Ducks

 

Orderly Duck

My ducks are beginning to establish row formation.  

• Business bank account is approved
• Website has a non-default favicon
• Website code lives in github and has deployment automation using hooks!
• Blog has a link to website.  Website should probably have a link to blog...
• Tax guy assured me the LLC is above board.  No immediate filings needed

Beyond the necessary ducks, I've played with shaders using the Godot game engine.  

Godot shader drawing tiles

I've never written a shader before but my game will have tiles.  Tiles at scale can be expensive.  The dude that developed rimworld had a nice approach; Don't bother with built-in game objects and just draw stuff yourself.  This frees you from relying on all the game engine bloat and opinionated implementation.  I'm not married to Godot at all.  It can run C# using mono, similar to Unity and it's free.  Pure HTML5 seems attractive though getting the Web RTC protocol (AKA. UDP) to run over Steam relay servers may not be a thing.  Oh and console support is impossible as to date, none permit JIT code due to security blah blah.

Looking forward to taking the giant leap from corporate->indie at the end of the year.  Until then, there are plenty of domestic and office ducks to chase.