I realized I want to make a game with rocket jumping too. The only thing is I had trouble finding if other people wrote such a mechanic in Godot 4.

I got a very different Interpretation of the games ending. For me, it shows that in every Pixel of our TV screen, there is a small world with creatures that live there. And in one of those, Gomez lives there. So everytime you sit in front of a TV and see all those millions of pixels, you know that in every pixel there is a small world. And thats kinda cute.

I greatly enjoyed the video, though I only listened to it to minimize spoilers. Your analysis is filled with so much life advice that I even wrote down a few quotes. The amount of determination and will power a game such as this requires is certainly remarkable; I think those who achieve the 500+ (let alone 1000!!) forever retain the immutable knowledge that they can persevere and figure out the path.

I believe I know what 23:12 is on the chalc board. The way the squares are oriented makes it possible to create a cube, with all lines connecting to each other. The only square where this isn't the case would be the empty one, and I believe you have to insert one of the sqaures listed at the bottom (Which would be the L one). I believe as a final thing would you follow the path, moving through each square and noting down the number they would represent in the unfoldet display, until you can't continue (Hit a stop that isn't a corner for a lack of better explanation. So I believe, this would create the number code 1 10 6 5 4 10 5 6 Or given the squares at the bottom are the same as in the shape above, you have to count how many of what type you get? Maybe add them all together (It gives 47 btw)?

You, are my favourite type of cheese.

While the alphabet puzzle is great, it's also the worst puzzle imaginable, because you can't solve it if you don't speak English.

Is the \begin{lifelesson} original or a reference to some other media presence? I love the format of your videos, (g+)+

It feels like the Joker 2 punishing you for liking the first one in a wrong way.

IS THAT JOEL OR VINNY TALKING? WTF LOOOL

Aother good devlog but more importantly THANK YOU for summarizing my gripes with sync jumps so well.

cool

Quick suggestion: add an option to convert speed to hammer/units equivalent please. As a tf2 jumper i can say that it truly matters to sync rockets and speedshots.

I'm a big fan of the changes you're proposing here, nobody likes flying blind and syncs are initially pretty frustrating. You might consider giving the player a shadow, even if it's a simple circle below them. It would help put your speed and position in the context of the world, help you determine where you're landing, and make you feel a bit less like a floating rocket launcher. Brimstone might have similar readability issues to the city with everything basically being made of nether brick and obscured by fog, though I question what colors and textures would stand out without killing the vibe. As soon as you have a launch date I'll be counting the days.

maybe you could add a "ghost mode" where you have to beat your best speed for the level

so, i love this project you have been making, i constantly anticipate every new devlog and i wish to try to give some ideas to help in some places where i think are needed. i am really sorry if these ideas are inappropriate, and i am really sorry if these are impossible. I'd tweak the sounds of the rocket, nothing to do with the current SFX, they sound great, and the work you've done here might be more than enough, however it's really difficult to judge these things without playing the actual game. so, here are my changes: the low brown noise of the current rocket sounds a little dull, I'd give the rockets a sharp and pronounced secondary and seperate hissing sound effect, one stored in a whole different file, one with an extremely steep dropoff range that is exactly suited so that when shot, the sound effect is very pronounced for 0.25 seconds and then sharply drops off in volume. the actual timing / distance might need to be tweaked but this is just my idea of how to improve the sync SFX for an even clearer timing window. will look forward to the next devlog with bated breath!

Hey Cheese, I know its quite late to say this, but I don't recommend those upward vertical stopping stations, in my opinion it really kills the sense of speed, whereas if you land going down, you do it with speed, kind of eliminating the boring part of quickly going up, losing all of your speed, then slowly falling down on a flat platform with nothing on it but a checkpoint. For example, the one at 16:35

big fan of the sync changes, what a genius way to keep such a cool movement tech and not make it as frustratingly difficult to perform as it is in tf2. very excited for the early access release <3

I'm honestly an absolute noob when it comes to TF2 rocket jumping, but I'm genuinely so excited to see this game eventually released

I like the changes for sync jumps. Though I think that the sync jump beep audio cue could be more satisfying. And there could be a big sound for doing a sync jump just so it feels even better when you do it. Encouraging players further to keep trying if they are still having trouble with it.

I always found sync jumps very frustrating, and I think your changes will be a huge improvement. I had thought It would be cool to have a right click that keeps track of the previous rocket's distance from collision, and shoots the rocket at the perfect sync-jump time, but I think that would make it too easy. Maybe a right click that can detonate your rocket preemptively would be cool. you could shoot a rocket and then have the launch ring send you to intercept it in mid-air. I would've wishlisted sooner, but I somehow missed the last devlog. I think because the thumbnail didn't have a rocket launcher in it, I didn't associate it with this series lmao. Can't wait to play early access!

