MEGASTRUCTURES

Devlog

• Quick status update
  November 09, 2024 by Klaim

  Hello all! This is a quick status update on this project as I didnt post much this year in this devblog, although I did post more on reddit/r/roguelikedevs. I wanted to stop posting every week here as... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2024-01-06
  January 06, 2024 by Klaim

  Past few weeks I have progressed to get to visuals as soon as possible, but kinf of failed cause of a compiler bug. To be very short, the compiler bug happens when using msvc and entt library for ECS,... Continue reading
• 2023 Retrospective
  January 03, 2024 by Klaim#C++, #godot, #retrospective, #tools, #prototypes

  Every January the reddit r/roguelikedev/ group is having an event where gamedev posts about their project, their retrospective through the year and what they intend to do this year. You can find mine... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-12-23
  December 23, 2023 by Klaim#c++, #godot, #gdextension, #reflection

  This week’s progress: I improved the system to make the C++ side (model + director) control in broad strokes the Godot side (the view implementation) by doing some changes like defining concrete int... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-12-16
  December 15, 2023 by Klaim#c++, #fsm, #open-source, #github, #metaprogramming

  This week I was supposed to setup a failure strategy and logging system but before that I wanted to quickly implement the most basic game states: having a title screen, going into the game, getting ba... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-12-09
  December 09, 2023 by Klaim

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  #c++, #godot, #gdextension

  This week was quite busy both in the project and in dayjob, I’m super tired but things progressed: I managed to complete a working architecture for the model vs view layers using GDExtension, where... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-12-02
  December 02, 2023 by Klaim#C++, #build2, #godot, #gdextension, #architecture, #ecs, #bug

  This week have seen slow progress as I recover from some minor health problems, nothing to worry about but prevented me to have any focus for several days. When I could, I focused on the architecture... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-11-18
  November 18, 2023 by Klaim#c++, #game design

  This week I had planned to focus mostly on design notes to fix some ideas in the wood (instead of the marble). Previously I was using draw.io files to note my design ideas as graphs. But I was on the... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-11-11
  November 11, 2023 by Klaim#c++, #gdextension, #modules, #build2, #github

  This week I mainly focused on completing the technical setup of the project. Last week I thought I would have enough of one week but it was optimistic and I overestimated how much I could do per week... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-11-04
  November 04, 2023 by Klaim#c++, #build2, #compiler, #toolchain, #scale, #roguelike, #megastructure

  This week I mainly focused on setting up the new project. I’m not done because I had a side-quest of exploring the possibility of using Clang (the C++ compiler) with C++ modules (which currently is... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-10-28 : Bootstrap
  October 27, 2023 by Klaim#packaging, #berlin, #roguelike, #gamedev, #trello, #planning, #git, #repository, #backup

  This week I’ve been in Berlin for PackagingCon (which was nice) so I couldnt do much on the side but I still manage to take some notes to try to answer some of my questions that I listed last week... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-10-21 - End of Prototyping, Livestreams paused
  October 21, 2023 by Klaim

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  #livestream, #prototype, #roguelike, #gamedev, #twitch, #turn, #system, #grid, #3D, #art

  This week I decided to go forward and simply switch into actual non-prototyping gamedev mode. Yay! Well, the dev of MEGASTRUCTURES will start actually next week or the week after because I have to han... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-10-14
  October 14, 2023 by Klaim#c++, #godot, #gdextension, #build2, #modules, #hot-reload, #debug, #pull-request

  This week I’ve continued the exploration of GDExtension hot-reloading system. After my patch to it was merged last week, I realized the system was unstable when attempting to reload my GDExtension m... Continue reading
• Livestream day change: Thursday
  October 11, 2023 by Klaim#livestream

  The usual Wednesday night livestream is moved to Thursday night, so next livestream will be tomorrow! https://twitch.com/mjklaim/... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-10-07
  October 07, 2023 by Klaim#godot, #gdextension, #c++, #patch, #fix, #roguelike, #architecture, #features

