9 ENDINGS!??
I get a seizure when thinking about adding a second ending to my game and YOU ARE ADDING 9 OF EM!?

Please share a fraction of your power with us peasants. XD

<3

H e LL O  E v e y o n e!

It's me again.

It's been a while since I uploaded my last Devlog. Sorry! I got distracted by some music-related stuff... But hey, I have improved a lot! My songs don't sound like dying penguins anymore! That's good, isn't it? Anyways idk wtf I'm saying I should just stop haha. In summary I'm trying to get better at composing music for my games.

New thingies:

1. Modeled many new cars!
2. Made the fuel tank patience system
3. Created and added foliage to the map!
4. A LOT of bug fixes
5. Modeled and added a new ghost enemy!
6. Added new Day cars: The Vintage, Prime, Enforcer & CivilEnforcer
7. Added new Night cars: The Hearse, Invis, Odd
8. Added new Weekend cars: The FuelTruck
9. Modeled the Fuel Tank
10. Added the Fuel Tank and implemented a flow counter for it
11. The Vehicle Spawner can now take spawn requests from outside sources without overloading itself
12. Created a rig for Sam! (the game's mascot)
13. Added some improvements to the UI
14. Implemented the Night Rage. Night Rage builds up during day and is released at night. It is the main gameplay mechanic of the game!
15. Composed four new songs for the OST!
16. Rewrote some parts of the Time System
17. Added the Weekend!
18. Rewrote AGasPump into UFluidPump. (now any object including vehicles can have a gas pump attached to it)
19. Made a simple progression system 
    
20. Fulfill Fuel now has a working gameplay loop!

The Gallery

-Sam and his rig

-Happy Sam!

-The Fuel Tank - Gas pumps do not pump fuel if it is empty. At the end of the week (Weekend) the FuelTruck arrives and lets you refuel the Fuel Tank. Some Night cars may attack the Fuel Tank if they were not satisfied.

-The Vintage. The night equivalents of this car are The Hearse and The Invis.

-The Prime. The night equivalent of this car is The Odd.

-The Enforcer and its civilian version, The CivilEnforcer. Neither of these two cars currently has a night equivalent but I'm thinking about adding one!

For now I will not show the Night cars, I'm kinda afraid that revealing them would spoil the game; but I may do that in the future regardless.

But for now: Bye!

In my opinion, it would be nice if you could also upload short Devlog summaries on your Twitter.

Omg! I wish you guys the best <3

Naw don't worry!
I've gotten used to you being dumb :3

Wow, I wasn't expecting you to fix the bugs this quickly!

Also, I finished the sound effects you wanted. I hope you like them!:
SFX For Fate's Gamble

I don't have any equip sounds in my library right now. Describe how you want the sound to be and I will make a custom one for you!

I have seen games made with RPGMaker that have a slower walking animation, are you sure it is not possible?

Also did you say RPGMaker was developed in Windows XP!?
I have never used RPGMaker but let's be honest, the way you talk about it leads me to believe that it's not a good game engine.
It sounds like very stiff. Are you sure it won't hurt the development of your game?

Also if you need help with sound effects, tell me. I usually use copyright-free sounds and distort them in some way for my games. I can also compose some original music for your game! Though I don't have many virtual instruments.

I wasn't expecting to love it so much!
I find it even more intense than Buckshot Roulette!
I love the graphics and the items all sound fair (I didn't get to use all of them).

Though I got a bit overwhelmed with the amount of items. I'm certain that you will introduce them one by one in the final build but I'm just making sure you know it...

The sound design is a bit lacking and the Opponent isn't very intimidating (he's chill af lol)

Now, I will put on my criticizing hat and start yapping about everything:

---The Things that need fixing in my opinion

1. I'm not sure what caused this but when trying to run the executable I got a Windows Defender warning. This combined with the game being a single executable file can be a turn off for many people.

2. The walking animation looks a bit choppy. You should probably slow it down a bit and make the character bounce up and down more.

3. The guns need more sounds! One for reloading, another one for spinning the cylinder and another for firing a blank.

4. I think I saw a 'spin cylinder' option for the tranquilizer. Though I'm not sure, I might be mistaking.

5. The animation that plays when you enter a battle, is tiling.

6. The resolution is too small. I think you did this on purpose to make the game look pixelated. But man! You gotta do something about it!

