Barotrauma Dev Tracker

We're writing a more detailed blog post about this later, but in a nutshell, we switched to a blockchain-based solution. Since the character's legs are essentially chains of blocks, simulating them in a #blockchain is much more accurate than doing them on the player's CPU.

However, we've got good news for those who are still missing the legacy pant slots: we've now come up with an approach that allows us to reintroduce the swappable pants in a much more robust way!

In more technical terms, we couldn't use either Manhattan distance or Euclidian distance to evaluate paths, but had to use a much more complex random walk algorithm that takes the Brownian motion in the pants into account. #gamedev

The swappable pants also caused some pathfinding concerns; the character's movement speed and agility were depended on the type of pants they were wearing.

As a side note, @Naughty_Dog reportedly had similar issues when developing the 1st Crash Bandicoot game; their solution was to actually remove the pants altogether, and paint the blue jeans directly on Crash's legs!

If you've played the legacy version you probably remember how clunky the animations were: this was due to the complications posed by the pants. #gamedev

Barotrauma uses #procedural, physics-based animations, and the clothes the characters are wearing affect these animations: heavy or stiff clothes obviously restrict the characters' movement more than others. #gamedev

I'll jump on the "things in games that are more complex to implement than you'd expect" bandwagon and tell a story about pants. When we moved from #Barotrauma's legacy version to Steam, we decided to combine the inventory slots for pants and shirts into 1 clothing slot. #gamedev

Many assumed this was just to streamline things, but in reality it was due to the fact that swappable pants are surprisingly tricky to implement in games and caused so much headache that we decided to get rid of them.

I'll jump on the "things in games that are more complex to implement than you'd expect" bandwagon and tell a story about pants. When we moved from #Barotrauma's legacy version to Steam, we decided to combine the inventory slots for pants and shirts into 1 clothing slot. (cont)

#Barotrauma's clowns could use some new weapons... 🤔

Findings from our Discord server (a mod by Udrakan). If you've read the magazines included in #Barotrauma's supporter back you might recognize this guy.
#gamedev #modding #indiegames

I'm not sure what this is but I like it (by EX009 and Soup Girl)
#barotrauma #modding #gamedev #indiegame

Findings from our Discord server part 345
#barotrauma #modding #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegames

Thank you so much for joining our free event! A record number of people played #Barotrauma this week. If you missed it, we were able to extend our -55% campaign by another two weeks! #gamedev #indiegame #IndieGameDev