Been quiet for a bit (honestly i can't tell if i was on time or not) but with my new rig set up, I want to go ahead and share some updates:

The rig is using Mint, not Debian 12 KDE like what I said in the last devlog. Debian caused some weird resolution issues and I could not be assed to either figure out how to download the stuff needed to fix it or get the unstable build, so I fell back to Mint. After some setup, I basically got mostly everything running.
I was able to use Wine to get Crowbar working. I haven't checked my other native Windows tools like VTFEdit Reloaded. VPKEdit has a native Linux version. I tried setting up Hammer++ using Winetricks and after some time trying to get it to work, I just gave up on it.
I kept my old laptop around that has Windows 10 on it, and I installed some stuff (remote desktop software lmao) to basically be able to dual-wield my Linux PC and Win 10 laptop, so I can still use stuff like Hammer++ that absolutely cannot work on the distro I'm using.

also gm_boxxedcommunity is on hiatus... and the website is shelved (again). Don't worry, I didn't do complete jack shit!

I decided to pick back up on Godot again after a year, did the Dodge the Creeps and Squash the Creeps tutorials on the official docs, and started following this tutorial series (i just got done with the first video). The reason I'm doing this is because I want to make sort of a rougelike fps prototype thingy :P

Anyways here is what I got so far:

v i put that epilepsywarning tag on because of this video (might get flashy in some parts)

Yeah I only have the movement stuff (mostly) down, so stuff like bhopping, air strafing, and surfing. I still have to add crouching + crouch jumping and some other stuff. There's no shooty pew-pew yet because I haven't gotten that far.

All of this was done in Godot by the way. You are able to create Source-like movement in Godot, and it feels more nicer than the simple movement the CharacterBody3D script template and tutorials have, but there is more movement-specific code stuffed in the player character lmao.

It's probably gonna be like an on and off project rather than some full-time thing, and it is very early in development. There's still stuff to add, models to make, level design specifics to define (because I want to try to make it easy to make maps for this prototype), and that map selector is probably not final since it's mostly for debugging and a proof-of-concept thing.

That's pretty much it for this devlog. IDK when I'm gonna try to go back to working on gm_boxxedcommunity or that personal website. Also once I get the basic stuff like the movement and weapon manager added, I should really figure out what extra stuff to add in order to make it an actual rougelike fps.

Also as a side note, I personally dislike the term "rougelike" a little bit because of some comment I saw under a Youtube video saying that the game (Rouge) that the term originated from isn't really close to what rougelikes are usually are. I'm not gonna go too in-depth about weird game genre naming stuff, so I'm just gonna say that rougelikes should be renamed to Issaclikes, since they're closer to The Binding of Issac.

btw Risk of Rain 2 and Garry's Mod probably influenced my desire to prototype a roug– ahem issaclike fps game.

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