Category Archives: Learning

Now that I’ve started replaced all the pieces with real models it’s about time I encounter another big issue. It wouldn’t be a learning experience without real problems to teach me I’m doing something wrong. I still don’t know a ton about how lighting and rendering works in Unreal, but certain objects will have differentContinueContinue reading “Lighting issues”

For my first level I had finished the first pass a few months ago. The first pass being the initial stage of designing the level, or what some level designers would call the blocking pass. It’s in this period I put rough shapes and geometry so I can get a layout of how the levelContinueContinue reading “Remodeling”

The class on post-processing was pretty maddening. It’s very involved and while straight forward, takes a ton of steps and setup. I spent a lot of time trying to absorb the course but a lot of it went through or over my head. I learned some valuable things such as how to manipulate certain materialsContinueContinue reading “Post post process”

User interface is very important in every game. It directs the player’s eyes and can help add to the overall experience of the game. I used the lesson from Unreal’s online course to help me, pausing in between lessons to use what I learned to update what I needed to in my game. I startedContinueContinue reading “Addressing the interface”

With the save data finally working (I tested it several times to make sure) I moved on to the other objects in the level that needed to have their logic updated. Those objects being the torches and the special physics objects I use. The torches were quick and easy, mostly the same as the doorContinueContinue reading “Construction and destruction”

I spent several hours of the day stuck at one problem. That’s when I really felt I was coding, using a visual scripting language, but still programming nonetheless. Anyway it was my issue with the save file not being loaded in correctly when I restarted the game while playing the game, it worked fine ifContinueContinue reading “Help from beyond”

Dove straight back into improving the saving and loading system. My idea for the respawning of the player is that they dive straight back into the world that they had already interacted with. So doors that they opened should be opened, objects which were destroyed stay destroyed. And because of this I was faced withContinueContinue reading “Always a second chance”

Opened the project up and quickly went over what I could do for the camera actions, ending up using a camera shake when certain attacks hit. It’s just a place holder, I want to have more interesting camera movement later on. Camera shakes seem more appropriate when taking hits or being around large impacts. ItContinueContinue reading “A start to saving”

I watched a nice short video by GMTK (Game Maker’s Toolkit) about how some games, mostly indie games, had designed themselves. From a game designer’s point of view it basically means letting the whatever is the most fun in the game take priority even over ideas you were committed to. I’m still struggling with whatContinueContinue reading “Fiddling with doors”

There’s definitely something fun about hitting the boss with the chair. It’s not too hard to do it and I think I like it that way, even with a controller it is possible. I gave the boss two new attacks and I tried out a blue color for his armor so he doesn’t blend tooContinueContinue reading “Effects, attacks, etc.”