Today marks a big milestone in Sky Labyrinth’s development: I finally implemented a camera system that truly nails the feeling of an “omni-directional autorunner”. One of Sky Labyrinth’s core design goals is to bridge genres; to create a hybrid of classic autorunners (like Temple Run, Subway Surfers) and 3D maze-puzzlers (like Portal, Stanley Parable). I […]
Today we’ve moved our GitHub repository “skylabgame” over to a private repo. All of the links to code, issue tickets, etc. throughout our blogs and tweets will lead to a 404 page unfortunately =( Worry not! We love the open-source community and want to release SkyLab’s codebase, in part or whole (haven’t decided yet) to the […]
It all started with this Feedback Friday reply from /u/jaggygames, where he made a GIF to convey an excellent suggestion about preserving forward momentum during laneshifting: View post on imgur.com So we implemented it on Oct 4th: The previous implementation was a pretty crude anchoring system, detailed here in an older post. Things tend to […]
Game development is hard. Indie game development is a little terrifying. Trying to manage feature creep, tech debt, and bugfixes all while working a fulltime job sucks. Trying to be active in the community, doing social media outreach, and writing up a monetization plan all while working a fulltime job sucks. Trying to give & receive lots of […]
Earlier this week I upgraded Sky Labyrinth from 5.3 to 5.4.1. No immediate issues were noticed, though I’m now regretting not running an Android build right away. While building for Feedback Friday, I found that on Android none of our layer-based lethal collisions worked. I restarted Unity, ran another build, no dice. Restarted my machine, ran another […]
With our latest Feeback Friday release v0.8b came a really dumb bug. When users clicked the main menu’s “Play” button, nothing happened! This was initially reported by Ronny, our composer and PM, to be happening on his iPhone but not on his iPad. Very odd, especially since the issue wasn’t occurring on my Windows desktop or my […]
Hello all! After a short hiatus from social media (but not from gamedev!) we’re back! Two simple reasons for our break: We hit a lot of bugs that took a lot of time and frustration to solve, and shifted our attention wholly to those. I personally was on a family vacation in Turkey for 2.5 […]
So so close to a perfect laning system! In the previous iteration of the laning system, I had eliminated the jittery movement but introduced a “drift” effect – when the player rotates “early” or “late” (aka at the edges of a tile) into two tiles, the collision would anchor the player creating a fast and furious style […]
It was excellent returning to my alma mater to see all the senior capstone games and other projects, not to mention Ken-fucking-Levine speak. Shoutout to all the excellent Northeastern showcase games (which will be available here): Split Circuit (2 awards wow!) – excellent VR 3d-space racer, lot of fun, very challenging, took Best Overall and Best […]
Visuals First: GIF of today’s work versus GIF of initial jittery implementation (these also give a sneak peak at our new art direction – still a WIP). Please note: These GIF’s are quite dark as Realtime Global Illumination is disabled for recording; when there are a large amount of Tiles in the camera’s view frustum, we have trouble […]
