I want to get back in the gamedev game, but right now I don't feel like talking much, so in very short here's what's happening:

• Retirement's over, I'm working on Vecter
• I'm not as chatty anymore, I'll be focusing more on coding and less on discord / social media
• I'm no longer taking input

Retirement's over, I'm working on Vecter

I actually missed coding on Vecter, so I'm getting back to that, hopefully to help me disconnect from the world that's crumbling around me. Okay so what am I actually doing: Technical explanation: Vecter is running on the Legacy Rendering Pipeline in Unity which, is old and has become very restrictive when I want to do anything. It's one of the main reason I threw my toys out of the pram. So I'm basically deleting the whole graphics side of Vecter, every custom trick I did to make it work on PC and will be rebuilding the whole thing in Unity's Universal Render Pipeline (URP) complete with it's own custom shaders and such. Some visual features will be lost because I either don't like them anymore or can't be bothered to implement them, some will be added (because I think they look cool/better, but there will be some visual changes. That's what I'm focusing on right now. Okay, now in English: I'm ripping out the graphics and re-building them from zero in the hopes of making it better / faster / work on more devices

I'm not as chatty anymore, I'll be focusing more on coding and less on discord / social media

What I did not miss was talking to everyone. It became overwhelming to the point where I couldn't handle it anymore, and that's a real shame. Talking to EVERYONE made me discover some amazing friendships, friendships that lasted to this day (You know who you are) but it also created a massive tsunami of people wanting my attention. Not gonna lie, my overinflated ego enjoyed it for a while but it became incredibly overwhelming trying to keep up. It's not anyone in particular's fault, it's just gets tiring being on discord day in and out trying to keep up with the conversation. So I'm not going to... sorry I guess. Might post more on twitter tho'? Or not... I dunno

I'm no longer taking input

I'm also going to be taking suggestions and ideas less. I'm most definitely not going to reply to them, and will probably not give any hints or roadmaps. For a long time Vecter no longer felt like Taranasus's Vecter, it felt more like "add all the features" Vecter, to me anyway, and that ain't cool. I was trying too hard to make something that other people liked but not necessarily that I liked. That's gonna change now and I hope you like what I make because if you don't, well it's a free game.

[ 2021-07-16 19:57:14 CET ] [ Original post ]

Vecter is a fast-paced runner and shooter game where your goal is to survive by the skin of your teeth and raise hell in your path. You get in your ship, you push the throttle on max and then try to survive for as long as possible by annihilating anything that gets in your way.

There are obstacles, there are enemies, there are power-ups and there will be plenty more to come! I hope you're good at staring contests because you will not have the luxury of blinking!

Compete with your friends and with strangers for the top spot of the daily leaderboard. If you're top dog for that day, you remain top dog for that day on that track forever! It's all you, you did it!

And you don't need to be in-game to show off your position, you can also take it to your friends house and brag about your greatness while everyone is awkwardly ignoring you for boasting about something nobody's even heard about. Here's the link in case you need it



One important thing to note is that Vecter does not have a road-map, or a planed out future. There is a trello board with features that I plan on implementing and the feature request channel on the Vecter discord server.

I'm a one-man dev team, and I'm making this game purely out of passion around all of my other IRL commitments, so development sometimes may be slow. It's a hobby and a damn fun one at that but at this stage it's still just a hobby.

Among other things I'm also making an arcade version of vecter complete with it's own cabinet.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1219990/Vecter__Donation_Pack/