Today I didn’t have much time, so I spend just an hour or so balancing weapons (mainly firing rates, etc). Some of the difficulty is understanding why isn’t a weapon firing, when the enemy has two weapons… For example, the enemy I’m testing now has a machine gun and thermal grenades, so he takes the […]
After all the work yesterday on the raycasting system, today I fine-tuned the shooting some more, and it feels way better! After this, I balanced the beam cannon and found some errors on the damage levels, so I had to retune all the rest of the weapons, while playing around with some plasma burns: Because […]
Today I’m fiddling around with the electro-cannon… This is a weird weapon, because it works differently if the player fires hit or the enemies… When the player hits an enemy with the electro-cannon, they get stunned for a short while… When the player is hit, it just takes damage… I wasn’t happy with it… The […]
Spent most of today fine tuning more weapons, mainly the pulse cannon… The pulse cannon is one my favorite weapons, because the build up time let’s the player prepare for the shot, which makes it cool to avoid! Also added a plasma burn to the place where it hits, because it’s cool… Also spent some […]
Some more balancing today, switching between weapon balancing/testing and experimenting with some gameplay mechanics… I know they should be locked down by now, but I can’t help myself… First change in the gameplay is that shields no longer have a fail rate… It was just looking weird, and I can achieve the same actual result […]
Today I mostly worked in balancing the weapons… Not much to say about it, I basically just spawn an enemy with different weapons and different levels, and see how does it feel… Then I adjust it and try it again, over and over again… The game so far was “mathematically balanced”, which means I had […]
I’m in Belgium for work, and I hate programming on the laptop (keyboard layout is not confortable), so this is a good time to do a scan of the text of the game, searching for errors and tweaking pieces of text… Boring work, though… Now listening to “The Singularity” by “Scar Symmetry” Link of the […]
I had a small kitchen accident and I cut one of my fingers, so I’m having a lot of difficulty coding and writing… So I decided to try something way different: actually playing the game and tweaking weapon parameters… This is actually something I should be doing more often, since it’s such an important part […]
I’m in the grip of a massive flu, so just some minor writing, proof-reading and other stuff I can do on my laptop… Hopefully tomorrow I’ll be back to normal coding… #nobreaksforindydevs Now listening to my own breathing sounding like Darth Vader
Today I wasn’t feeling up to coding (a bit stuck on what the next step should be), so I played the game instead, fixing small bugs as they popped up, doing small balancing tweaks, etc… Now playing: Shadow of Mordor. This is an awesome game, they really managed to make a game that doesn’t step […]