I can't believe I've been watching the process for a year now. I really can't wait to play that game when it releases. Wish you luck :D

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Biggest problem with puzzle games: once you've played it, you "get it", and there's nothing left to discover. Replayability is almost entirely dependent on the release of a puzzle building mode where people can create and share. That said, FEZ would be amazing if it had a way to create custom areas.

You should probably play Riven if you enjoyed the puzzles of Fez so much

Making me feel like a freak for loving the game at launch on vita enough to figure out the in game language on my own. I wish I knew what happened to my fez notebook

Cool and compact video!

Thanks to you I’m actually attempting to make a game also Tf2 inspired. I’ll probably fail horribly but at least I’m trying!

An add to this list is obviously Animal Well! It is inspired by Fez and Tunic and scratches the right places of my brain😄 I must say tho that Animal Well is SO much harder then Fez and Tunic! There are puzzles that are meant to be solved by the internet (Rabbit Screen). I mean I don’t think I could have solved everything in Fez alone (for example the telescope room) but I struggled in Animal Well so much more. As a standard player you wouldn’t even think of a lot of things that have been figured out by others. Which is… intriguing but also can be frustrating. The red room in Fez is comparable to one of the rabbits in Animal Well but the rabbit is much harder in my opinion. So be aware that you will spend hours in Animal Well (and give it a try without the internet! You will be surprised how far you get without it☺️) thank you for this video!

I always wondered about Geezer. Who is he, and why is he wearing a fez? Does he know about the 3rd dimension ect, ect. I always joked that he might be a future version of Gomez, but I don't know... Thoughts?

DLC sucked ass and Is sad

Ok, my mind is officially blown after hearing about the triangular Air Force Base... I'm dying to know what is over there. Somebody must figure it out

💜💜💜

I always interpreted the menu guy’s plan for more sequels as meaningless spite. It’s still telling you to move on, but by showing constant mockery won’t get you anywhere.

Yo, pretty cool video. About the lighting: You were talking about how light can impact the performance, and I was wondering about baking light. I haven't done that, but from my understanding it my help the performance. If you did try, or its impossible to do in godot, then its alright. Wish you well, Cheddar.

Shoutout to orgmaker, cave story gotta be one of my favorite composition tools.

Im really hoping the game gets an art pass. as you mentioned the lighting in city & paradise look flat but this is actually a huge issue, for example the city surf ramps. Its basically impossible to tell where the edge of it actually is (and therfor the start of where you can surf on it) since theyre both shaded identically. some of the walls have that issue too. The viewmodel also has this issue with the top exhaust vent being basically invisible 99% of the time. Some of the colours (especially like the castle checkerboards) are too intense/too contrasting, and while I cant say for sure I have a hunch the checkerboard surfaces could need an epilepsy warning if the contrast between their two colours isnt lessened also, i think the tutorial text needs a transluscent solid/gradient behind it. While black outline+white text is technically readable on any surface, I found its hard to "lock on" to the words. In regards to the music the noise synth used at the beginning of the video is way too sharp/loud. im not really a music person so i dont know the technical terms but it felt like a needle to the ears, but otherwise theyre fine tracks Still looking forward to the game overall though. (I'll also say you taught *me* something with this video. I hadn't considered powers of two with tickrates. Unfortunately my own project is currently 40 TPS, so I'd have to either lower it to 32 TPS or up to 64 TPS. Hrm.)

This game would be incomplete without an amen break.

14:40 what you are describing is just wallshots, which is what you use in all Easy Walls. Wallpogo in fact does not involve any strafing (most of the time), it's about height control and moving slowly. Like in Easy Pogo 8 and 12 or Medium Pogo 4 and 11.

damn that a nice project that you've got here! Keep this up

so glad I found your channel when you first started these devlogs, its so cool to see this game undergo development. This game gets an instant wishlist!

For the leader board dlc thing You should have it so that the leader boards are still visible and are able to be downloaded from without the dlc And the dlc is just for allowing you up to upload replays and times to your servers not access the the leader board in general You can even have it so that it still tells you what place you would have had if you had it the dlc, as some encouragement to get it by essentially going "look how good you did you should put yourself on the board" And for that, having it localy store all of your replays and then allow you to upload them after getting the dlc would be really helpful for casual players, who didnt really feel like getting the dlc, untill suddenly there alot better and have 100 hours

sick!

Damn that Music is awesome!

As for the leaderboards and auto uploading replays, how can you be sure that replays will be stay synced between different platforms? Considering Godot Physics/Jolt Physics don't guarantee determinism nor cross-platform determinism.

pretty cool