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It has been yet another week and yet more progress has been made on the game! First, I worked some more on the inventory as it was missing quite a lot. I began by adding a box around each item and removing shadows from them. This made it easier to tell each item apart and it looked better in general. I then started work on an information box that will pop up each time you click on an item. It will show various stats about the item you clicked on including its name, description and even damage stats. If you have 1 or more you will also see an equip button to change what item you are currently using. The information box also changes depending on if you clicked on a weapon or not.
I also made item stacking now work so if you have several of an item you will gain bonus stats! To not make it too overpowered if you decided to obtain many of a single weapon, the attack speed reduction is capped at - 2/3 of the items attack speed however there is no cap for the damage bonus. I also redesigned the wooden bow and I personally think it looks a lot better than most of the other art so I am considering redoing some of the art such as the player and a few tile sets. If you have any thoughts on this feel free to tell me.
The final thing I did this week was add a new weapon, it was mainly for testing purposes with the inventory but I quite like it so I will probably keep it. This new bow is called the polloninator and it has a damage stat of 1.25 and and attack speed of 1.5. It shoots slow moving projectiles which send off smaller pieces of pollen which will make it a good weapon for crowd control. It will be a craft-able weapon from the carpenter and it will require a rare drop from the angry flowers or a more common drop from furious flowers (a stronger angry flower I plan on making).
It has been 2 weeks since the last update, sorry for missing last week, I was ill and didn't get enough done to do an update. The first thing I did was animate the twigpy so it is now a finished enemy. It has 3 animations, a spawning animation where it sprouts from a mini tree. An attacking animation where it swings its head to shoot a leaf and finally a moving animation where its roots shuffle. Next, I worked on the village, I spent a while fixing the rendering problem so now you correctly render inside and outside of the houses. I made a new tile for a doorway so you don't walk through walls and I added a shadow to the floor tileset so it is different from the walls and a shadow outside of the buildings to make it fit in. The village design I have is split into 2 parts with a river and I layed out the right side of the river for now.
The other thing I did was make a chest system and a few chest variations. The basic chest is a wooded chest with an iron frame and there will be a rarer variant with a gold frame instead. There is also a boss chest which is red with a gold frame. I might make a unique boss chest for each location in the game to add more depth. I animated the chest opening and now if you are in a certain range and click space the chest will open and the items will poor out. The chests will reset to be reclaimed each time a new in-game day comes around to make chest items infinite. I also designed a new basic bow and made a shooting animation!
Once again sorry for missing the last update and if you have any ideas feel free to comment them!
It has been another week so it is time for another update! The first thing I did this week was continuing work on the item system. I first made a few improvements to the items when they are on the ground which includes, changing the spawning of the items so that it accounts for linear drag which I needed to add for the collecting of items. Adding animations to the items to that they bob up and down while on the ground and making them shrink when being collected. Making it so if the player goes within a set distance from the items a force will be applied launching them at you. Adding item collection where if you are on top of the item it will shrink and slow down, that item will also be added to your item count. If it is something like a heart it won't increase a count but increase the players health by a little bit. I also plan on adding many different items to the game as time passes including materials and weapons, you can use your materials to craft more weapons!
I also added another menu to the game which will allow you to view all of the various items that you have collected, the inventory. The inventory iterates through a list of items and if that item has the bool "inventory" set to true it will instantiate an object to display that item. If you have 0 of an item it will appear darker than usual and not have a shadow however if you do have some of that item it will display in full color with a shadow. There is also a small item counter in the bottom right of each item to display how many you own. I made an icon for the inventory menu which is a bag however it is not yet finished and I begun working on an icon for the quest menu.
I also finally decided to add the next enemy to the game, introducing the twigpy! The twigpy is an early game monster which is in the shape of a small tree and shoots sharp leaves at the player. I went through many designs to get a decent sprite for this new enemy however I think it will be rather challenging to animate it. It will try to stay a little distance away from the player in order to not die and it will spawn along the paths between main areas and in the winding walk (the area in the bottom right). It also has a chance to drop wood which is the first material added to the game. On top of begging to create a new enemy I wrote down many ideas for what enemies I want to add in the future.
