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  25.6.2022  Progress Report: There is media (Video) accompanying the recent changes. To view it, please head to the appropriate tab ( Bill Nye Gone Made(WIP) ) Today I started working on a new project with will smaller time frame for the project. The purpose of the this project is too meet my goal of uploading a game every month. The time frame I have in mind for this game is ~20 days. While working on this game I will continue working on my other projects, but this will be the main focus.   Here is a simple overview of how the game will play, enemies come in waves from 2 directions, and when you kill them they can spawn weapon upgrades, new weapons, health, and some buffs. As the game progresses, it will get more and more difficult, and the goal is to get the highest kill score possible. FYI I am a big fun of Bill Nye, and the name is kind of tribute to all the amazing work he has done to educate the public of science! Bill Nye Gone Made: Changed the gitignore files to ignore the pro

  Today, I was very busy with IRL stuff, and I didn't get the chance to work on my projects much. It was also extremely hot, so I couldn't set behind my desk for more than 10 mins XD.

 Today, I was very busy with IRL stuff, and I didn't get the chance to work on my projects much. I did lay the ground for an animation override system for A Farmer's Valley project. So yea, not much porgress made today.

  27.6.2022 Progress Update A Farmer's Valley: There is media (Video) accompanying the recent changes. To view it, please head to the appropriate tab ( A Farmer's valley(WIP) ) Today, I mostly focused on optimizing my code, and bug fixes. I also did quite a bit of art.  I am not going write down all bug fixes, because I forgot to keep track XD Here is a showcase of the new items, and highlight setting:

   25.6.2022  Progress Report: Today I mostly worked on getting the inventory selected item highlight setup done. It took a lot of time! It looks easy, I thought it would be easy, but no It took some time alright! nonetheless here are some changes I have made to my WIP games. A Farmer's Valley: If you click on an selected item again it deselects its. Fixed a bug where if the player had a full inventory of items player could drop a half stack, or a full stack of items. Fixed a bug where player could pick up more items than inventory size. Highlight disappears after player switches item. Highlight disappears after item is dropped. Selected item is highlighted. Allowed player to now select items. Fixed a bug where the amount of items you could pick up could be more the the inventory size. Fixed a loot duping glitch. These Are Dark Times: Fixed a transition bug for player animations Setup the door rotating animation (Properly) Setup the basics of door Now correct animations are playing

  25.6.2022  Progress Report: Everyday that I work on my games, I feel more excited than the day before!  Today I created the description pop up when the player hover on top of an item, and there are a few changes that I am planning on making with the pop up. I will add a fade in animation, since it is very distracting when you are hovering on top of different items and it keeps on turning on and off. Next I will work on added a highlight for the selected item. For These Are Dark Times: I fixed some animation bugs, created new animations for the player hands, and the the basics of door system, and next on the list is to finish the door system, make sure they are fully intractable.  A Farmer's Valley: 111: Description fiend appear when player hover on top of an item in the inventory bar. 110: Made it so that the description field appears where the Inventory bar is. 109: Description field displays the correct item name, number, and description. 108: Description field is now setup. 10

 Today I was very busy, and didn't get the chance to get much done. I did nonetheless do some work on my game but nothing to write about, just some simple bug fixes. So yea no project progress details available today.   Feel free to check out my WIP game tabs to see the most recent changes, and also clip of the the changes.  Thanks for reading the blog nonetheless. 

  A Farmer's Valley: There is media (Video) accompanying the recent changes. To view it, please head to the appropriate tab ( A Farmer's valley(WIP) ) Player can now move items around it his inventory. Made it so that the items after being dropped are no longer on the persistent scene but on the level scene. Made it so that when the player drops a stack of items there are a bit spread out. There is now a small text displaying the amount of items player has in the stack. Player can drop a full stack of items on the ground. Player can now drop half a stack. Added Stack feature to the items in the inventory. added a feature where if the player reaching the bottom of the screen the UI bar moves to the top. Player Can now drop items from the inventory bar. Now the items the player pickups are displayed in the inventory bar.  Properly positioned, and adjusted the every slot in the UI. Added the inventory UI design to the game. Added the very basics of UI sys. Added A new font Console

