Week 8 - Non-Stop

This week, I had to implement the many things required to push out an alpha build for testing.

First up, enemies. Building on what I had done with the boss, implementing enemy AI wasn't that difficult, as they had fewer states than the boss and their logic was relatively simple. I only needed to implement the Ash Bat, Hogash, and Small Golem enemies. When they were done, I created prefabs of them and sent them off to Nathan so that he could place them around the map.

Next, I implemented the HUD to trickle down over time, as well as display the current tinder and healing flasks of the player.

This also required me to implement the tinder mechanic. I created it as a value stored in the player's data, so that it wouldn't be changed upon reloading. For healing, I implemented another state to the player, and had a new animation play. The healing is meant to emulate Dark Souls style of healing, where it is meant to be a risk you take in combat so you have more time to survive.

Next, I updated the upgrade screen to take tinder, and implemented different upgrades for the player. On top of the damage upgrade already implemented, the player can also upgrade their timer reduction rate, and the amount of healing flasks they have. Each upgrade has a maximum of 5 for now.

After mine and Nathan's tasks were implemented, I created the build and shipped it off for playtesting.

There were many issues with this build. Mainly, there are a lot of bugs that we need to fix. There is also an issue with some of the level design, as intensity doesn't ramp up nearly as much as we want it to, and the placement of upgrades doesn't feel meaningful. Over the coming weeks we will be fleshing these out as much as we can.

My tasks will be to fix any major bugs that need our attention, implement the remaining enemies and finish the boss implementation.

Until next time.