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Devlog

• Localization: A Return
  September 03, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #xenogame, #gemini, #vibe coding

  I am back from Dragon Con and ready to finally work on the game some more. I decided that it would be easier to start working on the actual internals for localization. This is going to take some effor... Continue reading

  
• Of Dragon Con, Debug Overlay, and Localization
  August 30, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  Today I'm "working" at Dragon Con . By "working" I mean manning a track room, making sure the panelists and audience are having a great time. Luckily, there's a lot of downtime while I'm here, so I br... Continue reading

  
• Dragon Con: A Vacation
  August 28, 2025 by Munchmo#Godot, #Gemini, #Xenogame

  I am attending Dragon Con right now. Actually, I'm volunteering for my 25th year. Been going much longer than that. But, it's a big event and I don't plan to work on the game while I'm here. Well, act... Continue reading
• Dialogue System: Talking Points Go BRRRR
  August 26, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  Another day another success! This may actually be the last progress I make this month, I'm busy for the next week with a personal thing. Dragoncon is coming to town! I may get some opportunities to wo... Continue reading

  
• Dialogue System: Talk About It
  August 25, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  I'm continuing my work on the dialogue system. Today I'm working on "talking points". These will be simple dialogue responses the NPC can make to player inquiries. It's pretty cool, now that I've buil... Continue reading

  
• NPCs: Let's Talk!
  August 24, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #xenogame, #gemini, #vibe coding

  Today went a bit differently than I expected it would. My initial goal was going to be working on the dialogue system. I needed the NPC to open up the dialogue system UI and populate the easy stuff. T... Continue reading

  
• NPCs: A Simple Start
  August 23, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  The time finally came to make my first NPC, and it was quite a ride. Things still aren't great, but they work! I used a few different Gemini chat instances this time. I had some issues getting my inte... Continue reading

  
• Game State: Showing Dialogue
  August 22, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  Today I jumped back into the dialogue system. I started with an in-depth discussion with Gemini about the specific path to showing the dialogue system. The functions were mostly ready, but nothing tri... Continue reading

  
• Loading: Dialogue Data
  August 21, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  Today was a doozy. What should have been simple ended up being stupid, so I got smart. I ended up using at least 5 different chat instances with Gemini to get things working. I really only expected to... Continue reading

  
• Defining Dialogue: A Resource
  August 20, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  Today it was time to build out the definition for what exactly is contained in Dialogue data. I started by asking my main Gemini chat instance to give me a rundown on the things I had decided in relat... Continue reading

  
• Dialogue: Let's Talk About It
  August 19, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #xenogame, #vibe coding

  Today was a major design day. I started diving into the scene for the Dialogue System. Just some placeholder stuff, I'm sure I'll change things up later once things are actually in place. But for now... Continue reading

  
• Notifications: Overcoming Anxiety
  August 18, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  I don't know why, but when I think about working on my game I'm faced with anxiety. That's why there weren't any dev logs the last couple of days. I took the weekend off and did nothing. Literally not... Continue reading

  
• Updates: Character Menu
  August 15, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  Dove right back into the character menu today. I wanted to actually make it functional and now it is. Most of what I did was of my own making. I started by taking the code already in use for the pause... Continue reading

  
• Character Menu: A Beginning
  August 14, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #xenogame, #gemini

  I stepped away from the quests today to put together a rudimentary character menu. So far it's nothing special, just a bunch of labels. I'm sure the layout is all wrong and looks right. But it's a sta... Continue reading

  
• Quest Manager: Prerequisites
  August 13, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #xenogame, #vibe coding

  I dove back into my quest manager today. This thing is getting complicated and confusing. I'm almost at the point where I need to move on to something else before doing much more. I need the in-game f... Continue reading

  
• Quests: Rewarding!
  August 12, 2025 by Munchmo#Godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  With the little work I did yesterday, I knew I had more work to do on the quest manager. I decided to just jump right in and make some changes myself while also working with Gemini for larger changes... Continue reading

  
• Should Not Have Done That
  August 11, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  Ugh, I don't know what I was thinking. . . Skipped working on the game two days in a row! It's bad enough for me to skip at all, but even worse skipping multiple days in a row. Gotta keep up my moment... Continue reading

  
• Loading: Quest Definitions
  August 08, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  Today was a day I almost forgot about the game! I got sucked into Oxygen Not Included again. . . I can't help it! But I did work on the game. And I didn't just accomplish one thing, but two! I started... Continue reading

  
• Quests: A Path Forward
  August 07, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  Today I jumped into building out my first quests using the definition I created yesterday. I decided the best approach to start was going to be just making a few initial introductory quests to see how... Continue reading

  
• Resources: What Is Your Quest?
  August 06, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  As I said yesterday, today was time to start working more on quests! What exactly is a quest? Well, that's what I did today, I defined quests in relation to my game. I took the example quest json file... Continue reading