I also did a lot of bug fixing this past week... First I fixed a bug where goblins wouldn't deal damage on their first attack and I improved their AI a little. Next I made it so that when not in the menu you can't change what menu will next appear by clicking on buttons that weren't there. I also made projectiles render on the same layer as everything else to stop them from going in front of objects like trees and looking out of place. I made it so that you can destroy totems by shooting the crystal ball at the top of it, when a totem is destroyed it will drop a random amount of wood. Also I decided that I would rather focus on the RPG game instead of making an entire new tower defense game so sorry if you were looking forward to that but it will be delayed by a little while. Once again if anyone has any ideas feel free to comment them and I will take a look!
It has been quite a while since I last updated this devlog because I forgot to update it sorry so to make up for it this will be a rather long update. I first did some work on the menu system including making icons to switch between the various menus and creating some new menus or beginnings to them. This includes both a quest menu or start of and I attempted to make a mini-map but I haven't finished it due to wanting to finish the actual map before making a mini-map. You can also scroll up and down on the quest menu in order to view all of your active quests.
The next thing I wanted to work on was starting the village! I begun by drawing a sketch on paper of what I wanted the village to look like as well as some of the NPC's that will be living there. I also decided to make an auto tile for quickly creating buildings however after making it and getting it working I forgot about how the rendering will work so I have sort of given up on making the buildings for now. The problem is with the walls, because of how I made my rendering work (where it will change your order in layer depending on your y position) because the walls will be at different y positions I would have problems with the player rendering in front / behind when you shouldn't.
The final thing I have done on the RPG is work on enemy drops. I can now create new items and assign these items in a loot table to enemies where I can set the drop chance, min drops, max drops and a few other values. When you kill an enemy it will randomly see if it should drop items and if it does drop them how many should drop. They will then be spawned and do sort of a mini hop onto the ground when they can then be collected by the player. This will also apply to weapons and this will also come with another new feature, item stacking! Item stacking will work where if you collect several of a weapon (which you should only have 1 of) instead of gaining another it will give a small stat bonus to that weapon for each item you have stacked onto it. So 1 sword will have worse stats then 1 sword with 13 swords stacked onto it. This should allow the player to work to improve the weapons you like using and it will stop you having to only work on your stats if you stuck in progression.
I haven't only been working on the RPG because I also entered another game jam with the theme of ocean preservation. I decided to make a tower defense game where you spend money on robots which will destroy rubbish flowing along a river into the sea. I spent quite a while working on this which is why I didn't get too much done on the RPG. I started working on a map which is the Msibazi river (a real location with a trash problem) and some towers you can place on the land / water to destroy these pieces of trash. I should be finished working on it pretty soon and then I'll be able to fully work on the RPG again.
Once again I am sorry for taking so long to update the devlog and I'll try and get an update out each Sunday again.
This game has finally been in development for a whole month and so much progress has been made. Anyways this week I was rather busy as well however I managed to get a lot more done than last week. The stats menu is what I began working on first was finishing off the stats menu. I redesigned some of the sprites as well as making sprites for the elemental and elemental resistance stats. I lightened the menu shadow as well and added a small sidebar, you can click the sidebar's buttons to navigate across different menus. There is also a display for each stat amount and for each stats multiplier. The final thing I did with the stats was making it so that defeating enemies will reward you will small amounts of stats.
The second thing I did was actually getting around to finishing the goblin totems. I wasn't happy with the design of it originally so I redid it and it now fits in and looks much better. I made an animation to show it charging up as an indicator for when it will summon a goblin. When ready to summon one, after charging up a green puff of smoke shoots out from the orb and it eventually pops into a goblin and the totem reverts back to being normal. I made a script which allows me to easily set the chance for an enemy to spawn and how often it attempts to spawn an enemy. It also doesn't go above the total enemy cap for that specific enemy.
I don't have any images to show for this yet but I spent some time working on the main story for the game and it goes into some detail about what you will actually be doing and some background lore about why you are even this archer defeating enemies. This story will also feature a larger map and many interesting NPC's and systems. I'll start with the quests. You can accept quests by speaking to the villagers and they will reward you with things like stats, materials and other cool rewards. There will be a few types of quests including but not limited to, slaying quests, collecting quests and a few other kinds. The rewards you receive and what type of quest it is will depend on what NPC you speak to.