7. "Opponent luckily shot himself with a blank."??? I think 'luckily' means 'fortunate' more than 'lucky'. Idk, I have never heard the word 'luckily' be used for something negative.

---Things that I recommend but you may not agree or you may have other plans for them

1. The environment is too bright for a horror game. You should probably use darker sprites.

2. The dialogue box that states the amount of live and blank rounds should not disappear automatically.

3. In the said dialogue box, It's better to use numbers instead of words to make it easier to read by just looking over them.

4. It would be nice to have a description of items while in the 'Use Item' menu.

That's enough yapping for today!
I whish you the best <3

LET'S GOOOOOO!

It does reduce performance but it's kinda optional!
If you want a class to be garbage collected then you have to derive it from UObject and give it the UClass macro, else it will not be garbage collected.

I said 'kinda' because if you want a class to be recognized by Unreal editor then you have to enable garbage collection for it!

Devlog 4!

Hello everyone, it's me again.

My experience with Unreal Engine:

I'm starting to like Unreal Engine. Now that I understand its fundamentals, its tools are really helping me out.
I was expecting Unreal to be much more difficult to learn; but I would even argue that it's easier than Unity!
Unity is more programmer-friendly but Unreal is more artist-friendly. So if you are a programmer and you hate visual scripting, it's going to be a tough ride. But if you are willing to learn blueprints too, then It's really not that difficult.

I have heard some people say that Unreal is less flexible than other engines like Godot and Unity, but that is not true.
If you are trying to make a game, Unreal is not any less flexible than those two; but if you want to create any other type of software, Unreal isn't the right choice.

Also, C++ isn't that difficult. The most difficult part of C++ is memory management which is not required in Unreal; because Unreal has a built-in garbage collector.
C++ without memory management is very similar to C#, but every now and then you have to pass in or get a pointer.
Also Also you don't even need to know C++ to make games with the engine!

Anyways! Now that Unreal propaganda is over, it's time to get into the fun stuff!:

New Features!

There is a lot of them!:

Wow! That was a lot!

📖Story Update📖

The story isn't complete yet. There will be four characters which two of them are new. (not including the player)
The story is less vague now but the progression is not natural at all. It doesn't have that 'smart' flavor to it yet.
I will share more about the story once it has reached a stable stage!

📷Gallery📷

-Explosion
The smoke particles have been fixed and don't glow anymore.

-The BomberBox
BomberBox is a vehicle that only appears at Night. That's all I can say for now!

-The Wooden Cabin

-Me having some fun before implementing the death system

Anyways, that's about it:

See you later!

Oh god, there is a second beta coming!?

Can't wait to try it out!

ClipChamp? You edit with... ClipChamp?
In your video you said that you love editing but it can slows down the development of Fates Gamble, so keep using ClipChamp because it will make you HATE editing real soon XD

Hello everyone, it's me again!

I've been doing a lot of technical stuff, so I don't have much to show :(

✨Design Choices✨

uhhm uhhhhh...

🔧New Features🔧

I know the new features sound underwhelming but they are required before I can add any other thing.
After making the VehicleSpawner, I will be moving on to the fun stuff again!

📖Story Update📖

I have decided to add this new section (that is  clearly not ripped off from chillitch's devlogs) to my Devlogs!
I have some ideas in mind for the story but I prefer to think about them more before sharing them with you guys & gals!
So, unfortunately we have no Story Update for today :(

Gallery

-Hose Tension Showcase

-The Well To The Hell

By the way, I just watched a video about an old roulette game and I find it way more terrifying than Buckshot Roulette!

I'm not sure if you have heard about it before. It's called Orange Roulette.

I haven't played it yet but I think you will find it interesting! \(0 30)/

ye i believe i have dementia...

The hand in the Four leaf clover animation looks stylized and nice. Don't change it!

It reminds me of the hand in 2DBoy studio logo intro:

btw does Fate's Gamble have a main character? (not including the protagonist)
The video got me curious :P
I hope this doesn't turn out to be another dementia situation again lol

By the way, HOW DO YOU DRAW HANDS SO GOOD!?

Thank uuuu <3

Thanks :3

I think this game is going to be harder than Reanimated just because of that 'knocking over gas pumps' feature😅

Devlog 2!