  
• Taking a Day: Shouldn't Have
  August 05, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  I took the day off yesterday, didn't work on the game at all. Instead, I was sucked into playing Oxygen Not Included, an amazing game! I really shouldn't have though, it's important to keep working ev... Continue reading

  
• Quick Testing: No Solution
  August 03, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #xenogame

  Today I jumped back into the interactable design to see if I could figure out what I broke. I'm not sure what's happening but the behavior is just not stable anymore. I think I changed something when... Continue reading
• Quick Work: A Small Change
  August 02, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  Today I decided to do something slightly different. I had something in my game that I was referring to as the "omni-tool" and I decided I didn't like that name anymore. So now I've gone back through a... Continue reading
• Rethinking Interactables: Making Interaction Better
  August 01, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  First, I wanna start off with a shout out to my new follower! Not sure if you'll actually read this, but yes, I'm paying attention here. Now let's dive in to today's work. After finishing up yesterday... Continue reading

  
• Improved Interactions: Sounds Good
  July 31, 2025 by Munchmo

  This morning I started thinking about my interactables and I realized that I had overlooked a few things while skipping others intentionally. So I jumped back in to make some major improvements! The f... Continue reading

  
• Interactables: Not So Fast
  July 30, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  Today I dove in deep. It was finally time to start putting some serious work into my interactables. The first thing I did was have a talk with Gemini. We discussed the specifics of how I wanted this s... Continue reading

  
• Interactions: A Small But Substantial Start
  July 29, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  Today I began diving back into adding interactable objects to the game. Previously I had some conversations with Gemini about how I expected this system to work. Of course, that was with the old chat... Continue reading

  
• Beyond the Fix: Uncovering Hidden Saves
  July 28, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  Today I asked Gemini what I should work on. I had fed it my last two dev logs so it knew what I have on my plate. It suggested three things, fix a bug I identified, begin working on the interaction sy... Continue reading

  
• Unlocking: Player Progression
  July 27, 2025 by Munchmo#roadmap, #godot

  After writing yesterday's lengthy post , I was left feeling like I hadn't said enough. Yesterday I talked about the systems in place and those yet to be built, but today I'd like to talk about the act... Continue reading
• Taking Stock: Current State of the Game
  July 26, 2025 by Munchmo#gemini, #xenogame, #godot, #roadmap

  This morning I woke up with a notification on my phone. A couple of nights ago something about the game came to mind and so I set a reminder for myself and promptly forgot about it. This made me reali... Continue reading

  
• Building Template: Rewiring My Brain
  July 25, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vobe coding, #xenogame

  I came to a realization last night, I was way too much in my own head about the building template I was creating. I don't need to worry about drawing anything, this is just a template for now. I need... Continue reading

  
• Template Building: More Layers
  July 24, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #xenogame

  I dug back into creating my building template and ran into some blocks that have helped me change my approach a little bit. Instead of just 3 TileMapLayers, I've upped it to 5 and that may go up even... Continue reading

  
• Building Template: Learning Tiles
  July 23, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #xenogame

  After a lazy day yesterday, I decided to have a lazy day today too! I'm still working on the game, but a little more slowly since it's less technical and more tedious. I dove back in by learning more... Continue reading

  
• Building a Template: It's Complicated
  July 22, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame, #tilesets

  Today I started preparing to build my world. It's a little complicated because of how I want things to work. It's also complicated more by the difference between Unity (which I have experience with) a... Continue reading

  
• Loading: Handling Time
  July 21, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #xenogame, #gemini, #vibe coding

  Today I'm back to continue fixing issues with loading a saved game. I made a quick update to my time handler to force a save when the day rolls over automatically. One less thing for the player to wor... Continue reading

  
• No AI: Quick & Easy Fix
  July 20, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #xenogame, #gemini, #vibe coding, #savegame

  I had some time to kill this morning, and I wasn't sure when I'd be able to work on the game later, so I dove in to fix a couple of lingering issues from yesterday's session. Namely, I wanted to addre... Continue reading

  
• (Not) Live Now: Building a Savegame Manager
  July 19, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame, #livestream, #twitch

  Today I'm doing things a little different. I'm starting my dev log before I actually start any coding. Today's session is being livestreamed on my Twitch channel , and I'd love for you to join me! The... Continue reading

  
• Data Manager: Updating Item Definition
  July 18, 2025 by Munchmo#xenogame, #godot, #gemini, #vibe coding

  Another quick day of work today on the game. It's surprising how quick and easy it is to get Gemini to make coding changes when it's not bogged down by a bunch of history. I had already worked through... Continue reading

  
• Power's Out: Theorizing
  July 17, 2025 by Munchmo#Godot, #Gemini, #Xenogame, #Vibe coding, #Factory

  Today, the power to my apartment is out for an extended amount of time. Because of this, I can't really work on the game so much. I mean, I could but I'm saving my resources (laptop charge, wifi hotsp... Continue reading
• Quick & Easy: HUD Updates
  July 16, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  Today it was finally time to get the HUD prefab connected to my data managers. I decided, because of the specifics of the changes being made, not to involve my main Gemini chat instance with any of th... Continue reading