A Farmer's Valley: There is media (Video, And Image) accompanying the recent changes. To view it, please head to the appropriate tab ( A Farmer's valley(WIP) )  Added animation to the grass when player walks past it. Added Animation to the cactus when the player walks past. The Grass, and cactus move in a different direction based on which direction came from. Created data packs (Item code, Type, Sprite, Name, Description, Use radius and lots more) for all the collectable, and intactable game objects. The list goes: Acorn,  Pumpkin           Corn           Watering tool          : Hoeing tool   Axe             Parsnip Seed    Parsnip    Logs                           Blue Spruce Pine Cone          Canyon Oak Tree Stump       Spruce Tree Stump                           Wicker Basket      PickAxe                                  Stone          Collectable Stone  Reaping tool         Grass          Weed          Cactus          Table                Chair 4Added custom unity editor

  A Farmer's Valley: Today was the start of this project, and I am aiming to release this game in 2-3 month time. There is media (Video) accompanying the recent changes. To view it, please head to the appropriate tab ( A Farmer's valley(WIP) ) Changed, and improved the Unity Project setting to accommodate the game better. Improved the code. Created A GitHub repository to store my files. All the animations are well synchronized with the movement. Player running is setup. player walking is setup. Player movement is now setup. Set-up the Idle animation left, right, Up , Down. Set-up the running animation left, right, Up , Down. Set-up the walking animation left, right, Up , Down. Setup the lifting Animation Left, Right , Up, Down. Setup the Swinging Animation Left, Right , Up, Down. Setup the Picking Animation Left, Right , Up, Down. Setup a delegate event call back method so that when parameters for an animation all the game object with that are subscribed to that event will play

Lost Alien Progress: Click Here To Play Lost Alien   Today was a great day!! As I have fully finished, and published a game that I have worked very hard on for the past couple of months! Lost Alien  is now available to be played freely in browser on https://tyrantswrath.itch.io/lost-alien. I would love to hear back from you on how I could have improved the game, and whether it was fun to play or not. Any constructive criticism is very much appreciated! Make sure to check it out!! Here is a rather incomplete list of changes made today(Aside from publishing the game YAYAY!) : First playable build is out, and being tested.  Took lots of cool screenshots for Itch.io Profile. Adjust the enemies for level 4. Bug fixes. Added Lighting to all the Chests so that they are always visible. Added Animation for the UI buttons. Added more unique shooting patterns for level4 Boss. Added more health, and difficulty to level3 boss. Made the level 2 boss and enemies a bit easier. Adjusted Level 1 boss to

   H ere is a list of tasks accomplished today: Lost Alien Progress: Since these are the last days of this game, and I am aiming to publish it sometime this week. I am mostly focused on level design, and getting done with some minor details and stuff. So there really isn't much to write about. nonetheless here is a list of some of the changes made today: Added Highlight & pressed animation for Exit Button. Added Highlight & pressed animation for Play Button. Designed exit button UI. Designed play button UI. Created Main Menu scene. Set-up the basics of level 4. Changed the shooting enemy version for level 2. Fixed some bugs on level 2. Set-up level 3 scene transition. Set-up the gate system for level 3. Added more bug fixes. Added one more shooting enemy type. Set-up all the enemies for level 3. Set up the new lighting system in the level 3. Set-up a new chest system. Fixed some level collision bugs. Level 3 Basics are setup. Boss has 4 different attack types chosen randoml

 H ere is a list of tasks accomplished today: Lost Alien Progress: There is media (Video) accompanying the recent changes. To view it, please head to the appropriate tab ( Lost Alien(WIP) ) Improved the shadows in the game. Changed the weapon muzzle flash animation. More difficult, and cooler. Redid the entire level 2 lighting system.  Looks a lot cooler!, and makes the game more difficult. Redid the entire level 1 lighting system. Basics of level 3 is now in place. Changed the level 1 and level 2 boss. More polishing. More bug fixes. These Are Dark Times, Progress: The project is kinda on hold right now, because I am trying to finish the Lost Alien game, since is the home stretch for that game, and should be out in by then end of next week.

