Game flow, Luigi

It was time we had some flow within the game, so I’ve been creating the menu screens we’ll encounter through the gameplay demo:

• Start Screen

• Character Selection

• Loading Screen

• Pause Screen

• End Screen

I’ve also added some Resume, Restart and Quit Game functionalities and have created the character selection system, although we only have one for now, but it’s already set up so that it’s veeeeery easy to add new characters to this selection screen just by adding their graphic assets and they automatically become selectable characters.

I’ve also been adapting our main UI so it scales nicely with different resolutions.

16:9 aspect ratio

4:3 aspect ratio

And finally, I’ve implemented some weapon caché functionality! I already had the pickable weapon behaviour done previously, so all I had to do was to create some code to wrap it.

Enemies code design, Alberto

I completely changed how enemies work internally. At first they had a MonoBehaviour attached to the GameObject but the problem was that C# does not provide multiple inheritance, thus I had to write the same code every time a new enemy was created (plus changing common code in one class could cause some buggy code).
So I decided to think about a new implementation and this what I came up with:

EnemyBase: shared enemy code and methods that can be overridden and reimplemented if needed. It loads all the enemy data via XML.
E_XXX: Inherits from EnemyBase. XXX is the name of a specific enemy. This is where the specific code goes.
EnemyMono: It works attached to the enemy gameobject and it calls all the EnemyBase and E_XXX code.

Also this is helping me with the making of an Enemy Editor. It will make our life easier when changing enemy data and animations.

BTW I’m also working on a new update for our last released game Clicker Pirates.

Props & first room, Julio

This week I have implemented all the props Dani did for the game. Each prop ( stage assets, can be interactive or decorative only) must have a collision mesh so the player can’t pass through it, a script that manages its layer index based on its “Y” position and finally their respective particle systems or lights if needed.

After finishing more than 20 of these props, I have made the first real room (with props, lighting, particle systems, scripts, spawn points for enemies, …) although it may seem a simple task of painting tiles and placing objects, the truth is that it’s a rather slow and laborious process because of layers orders and a lot of details that you have to keep in mind, all of this without getting into the game design of the room yet…

Traps & chest, Dani

At last I’ve had some fun making the traps for Fungi Ruins. Here there are the better ideas and sketches, and the process of the ‘’high spitter”

In addition to the weapons I always do, this time I had to finish one of the weapons chest for them.

As well I thought that the plasma revolver -which is the basic gun of The Balance- needed an urgent rework.

Moreover, it was time to prepare the Halloween update for Clicker Pirates ;)