Devlog 6: Getting there

3 years ago by Otakurosu

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Greetings dear adventurers, we have come with another update!

This update the graphics are more implemented in the game! This includes the tetromino shapes that will now have the meshes of the blocks of their stage. There has also been significant progress on the menu and UI!

Programmers:

Added a difficulty manager keeping track of the player's progress to increase difficulty when appropriate
Added an easy system for block mesh implementation
Added functionality for spawning blocks with other meshes depending on difficulty and progress of the player
The blocks that spawn now have a rotation
Reworked character shooting
Improved/debugged movement/jumping
Reworked weapon functionality
A sabotage system was added that so far spawns explosive blocks at difficulty 2
Added main menu, controls menu, options menu, a pause button, death screen and replayability
Used 5 full cans of bugspray for bugfixing!

(Switch in difficulty/blocks depending on height)

Artists:

Revisited the color palette of the Cave/Styx assets so that both environment assets can be used in either environment.
- This results in reusability for meshes made for different environments so they can seamlessly blend and be reused just by swapping the color palette/texture on them
Cleaned up all the meshes in max/blender because of the way MagicaVoxel handles meshes (textures, unconnected points, unbound edges, smoothing, ...)

Example of part of the Hell assets now with Cave materials

Designed and made a concept for the third environment (surface/forest) in photoshop while also figuring out how they will connect and transition

Cave to Forest: Hole in the ground that leads downwards
Forest to space: Clever use of background (hdri/planes since we use a fixed camera)

Made the first 3 Tetris shapes to be used in the 3rd stage (surface/forest) with clean transitions from the cave towards a more green and nature oriented style