Devlog #1

Hello, my name is Austin, and my dream is to one day become a gameplay programmer, and this is my first time doing a devlog about my process of creating a game.  I made games before, however I always ran into roadblock and stop progressing. Now that I graduated with my BS in Comp. Sci, I wanted to focus on actually creating something.

What I have learned:

As someone who learned Unity while in college, the programming aspect was not difficult, but I realized that the roadblocks I ran into were created by me, due to not having a solid base. So for this project, I wanted to learn how to make solid base for this game to expand.

I looked up tutorials on Youtube for aspects of the game. For example, top down movement was something that I thought I knew how to due (Just do if statement to see what buttons are being press and spit out a Movement Vector), but there were easier ways to do it. I also touched my hand in the animation components. I am not an artist, nor I made any assets in this project, but I had to make things like damage text popping out and knowing how the animator uses the animation clips.

What did I do?

This project is about 3 weeks old and I been working on it. Its a top-down 2d rougelite with a sandbox twist. Major key elements that I added include

- Movement

-Basic Combat (Shooting, Sword Attack)

-A base for Enemies (Used Statemachine, which I learned about the idea in one of my CS courses)

-Gamemanagers that handles things like spawns, shops and combat. (Looked up how to use on)

-UI Layout (One problem from my other projects in how the UI looked)

-Items as Scriptable objects (Makes initializing shops/ abilites easier to build)

What to add:

-Master loot pool (For a rougelite, the player can buy loot that upgrades them)

- Finish Shop Functionality 

- Begin the Building state  (During this state, the player can place buildings in the dungeon that does things)

TBH making this devlog really help me understand what I want to do next with this project

If you made it here, thank you for reading.

-Austin