsky.social. Wishlist 🐧Penguin Festival🐧: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3552090/Penguin_Festival/ Past: Owlchemy Labs. Proud husband and shiba dad. - 🚫 gen AI - 🚫 genocide - ✊ trans rights

A video comparing the maraca scene from the trailer to a clip from the quoted video of the final procedural maraca SFX. In the trailer, the player penguin does a couple of quick rattles at a teal-colored NPC penguin with long pigtails. She nods approvingly, then they dance while the player penguin does some rhythmic maraca action.
Demonstrating the salt shaker being dragged around by the mouse, with a similar kind of debug visualization that shows a linear track with a virtual weight representing the salt moving along the track. It makes sounds as it slides around and when it hits the ends.
A video of me demonstrating shaker tech with maracas. There is a debug visualization on a maraca that I'm holding which shows the simulated "interior cavity" with a weight point that determines the position of the pile of seeds. I move the maraca in various ways, tossing, tumbling and rolling the seeds, to produce different sounds. Finally I do some clapping and do some rhythmic maraca action alongside a guitar rendition of the Gerudo Valley theme.
A video demonstrating recent work on the fluid system in Penguin Festival, featuring: - Pourable fluid spout on a tea kettle and watering can - Fluids being poured into cups and onto the player's flippers - Fluids being poured onto a plant, and bouncing/rolling off the leaves into a cup - Player hooking a watering can with two fishing rods, then suspending it overhead, using it like a shower - Some live adjustments of the various parameters of the watering can's spout, showing how it affects the fluid streams rushing out of it
penguin.remove_motor_tasks_of_type(WhittleMotorTask) penguin.add_motor_task(HandOnWaistMotorTask.new()) TestUtil.look_at(penguin, penguin2.face) TestUtil.expression(penguin, CharacterFace.FacialExpression.ANNOYED)
A video of the same two penguins, except this time when the shorter penguin is interfering with the whittling, the whittler penguin still tries to whittle at the figurine's new location, no matter where it is, instead of trying to whittle the point in the air where it *used to* be.
A video of the same penguin whittling the same wooden figurine from the quoted post, except this time the knife's motion transfers into the figurine as it scrapes. There's also another penguin in the scene who is much shorter with neon green glasses, who is interfering by slapping, shoving, grabbing and pulling on the figurine. Whenever the knife fails to scrape the figurine due to the interference, it makes a little whoosh sound instead of the scraping sound, and doesn't play the debris particles. There is also no force transferred to the figurine.
A video of the penguin peeling a radish, and whittling a wooden slingshot.
A video of a penguin NPC whittling a wooden seagull figurine, occasionally pausing to inspect it. Beside the game is a view of the Godot viewport, with a blue gizmo showing the "whittling point". As I drag it around to different places on the seagull figurine, the NPC in the game automatically adjusts his hand/figurine to better see / work on the correct point.
A video showing the sun and lens flare meshes in Blender, then in a Godot viewport, then in the game. In Blender, you can clearly see the separated parts between the sun disk, the halo rings, and the stack of hexagons for the lens flare. In the game, you can see the lens flare behaving like a screen effect when you look toward/away from the sun, and also when the sun is obstructed.
A showcase of different ways the fishing rod is used in Penguin Festival, including: - Casting at distant objects and flicking to bring them flying over to you. - Dual-wielding fishing rods hooked onto the same object, and using them to play jump rope. - Fishing
A video showing a penguin inspecting a fish, then a big hammer, then a wooden spatula. The penguin occasionally rotates their hand to get a better view of whatever they're currently focusing on. Sometimes, I activate red laser eyes to visualize exactly where the eyes are focusing.
A video comparing three different "styles" of turning in the same context as the quoted video. First it shows full-body turning, with the player running in circles around the NPC, and the NPC basically trying to keep up. Next, it shows upper-body turn, which is what the quoted video uses. In this style, the NPC looks like they're just offering/suggesting, but not pleading. Finally, it shows what happens when none of the body turns at all. The NPC looks like they can't be bothered, and the player doesn't really have a choice.
Some footage of the player behind the builder penguin. Depending on where the player is, the builder penguin quickly whips her arm left or right with the hammer, making whoosh sounds.
The player has a brief conversation with a builder penguin in a test scene. The builder penguin asks if the player is ready to get to work. The player is reluctant, but the builder penguin laughs it off and takes out a hammer and holds it forward to the player penguin. The player walks all around the builder penguin, and crouches and stands up. The builder penguin consistently adjusts her trunk/arm/gaze to extend the hammer to the player in a way that looks natural for her own posture/orientation.
