A small game developer

Hello! Welcome to the fourteenth day of my devlog :).

Lot’s of work was done today, and lot’s of debugging as well.

The first thing done was import the rest of the cards. Here’s a list of all of them:

Next order of business was being able to draw cards from that huge list. I originally had it so there was a separate ‘display card’ that would show one of the cards from the list. This never worked and was also inefficient. What I did instead was to choose a random card to enable, which was much easier. Here’s the final product:

I then got a super basic start screen.

Lastly, I combined everything. By this, I mean once one presses play, it goes to card picking. After a card is drawn it goes to a minigame. After one loses that game it goes back to the card drawing, and process repeats. There’s only one minigame, but I forgot to record it (sorry!). Also, there is no point system yet, which shouldn’t be too hard to add.

Thanksgiving is coming up, so I most likely won’t get much progress done past Wednesday, but who knows.

Hello! Welcome to the thirteenth day of my devlog :).

I’m back after a whole month and nine days. I haven’t done much game dev until recently, where my friends have given me the wonderful idea of a game I like to call Triple Cat Deluxe.

The other reason I came back is I noticed I gained a surprising amount of followers, so hello anyone new!

Triple Cat Deluxe, as of right now, is game where you compete in minigames to get a card. The cards will eventually do something, but right now they just add points to your score.

I would show you footage of this, but right now I’m working on the parts of the game. I have most of the cards and 1 minigame done, but I have lots of work.

The game will be a local multiplayer web game.

Hello! Welcome to the twelfth day of my devlog :).

I never realized how hard doing daily devlogs was going to be until today. Considering I will not be doing game development/programming everyday (even though i should), i will only do posts on days when I do work.

Here’s the release of the game from the game jam a few days ago:

https://hedgy.itch.io/a-winters-night

Feel free to play it if you want.

Hello! Welcome to the eleventh day of my devlog :).

Today started the second Default Choice Jam. I am working with someone else (who does not have a tumblr)  and I’ll show our work for today.

Our time difference is 6 hours so I did most of the work today, and they’ll do some tomorrow while I’m asleep/gone.

Here’s our brainstorming document:

(You can read the brainstorm doc if you want to understand what’s going on)

Hello! Welcome to the tenth day of my devlog :).

No work was done today.

Hello! Welcome to the ninth day of my devlog :).

No work was done today.

Hello! Welcome to the eighth day of my devlog :).

Today the upgrade menu was started. No upgrades for it exist yet, but those should be easily added.

The way to open the menu is by pressing ‘u’, everything gets disabled. Once the button is clicked everything is enabled.

This weekend, 10/5-10/7, I’ll be participating in a game jam. Me and a friend (who coincidentally is hosting the jam) are going to be partnering. If I dont make any posts, this would be why. You can join here if you want.

Hello! Welcome to the seventh day of my devlog :).

And happy spooky season!

Today I added coins. A future currency whos name can be changed and use is yet to be determined. Here it is in action:

New 60fps gifs!

This weekend, 10/5-10/7, I’ll be participating in a game jam. Me and a friend (who coincidentally is hosting the jam) are going to be partnering. If I dont make any posts, this would be why. You can join here if you want.

Hello! Welcome to my sixth devlog :).

I didn’t get any work today, but i made the first build for the game. Feel free to try it out here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/v1d1cf3afoj9dz6/V0.1.zip?dl=0

Hello! Today is the fifth day of my devlog :).

This is currently being posted on the 30th as I forgot to post it yesterday

All i got done today was changing the UI. Im trying to make this game minimalist, so I made the health look different.

It looks kinda weird, but whatever.

Hello! Today is the fourth day of my devlog :).

It is currently 11:45PM and I am super tired.

Main thing I did today was making it when the player is hit, they get sent back to the center, and their health goes down by one. It also makes a cool explosion effect in the Unity Particle Pack found here

When the player is hit, curHealth goes down by 1, all enemies die, camera FOV goes back to default (60), and an explosion happens at the center.

Hello! Today is the third day of my devlog :).

Today I didn’t get much work done as I had to manually update Unity. But the reasoning behind that was to get some fancy looking particles working, and here they are!

These explosions are a part of the Unity Particle Pack which can be found here

The only other thing that is new is there is now a natural camera zoom out, so you’re not stuck so zoomed in.

Hello! Today is the second day of my devlog :).

I didn’t get much work done today as I had quite a few school things going on. The main thing I did today was get camera zoom working. This was the main reason why I started working on this project, because of this one dumb idea. Here it is in action:

This was done by checking if an enemy died, and if it was then the FieldOfView would become smaller. The second and last thing I did today was getting a small health display working, which isn’t very exciting:

Hello! Today is the first day of my devlog :).

To start, I made a simple block that could move around on a platform using Transform.Translate.

Then I made random enemy spawning by using Instantiate and a Random.Range.

Then I made bullets using the arrow keys, and Instantiate with MoveTowards.

Lastly, I made collision work with the bullets and the enemies. There were some interesting results. The 1st thing that was needed was to add a RigidBody to the bullet and the enemy, as well as disabling the gravity on them (so it wouldnt mess up the movement). With that made this

(Oh yea, did i mention im using Unity with C#?)

After that I made a simple script that would detect if the Collider is tagged with Enemy and if so it would Destroy the object. The final result for today is