The next large system will be abilities! Abilities are a simple way to majorly boost your strength and add a level of depth and strategy to the combat system. You will be able to unlock abilities through nearly anything including advancing in the game, completing quests and obtaining stat milestones. There are also 2 main types of ability, the passive and active ability. Passive abilities are always running and active abilities require you activating them. Each ability will also have 5 tiers for you to upgrade and you can only use a few abilities at a time.
I didn't get too much real work done on the game this week but a lot of ideas and things that needed finishing were finished so I would consider it as some good progress. If you have any suggestions please feel free to tell me!
Unfortunately, I was quite busy this past week so I couldn't get much work done on the game however I did manage to get some decent work done on the stat system. I made it so that shooting your bow would reward you with strength and taking damage will give you endurance. If you don't take any damage you wont receive any endurance to stop you from afking. I made a little pop up above the players head whenever you gain any stats to show you what you got and how much of it. In order to stop the number of gained stats from being too long I also made a system to shorten a long number (eg, 121356812) into a shorter one (121M).
The other thing I started working on was the first menu: the stats menu. When in this menu the game will pause and you will be able to view each of your stats and your total power. It will also show you each of your stat multipliers! I have currently finished only a few stat icons so the elemental and elemental resistance are currently filled with the strength icon.
It has been a while since I posted the first devlog so sorry that this one is a few days late. This week I worked a lot on the map and making somewhat of a combat system. I started off by creating a new auto-tile which I can use for adding shadow all over my map. I also created a few more shrubbery tiles to help fill the empty space. Talking about the map, I also started making a basic layout for what the forest area will look like. It will have 6 main areas all with smaller secret areas and winding paths connecting them. It gives me a lot of space to create unique enemies for the player to battle.
Another big thing I worked on was the beginning of the stats system. I don't remember if I explained this in the previous devlog but my RPG will be focused entirely on combat and to get stronger, the main way is by gaining stats. There won't be levels just ways to obtain any of 5 stats. These include strength, endurance, psychic, elemental and elemental resistance. I made a script that I can put on anything to give it health and all of these stats. The stat system also handles the killing of enemies and playing a death particle when this happens. It also has a function that can be called by the main enemy script to despawn the enemy when the player is too far away.
This past week I also decided to get the basics of a dialogue system down so I started working on signs. I made a sign which I can place and it will check if the player is in range, then the player can use space to interact with it. When interacting with a sign, the player can't move or use abilities. I can edit the dialogue using a script and it allows me to add several lines of dialogue, change the image displayed, and the name of who is saying it.
The final big thing I worked on was a new enemy, the goblin. Goblins are the first totem enemy in the game which will add a new variety of combat. A totem enemy is something that isn't made of natural things like plants of rocks, this means the angry flower is a normal enemy and the goblin isn't. Totem enemies are regularly summoned by their totem type so a goblin totem will spawn all of the goblin types (there will be 3 types of goblin). The sprite for this totem isn't done yet so I haven't set up this spawning type currently. I spent quite a while working on making the goblin be somewhat smart with it's pathfinding so that took a few days however it should now be much faster for me to create enemies!
I have recently began working on a new game which I have wanted to work on for while. It is a 2d, open world RPG where you travel all across the large map gaining power along the way. I plan on updating this devlog every Sunday with progress from the past week as well as taking in any feedback that is left! The project currently doesn't have a name so any name ideas are appreciated.
I started the week off by working on a tileset for a dirt path that I then later turned into an auto tile in order to create the map more efficiently. I also later on worked on some grass and other pieces of shrubbery to scatter everywhere.
I also made a few sprites for some trees as well as an archer and bow. The bow can rotate around the player meaning I don't have to draw or animate arms which is a huge time saver. I wanted to get the rendering working nicely so that things with a lower Y position render over things with a higher Y position so I made that as well as a different version that won't constantly update the rendering because I didn't want it to be too laggy.
Another large thing I worked on this week was the first enemy. It is called the angry flower and is passive until attacked, then it will start shooting pollen at the player.
I made a spawning system where if you are within a certain range of the area that can spawn the enemy it will have a chance to spawn up to a maximum amount of enemies every 5 seconds.I also made an area called the flower field for the angry flower to spawn in.