 H ere is a list of tasks accomplished today: Lost Alien Progress: There is media( Video ) accompanying the recent changes. To view it please head to the appropriate tab( Lost Alien(WIP) )   294: Scene(level) Transitioning between level 1 and level 2 is now setup. 294: Added fade in screen on when a scene loads. 293: Fade out screen is now setup for loading the next scene. 292: Fixed lots of bugs. 291: Level 2 is now fully functional. 290: basics of scene management is now setup.  289: Added more features to the boss enemy. 287: Lots of bug fixes. 286: New boss is now fully functional. 285: Added lootable chests. 284: Added all the enemies level 2. 283: Added lighting to the level 2. These Are Dark Times Progress: The project is kinda on hold right now, because I am trying to finish the Lost Alien game, since is the home stretch for that game, and should be out in by then end of next week.

 H ere is a list of tasks accomplished today: Lost Alien Progress: Foundations of the level 2 is now setup The new boss character is fully functional Added a new boss character. Boss health UI will no longer be visible after boss's death. Fixed a bug where player's particle effect wouldn't play after getting shot. Added Lighting, Particle Effect, and more to the enemy. Added Movement animation to the enemy. Added Death animation to the enemy. Added Idle Animation to the enemy. Created a new enemy. Pattern Shots are extremely customizable.  Added Pattern shots. Added more enemy shooting types. Increased boss's health. Increased boss's movement speed.  Did some more finetuning.

 H ere is a list of tasks accomplished today: Lost Alien Progress: There is media( Video ) accompanying the recent changes. To view it please head to the appropriate tab( Lost Alien(WIP) ) Today I did a lot of fine tuning finishing of the level, and general polishing. There is much to write about, but there is a video accompanying the changes that you can click on the blue link above to view.  Some bug fixes. Created the a fully playable level. More fine tuning. I will do some more fine tuning, but I am very happy with how it looks. I will probably up the difficulty a little.

Today's Update: Today's blogpost won't contain any new changes to my game. Because today I went to a Game Design Meetup in Helsinki, and it couldn't have gone better. I absolutely loved it. The event organizers were so nice, and I got to hangout, and talk to some amazing people from the game dev industry.  Though I didn't get much done today regarding my games, I can safely say it was a great experience going to this meetup, because it was so fun, and everyone there was so nice, and GREAT! Anyway that is it for the day, feel free to check out the other tabs on my blog to keep yourself up to date with my WIP projects.

H ere is a list of tasks accomplished today: These Are Dark Times Progress:   There is media( Video ) accompanying the recent changes. To view it please head to the appropriate tab( These Are Dark Times(WIP) ) Improved, and redid the whole idle animation. Fixed a bug where player couldn't pick up anything while holding a weapon. Improved the lighting for active weapon, so that all the weapons are well lit. Fixed a bug where pickup ray cast was returning constantly true, due to it hitting the currently active weapon. Improved the idle animation while holding weapons. Fixed some more animation bugs. Fixed a bug where player could hold multiple weapons at a time. Fixed a bug where player could pickup the weapon he was holding. Added sound effect for equipping melee weapons from inventory. Added Idle Animation to fps model holding a melee weapon. Includes: Axe Knife Baseball Bat. Baseball bat can now be equipped from the inventory. Axe can now be equipped from the inventory. Knife mele

H ere is a list of tasks accomplished today: Lost Alien Progress: There is media( Video ) accompanying the recent changes. To view it please head to the appropriate tab( Lost Alien(WIP) ) Fixed a bug where door wouldn't open after killing all the enemies. Added animated lighting for the chest. Improved my game's efficiency. Changed the particle effect for all the muzzle flashes. Changed the particle system for all the enemies. Changed how the homing missile hitting player particle effect looks(a lot better now)! More tiny bug fixes. Fixed a bug where weapons weren't dealing the damage they were supposed to. Fixed a bug where some of the enemies would have to be killed twice. Added particle effect to the enemy homing missile. Added Impact particle effect to Swampy enemy. Added Impact particle effect to Devil enemy. Added Impact particle effect to Masked orc enemy. Added Impact particle effect to Ice zombie enemy. Added Impact particle effect to Imp enemy. Changed the size of

