(1/7) 7 days to Rhythm Doctor Act 5 release: here we go again! We are all ~2.6 years older now. Today: just some entries from the past days from my co-host. (it is an amazing site with smart and healthy features and I have full trust in their dev team at this point)
#7thbeatdev
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7 days to Rhythm Doctor's release, one thought a day! watch me slowly get more deranged as i play the optimising sleep game of how little is just enough that can keep me efficient and creative but not increase too much my risk of alzheimers and dying early when im older
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It's funny when streamers play 2-X on RD and say "how tf the devs did that?", then a viewer says "it's just an easy line of code to do that"
And I think, yeah!
- 30 lines to write a prototype
- 4k lines and hundreds of hours to make it through all the edge cases
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Cant believe i only learnt about formula view mode (ctrl `) in gogole sheets today... so useful for checking hardcoded values quickly #7thbeatdev
gogole sheets
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adjusting the fl studio scrollbar by pixels so i can align the gridlines again to chart weird rhythm in song. still the best workflow #7thbeatdev
best workflow: arranging the windows of FL Studio and RD Level Editor so I can align the notes of one with the other
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Today i learned a useful word: idempotent.
Where you dont have to worry about calling a function on something more than once, because it wont alter it further after the first time.
From a really cool article on rhythm game sync: meow.garden/eliminating-the-β¦
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ALT Definition of idempotent: Denoting an element of a set which is unchanged in value when multiplied or otherwise operated on by itself.
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I think there's a point in your games popularity as it goes from 'ludum dare game jam' to this, where your role as the developer becomes "support whatever things fans are doing and do not screw it up" #7thbeatdev
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It's ADOFAI's 4th anniversary today! Game design trivia: normally the game has an 'Overload' mechanic to stop you mashing, if you mispress too many times. But on the last few tiles of each level, it's secretly turned off so you will never fail by mashing.. #7thbeatdev
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I made a tiny difficult puzzle for today's Confounding Calendar entry: Pathinko - Thinking Pachinko!
"Make 1321213"
fizzd.itch.io/pathinko #7thbeatdev
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Today is the 8th anniversary of this calibration screen in ADOFAI. This pink has survived until today! But the font hasnt.. beautiful font.. #7thbeatdev
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Trombone Champ makes a few design decisions that other rhythm games wouldn't do, some to help it be funnier! It's fascinating to me so I wanted to list them out: #7thbeatdev
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Finally, no more hours of writing physical bank slips! No need for all my stamps anymore! (The banking system i was using did not support online banking for foreign currency transfers, until now. Yes I write them by candlelight and deliver via horse carriage) #7thbeatdev
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apparently 7 years ago today i was really proud of seeing my game jam game on a Let's Play. Look at those graphics #7thbeatdev
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The requirement to be able to push things back means avoiding release dates, hence at 7BG we dont tend announce them until the month before, at least until we get better at the production process. TLDR Good game delayed good bad game miyamoto #7thbeatdev
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Nice to meet people in our own team who we only ever knew each other as avatars for the past 5 years! #7thbeatdev
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another small gamejam! We wanted to make random generated rhythms and levels for this. Instead of specifying how the patterns look like, it's easier to identify the patterns we *dont* want and then just keep rerolling in a 'while' loop #7thbeatdev
16 Dec 2021
Happy Birthday to @dvdfu ! For their birthday, we put together a little rhythm game called Chiki's Chefs, which you can all play now for free on itch.
They're responsible for the incredible vocals/guitar in the credits song of Rhythm Doctor!
Have fun!
giacomopc.itch.io/chikis-cheβ¦
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There's a chat with winston (our artist) from years ago, when I decided to quit a startup to focus on gamedev. The startup was a shield cause i was insecure about telling people im a game developer? And now seeing comments like from Alex help me a lot in accepting it #7thbeatdev
8 Dec 2021
This phenomenal game got me through my senior year of undergrad itβs just *chefs kiss* π©π
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finally got a piano keyboard for the office today, Roland FP-30X! I cannot stress how important it is to go to a showroom. Hours of review reading nulled instantly once you feel the keys. The complimentary dust cover they gave me feels a bit grandmas piano though #7thbeatdev
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4-line c# quiz of the day. This brings me no joy to post but we got caught by it just now irl. Poll in reply!
(ToList() makes a new list from an array or a list, can be used to clone lists). #7thbeatdev
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Just compiling some tweets for #7thbeatdev: development of 'Puff Piece', 1: piano thing in 2017 (art by Winston Lee)
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