Days With Dino

Devlog

• Patch 1.25 - Quality Settings
  December 21, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Patch, #DevUpdate, #Quality Settings

  I was recently asked if there is a way I could add some quality options to the game to enable it run more smoothly on more computers. In response I've added a new menu option 'Quality Settings' where... Continue reading

  
• Pre-Release 2 Week Games Sale!
  August 22, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#sale

  Leading up to the release of 'Days With Dino' on the 30th, we are putting all our other Steam and Itch.io games on sale from the 23rd of August to 8th of September! Sale Page Gaggle Brains will be on... Continue reading

  
• Release Date + New Demo, Trailer & Press Kit!
  August 16, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio

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  #release announcement, #trailer, #demo, #press kit, #announcement

  It's been a while, but 'Days With Dino' is finally being released on the 30th of August, with the final demo and trailer available now! So that's it, we're starting the countdown. Over the last few da... Continue reading

  
• Archiving The Early Alpha Store Page
  August 15, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio

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  #archiving, #early alpha, #store page

  Since I'm updating the store page, from alpha to final and there are a lot of differences, I thought I would archive the old page and it's images here. Days with Dino is an 100% active ragdoll, open w... Continue reading

  
• Visuals, Sounds and New Controls - 20th June
  June 20, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development Notes

  Well, that was quite some time between updates. I'll be honest, work has been slow, especially over the last two weeks, but I'm back to directly working on the 'Days With Dino'. It's that whole thing... Continue reading

  
• Cavemen Waddling - 25th May
  May 25, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development Note

  With the Buffalo done I am now working on the last mob of the game, the cavemen. These guys appear mid to late in the game on the other side of the island. Each one will start with a spear and when ne... Continue reading

  
• T-Rex Vs Buffalos! - 22nd May
  May 22, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio

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  #Development Notes

  This here is footage of the now mostly finished Buffalo Mob, seeing how they play out in the game world. Their role is to be a threat to all but the large T-Rex state. At the moment I don't have damag... Continue reading

  
• Wondering Buffalo AI - 21st May
  May 21, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development Notes

  Red area is the attack zone, blue is flee and grey is total detection range...I may have overcomplicated enemy detection Trying out shorter names, see how it goes. I've been a bit slow development wis... Continue reading

  
• ​Game State Manager and Main Level Objectives - 17th May 2021 - Development Notes
  May 17, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development Notes

  Been mostly small checks and fixes this weekend. Got a display for the current objective in the top left corner, to replace the old hunting bar, and in general cleaned up the main game scene. I've als... Continue reading

  
• Objectives System - 13th May 2021 - Development Notes
  May 13, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development Notes

  I think I've gotten the terrain mesh and props to a good point, so now I'm focusing on the gameplay loop, before getting the last few Mobs in. With this I am on my way to getting the game feature comp... Continue reading

  
• Landmarks - 11th May 2021 - Development Notes
  May 11, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio

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  #Development Notes

  I have been continuing to work on the terrain and environment. Modeling new props, making prefabs and throwing them across the map, as can be seen in the footage above. I'm probably going to be at thi... Continue reading

  
• Ragdoll Caveman & Buffalo - Destroying Stone Houses - 9th May 2021 - Development Notes
  May 09, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development Notes

  This is what I love about working with active ragdolls, not even a hour into rigging them, and I already get to see them moving about! The caveman and Buffalo rigs are now ragdolled and have had some... Continue reading

  
• Modeling The Caveman & The Buffalo - 8th May 2021 - Development Notes
  May 08, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development Notes

  Finally getting the last few mobs in, the caveman and the buffalo. This is their models in stage one. They're mostly done, just lacking final details, but are at a point that I can rig them and test o... Continue reading

  
• Over-Focusing & Scheduling - Alpha Demo 2 & Final Release Plans - 7th May 2021 - Development Notes
  May 07, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development Notes

  One of the big problems, when you are the only person on the development side of making a game, is over-focusing. Take the crabs and bird mobs I did for example. I spent more than a week on these two... Continue reading

  
• Smashing Rocks & Breaking Trees - 5th May 2021 - Development Notes
  May 05, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development Notes

  Particles, I do not like them, and am going to have to sit down at some points and try to come to grips with them. In the meanwhile though, trees now at least do something when you hit them, and now w... Continue reading

  
• New Skin... attempt 1 - 3rd May 2021 - Development Notes
  May 03, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development Notes

  The adult T-Rex is now riggable, so that's a plus, not sure of the the back thing I added though. I intended it to be feathers of some kind, but it just didn't really work out so it'll be gone next vi... Continue reading

  
• Devlog Video 2 - Videos, Social Media and The 2nd Alpha Demo Plans - 1st May2021 - Development Notes
  May 01, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development Notes

  New Devlog video, where I go into what I've been doing over the last month, the youtube videos, social media and summing up work on 'Days With Dino' and the plans for the next alpha demo. Also now wit... Continue reading