  This week I decided to change a bit the prototyping plan to start focusing on the game proper in the coming weeks. Basically, in a bit more than 2 weeks I’ll start to work on the game. This means th... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-09-23
  September 23, 2023 by Klaim

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  #devlog, #unity, #magnum, #c++, #godot, #gdextension, #prototype, #architecture, #caves of qud

  We made some slow progress this past 2 weeks and had a lot of thoughts, obviously. Last week we had a gamedev stream and some progress, this week I had to cancel the stream but we continue next week... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-09-09
  September 09, 2023 by Klaim#c++, #godot, #godotengine, #json, #bg3, #rpg, #roguelike, #traditional roguelike, #devlog, #turn-based, #prototype

  Last week I was having power outtage issues in my appartment which forced me to cancel the stream (after having a total blackout in the 10 first minutes of streaming). I found it was the old fridge an... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-08-19
  August 19, 2023 by Klaim#c++, #godot, #devlog, #gdscript, #gdextension, #prototype

  This week we resumed the livestream and we started working on using the messages (actions and events) coming from the C++ model and interpreting them. Well… at least the events. Before, when the C++... Continue reading
• DEVGLOG - 2023-08-12
  August 19, 2023 by Klaim#c++, #roguelike, #turn, #gdscript, #godot, #caves of qud, #prototype, #devlog, #json

  Last week I had less time than expected to progress so I had to skip the livestream (this week too, sorry!) but managed to do a bit this week. To be short…and get into the technique immediately, I m... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-07-29
  July 29, 2023 by Klaim#c++, #godot, #devlog, #roguelike, #prototyping, #prototype, #gdscript, #reflection, #technical

  This week I had to skip the livestream but still made some interesting progress, here we go. First thing is that at last livestream I was looking for a library I remembered but didnt remember the name... Continue reading
• Livestream 2023-07-26 reported
  July 26, 2023 by Klaim#livestream, #godot, #roguelike, #c++

  Next roguelike gamedev stream that was planned today is canceled, maybe reported to the weekend, otherwise continue next week! I did some progress (although interrupted a lot) but I cant livestream to... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-07-22
  July 22, 2023 by Klaim#c++, #devlog, #godot, #gdscript, #prototyping

  This week in the adventure of prototyping MEGASTRUCTURES we hit some roadblocks. Last Wednesday in livestream after some debugging to fix a typically-C++-esque sequence of errors, we started looking a... Continue reading
• Live 2023-07-12 cancelled - resuming next week
  July 12, 2023 by Klaim#livestream

  Hey all, just a quick note that I must cancel today’s live, we’ll resume next week. I might do a surprise live at some point in between but no guarantees. Sorry for that! Have a nice evening!... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-07-08
  July 08, 2023 by Klaim#godot, #unreal, #c++, #game engine, #framework, #devlog, #roguelike, #mastodon, #livestream, #twitch

  In the previous week I totally forgot to write a report, sorry about that. But in the same time not much happened that week other than I resumed the livestreams on Wednesday and we managed to see a C+... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-06-24
  June 24, 2023 by Klaim

  Not much progress this week: I had to cancel the livestream unfortunately, but I still manage to progress in some aspects. I’m mainly thinking about how to write most of the general behavior of the... Continue reading
• Livestreams: Slight change of plan
  June 20, 2023 by Klaim

  The next stream will not be this week but the next one: I completely forgot some important event happening at the time of the planned stream tomorrow! Sorry about this, I’ll make sure to show you in... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-06-17
  June 17, 2023 by Klaim#devlog, #godot, #gdextension, #c++, #gdscript, #3D

  This week I managed to complete the core of prototype 2 which, as a reminder, is about testing the situation where the “view” of the game is in Godot and the “model” is in C++. This is allowed... Continue reading

  
• Livestreams moved to Wednesday
  June 14, 2023 by Klaim#livestream, #twitch, #devlog, #prototypes, #c++, #godot

  Hello all! Because of some life changes on my side I will have to move the livestream to Wednesdays instead of Thursdays. As a reminder: I’m livestreaming on twitch the development of the prototypes... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-06-03
  June 03, 2023 by Klaim#roguelike, #devlog, #c++, #gdscript, #godot, #build2, #gdextension, #code

