demoo

refactored projectile script into a projectile and movement component

made a homing projectile script

modified weapon / weapon stats so that it automatically adds a movement component of your choosing

added a custom option in the freeze frame manager

player can no longer activate super if they;re dead

added a flash of inverted colours to the freeze frames

changed how freeze frames work (adds to a timer rather than just freeze on or off)

freezes are longer now

started work on super, something that I'm hoping will fill a gap I feel my game has but idk

super bar and value that goes up when scoring points and goes down over time

big sign when super is ready

SINCE THE LAST DEVLOG:

game over flow done (except for a point where it crashes)

today I (mostly) got the rest of the new game over flow working.

Today I started work on the new game over sequence,

first I needed to fix a problem where if i ran a scene directly the game would crash because settings values weren't initialized so i did that and then I started work on the new game over screen.

My vision for this was there would be a growing animated number that's exponentially quickly increasing until a big crash and some cool animation would play but all I have right now is a bunch of sounds and particles with the animating text. tomorrow I'll probably work on getting the other animations and polish and stuff but idk we'll see

turned the jetstream into a gradient

added a timer to each of the points in the jetstream line2d and made them expire after a set time

max distance too

made a particle effect for when you kill enemies

worked on moving upgrades to components but am currently unsuccessful

made an upgrade system with a cool shader background

made it work

made a homing bullet thing for it

made a heal between rounds thing for it

added a jetstream behind the player (took most of the time, tried a particle system and it didnt work)

added tilt based on velocity to the player (took 30 minutes and I like it better than the jetstream)

working on a little animated timeline that displays when events are in the game. I'll use this to display when upgrades and downgrades are

working on non-linear rounds

i've added some UI for it and made the backend of the game support having more than one round in a row

changing the round system so you have continuous rounds, downgrade rounds and upgrade rounds

added a particle based asteroid background

added a particle based galaxy background

made the game ui more dynamic when the player is moving around

added dynamic animated backgrounds that can be set for each round

screenshot shows round 1

added performant trails behind projectiles & started work on adding the shaker plugin to add impact to things

made a popup that displays an enemies name the first time a player sees it.

fix weapon select

converted my entire game to 2d and animated the arrows that point to enemies off screen

Been mostly working on getting other enemies to work in 2d, I've got the echo working pretty much faithfully to what it's supposed to do but the position of the laser isn't quite right yet.

I've still gotta do a new background & add back some other features like the directional arrows for enemies but this 2d change is working for what it's supposed to do, the game is performing so much better now

I thought I made a devlog earlier today but I didn't, my bad yall :sob:

I'm currently working on converting my game to 2D, so far I have 2 enemies, the player, and the weapon / projectiles converted but I still have a bit to go. This is a big project

fix ship

add player model

focusing on game feel & qol this time

after a lot of debugging I got the leaderboard working in web, it was literally one line of code 😭

If you want to access the leaderboard get to an intermission and click on end It here to submit your score!

ship game yeah

ldrbd

leaderboard

made a cool leaderboard that syncs globally so people can compare their scores, I used supabase to store the table

Finally finished the weapon select, this has been such a grueling experience but it works now!!!

I spent so so so so long trying to figure out what was wrong with my game, I had this problem where both of the buttons would display the same thing, but I figured it out and now it's almost done

Making a weapon selection scene so the player can select different weapons to change how the game plays

Added a tutorial that floats around with the player to tell them the controls smoothly & settings to go along with it

Finally figured out settings, saving works, defaults work, doesn't crash (YAY)

Also added a way to go back to the main menu from the settings menu

plus added the credits scene

plus added the wobble effect to most UI in the game for consistency

very very happy :D

Settings defaults work now, but too well. I'm trynna figure out why they're overriding the saved value but I'm having trouble. I'll get there eventually :sob:

forgot to make a demo

I've been debugging the settings system for ages now, idk what the problem is.

Space to shoot, wasd to move (Loading times can be long, just gotta wait a bit)

Working on a fun settings system where you create an array of settings in the inspector, they automatically show up in the UI and then you can access the value from any scene plus I'm working on saving so settings save between game sessions

randomness weekend - if a controller is connected then the main menu moves randomly based on a noise texture rather than being tied to the mouse position.

(video shows mouse at start and then controller is connected to display randomness)

Started work on the main menu, got the basic layout + a cool wobbly effect :p

game over screen has dynamic text now & bugfixes

made a cool animated game over screen

Added a new enemy that shoots lasers out to the left and right, deals considerable damage if you touch the lasers. Hit the weak point (heart) to defeat it.

New design for other enemies too.

Added a new enemy that reflects your shots back at you

Added a new enemy and a modifier to add it. The new enemy is a doppleganger which repeats all of your movements with a delay & damages you if you stay still for too long.

Also added a damage indicator with chromatic aberration so you can tell a little better when you take damage.

I've finished the basic system for modifiers & enemy spawning so now I can start adding more enemies, & modifiers to make the game loop more fun.

Also some bug fixes here and there, most notably the scoring & score multiplier behaves how it should now

I've focused on art a lot for this demo but I've also made changes to enemy spawning

been working on the intermission screen and end game screen.

Controls:

WASD for movement

Spacebar to shoot

Finished the advanced spawning system & started work on the intermission screen

Controls:

WASD for movement

Spacebar to shoot

Enemies now only give score if killed by the player, not if they die by damaging the player

added a scrolling background shader and lots of iteration on it

started work on a proper enemy spawning system

Controls:

WASD for movement

Spacebar to shoot

First build!

player movement, enemy system, shooting & more!

I've started development finally! I've done movement, health, a single enemy and some UI

In the image you see a health bar in the bottom left, the player in white in the center and the enemy to the right below the player