Day 96: Today was boring. Making tools to make any possible ship is fun. Using it to make a bunch of them, not so much. But once I managed to force myself into robot mode, it wasn’t so bad.

Daily interesting stuff:

• Reddit post, AMA of John Podlasek. There’s cool stuff there. Also he links to an older AMA of his.

• Reddit post about selecting the right price for a game. Users shared different methods for pricing.

• Reddit post, what makes a good prototype?. Simple question, hard answers.

Tasks done:

• Implemented 16 ships. That’s it, that’s all I did today. And I think it’s okay. But since it would be short if I just stopped here, I’m going to describe the process for the configs:

  • Reorganize the order of the ship configs. The configs where already done during previous sprints. It’s entries in a List. But it wasn’t organized. So I put the tuto ship first and changed some indexes.

  • Add configurations for the two knight layouts you forgot. It’s just an entry in a list. I then have to specify the stats percent of that ship. Stuff like life, damage, mana, hitbox etc…

  • Test the menu with more ships.

  • Realize there’s some bugs.

  • Fix them. This was small stuff like “the first ship selected is last instead of the first”, “this text element doesn’t looks right”.

• Created the ships prefabs. Those are the real objects that the player will manipulate. To create a new prefab follow the next steps:

  • Change the name of an existing ship

  • Put the right special power and delete the old one

  • Create a sprite for the ship

  • Import it in Unity

  • Modify the displaying sprite and its animations. For that I created a custom flip book anim component a while ago. So it’s super simple to change sprite anims. I just have to replace the references by drag & drop. If I used the Unity animation system instead, I would’ve had to create a new animation each time.

  • Save the prefab in the appropriate folder

  • Make sure to link the prefab into the config.

  • Repeat that shit 16 times (make breaks to not turn crazy). Maybe I could’ve better the process. But frankly I don’t see how I can do that and keep the flexibility I have now. It would be easy to do if I didn’t want to have any possible spritesheet with any animation. But that has a high chance of being indispensable if I work with a graphical artist.