Hello everyone, it's me again.

There has been quite a lot of progress:

By the way...

I'm creating this game with Unreal Engine 5!

I don't have much experience with Unreal. But I love it!

I'm also using a plugin called UnrealSharp which allows me to program my games in C#!

Also, No. I'm NOT abandoning Unity. I hate how people throw away years of their experience just to stick to another tool.

Gallery

-The junk yard

-The Day & Night cycle (WIP)

-The Gas Pump (WIP)

Finally! The weapon animation are here!

In those two idle animations, is the opponent supposed to be pointing the gun at the player or they're just holding it?

Because they don't seem to be pointing it directly at the player, nor are they holding the gun at a rest pose...

idk I'm just curious lol

I can't wait for the video >3<

Thanks <3

Devlog No.1 : The Concept!

Hello everyone, it's me again.

First of all let's address the elephant in the room:
I know the name sounds kinda diabolical but hear me out... I kinda like it.

I'm not really sure if this game would go under the category of "Mascot Horror". it's about the mascot of the Gas Station, though it is not like traditional mascot horror.

Overall Idea:

In this Devlog, I'm not going to explain gameplay or story details rather, I would talk about the idea behind it.

Note: The following mechanics might change!

The gameplay is broken into two overall parts. Night and Day.

Unlike other horror games, Fulfill Fuel takes place on days too. On Day, the game will be very challenging but forgiving. At Night, the game will be simple but brutal.

Even though player can't lose on Day, but what happens on Day defines what will happen on Night.
In simpler terms, if you f up at Day you will die at Night!

For example the more customers you miss on Day, the harder the Night gets.

Gallery!:

-The TEN ARMED SPIDER™ Gas Station.
"Diesel, Oil, Fuel And Gas! Look Around And We Will Shove Debt Up Your A.."

-Sam The Spider (mascot of TAS)
"Look at his eyes! He's so innocent! He just wants to sell you overpriced diesel."
I might change the design later, but for now, I like how it looks like an oversimplified corporate design.
Though I have some problems with his arms and legs, they look like teeth!

-Gas Pump
"no funny business here, good bye."

Absolutely loved the video :3

Juss wanted to say something:

You should tell your fan base more about your game. Telling people about what they are going to experience ain't gonna spoil anything. In fact, this makes them more likely to play your game because if the idea sounds cool of course they would want to play it.
If you share a bit of the story or gameplay with people, they will get more hooked with it.

I know you want people to play your game without having anything in mind, because that's what makes horror well, horrifying! I think the same. But this is not really achievable by us, indie developers. We don't have triple A budgets to spend on advertising our craft. Instead we should connect with gamers (i hate that word) on a more personal level.

Fates Gamble is one of those games that will be under development for a long time. And it's also one of those games which will attract more people than just your community. So at the end of the day, most people will play your game without carrying any thoughts.

Wow that's a lot of words, I hope you're still reading lol.
Anyway, you get the point, I will shut up now :P

Hmm, that's very interesting.

When I'm planning my horror games I don't usually think about what type of horror game I want to make, I more think about what type of horror experience it will be in general.
Because in my opinion there are many horror genres that has not yet been explored by video games.
I think it would be helpful if you also made a diagram of general horror elements. (like fear of the unknown and fear of being watched & etc...)

Thanks <3

Wow I love these designs :3
I think the first one looks better.
In my opinion, the color of #2's head doesn't match his body.
And for both #2 & #3, the silhouette of the body might be a bit confusing.

Hopefully this game will get some love another day :(

Bad news...

Since the first day I started this project, I unfortunately didn't really like it.
The reason I started it, was to test my game development skills and... that was the first mistake!
Instead of developing a game I was passionate about, I just made it for the sake of making another game.
Over the past few months, I have grown to like it but, it still isn't my passion project.
When I think of a game idea, I want it to be revolutionary! I want to push boundaries!
But SunSweeper, was none of them.
For example, in Reanimated (my past game), each run would be unique due to something called 'Controlled Randomness'.

I don't know if I have said this before but my passion is creating environments.
SunSweeper didn't have many environments (only 4 small scenes), so I couldn't really put my creativity in it.
Even though Reanimated only had 1 scene, but it was more complex than those 4 scenes combined.

