Today I added to the story one important character: The Librarian, an information broker that operates in this part of the galaxy. The player will have to go to him to get some information, and (obviously) will have to do some dirty work for him. This cutscene is one of those I’m sad I probably […]
Just added the concept of orbiting moons/planets/bases to the game. For the side-missions and the storyline, sometimes I want a base to appear somewhere, so the player has somewhere different to go, so I had to add custom planets that can be added/removed during play (instead of up-front)… Since I had some stuff hardcoded, it […]
Not much time today for development, it’s my wedding anniversary (11 years and counting!), so I’ll make this quick… After some balancing, tweaking and bug fixing, I managed to kill the boss… The fight is not as fun as I’d like… You almost never can see the boss, because he’ll kill you if you’re too close, […]
Today I added a bit more of story to the game, including another boss fight… Wanted something different from the previous ones, so following a friend’s suggestion, I made a fight in which you have to use the environment to destroy the enemy… Unfortunately, today I’m feeling very lazy, so something that should have taken […]
Today I’ve added one more cutscene to the storyline (an important one, too!), and added a new type of enemy: the ninja! I call it ninja, but he’s more of a warrior-cultist kind of thing… but he periodically (or when he takes a lot of damage), he disappears in a puff of smoke, only to […]
Today was very productive… Added a new type of enemy, with a special ability, which is rather cool, and it makes gameplay more varied, and finished a couple of cutscenes… I got to say, working a bit on the game every day for more than a month is really good for morale… not only I […]
Don’t want to talk too much about what I’m doing at this moment (it’s an important moment in the story, and I don’t want to spoil it)… Let’s just say that Steve and the Skydancer go into battle stations: Red alarm light always gives some urgency to the scene, especially if I can find a […]
As usual on Mondays, not much time/energy to work on the game, so I started on the next cutscene that leads to a new phase in the game… Without giving too much away, I needed a ship: And I needed it to be bigger than Skydancer, but the map doesn’t have enough space for it… […]
A bit more work on the storyline… Some new cutscenes, and a big boss fight (grenades and pulse gun, which wasn’t working on the enemies). It’s a quite hard fight, if you only have the gun, which is my case… I fear the game will need a bit more difficulty… I’m more than halfway through […]
Continuing the path through the game, I had to build one more temple… First problem I had: because of the procedural generation and random factor, the temple was spawning in a cave planet, which meant that all was dark, so any cutscene would have to account for the possibility of this happen, which makes matters […]