  Here is a list of tasks accomplished today: These Are Dark Times: There is media( Video ) accompanying the recent changes. To view it please head to the appropriate tab( These Are Dark Times (WIP) Page ) Added inventory icon for Pistol.  Added inventory icon for Pistol magazine.   Added inventory icon for Crossbow arrows.  Added inventory icon for Keys.  Added inventory icon for Axe.  Added inventory icon for Knife.  Added inventory icon for Baseball bat.  Added inventory icon for Crossbow. Added Pickup functionality for the for Pistol. Added Pickup functionality for the for Pistol magazine. Added Pickup functionality for the for Crossbow arrows. Added Pickup functionality for the for Keys. Added Pickup functionality for the for Axe. Added Pickup functionality for the for Knife. Added Pickup functionality for the for Baseball . Added Pickup functionality for the for Crossbow. Setup the basics of Pickup system for knife.  Setup the basics of Pickup system for Baseball bat. Setup the b

Here is a list of tasks accomplished today: Lost Alien: There is media( Video ) accompanying the recent changes. To view it please head to the appropriate tab( LostAlien(WIP)  Page) Added Small medkit.  Added Medium medkit.  Added Large medkit. Added a intractable version all the weapons(Except the primary) Added Player Death Audio . Player death pickup has 3 different audio clips. The active clip is being randomly chosen. Background music is now added to the game.  Medkit Pickup audio. Medkit pickup has 4 different audio clips. The active clip is being randomly chosen. Weapon Pickup audio. Weapon pickup has 3 different audio clips. The active clip is being randomly chosen. Added audio clip to the following weapons: Blaser Audio . Blaster has 4 different audio clips. The active clip is being randomly chosen. Anti-Matter. Anti-Matter has 3 different audio clips. The active clip is being randomly chosen. Laser Audio. Blaster has 4 different audio clips. The active clip is being randomly

  Here is a list of tasks accomplished today: These Are Dark Times: There is media( Video ) accompanying the recent changes. To view it please head to the appropriate tab( These Are Dark Times WIP )  Today I worked on this game quite a bit, and I am happy to say I have setup the inventory system! Lost Alien: Fixed a some left over Null reference errors. Mix and matching the current enemy types gives well over 20 different enemies. Randomized the angle correction, and speed of missiles to avoid them being cluttered on top of each other. Enemies now have one more type which can shoot missiles. Randomized the angle at which the missiles will be shot at the player. Fixed a bug where Health UI slider fill size was displayed incorrectly. Homing Missile now has a bright flash upon hitting the player. Homing missile now explodes even if it doesn't hit the player after 8 seconds. Homing missile now has screen shake effect when it explodes. Homing missile animation is now setup. Homing missi

Here is a list of tasks accomplished today: Lost Alien: There is media( Video & Screenshot ) accompanying the recent changes. To view it please head to the appropriate tab( LostAlien )  Fixed a bug where during the recent changes to the code, weapon damage was being displayed incorrectly.  Changed all the Consecutive  If else statements with Switch cases.  Changed how the Scriptable objects were Get & Set.  Added Lighting to the Medkit. Added a weapon pickup system too. Added animation to the Medkit. and Of course Implemented the new player health UI. Added Healed animation to the Player Health UI Added Damaged animation to the Player Health UI Implemented one of the new med kits Sprites in the game! Improved the code Majorly!  Fixed a bug where the Blaster(starting weapon) was 0 durability and would disappear when fired. Added shadow to almost all the enemies. Fixed a bug where boss was getting stuck on player's collider and wouldn't move away after attacking the playe