  This week led to big progress in the prototypes (still very low-level techinque stuffs, sorry!). After build2 devs added a missing feature that was preventing me from correctly running the python scri... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-05-27
  May 27, 2023 by Klaim#c++, #build2, #godot, #gdextension, #roguelike

  This week I started working on the Godot GDExtension (in C++) for the game’s view code. The first step was to setup the build of the godot-cpp library using my build tool build2 . I made the package... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-05-20
  May 21, 2023 by Klaim#blame, #manga, #eclipse phase, #gits, #ghost in the shell, #megastructure, #roguelike, #devlog, #c++, #godot

  This week I resumed the livestreams on Thursday and did some preparation for the rest of the development. I am starting to work on Prototype 2, which will explore the impact of trying to use Godot as... Continue reading
• Quick update and resuming livestreams next week
  May 11, 2023 by Klaim

  Hey all! The last few weeks have been more busy than I expected with a lot of surprises so I didnt have enough time to focus on MEGASTRUCTURES, which is why I didnt post updates nor did any livestream... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-04-15
  April 15, 2023 by Klaim#devlog, #godot, #c++, #coroutines, #hexagon, #grid, #roguelike

  This week I only had the time to progress while livestreaming but we got some new interesting information through progressing on Prototype 1: It is actually ok to move coroutine promises objects which... Continue reading
• DEVLOG - 2023-04-08
  April 09, 2023 by Klaim#devlog, #coroutine, #C++, #livestream

  This week, mostly in the Thursday stream we focused on the last details of prototype 1: In the days before the stream I mainly focused on getting the build configurations right to be able to extend th... Continue reading
• DEVLOG 2023-04-01
  April 01, 2023 by Klaim#devlog, #c++, #programming, #ecs, #godot

  Since the beginning of the project I have been posting regular updates on the development side of this project on redddit.com/r/roguelikedev but some people asked for these to be more public so I will... Continue reading

  
• Lives are resuming next week
  March 22, 2023 by Klaim

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  #livestream, #twitch

  Hi all, I had to pause the livestreams to focus on the release of another game recently but now that it’s done I can finally focus back on MEGASTRCUTURES. The livestreams will resume next week, at l... Continue reading
• Cancelled Live 2023-03-02, Resuming next week
  March 02, 2023 by Klaim

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  #livestream, #live, #twitch

  Hey all! I have to cancel the livestream planned in a few hours but will resume livestreaming next week. Thanks for your understanding! Klaim... Continue reading
• Resuming Live Streams Every Thursdays
  February 13, 2023 by Klaim#livestream, #twitch

  Hello all! As mentionned previously I took a week off but I’m now back to push this project hard! As planned I will live stream progress every Thursday (details below) at least until the first proto... Continue reading
• Prototypes bootstrap on video
  February 03, 2023 by Klaim#twitch, #livestream, #roguelike

  The recording of the first livestream where I gave an overview of the game concept and started coding the first prototype is available on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1725281337 Next session w... Continue reading
• First livestream: 1st February 10:00 PM GMT+1
  January 28, 2023 by Klaim

  I just realized that I didnt specify an hour for the live stream to bootstrap the projects: The channel: https://www.twitch.tv/mjklaim Date: 1st February (Wednesday next week) GMT+1 (Paris Time): 10pm... Continue reading
• First Live Stream: Prototype 1 Bootstrap
  January 22, 2023 by Klaim#live, #twitch, #prototype, #dev

  As promised the first live stream and bootstrap of development for the prototypes of MEGASTRUCTURES will happen on the 1st February 2023 on my twitch channel https://twitch.tv/mjklaim/ I still have a... Continue reading
• New project: MEGASTRUCTURES
  January 16, 2023 by Klaim#annonucement, #roguelike, #tranditional roguelike, #cyberpunk, #post-cyberpunk, #transhumanism

  Hi there, this is a new project of mine, MEGASTRUCTURES , basically a roguelike with transhumanism cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk elements. I added a description of the project on the main page. I have... Continue reading