Disaster Duck 2

Devlog

• The Duck and the hiatus
  January 02, 2024 by Angler.digital

  The most common reason for ideas and projects to get pushed to the side (at least for me) is, new ideas and projects! I'm sure other solo-devs can speak to the never-ending flow of ideas and the desir... Continue reading

  
• Skill Tree and Bosses, finalizing design
  December 22, 2023 by Angler.digital

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  Made great progress with both the Skill Tree design and Bosses. I didn't want to lock skills behind mounting requirements to use them, I wanted people to quickly get to the skills they wanted, but kee... Continue reading

  
• Recognize your limitations
  December 20, 2023 by Angler.digital

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  It's important to recognize things you are, or are not good at. I am ok at pixel art, simple things I can get away with. But I have been unable to find something good that sticks with this game. And i... Continue reading

  
• Environments
  December 18, 2023 by Angler.digital

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  Probably my favorite linear shooter of all time is R-Type Final for the Playstation 2. It was hard, I never got very far, but it provided a great shooter experience with varied level design and fantas... Continue reading

  
• Skill Tree UI and Bosses
  December 15, 2023 by Angler.digital

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  User Interface is probably the thing I like least about game design. But we managed to put something together that currently represents our idea for player progression in the game. The skill tree is d... Continue reading

  
• Performance, visuals and skill-trees
  December 11, 2023 by Angler.digital

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  This past weekend we have made huge gains on the weapon and bullet system for DD2 and we have locked-in the features that can make each gun feel unique and powerful. And as we were testing some of the... Continue reading

  
• Weapon pickups and Info Cards
  December 07, 2023 by Angler.digital

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  I wanted a way for the player to see, at a glance, what kind of weapon they were using. Where they could look for a specific property (low cooldown, piercing, homing, etc) and quickly find the gun the... Continue reading

  
• Disaster Duck 2: Bullets and Inventory
  December 05, 2023 by Angler.digital

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  Yesterday we had a breakthrough and got the inventory code worked out. This is huge for me as I've never done an inventory system before and while I watched a few videos and took a look at some plugin... Continue reading

  
• Development and Scope
  December 01, 2023 by Angler.digital

  Since my son and I started fleshing out Disaster Duck we had a TON of ideas and mechanics, and the project was in serious danger of over-scoping and never getting done. So we severely limited the scop... Continue reading