  Here is a list of tasks accomplished today: Lost Alien: There is media accompanying the recent changes. To view it please head to the appropriate tab( LostAlien ) Created a Scriptable Object system for Gun Repair. Player can now add durability to the gun by going near the item in the world.(Which soon will be available through chests only) If the durability repair amount exceeds the max durability. It will reset to the max. Now when the player adds durability to his weapon, the item will be destroyed. Added a weapon pickup system too. Weapon Icon now automatically changes to the weapon to which we want to add durability too. Fixed a bug where some weapon's Max Durability was not correctly displayed Fixed a bug where player's shadows where glitching, and displayed very weirdly. Added intractable Health Item. The health Item can use different sprites, different health amount, because it is all determined by scriptable objects. Fixed a bug where player health UI was not update p

Here is a list of tasks accomplished today: These Are Dark Times: There is media accompanying the recent changes. To view it please head to the appropriate tab( These Are Dark Times WIP ) How the calculation for activating, and deactivating the items work(a lot less memory intensive). Item icons are now dependent on the Item being picked up. Redid how the inventory system works(not fully finished yet). Fixed a bug where using the batteries won't refill the NVG battery.  Fixed a bug where the UI color would stay red even though the item is already used.  Fixed a bug where the UI color would stay red even though the item is already used.  Fixed a bug where the player increase his health to over 100%.   The amount health Items the player can carry are limited.  The amount of Batteries the player can carry are limited now.  Health section of the inventory is fully functional.  Battery section of the Inventory is now functional. added audio clip for picking up items.  Added audio clip f

Here is a list of tasks accomplished today: Lost Alien: There is a video accompanying the recent changes. To view it please head to the appropriate tab( LOST ALIEN WIP ) Animated the Weapon UI. When the level starts it gradually loads in the scene from the side. Improved the code's readability, and efficiency. fixed a bug where if no functional weapons were left(except for pistol) and the weapon switch button were pressed, the weapon would start flashing on and off. fixed a bug where sometimes the weapon cycle would skip a functional weapon. fixed a bug for when the player switches to pistol, the pistol didn't render. Now if the current weapon durability reaches zero, the player will automatically. switch weapon, until it finds a weapon that is functional. Now if the weapon Durability reaches zero, player will not be able to equip it again. More Bug Fixes. Redid how the weapon durability was calculated to make it more efficient.  bug fix Weapon Stats changing only when weapon w

Here is a list of tasks accomplished today: Lost Alien There is a video clip accompanying the changes To view it please head to the appropriate page( LOST ALIEN WIP ) Blaster(Primary weapon) in the game durability never goes down( so that player always has something to fight with). Fixed a bug where the weapon durability was going lower some times at twice the rate.  UI Slider indicating the weapon durability left is now fully functional for all the weapons. Changed how different weapons calculate damage.   Made some changes to the UI containers. Created a UI container displaying the current Weapon in use Durability(Currently Static).  Created a UI container displaying the current Weapon in use damage. Created a UI container displaying the current Weapon in use Name. Created a UI container displaying the current Weapon in use Image.  Created ScriptableObject for all the weapons information.  Set up a GitHub Repository, so that if I break something there is always a backup. Fade out eff

Here is the list of tasks accomplished today: LOST ALIEN: 70 fixed all the null reference errors post player's death. 69: adjusted player death animation and speed. 68: fixed a big where player could shoot and move when health was zero. 67: Fixed a bug where after the player death animation didn't play 66:Did some color correction. 65: Added Chromatic Aberration to it. 64: added Vignette to the game. 63: Added bloom to the game. 62: Gate System is now fully functional. 61: Basics of post processing is now setup(Still being finetuned). 60: Player Health UI is now setup(place holder). THESE ARE DARK TIMES: For the short video showcase head over THESE ARE DARK TIMES(WIP) Tab 24: added all more 3D atmospheric audio. 23:  Flashlight ON/ OFF system is now fully functional. 22: flashlight battery has a battery now. 21: Added player health UI. 20: Added Flashlight power UI. 19: added custom fonts for the UI. Fixing the player death animation bug gave me some trouble since I didn't