Today I worked on smoothing out the combat, and I added a dash ability, which really fleshes out the combat, and makes it feel a lot better. I also optimized the map rendering, so instead of rendering all the tiles individually, it now renders them all at once, so now the game runs a lot faster.
Tomorrow: Add more elements to the environments, to make it a little less boring. I also want to try to create a particle system to add more visual feedback to the game, which is something that I've never done before...
The gameplay is really starting to emerge! Today I created a particle system (The first time I've done this), added projectiles and sound effects, as well as some trees to make the environment a bit more interesting. I also made the enemy spawning infinite.
Tomorrow: Menus & UI. It's about time we had at least a health bar for the player. I will also look at adding some music.
Today I added a very basic menu, and a head-up-display, as well as a score counter.
Here's the page for it if you want to play it: https://georgelam6.itch.io/unnamedarena
I might continue this in the future, but I have another project that I'm starting soon... This isn't a long series of devlogs, I know, but I had fun, and hopefully the game is half-decent at least.
I tried your demo! Killed 25 blob monsters. Looks like you got all the basic elements. I like how the trees turn transparent when you walk behind them. I think some of the attack animations could use improvement. Are those boulders the good knight is tossing at the blobs or some other projectile? I would also make the sword melee attack more pronounced -- the animation looks really short range and when you have unlimited boulders to toss at the enemy it doesn't give much incentive to use a melee attack.
Excellent progress for one week of game dev!
