I made the snow look pretty good! I added some volumetric fog, and the snow is just a simple CpuParticles3D with a text mesh of an asterisk, ill make a better one someday. now that i can bear looking at it i can start making it an actual game!

i made streaks work :D this should update now!! also soon u will get profile badges n stuff

Worked on the player’s core movement today! I implemented horizontal movement using Unity’s new input system and handled the actual movement in FixedUpdate() by directly setting the rigidbody2D’s velocity. I also added sprite flipping by changing the player’s x scale based on movement direction.

I then implemented jumping with a ground check using an OverlapCircle, so the player can only jump while grounded. Finally, I added variable jump height by cutting the player’s upward velocity when the jump button is released early. 

This is the first time i’m seriously making a game so this took me embarrassingly long lol but well everyone starts somewhere! 

Finally finished the Figma prototype of the home page, spent like 6~7 ish hours undocumented on procreate and affinity 😭😭. took some inspiration from @supercoolcodinggirl’s name font. Tomorrow I will take a break from this project and complete the webOS project so I don’t get burnt out.

I’ve been working on some decorational particles on the terrain to make it loss less bland. These are however purely for visuals and not gonna be included in any evolution calculations (which i promise i’ll start doing at some point (: but for now i wanna finish the world generation, regarding that any ideas for what should be added to world gen in the COMMENTS!!)

Today I added the handle and close button to the welcome window. When the close button is clicked, a bubble popping sound is played. The close button is also a dead fish. The one thing I couldn’t get to work was the open window button, and I don’t have any ideas for why it isn’t working. Google also doesn’t seem to know, but I think that’s ok, because I wanted the welcome screen to only show once anyway. Next I’ll be doing the style sheet, and then hopefully the first app will be partially completed by the end of tomorrow.

FINISHED MI MASTERPIECE

it is currently 3am and i stayed up finishing this. the style change quite a bit from the original design. however, the organization changed completely. i decided to keep the website as one whole page and to only focus on who i am and my projects. i added my music in there too, since i learned from my friend how to play around with spotify features on websites.

im very proud of this project and it def is a unique take on a website for me. now im going to go to sleep.

you can now tag people in devlogs and in comments (and also you can add slack emojis. ) @tongyu

they’ll appear in your notifications bar. comment something and i’ll reply to you so you can try it out :p

i added gambling hooray!

stardance rng day 1
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https://stardance.hackclub.com/rng

First devlog on Stardance! You might remember this project from flavortown, and I’m going to keep working on it for stardance.

I’ve added a ton of stuff to the game in the last month, like 3 or 4 new player abilities, new animations, and polishing various things based on feedback I received.

The ~5 hours in this devlog were mostly me trying to set up a system where I can have 2 post processing profiles active at once, but affecting different layers. I used this to create an intense bloom effect that only renders on certain sprites, specifically the spark particles in combat. I finally got it working using render features and render graphs, and I’m super happy with the result.

How “Draw a Perfect Star” actually calculates accuracy

The goal of this system is not to “recognise” a star visually. It turns both your drawing and a perfect star into comparable point data, then measures how far apart they are.

This makes scoring fast, deterministic, and surprisingly stable.

Input capture

While you draw, the app records raw mouse positions:

path = [(x1, y1), (x2, y2), etc etc]

This data is noisy and depends heavily on speed and polling/sampling rate.

Resampling

The stroke is converted into a fixed number of evenly spaced points (120).

This removes:

• drawing speed differences

• uneven mouse sampling

Now every drawing has a consistent structure.

Normalisation

The shape is transformed so comparison is fair:

• centred around (0, 0)

• scaled so max radius = 1

This removes position/size- only shape remains.

Reference star

A perfect 5-pointed star is generated mathematically using polar coordinates and sine-based radius switching.

It is also sampled into 120 points so it matches the user format.

Comparison

Each user point is compared directly to the corresponding star point-

error += distance(user[i], star[i])

This produces an average geometric deviation across the full shape.

Scoring

Final score is computed as:

score = 100 - error * 120

Then clamped between 0 and 100.

Summary

The system works by converting both shapes into normalized point sequences and measuring their geometric distance.

yippee win a free gpu :D

comment system is better now :)))) and you can ctrl+enter or cmd+enter to post comments or devlogs. yay!

Storage system

I made a storage system for my hanger objects with a sorting system. The hardest part was making the hangers move from one canvas to another canvas on another scene. The hangers also kept spawning in all the wrong places, and there was a lot of scene management bugs. But, it works smoothly now as seen in the demo below.

Main changes :

• Created storage system that moves hangers from player’s canvas to storage canvas in separate scene
• Hangers keep their properties when stored, and stay in storage when player loads and unloads scene
• Sorting system sorts the clothes in storage by attributes

gameplay peak

Exterstellar indev-1

Introducing your underrated browser extension for Stardance: Exterstellar by Sabio (that’s me!) & @Flux3tor (pretty much a major contributor-).

Features

• Toggleable Plugins (which are basically features the extension adds!)
• A lot (and I mean a LOT…) of configurations available for all plugins (plugin configs!)
• Can be used to support MANY mini-extensions with our easy-to-use plugin development tool and documentation¹.

Plugins

• Better Sidebar
• Custom Font
• Custom Scrollbar
• Devlog Formatter
• Sidebar Hotkeys
• Sidebar Reordering
• Themes (@Gizzy certified btw :3)
• +more already in the works! (please comment plugin ideas if you have suggestions!)

Join #exterstellar now!

¹ The documentation is in the works.