Devlogs

10/24/2021 (21ga1024.0)

Devlog number 5 is ready!

0.

Ok, so this week was almost as unproductive as the past 2 weeks, but I managed to get a ton done over the weekend (mainly Saturday, actually).

1.

First off, I had to update unity TWICE, because I installed 25f1, updated to Windows 11, and in that time of like 45 minutes max, a new unity version came out, and I had to install that one too. So that happened.

2.

Ok, time for some actual stuff. I started by adding an extension to interpolate, because I use that function so many times, I could just package it all up into its own method. Also, that method I use actually doesn't work in low enough framerates (around 18 or lower, I calculated), so instead of making each instance of that function account for framerate too, I could just make a method to handle it. That was the main reason behind it.

3.

Then I made the coin counter and the world indicator, simple enough. The coin indicator actually has a tiny animation when you collect a coin, just because I thought that could be cool. And the backdrop really helped make the text readable. I might add another rectangular one that covers everything, but I don't know about that yet.

4.

I decided to turn the EMD stats file into a monobehavior, because that definitely will help me with the general scene stats, like the world and level names. I will eventually add a method in there to save data, but for now at least, it goes without saving. The issue with saving here is that because of the launcher holding many different versions of Arcade Maniac, and that I want save files to transfer seamlessly from one version to another, I will have to save outside of the regular persistant data path Unity gives me, which becomes more of an issue when we talk about different OSes, especially because I don't have a Mac to test it on. So, I might not consider the saving at all until I get at least most of the launcher done. We'll see.

5.

I added a new object model for loot, where it generates whether you get the loot or not automatically with the Loot.Lottery variable. It handles what item to spawn, and what the chance that item spawns is. Should hopefully help with the loot stuff, like where the enemy has a 10% chance of dropping a health boost.

6.

Lastly (skipping some small stuff), we have the pause menu. I actually completely forgot about that one. I have that to do, and then the start menu. The pause menu is annoying, because now you have to go into every single script that is in EMD and add a check for if it is paused or not, sometimes even more if the object has physics. Just pretty tedious to do.

Ending

Anyways, that's about it. Might not seem like a lot, but the changelog says otherwise. Mainly I just did a bunch of small things I didn't feel like talking about here. You can just look down below. NOTE: Itch users can now see the complete changelog like the github alternative, because I found a way to not have to manually convert from markdown to Itch's formatting. So that's great! Anyways, have a good week, and I'll see you next devlog!

Stuff to Do:

• I have to make the arcade cabinet account for framerate like the player controller does when it angles the camera towards itself.
• Fix light flickering
• Reset the HDRP default settings and make custom ones for this camera only.
• Remodel the cabinet screen to use a well-known aspect ratio
• Add more details to cabinet
• Fix the camera acting weird when the player interacts with the cabinet by pressing "Space"
• Add stone textures to EMD
• Add an ability for the EMD hittable blocks to be hit multiple times
• Make the EMD falling platforms a little less glitchy when falling onto the player from above
• Make the EMD enemy, you know, actually work
• Make the EMD player not be able to walk off screen
• Make the EMD player flash into a given color instead of only between clear and red
• Heavily optimize EMD
• Turn the EMD clouds into a particle system
• Finish the EMD pause menu
• Make the EMD start menu
• Obviously more.

Complete changelog: