Peacemaker Game Dev

So, unfortunately, I had to wipe my computer with the entire game on it.

My computer was frozen in my Windows start up screen and the only way to save it was to re-install Windows, which combined my memory partitions and deleted all my data.

So, here we are again at square one. I was thinking of making it a more first person game instead of a 3rd person POV, which would make shooting Peacemaker significantly easier.

I’m sorry for the set-back, but I have some new tools and more experience so maybe this is a good thing... School started for me too, so I’ll try to find a nice balance between schoolwork and game dev for Wynonna.

Keep it up guys and let’s try for 5 for Wynonna!

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Come check out my newest YouTube video on the latest episode of Wynonna Earp!

I have a co-host this time!!

Hello Earpers!

Today’s work took well over 6 hours to complete, and I’ll tell you why: I downloaded Blender.

So, today I (1) taught myself how to basically use Blender and (2) made the Homestead. I ended up making some of the parts in Blender and some of the parts for the house in Unity. Like, here’s the porch rendered in Blender:

I was then able to make the “Earp” overhang over the driveway at the front of their land too.

Now everything I have so far is put together and you can walk Wynonna around the land and “enter” the Homestead. I’m planning on rendering the Homestead inside as another scene that your game loads; it’ll make it significantly easier for the rendering.

So, here’s a quick side-by-side of what I was able to do:

I hope to go in again to my files and tweak some things for even more detail, since I just started learning Blender today. But I don’t think that’s too shabby.

I have the house set up so as you walk up to the door, it says “Entering the Homestead” in the top right of your screen, and then it takes you to the new load that will be the inside of the Homestead.

Here’s a more close-up picture if you guys want some more details:

I’ll put some chairs and other things out in the yard, as well as the barn, on another day. My eyes are exhausted from that 6 hours of toying around with the programs. If anyone still has any idea of how to make the mouse movement happen, let me know! And please send me your logo ideas for the front menu screen.

Hello Earpers!

I’m actually kind of surprised at how well my posts have been doing. Please keep interacting with them if you’d like and send in some stuff you guys would like to see from a Wynonna Earp fan video game.

Here’s my update from the past like week. I apologize for not updating throughout the week, but work had me busy teaching 3, 2 hour long, classes of programming to kids. And you can guess that keeps me on my toes. Anyway, I was not able to make any significant changes to the game throughout the week. However, I worked on it yesterday (this post is a day late) and I got a few things done since my last update.

1. I was able to improve general connectivity of the scenes in the game, so when you’re brought into the menu screen, you can click play and the area where I’m going to put the Homestead pops up, and if you press the escape button in-game the options menu pops up, and so on.

2. I actually tried to make and implement a logo onto the menu screen, and... here’s how it went...

The logo is just bad... You can’t even see the guns when you go into playmode because the forest behind the menu screen is so dark...

So, here’s where I add a little Earper action into this. If you’re a graphic designer, or just someone who likes to draw, I’m opening my inbox up to possible logo contributions. If I pick yours, I’ll write you and then put it as the main screen logo for this game! All it really needs to have is the name “Peacemaker” since that’s what I’m calling the game.

I know the Earper community is very fan/family based, so I’d love to have some input or Earper art in the game too! I might even make like a wall of Earper art somewhere in the game for you to find 👀

3. The last part of the changes is that I’ve been stuck on trying to make mouse movement with your character. If you’re a game dev out there, any help will be greatly appreciated. I’m trying to make a 3rd person camera turn around the main character they’re looking at, in almost a spherical movement, so they can look around and then just press to go forward and it rotates the character in the way the camera was rotated.

If anyone knows any tips or tricks, let me know! But that’s probably something else I’ll work out today.

Coming up:

I plan to look more into how to make a saving system so you can save where you are in the game.

I also need to look into the mechanisms of a “back” button so you can get out of your options menu and go back to being in-game, so you don’t always have to quit to the main menu to change your settings every time.

Thank you to everyone who is reading and listening. I implore you to try and make a logo and submit it because I want to have a dialogue with the fandom I am making this for!

So, I forgot to write a post about yesterday, but also I didn’t have time to work on Peacemaker yesterday, so nothing else new happened. But today was different, because I got a majority of the Options menu complete, so now I am able to turn down the sound as I click through the menu to the options and the one scene I have in-game.

I plan tomorrow to look into how to implement some more land effects and maybe build another character, as well as finish writing the script for character control via mouse.

Here’s a quick view of the options menu so far. I’ll probably see if I can’t get some better graphics for the look of the main screen and the options panel. But I will get there eventually.

Hello fellow Earpers.

Today I spent a majority of the day on figuring out how to connect movement of the character/user input to the actual character animation. And when I say a majority of the day, I say a majority of the day.

I started out today actually designing my first character for the game, Wynonna. (I’m not trying to spoil much of what I am doing for the game, so I won’t show any pictures of her.) I used the Steam application Fuse to build the character up and perfect the details. However, this was also version 1 of Wynonna’s look, so this is always subject to change.

I then spent 2 hours... then 4 hours... then took a break because something wasn’t going right on my computer with the animations and I was getting frustrated. Then I got back to it at around 10pm and spent another two hours trying to figure out the Unity code to connect my animation parameters to the actual animation. Finally, I found this wonderful soul on YouTube, John Pile Jr, who finally gave me a simple enough answer to what I’ve been asking.

From there, I was able to add in my idle, walking, running, and back-peddling animations to my Wynonna character.

Tomorrow I should be able to add in the ability to move the camera and character with my mouse and finish the options menu. I also plan to look into how to create save checkpoints so you can save throughout the game (maybe not coding that yet, but looking at different tutorials).

Hello there Earp world.

I’m a starting game developer who wants to document her work throughout creating my game called Peacemaker, based off the Syfy and Netflix series Wynonna Earp.

I guess I’ll get right down to business. This post is actually meant for the 16th, but I went to bed late last night so I’m writing one on the 17th (there will probably another one later today once I put more work into the game).

TLDR: I was able to learn how to use the landscape tools in Unity to start building my menu screen. I also connected the play, options, and exit buttons, as well as put in the first bit of background music. I then used the landscape tools to start mapping out the outside of the Homestead (possibly a future place for a good revenant battle???)

Hopefully if you find this interesting, you’ll want more updates and things like that, here is a screenshot of my welcome/menu page from yesterday (before I put in the exit button, and the trees/grass moving in the wind), I’ll post more soon.