A video showing a few of my scripts. The first is breakable.gd, which has a bunch of big emojis marking important functions. ❤️‍🩹 for taking damage, 💥for breaking, etc. Next is fishing_session.gd, which has a big header that says: "🎣钓鱼 Session", as well as some other emoji + Chinese headings for fishing logic. Next are hanging_garlic_bunch.gd and hanging_kelp_bunch.gd, which feature renders of their respective associated scenes that spin around as you scroll through the code. Finally, ocean.gd shows a view of the ocean at the bottom, plus a big ☠️emoji marking the function that kills sunken items.
The player penguin repeatedly taking out and putting away hammers from the hammer space behind them, while side-stepping around a central point in a test scene.
Grandma penguin is very vertically squished so her head is intersecting with her hip, and she's also doing a weird gyrating motion for some reason. She almost looks like a Gorilla Tag character.
Commit message that says: "Stopped garlic from rolling away infinitely."
A Godot plushie being moved around the same room, knocking things off the wooden beams on the wall. The objects knocked off regain their shadows, and whenever the Godot plushie enters obscured areas, it loses shadows.
An overhead shot of a room with walls on all sides, with hanging planters and fishing rods and buckets and fish resting on them. As the directional light changes direction, some of the objects on the walls cast ugly shadows into the room. Next, smart shadows are turned on. Now when the light changes direction, the objects which are determined to be "obscured" by the wall no longer cast shadows.
Editor preview of the kelp cook states. It turns reddish brown when cooked, and shriveled and charred when overcooked. I also test chewing, which emits appropriately colored particles.
A recording of me using my mouse cursor to drag around the player penguin's flipper, smacking a bunch of kelp hanging form a line. It's nice and floppy and wet. I then tug on one of the kelp leaves, and shake it around. I tug harder and it comes off. I slap it into the penguin's face a few times and slap the other hanging kelp with it.
A test scene where I'm using my mouse to make the player penguin smack a big bunch of garlic ganging from a wire. I smack it around, and tug on it a few times. Eventually I tug on it hard enough to pop off a few heads of garlic, which the penguin inspects.
A slow-mo clip from the video, zoomed in on the character's face.
The player penguin stares at the chair, which is partially embedded in the floor. The player presses the interact button to sit in the chair, which causes the chair to pop up to the surface and start rocking. But then the character's eyes are positioned slightly lower on the face than they normally are, and they phase in and out of the character's face as the chair rocks back and forth.
A recording of the spectator view of me in VR as a penguin, playing around with the fishing rod. First, I use it to aim at various items in the distance. As I aim, a reticle appears above my target. The camera switches to an over-the-shoulder view pointed at the target. When I cast, the camera follows the tackle through the air. When it hits the target object, the camera returns to being the player follow cam. Next, I aim with the fishing rod over the ocean. A reticle appears over the water. I cast the line, but when it hits the water, the camera switches to a special view out at sea, looking at the floating tackle. Fast forward. A fish bites, I yank the rod. The camera instantly switches to behind the player, and traces the fish as it is flung through the air. Once it reaches the player, the camera seamlessly goes back to being the follow cam.
A video showing the player penguin flinging around a fish with two fishing rods, then skipping rope with it, then hooking a Godot plushie from a rocking chair with a fishing rod, and finally fishing in the ocean. The fishing sequence has a mini camera view showing the tackle floating in the water, getting bitten by a fish, which then thrashes about wildly in the water, creating splashes. The fishing wire also gets pulled, which bends the fishing rod.
A little guide image showing how to make shapes with regular structure more "whimsical" within the game.
A GIF of Link sailing in the King of Red Lions across the open ocean, with Dragon Roost Island behind them on the horizon.
An early recording of me playing around with the flag line basis, and all the flags are distorted accordingly. But then I show the special shader code, and they appear undistorted. mat4 nmm = MODEL_MATRIX; nmm[0].xyz = normalize(nmm[0].xyz); nmm[1].xyz = mix(cross(nmm[2].xyz, nmm[0].xyz), vec3(0, 1, 0), 0.75); vec3 world_pos = (nmm * vec4(VERTEX, 1)).xyz;
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A massive Borg cube of 5 million seagulls.
A video showing a broad overview of the steps toward making the shader: - basic Y-motion propagation - tuck wingtips along x - shift scale curve so body is in negative - intermittent flap pattern - extremity turbulence - Tokyo Drift Ends with a shot of Godot plushies riding on seagulls with the sunset behind them.
A video capture of a scene in the Godot editor, showing a windmill with fabric in the wheel, seagulls, trees, and a flag line with little flags, all responding dynamically as I adjust the wind speed. There are also wind trails in the sky.
A video of me sloshing around a cup of fluid with the mouse. The fluid that pours from it occasionally lands in a second up, whose fluid then grows and color changes as it mixes with the incoming fluid. I press some buttons to instantly change the fluid composition of the first cup (water, coffee, red paint, yellow paint).
Video cap of how to access Desmos dark mode.
Old video showing off Penguin Festival's cloud tech, with various parameters being tweaked, giving it different looks, ranging from puffy to wispy to steamy.
