Nicely done, it got me invested into the story even though it's short and unfinished. Can't wait to read the rest when it get released.
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A little spin on the old classic. Instead of food, the blue dots are bombs, and you have to evade them.
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Day 12
Damn three more days till the end, time to start panicking.
As for today, after rewriting most of the functionality for units movement with pathfinding seems to be working now. Here that gif that I promised.
This was the last mechanic that I planed to include for the duration of the jam, except for including objects like that box in the middle of the building into pathfinding calculations, who knows I might fix this before the jam ends, if not then you'll just have to pretend that it's normal to walk through an object until I fix it post-jam.
Now the next things to work on are:
- Level Design
- Spawn points
- Placing items around
- Placing objects around (tables, chairs, beds, etc.)
- More Items
- More Guns
- Music
- Main Menu and/or Title Screen
- Game Over Screen
- Some kind of tutorial or intro
- Maybe some sprites for units
Day 11
And here is today's update. I worked on:
- UI
- Pathfinding
First I thought some more about music, looking through all kinds of tracks online, and I'm also having someone help me with making the music (well they're doing the making part, I'm just listening to it).
Then sometime later I started cracking on the UI. Making one of those is really a nightmare, stuff just doesn't do what you tell it to, for some reason there's that weird 6 pixel margin on the left side of screen that I cannot get rid of and adding new parts is really tiring. Then after deciding to watch a tutorial and it seemed like it made sense now, everything was working as intended, that pesky margin was gone. But then I clicked on the maximize window button and everything broke apart. I looked for some tutorials about this and tried following them. Nope, still broken.
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Lets turn that off for now, I'll return to it ... someday.
Anyway after the UI, I went to work on pathfinding and that went well, I used the AStar node that Godot has and made a script that automatically scans the tilemap and picks tiles that are walkable and makes a graph, and now I can get a good path between any two points on the map, as long as the path exists.
I would give you guys a screenshot of how this works, but since I changed the input that goes into the script that control unit movement, it's now broken. (T_T)
That's all for today.
P.S. I added raycast tests so that units don't try to shoot through walls.
Day 9
After being on a family trip during days 7 and 8 it's good to get crunching on the game again. This was what I was able to finish yesterday:
- The equipment system is functioning, there are still some minor details to deal with but the majority of it is done
- The same can be said for the resource system
- There is a central storage where everything must be hauled
- and there are resource items that can be scavenged and brought back
- at the end of the day resources are consumed
- The player units can now:
- be selected
- moved
- they can change equipment
- and can collect resources (supplies)
P.S.
There is also a minor change in the UI:
- The two swords now represent remaining waves in the current day, and the hourglass is used to show how much time is left till the wave
- also a new panel was added on the left that shows the information of the selected unit
Day 6
What I did:
- I reworked the UI
- Added some infrastructure code in the background for resources, their consumption, day cycle
- Desaturated dirt and grass sprites and removed some of the noise from them
What I plan to do next (although I might be too busy tomorrow to do it):
- Work on player units
- Make them selectable
- Allow to change equipment
- Allow to relocate the unit in game
- Add resources on the map that can be "scavenged", etc. supplies hidden in other building, or lying near dead enemy soldiers
- Add more equipment, right now there is only the pistol available
- Maybe work a bit on the player AI (things like target a certain type of unit)
- And some time later begin work on vehicles (for starters a transportation truck and something armored)
Day 3 and Day 4
I wanted to post an update in here about my progress with pathfinding, but it is one hard nut to crack. I was able implement a functional system but it's still rough in the edges. Here are some gifs of how it works.
P.S.
I didn't actually implement walls and such so just pretend that you don't see bullets going over those concrete blocks. :P
Also should I do walls that are like in those gifs (similar to games like RimWorld) or maybe do 2.5D walls, something like this (btw the picture isn't mine):
Day 3 - Update 1/2
Almost forgot to post what I have done. These are the current assets that I have in use:
Well as for the last few hours I've been thinking about how to do path-finding, so thats what Update 2 is going to be about.
Day 2
Today was a busy day.
Work done:
- now each weapon type has its own range inside of which it can fire
- enemies now move towards nearest target if nobody is in range
- new friendly units can be placed with a button or a key shortcut
- and enemies now spawn in waves, for now every 5 seconds
- getting them spawn in random locations around a spawnpoint was a bit hard, they just seem to cluster together
Day 1
Since I forgot to post yesterday's progress I'll do it now.
Things I got working:
- a simple tileset
- friendly units and enemies, they can shoot each other but not their own
- health & healthbars, damage, death on zero health
Things I'm working on today:
- weapon range (so you don't have a guy with a pistol snipping you from the other side of the map XD)
- some basic enemy ai (like go towards nearest enemy if nobody is in range)
- placing friendly units
- and maybe enemies spawning in waves
Btw, I'm working in Godot and find the Top-Down Tank game tutorial on youtube to be rather useful for making this game.