Skip to main content

DevBlog #19 - Game

     Today, I made a huge amount of visual progress. However this visual progress was easy to implement, so very little back end progress, as I had built it in a way to easily implement this new feature.

    I have made building possible. I have also made all of the buildings and their effects happen in the game. It is response, and works very well in the MVP demo. However, I am going to change how it looks from a system where you drop the card and then your done, to a system pops up and allows you to build it. This system will show you a green, transparent, ghost game object for you to place, then once it has been placed it will turn int the real thing. You will also be able to drag and drop from the UI bar at the bottom the buildings that you an construct from the card you have chosen. This will look really intuitive and pretty, but will be simple and easy to implement.

    This is a pretty big day as now I can actually do things on the map making it feel even more like an actual game.

    I also added a system for the naming of the cities when they are created. I have two lists of words. One filled with adjectives and one of nouns. I take a random amount of letters from the adjectives and from the nouns then combine them together to create different names for the cities. This is a pretty low-budget way to generate names, and I will definitely o back and rework/beatify it later.

    During dinner I also realized that I have been forgetting about a very crucial thing in our game. We have been lacking a system for notifications and announcements. This is something that we will have to implement so that we can tell the player more information about the game, and about what the other players have been doing.

    Lastly, when I talked about the building system that we where going to implement, I left one thing out. That is each building will need to take into account the city that it is apart of, and can only be built inside of its borders. This is important as the effect of the building will change the dynamic and the stats of the city. It will add, reduce, change, and modify the stats and resources of the city so it is very important that the city takes into account the tiles, buildings, units, etc that are apart of it as they will effect the city as a whole.

    In the end, a lot of cool progress has happened, and I feel really good about the stuff I have added to the game.

    The devblogs will be slowing down as I am going to a 3 week silicon valley immersion camp soon, so don't expect much posting to be taking place.

    See you later! Bye!

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

DevBlog #41 - Game

    More progress has been made, and I feel like a million bucks because of this game.     1) Tech Tree Restructuring: I have switched my 1D list to a 2D list so that I can store all of the data about the branches and their different techs in each era. I have made it so that you can smart scroll through eras and through each tech category. Once researching the first tech, settlement, you can then get access to all other tech categories (Military, religious, education, industrial, etc), and each tech in that tree for each era. At the bottom, you can press a button to increase or decrease the era that you want to view. However, you can only increase up to a certain point, either the max of era 3 or the furthest era that branch goes to. This makes the tech tree feel a lot more advanced and less crowded.     2) Auction House: I have now got the viewing system working for all of the cards in the auction house, as well as the system to reassign who it is that is ...
Post a Comment
Read more

DevBlog #18 - Game

      Today, I spent 10 hours working on the ability for a user to select a card, then a tile, the hit the card again in order to use it if it is tile specific. However, this idea sucks, and I don't like. Tomorrow I am going to go back and change the entire system. Instead you are going to drag the card to where you want it to go, then release it on the tile you want the effect to take place. This will then apply the effect to that tile. This way it is one click and not 3, and is also more interactive for the users. Furthermore, I wont have to convey to the user that certain cards are tile based, and some are not.     I also rewrote the terrain hex map generator script. I made the script completely modular, meaning that in the editor you can create an object to spawn on the terrain just by clicking a plus. You then plop in the model, the name, the description, the spawning frequencies, and the tiles that it can spawn on. Then for each tile that is generated it c...
Post a Comment
Read more

DevBlog #5 - Game

      Hello, found out a solution to the problem that I was having yesterday. I have discovered the fabled perlin worms. We will use them by starting them off on high terrain values, and going to low terrain values changing every tile it touches into water tiles. This will create the effect of rivers.     Easy money!     Thats all for now, bye!
Post a Comment
Read more