  
• Debug Overlay: Simple Implementation
  July 15, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  Today I continued working on my in-game feedback. I actually did some of the coding myself! I added a new signal to my debug manager for the debug overlay to listen to. But I let Gemini do the actual... Continue reading

  
• Placeholders: Starting Fresh
  July 14, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #xenogame, #vibe coding

  Today, I continued working on implementing the new in-game feedback UI stuff. I was actually able to get a simple placeholder script made for my debug overlay. It has the export variables for all my n... Continue reading

  
• PlayerStatsManager: The Intelligent Core - Dynamic Vitals & Active Effects
  July 13, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  My new approach is helping a lot with Gemini, but it still doesn't solve "Something went wrong". I started out the day thinking about "transferring" my knowledge to a new chat, but I had a goal today... Continue reading

  
• Interface Insights: Assembling the Player's View
  July 12, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame, #UI

  I talked about it previously , laying out the UI elements and deciding where everything's going to go. Today I dove into actually building two major UI elements, the Debug Overlay and the HUD Prefab... Continue reading

  
• Beyond the Code: Player Stats and a Smoother Journey
  July 11, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #xenogame, #vibe coding

  So, with all the frustrations recently with Gemini, I changed my approach. Instead of continuing to use the same chat for everything, I'm delegating, and the results have been surprising! I decided to... Continue reading

  
• Gemini: Something Went Wrong
  July 10, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #xenogame, #vibe coding

  I'm getting more and more frustrated every day with Gemini. Luckily, the trick of starting fresh in a new chat window still works. I guess maybe I need to think about vibe coding with Gemini more modu... Continue reading

  
• Vibe Coding: Frustrations Galore!
  July 09, 2025 by Munchmo

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  Man, this is really frustrating, working with AI. Doesn't help that I'm using Gemini, which isn't even built for this. I can't keep track of how many times I've had to retry a prompt because "Somethin... Continue reading

  
• Being Resourceful: In-game Items
  July 08, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #xenogame, #gemini, #vibe coding

  Today I decided to finish up the refactor for the new UI manager, but it turned out all that was left was removing two lines of code. If only I had realized that yesterday! So instead I dove into the... Continue reading

  
• UI Manager: Expected Nightmare
  July 07, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #xenogame, #vibe coding

  I knew that this was going to be difficult. Implementing the UI Manager was going to require refactoring a lot of stuff. And my experience using Gemini so far has been pretty rough. But this was a who... Continue reading

  
• Screen Strategy: The Conceptual Challenges
  July 04, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #xenogame, #vibe coding

  I'm preparing for a long bout of travel, so I really didn't want to dig into anything too intense today. Yesterday's session also left me with a few concerns and ideas, so I decided to just have a dis... Continue reading

  
• UI Manager: A little bit of nothing
  July 03, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #xenogame, #vibe coding, #gemini, #UI

  Today I decided to think about completely changing the way something is done in my game, the UI. As it stands now, UI related stuff is all independent, each scene is handling it's own UI. But I know I... Continue reading

  
• Sometimes it's the small things
  July 02, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #gemini, #vibe coding, #xenogame

  One big issue I have with using Gemini to help me code is that it's not very good as giving me the code in the manner I want. Either it outputs the entire script again making changes it shouldn't, or... Continue reading
• Ending on a high note!
  July 01, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #xenogame, #vibe coding, #gemini

  I jumped into working on the game today with a simple idea, implementing a pause menu. Nothing big, but I knew it would be a bit of a hassle. After yesterday's debacle I was expecting trouble from Gem... Continue reading
• Vibe Coding Sucks
  June 30, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #ai, #xenogame, #gemini, #vibe coding

  I know that AI is pretty controversial, but I've been using Gemini to help build my game. I get the programming and stuff, I understand the code. It's just faster and easier for me to do it this way... Continue reading
• Work from afar
  June 29, 2025 by Munchmo#xenogame, #godot

  Today I worked on things in two distinct ways. I was out and about today and spent time planning my next moves. Figured out what I needed to work on, the general order they needed to be dealt with, an... Continue reading
• Not all progress is code
  June 28, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #xenogame

  So, today's progress wasn't a whole lot more than planning. After yesterday's disaster of getting nothing truly accomplished I really wasn't in the headspace to work with any coding, so instead I dug... Continue reading
• Sometimes simple isn't so simple
  June 27, 2025 by Munchmo#cutscene, #xenogame, #issue, #godot

  So today I dove in with a very simple idea in mind, adding an animation to a cutscene. All the functionality was supposed to exist, and it did. Sort of. . . It really wasn't working how I expected, an... Continue reading
• So, it's been a while . . .
  June 26, 2025 by Munchmo#godot, #xenogame, #2D, #Pixel Art

  I'm still around, but the previous project I was working on is kinda dead in the water but still very much alive in some ways. I stopped working on it due to time constraints and the sheer complexity... Continue reading