Hey there Steemit community my name is Darrell Wulff. I am a 23 year old guy from California who is currently working towards getting his piece of paper that says he is qualified to mash the keyboard (I am trying to finish my computer science degree). I found this community just by chance really and think it is a really interesting idea with cyrpto-currency.
I am an aspiring game and software developer who is taking the journey as a solo "indie dev" for now. Growing up playing games I feel so much has changed over the course of lifetime in the gaming industry. There are so many games being released every single week it is absolutely impossible to play most of them. I feel its important for me to be realistic about what I am getting myself into by going after game development since it is a pretty competitive field.
I've always been a person who loves to spend their time creating things. Whether it was music or building legos when I was a young kid I loved putting all my little ideas into different creations of mine. I feel games and software are just another extension of that tinker inside me. Though that is really enough about me we should get to the actually interesting stuff, the games!
What is this monstrosity?
This here is my first game I made in Unity that I released publicly! A pixel art mobile endless runner game called "BitBot Runners" in which you collected little squares called bits all while trying to avoid all kinds of different unfriendly obstacles. I released it onto the Google Play store in 2016 after stressing and rushing it out into the wild. I had learned a lot about finishing games with this project. It felt so good to get it done and I was sick of looking at my funny little pixel doodles. I was looking to make bigger and better games.
The game has been sitting on the store stagnating away as I have gone on to get stuck in what I like to call an "endless promising prototyping" loop. You start making a game that feels fresh and new. Then one day the excitement for the game prototype starts to dwindle as a new spark of very promising new game project starts to take form in the brain. It can be really easy to fall into this trap even for years!
To break the cycle I returned to my first game to give it the best update that would really make for a funner game!
Fresh Coat of Paint
I transfered the game from 2D pixel art into 3D with voxel models made with the program Magica Voxel. This new version has more of the fun "racing" feel that I wanted the game to evoke. I completely redid the procedural generation from scratch. The character has more nuances with how the jump is controlled. I think mobile games are going to go through a decent change in quality as smartphone's hardware starts becoming more and more powerful.
Heres a comparison of the old version and a work in progress of the new one. The old version does have a certain charm to it with the environments. The old version has a few different environments that you teleport to over the course of the running. If you want to check it out before I tottally wipe it off the face of the earth just swing by the
Google Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.WereWulffStudios.BitBotRunners
To have all the cool environments in the update I am also making a adventure mode with levels I design and not an algorithm.
The adventure mode I am trying to channel those big name platformer games I love(Mega Man 2, Sonic Mania, Super Mario World, etc) while combining it with mobile "run and gun" type of game-play.
Here is some more other progress pictures:
Character Select
The old menu
The new menu
It feels "chunky" and fresh.
If you made it through all of this thank you so much for taking the time to check a look at this dev log!
I am aiming to have the big new updated version done later this if I run into no hiccups( fingers crossed and mashing that keyboard).
Also if you're a developer writing any articles on here I would like to swing by and check them out!
Hello dwulff! Welcome to Steemit! Hope you'll like the community here. As a start, here are 5 tips that we believe will be helpful to you:
For a detailed writeup, check our post Getting Started: 5 Essential Tips for New Users.
Good luck on your Steem journey! Follow us if you like to receive more helpful tips and maximize your Steemit experience.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Welcome to Steem Community @dwulff! As a gentle reminder, please keep your master password safe. The best practise is to use your private posting key to login to Steemit when posting; and the private active key for wallet related transactions.
