Author Archives: goldengratus

Had my girlfriend playtest the game, and caught a few more bugs and issues I wanted to fix. I made sure that the function for progressing the player’s power/abilities only works once. It was possible to spam the input so you could go further than you’re supposed to. It was very silly of me toContinueContinue reading “Jumping in”

Today isn’t the last day of the month but it is a Friday, and I take breaks on weekends. I took a lighter day and recorded a video showcasing some of the abilities in the game. These wouldn’t be available when the player fights the first boss but they will be there in new game+ContinueContinue reading “July Update”

Spent what time I had to create the entire mechanic for the broken powers. I first made sure that it checked what power the player had on when they died. I made a macro so they couldn’t switch to that power if they tried to. I also created a macro for the power switching, thatContinueContinue reading “Fractured light”

I got sidetracked before starting to record some of the voice lines. I couldn’t stop thinking about how it is unclear when the player won’t be able to use the shield. Since there are no numbers I decided to add an icon to the resource bar that will show up when the player has enoughContinueContinue reading “Shield and sound”

The impact of attacks doesn’t sit well with me sometimes, what I mean is that I have a feeling that sometimes there is not enough effects that communicate a successful hit. Without a proper knockback on the enemies I have been relying on visual and audio effects, as well as slowing down time for 2ContinueContinue reading “Combat, gravity, HUD”

Adjusted the placement of where the sword trails were because they didn’t look right. I tried out more animations from the asset I got. With it I replaced the parry animation, so it should be relatively easier to parry, and I added an event so it doesn’t take too long before the parry resets. ItContinueContinue reading “Controller types”

I was finally able to buy stuff off the Unreal marketplace. I got the progress bars with animations, and a ton of animations for the shield and sword. The progress bar is a nice asset because it does exactly what I already have, setting the progress through percentages, but it has an animation when itContinueContinue reading “New things”

The second level of the game is probably the least dense one. I made added some improvements to make sure it is a bit more interesting and there is more things to find or discover. I also fixed the attack of the pillars to make sure that it doesn’t affect the player if they areContinueContinue reading “Shifting menus”