Day 17 – Alpha

Today was spent debugging issues for the Alpha presentation. We managed to get the game pretty much up and running, and went to the presentation.After the presentation, the day was called off, and we proceeded to take a long weekend.

Fmod

The primary artifact I’ve been working on this week is to implement FMod studio support.FMod studio is a sound design tool for games that quite recently added support to Unity. FMod studio is not to be confused with the FMod library which Unity already uses internaly to play sounds. The primary use of FMod studio in this project is that we can add variables to what FMod studio calls “Events” the sound designer then uses these variables to […]

ERA – Week 5 of Production

This was the week of our Alpha. Unfortunately it’s also been a week during which I’ve been sick with a cold, pretty badly the first few days, and it never got completely well. So the the work I’ve done has suffered for it.
What I’ve done has mainly been to keep working with the floating GUI, now for structures (towers, barracks and generators), and also to add base structures for each team that will end the game once destroyed. This enters […]

ERA – Week 5 of Production

This was the week of our Alpha. Unfortunately it’s also been a week during which I’ve been sick with a cold, pretty badly the first few days, and it never got completely well. So the the work I’ve done has suffered for it.
What I’ve done has mainly been to keep working with the floating GUI, now for structures (towers, barracks and generators), and also to add base structures for each team that will end the game once destroyed. This enters […]

Sneaky Ninja – Alpha bug hunt & items!

The first part of last week was spent on hunting down and eliminating some pretty nasty game breaking bugs in our code. We wanted to fix these bugs before we started working on the final feature we needed for our alpha, the items. Writing and reading about bug fixing is not very fun or interesting so I’ll tell you more about the second part of the week instead, where we implemented the three items we decided to use for our […]

Production week 5: A shot in the dark and Stealth

What have I done this week?

Playtesting
Playtesting
Added, removed and redesign cards
Playtesting

Play testing with new card type
“Stealth” is a new Card type have been tested this week. Its role is to create diversity in the game and also to reinforce the feeling of being an agent and create more player iteration. A stealth card have the text:“Stealth (Place this card in front of you upside down). Revel this card when X happens. Do action Y”An example of a Stealth card is […]

Slightly Coded – Potbellied King – Dev Post 6

I should’ve posted this sooner… oh well, I’ll go over what happened the last few days here instead.
On thursday we prepared for the Alpha and the playtesting by adding a bunch of features and straightening out some of the glitches. The features added where things such as proper death, victory conditions, sound and a score screen (not a final version though). The main glitch fixed was the one that stopped the player from losing the game.
On friday the Alpha presentation […]

Mechropolis: Alpha; features and bug fixes!

This week has been a particularly stressful but also productive week. Friday was alpha day so we had to work extra hard to have something presentable. Many bugs were encountered and we ultimately had to spend our entire night staying up and working. All-in-all I believe I stayed up for ~32 consecutive hours. Bad planning on my part.
As we approached a hard feature-complete date we had to make some adjustments to our workflow. First, we prioritized content […]

Big game: Week 5

I’m back on the weekly schedule! This week I have worked on a few different things, like one would expect. I’ll list the things I felt were most important like last time and hope it gives you a good view on what I did!

It is from now on possible to have more than one board on the same level. This means that there can be, in theory, an infinite amount of individual boards on a level. I first thought this […]

Mechropolis: Alpha; features and bug fixes!

This week has been a particularly stressful but also productive week. Friday was alpha day so we had to work extra hard to have something presentable. Many bugs were encountered and we ultimately had to spend our entire night staying up and working. All-in-all I believe I stayed up for ~32 consecutive hours. Bad planning on my part.
As we approached a hard feature-complete date we had to make some adjustments to our workflow. First, we prioritized content […]

Big game: Week 5

I’m back on the weekly schedule! This week I have worked on a few different things, like one would expect. I’ll list the things I felt were most important like last time and hope it gives you a good view on what I did!

It is from now on possible to have more than one board on the same level. This means that there can be, in theory, an infinite amount of individual boards on a level. I first thought this […]

Big Game Project Week 5

This week i have put a lot of focus on getting ready for the alpha showing that we had during the Friday.
I started the week out by doing some research on how i would go about in implementing a gui/hud for the game, by looking at some examples and reading the documentation i managed to understand how to set up a basic hud element. With this i made so that when the player have the ability to activate a mirror […]