  
• GUI & Buttons Overhaul - 30th April 2021 - Development Notes
  April 30, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development ​Notes

  I learnt a lot from 'Gaggle Brains', one major thing, is I suck at GUI, the menus were visually messy and hard to manage in editor, I needed a better way to go about doing them. So Yesterday I sat dow... Continue reading

  
• Active Camera Version 2 - 29th April 2021 - Development Notes
  April 29, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development ​Notes

  Took the first version of the active camera from yesterday, and changed up the way it did things in code. Now while the behaviors on the surface seem similar, I have much, Much more control over them... Continue reading

  
• Active Camera Version 1 - 28th April 2021 - Development Notes
  April 28, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development Notes

  That's what they called it in Spyro, and that's what I'll call it here. So I enjoyed my birthday, and now I am back to 'Days With Dino'. I had a talk with Jo last week about what the focus should be f... Continue reading

  
• Birthday Weekend: Water Erosion - Hills to Beach Simulation
  April 27, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Fun Prototypes

  Was my birthday this weekend, so I decided to take some time to try some grid base procedural generation. Always interested in it, but couldn't really get to grips with it. Think I can say, I worked i... Continue reading

  
• Procedurally Animated, Self-Balancing Active Ragdoll Humanoid Project - Prototype In Development
  April 23, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio

  Change of pace with this update. This here is a look at my main project of the year, that my current game 'Days With Dino', is a offshoot of. This is basically the system I plan to be building up over... Continue reading

  
• Thinking About Mob Spawning In A Open World - 22nd April 2021 - Development Notes
  April 22, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development Notes

  Was away from the computer for most of the day, so not too much in 'tasks finished' to report, was more of a planning day, thinking about how I could tackle spawning Mobs in a open world. My plan is t... Continue reading

  
• Throwing Rocks At The Beach - 21st April 2021 - Development Notes
  April 21, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development Notes

  Needs more rocks Throwing more rocks around the beach area, honestly might want to make them a bit smaller but it seems ok to walk around. I've also gone around the map in general and been tidying up... Continue reading

  
• Modelling An Open World Day 2 - Beach & Palm Forest - 20th April 2021 - Development Notes
  April 20, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development Notes

  How the starting area is looking like Day 2. Day 2 of doing the art and placement for the starting area of the Beach and woods. Feeling pretty good about it overall, I've done a better blockout for th... Continue reading

  
• Week 5 of Making My First Open World Game - The Active Ragdoll Critters
  April 20, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development Notes, #week summary

  Active Ragdoll Crabs Vs Active Ragdoll Birds Week 5 of developing ‘Days With Dino’ and have started doing daily updates about what I've done and need to do next. Summing up this last week was clea... Continue reading

  
• How Do You Make A Open World? (With Footage!) - 19th April 2021 - Development Notes
  April 19, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development Notes

  That title isn't rhetorical, it's a genuine question I am asking myself. Me walking around the rough maps starting area, getting a sense of scale. All the small AI behaviors have been cleaned up and a... Continue reading

  
• Crabs Vs Birds Round 2! - 17th April 2021 - Development Notes
  April 17, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio

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  Things are getting close to the next Alpha patch. Once the last small AI(Bug) is done I will make the starting area for the game, the beach and small woods and try to get things presentable enough for... Continue reading

  
• Prepping For Crustaceans - 16th April 2021 - Development Notes
  April 16, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development ​Notes

  For all intensive purposes the Bird AI scripting is done, now it's on to the first... and messiest AI of the game, the Crab. Unlike the bird, that actively goes out to hunt, the crab is made to be pur... Continue reading

  
• Angry Birds - 15th April 2021 - Development Notes
  April 15, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development Notes

  Got the Bird AI cleaned up and working, so, SO much more stably, which is nice. Though now it means, if the crabs were at a disadvantage before, it is that much worse for them now, poor things. Turns... Continue reading

  
• Clever Birds - 14th April 2021 - Development Notes
  April 14, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development Notes

  14th April 2021 Development Notes: Made 'MobBehaviour' class and moved detecting functions to formalize it for all mobs. Cleaned up general Mobs detection functions. Redid AI Bird's idle state's decis... Continue reading

  
• Crabs Vs Birds Round 1 - 13th April 2021 - Development Notes
  April 13, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#Development ​Notes

  Thought it would be good to start posting small updates on what I'm doing on the day to day for the games development. 13th April 2021 Development Notes: The Crabs and the birds can do damage to each... Continue reading

  
• Version 0.0.92 - Progress Videos
  April 10, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#active ragdolls

  Some of the video updates I've been posting on the social media for work on the AI for 'Days With Dino'. Trying out a new video format which I'm quite happy with. See as they are posted here; https://... Continue reading

  
• Active Ragdolls; What Are They And How They Work
  April 05, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio#active ragdolls

  Took the last week away from developing 'Days With Dino', to make this 10 minute video, going over the what, why and how of Active Ragdolls. The aim is to make a, to the point, introduction to the gen... Continue reading