Mossware

Howdy folks, been a while. Elden Ring's dlc erased june from my life. But I guess we never were consistent with posting anyways. This time I've got some cool menu'ing to show off today! We decided to try out a more physical approach to the main menu using glowy rocks and sigils instead of standard UI buttons. I gotta say it looks pretty neat to me, we're keeping the settings menu more standard because its more natural to use and I couldn't find a good way to use the physical buttons during actual gameplay. So they're staying in the main menu only. For the more nitty gritty programming stuff I also started the save system this week and it's going pretty smoothly for just doing settings at the moment, I didn't really show it off in this video because there isn't much to see but expect a more in depth look into it once its bigger at a later date. Anyways, thanks for taking the time to read this and I'll see y'all next time.

Howdy folks, this week in the project I spent working on some preliminary combat systems, like flinching and poise mechanics! Getting combat to feel weighty is tough, but I'm pretty happy with the progress so far. Especially flinching, I have it currently calculating the point of contact between the colliders and using that to get a direction that the attack is coming from to make the victim flinch in the according direction. When poise is broken it also briefly slows down time a lot, it really gives it a lot of emphasis but its still a work shopped idea, not entirely sure if I'll keep it in the long run. Anyways thanks for reading, I'll see y'all next week!

Howdy hey folks, Combat! It's still in its early stages and man, getting physical attacks to feel physical is a doozy, but some camera shake and freeze framing here and there goes a long way. Still a further way to go before I'm happy with it but for where its at now I'm proud of my work. Oh yeah also some target locking for the camera, now we're soulslike in here. Also behold the gorgeous environment and level design created by Kroco that I'm using in this video. He'll definitely show more about it soon. As for the actual blog, the games current state is still combat, I'm planning on intertwining the leveling system with combat so we'll probably see some development for that as well soon, and finally some AI because I think I'm a little bored of whacking a gray pole over and over. See y'all next week, toodles!

Howdy folks! Another week, another state of the game post. This week I spent bug fixing a lot of minor interactions with player movement and other systems. I also got eating as a mechanic in its basic phase as shown in this short gif I've attached. Combat is also making solid progress but I don't have much to show for it as of now as most of my work has been creating the foundation to work off of. Environment and level design has also been a slight focus this week as my partner has started making some environmental assets (they're really cool). Anyways I hope to have something combat related to show to y'all next week, so see you then!

plants! 🌿🌱☘️

finished some models

Howdy folks! Welcome back to another state of the game post. This week I bring good news, the players movement is done for foreseeable future! Or at least for what I need it to do right now. I've attached a gif showing it off too so y'all finally have some visual aid for what I'm talking about. The player is able to move without impediment on any slope within a steepness limit, and they'll properly rotate to match whatever incline their on. Feels pretty smooth and looks so too. With that out of the way I can properly focus my efforts onto more pressing matters, like combat! I'll try to create more visually appealing posts from now on too so y'all don't have to deal with just a wall of text lmao.

Howdy folks, this week I continued to work on the players movement, its pretty tricky getting a consistent speed on the player regardless of the steepness of whatever slope their on. Thankfully at the time of writing this its in working order, the next problem to solve is I need the players model to rotate to match whatever surface their standing on so they don't float in the air, this is proving to be more of a headache than I envisioned but I've really only put one day into it. Other than that I touched on the combat system slightly, just trying to set up a foundation to work with, but I'll make a full post about that once there's more to talk about. See y'all next week

concept art!

Howdy, I figured I'd start off the first State of the Game post of mine with some general statements about the game as a whole. Being in the early stages I've been primarily focusing on player mechanics. The player is going to use rigidbody mechanics to move around because I like using physics, it just feels like I have more control rather than the Character Controller component. It's been going well, took a while to add some smoothing when the player moves over slopes because I want them to remain a constant speed regardless if their moving uphill or downhill. Once this is all done I'm on to combat, which is going to be a doozy.