In short,
I'm abandoning SunSweeper.
I might finish it one day,
but not now.

I'm excited for my next project because it will need a lot of environment art!
I have been learning a lot of modeling recently to prepare myself for that game!
I still don't have a name for it but I will think of one.
This will be the last project that I will ever abandon, because I have learnt my lesson:
"Don't Make Something You Don't Like!"

Even though I didn't finish SunSweeper but I still love it!
I love the story, I love the characters... and one day, I will finish it!

But for now,

B         y         e       :3

YO BEETHOVEN HAS BEEN REAL QUIET SINCE THIS DROPPED 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🚓👮

Your tranquilizer design, reminds me of that scraped gun from Team Fortress!

This one:

Did it inspire you or is it just a coincidence?

I mean, to be fair, all dart guns kinda look the same lol

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everyone, it's me again!

Welcome back to another Devlog!

This is a small one! The reason I'm posting this, is because I haven't posted in a while...

But don't worry, because we are back on the track!

1. New item: The Replacement Bulb

When you have a bumper and you crash into a mine, you survive it. Pretty simple stuff, right? But there are some side effects to surviving a crash. For example, the light inside the cabin will start flickering.
I added The Replacement Bulb to make it fixable.
***I have both modeled it and programmed its logic, so it's finished. But I will probably rewrite the logic since the current code doesn't work well with the inventory system.

2. Finally fixed the stupid error!:

There was an error that was bothering me for a very long time and I have been ignoring it. But I finally managed to fix it!
The error would happen when pausing the game. It was a NaN (Not a Number) error.
NaN error are usually a headache to deal with because they don't occur too often and they are hard to track.
The error was caused because when the game is paused, Time.deltaTime is set to 0.
I was using deltaTime to calculate velocity but that was a huge mistake!
Because when the game is paused, the script will try to forcefully divide the velocity by 0!

Velocity = Distance / Time.deltaTime

aaand, we all know how that goes...

3. Added a flasher to the ejection door:

Uhhh, I don't want to explain this too much because I can't.
It's simple!:
-When the door is open, flash green.
-When the door is locked, flash red.

4. An update to Pixelixel!:

Pixel got some new features!:
-The replay button
-The continue button

These buttons are used for interacting with the tutorial videos!

4. Added some environment noises to the shop scenario:

"hmm, some strange sounds are coming from the distance. It sounds like... some sort of machine. Its cogs are spinning loudly, as if they are right in front of me. but I can't see it! am I blind? or have I been blinded?"

Thank you!

I agree with you. Though, Rust is missing some stuff like classes and nullable values. These two, both have alternatives in Rust, but the alternatives are difficult to work with.
I have heard that they decided not to add nullable values because that makes the code unsafe, but that is just not true.
I really hope the Rust team adds them, one day.

This gun looks like something I would see in a dreams lol
Also, the guy who made that abomination of a toy, probably didn't even knew about the existence of the real thing. He probably just wanted to make a shotgun but only had revolver molds. XD

Very Quick Update...

Hello everyone, It's me again.

Well... I didn't make much progress on the game because I was on vacation and also because recently, I have started learning a new programming language.

The things I did (warning: it's not a lot...)

1. Completed some placeholder stuff
2. Made the intro tutorial for the story mode!
3. Made an original track for the said tutorial!
4. Uhh ehh, nothing else

Voxel Engine Update:

I'm thinking about Rust + Bevy combo for my voxel engine.
If you don't know, Rust is a low level programming language and Bevy is an API (or a game engine, I'm not sure)
I have seen ALOT of people make voxel engines with this combination, so I decided to give it a shot.

Keep your chins up!

-Learning Rust will help me develop more performance-friendly games in the future. This mean, it makes me one step closer to developing my dream games!
-The most difficult and confusing parts of SunSweeper are done anyway, so from now on, I will be putting all my focus towards finishing the game!

That's a pretty cool idea. However the story mode currently has a little flaw, and that flaw is:
Not having enough levels.

And because player is paid after completing each level, having too many items can get a little problematic...

However, if I decided to make the infinite mode, I will 1000% do that!

I'm not sure what to do about the story. Currently it's short (30-50 min), but if I put some white space in between (levels that don't have dialogue or story progression), I feel like the game would get uninteresting.
What do you think?