In the New Steemians project, we help new members of steem by education and resteeeming their articles. Get your articles resteemed too for maximum exposure. You can learn more about it here: https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@gaman/new-steemians-project-launch
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Welcome to Steemit @dwulff :)
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
what a nice intro I have ever read. Happy to meet you. I and all steemit community warmly welcome you at this stage. You joined a unique platform. Work hard .. our support is always with you. Best of luck dear
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Welcome to Steemit dwulff. Let me know if you got any questions about Steem or anything related to it! The official FAQ can be found here and has A LOT of information https://steemit.com/faq.html - Also remember, Steemit is just ONE of the sites built that uses Steem the blockchain. We also have DTube - our very own Youtube, DSound for Soundcloud and Steepshot if you prefer Instagram like experience. I'd also like to mention ChainBB - forums, Busy - Steemit with more modern look basically, DMania for memes and Dlive for streaming just like in Twitch! You can also earn Steem by gaming now! Search for Steemgar if that's more your thing. Welcome to the blockchain! :)
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Hey @dwulff welcome to steemit, I hope you have a great time blogging and sharing your stories on the platform. Always great to see some fresh faces coming through. I'm currently running a new competition for smaller accounts to enter their posts and win some SBD, if you're keen here is the link - https://steemit.com/giveaway/@chekohler/800-follower-milestone-giveaway-13-july-2018
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
A BIG BIG Welcome to Steemit! You know, I think the best part about this site is that creative people like you can share amazing posts like this with the community! I'm sure you'll find the platform beautiful! Looking at this post I can definitely tell how talented and creative you are! This is definitely a place for you. Show the world more of your breathtaking work and believe me, Steemit will reward your talent but it requires hard work! I'm no expert though I'm certain you'll do a great job on this platform!
All the best for you and your journey through this website! Visit me if you'd love to read a few stories and such! I'm definitely looking forward to hearing from you!
Kirby loves you! <3
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Wow now that is an impressive Intro and that project looks awesome!
We would love to see more of it!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
✅ @dwulff, I gave you an upvote on your post! Please give me a follow and I will give you a follow in return and possible future votes!
Thank you in advance!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Your post was upvoted by the @archdruid gaming curation team in partnership with @curie to support spreading the rewards to great content. Join the Archdruid Gaming Community at https://discord.gg/nAUkxws. Good Game, Well Played!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Congratulations @dwulff! You have completed the following achievement on Steemit and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :
You published your First Post
You got a First Vote
Click on the badge to view your Board of Honor.
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word
STOP
Do not miss the last post from @steemitboard:
SteemitBoard World Cup Contest - Play-off for third result
Participate in the SteemitBoard World Cup Contest!
Collect World Cup badges and win free SBD
Support the Gold Sponsors of the contest: @good-karma and @lukestokes
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Welcome to Steem, @dwulff!
I am a bot coded by the SteemPlus team to help you make the best of your experience on the Steem Blockchain!
SteemPlus is a Chrome, Opera and Firefox extension that adds tons of features on Steemit.
It helps you see the real value of your account, who mentionned you, the value of the votes received, a filtered and sorted feed and much more! All of this in a fast and secure way.
To see why 3058 Steemians use SteemPlus, install our extension, read the documentation or the latest release : Steemplus 2.18.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Congratulations @dwulff! You have completed the following achievement on Steemit and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :
Award for the number of upvotes received
Click on the badge to view your Board of Honor.
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word
STOP
Do not miss the last post from @steemitboard:
SteemitBoard World Cup Contest - Play-off for third result
Participate in the SteemitBoard World Cup Contest!
Collect World Cup badges and win free SBD
Support the Gold Sponsors of the contest: @good-karma and @lukestokes
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Congratulations @dwulff! You have completed the following achievement on Steemit and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :
Award for the number of upvotes
Click on the badge to view your Board of Honor.
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word
STOP
To support your work, I also upvoted your post!
Do not miss the last post from @steemitboard:
SteemitBoard World Cup Contest - Play-off for third result
Participate in the SteemitBoard World Cup Contest!
Collect World Cup badges and win free SBD
Support the Gold Sponsors of the contest: @good-karma and @lukestokes
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Welcome to steemit @dwulff. Join @minnowsupport project for more help. Checkout @helpie and @qurator projects.
Send SBD/STEEM to @treeplanter to plant trees and get an get an upvote in exchange of your donation (Min 0.01 SDB)
Upvote this comment to keep helping more new steemians
Send SBD/STEEM to @tuanis in exchange of an upvote and support this project, follow for random votes.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Welcome to Steem! Partiko is a fast and beautiful mobile app for Steem and we upvote our users to help them grow! Please feel free to download the Android app here and the iOS app here.
To get more upvotes, please join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/N7Et97G
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Congratulations @dwulff! You received a personal award!
You can view your badges on your Steem Board and compare to others on the Steem Ranking
Vote for @Steemitboard as a witness to get one more award and increased upvotes!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit