Today I started the random side missions system… This will be a very large component, from a technical perspective, especially the generation itself… The idea is that the player can go to a mission console aboard the Skydancer and get side missions, which will yield alloy when completed. All the missions will be generated on […]
Yet again, I started writing weapon descriptions and get lost in something else midway… In this case, the target was the machine gun, and while the visuals were good this time, the balance was completely off, so I had to work on that a bit. Still think the balance of the end-tier machine gun is […]
Well, I was supposed to start working on the new random mission system (the main part of Phase Two), but I started by writing the shotgun descriptions for the shop, and then I started playing around with it, and decided to improve the visuals slightly: The small “explosions” are very fast, and they show the […]
Today I’ve managed to put in a lot of work on the game! “Phase 2” is well underway! First, I started with some writing… As I said before, I’m trying to write a bit every day, instead of tackling all the writing at once… Today it was the time of the “laser gun text”. Also […]
I was looking for a planet to test the “no oxygen” text, and I found an asteroid… I dropped down and… nothing happened… Just a blank screen for ages, until I gave up and closed the game… Found out I was stuck in the navigation mesh generation… For those that don’t follow my blog often, […]
Not much time for game dev today, so I just tinkered with writing some additional tutorials, and some weapon descriptions… I’ll have to avoid my usual way of approaching this kind of thing, which is to tackle a task (in this case “Write weapon/gear text”) all at once… This won’t work for the writing… […]
Nope, not a new game! “Gateway: Chronicles of Steve” (of just “Gateway”) is the official name of the game! “Chrome Hunter” was the name of the game in it’s inception, when it was built for the Indie Speed Run 2013, and it made sense since the themes were “Hunting” and “Silverware”, and the objective of […]
As I mentioned before, I decided to make some pieces of gear “passive”, which mean they don’t have to be equipped, they can just be bought and from then on they will be available. I already used this for armor, but the analyzer and scanner weren’t like this. The reasoning behind this change is that […]
After some discussion with a friend, decided to go ahead and add the health injector to the game… The goal might be basically the same as the shield, but they play slightly different… Shields are great for slow constant small damage. Health injector is good for bursts of large damage. This way, the player can […]
Somewhere along the way in developing the last area, I broke the explosions… This is what they’re looked before (some months ago): This is how they looked at the beginning of the evening: Terrible, especially in motion, in noticed every single “glob” of them, the ground was too dark… a mess altogether… The problem, turns […]