A video of me playing with an animated "cloud" graph in Desmos, using the same math from the quoted post. In the corner is a screen cap of a Trello card I have that says "Backlog: Make geometry-based cloud shader".
A video of me playing with a sin function and a linear function in Desmos graphing calculator, with smooth min and smooth max applied. The result looks like a smoothed outline of the "interior spaces" formed by the intersections of the two functions.
A video showing me tweaking with a collection of wire spheres in the editor. There are two thick black bands which "wrap" around the outside of the sphere collection, forming sort of "smoothed envelopes" around them. As I adjust the spheres, the bands themselves also adjust to fit around the spheres. The smoothing lambda value is also adjusted (see the quoted video for more details about that).
A screenshot of the editor layout dropdown in Godot, showing the "Default" option and the "Sensible" option made by me.
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A "Go Pro" view of the Penguin Festival penguin running, with Naruto music in the background.
A video showing me editing the windmill script for Penguin Festival, using passthrough to reveal a faded transparent view of the windmill scene in the 3D viewport. I can edit the scene itself, as well as the script, and all changes are immediately reflected in the passthrough. I also change viewport configurations (4-viewport grid), and also pop the script editor out from the main editor window, and the passthrough still works as expected.
A screenshot of the code that handles resetting the previewed cook state before saving the scene. func _notification(what: int) -> void: if what == NOTIFICATION_EDITOR_PRE_SAVE: cook_state = CookState.UNCOOKED _apply_states()
A video of me using a button to cycle through different cook states of a fish and a radish on a chopping board in a scene in the Godot editor. When the fish gets cooked, it turns from blue to brown. When it gets overcooked, it turns super dark and crispy looking. The radish gets redder when it gets cooked, then shriveled and dark brownish red when overcooked. I also use a button to simulate "eating" the items from the camera's position. There are particle and sound effects for cook state change and eating crumbs. The crumb colors also reflect the cook state.
A backsplash of a flock of seagulls flying over another backsplash of a pear emoji above a pair-of-open-hands emoji.
Moving a live backsplash of a flock of seagulls from one place in the code to another, by cutting/pasting the comment.
A video showing the backsplash addon being used to embed different live scenes into the code editor. First it shows a fishing rod and a fish spinning in the fishing rod script as you scroll up and down. Next it shows a sun with lens flare and parallax effect and an ocean embedded in the ocean script. The lens flare and camera for the scenes dynamically follow the scrolling. Finally it shows a seagull flock being edited directly in the seagull script. It is easily refreshed by commenting/uncommenting the backsplash, reflecting changes to the seagull packing algorithm.
Artie the shiba inu smiling at the camera, in a field of dandelions at a park. Very green, much sunlight, wow.
A video showing the player penguin in the background, and an NPC penguin in the foreground with the "cheering" activity applied. He jumps up and down, bounces from side to side, does rhythmic punches and fist pumps, all while maintaining gaze on the thing he's "cheering for", which is a red dot manipulated by the mouse. Next, the video shows a breakdown of various major constituent penguin motor tasks, including: - battle_stance - point_at - clench - stretch_toward - jump - fist_pump
A penguin with sunglasses with the snowball fight battle stance motor task applied. He's got his arms out to his side, and he's slightly bouncing up and down, and side to side. Next, the multiplier is set to 2.0. He is now leaning forward much more, and bouncing more dramatically, as though dancing to music. Finally, the multiplier is set to -1.0. Now he's leaning backwards, and he now looks like he's doing hip thrusts. The arms crossed motor task is applied, and he looks like he's doing that move from Gangnam Style.
A little playthrough of the test. Player talks to an NPC, who boasts about the music volume ducking during conversations. Player runs down a dock. The music gets quieter towards the end. The player talks to another NPC, who talks about quiet spaces. He closes his eyes for a calm moment of complete silence. Player runs back, and enters a door in the side of a tower. The game transitions to an indoor scene, where the player talks to another NPC that talks about cute house music. The player leaves and re-emerges from the tower. The player runs up the spiral staircase on the side of the tower, with the music getting quieter towards the top. Upon reaching the top, the player sees a lonely NPC looking over the ocean, and the game fades into a cutscene. The NPC asks if the player wants to hear boss music, the camera zooms in on her face with a deranged expression. Boss fight and boss music begins.
A video capture of the examples scene. A 🙂 emoji turns into a 🥵 emoji whenever any of 3 🔥check buttons are toggled on. Three volume sliders are adjusted, with a fourth automatically reflecting their minimum. Three white balls spin around, with a green ball automatically assuming their midpoint/average position.
A backsplash of a big 🤓 emoji, with a smaller 👇 beside it. As the code window is resized, the code wrapping moves the 👇 up and down, as though it is poking and nudging the code.
A view of a backsplash comment with the addon disabled.