Game development, software engineering, and technical deep dives
Devlogs for my tactics RPG on my YouTube channelHow the battle camera in my tactics RPG orbits, tilts, and zooms around a 3D map, nudges itself to readable angles when a unit acts, and glides to whoever is taking their turn.
How my tactics RPG keeps flat pixel-art characters looking correct on 3D battle maps with a rotating camera: billboarding, clipping, feet placement, camera-relative facing, and undoing the squash from camera tilt.
Why I moved my tactics RPG battles from 2D to 3D, and how the grid now comes from the Blender mesh, a single breadth-first search replaced per-cell A*, and climbing, dropping, and walking through allies work.
How I broke a bloated BattleUnit class into a thin host plus drop-in components, and what changed about adding features once the refactor settled.
A walk through the grid, pathfinding, and movement flow in my tactics RPG — a multi-floor tilemap, an A* path-limited move range, and a per-unit signal machine that drives the actual animation.
How I coordinate the battle systems in my tactics RPG using a small event bus for scene-wide events and per-unit Godot signals for everything else — and the rule I use to decide which belongs where.
A walk through the speed-based turn order in my tactics RPG — an accumulator pattern split across a per-unit turn meter component and a global coordinator that projects the next ten turns.
Building a party-based exploration system where players can switch between characters with smooth camera transitions.
Older posts kept for history. Implementations may be out of date due to later refactors.
