Adding a combat system to my indie game [DEVLOG] — Transcript

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1. 0:01[Music]
2. 0:02hi in the last video I showed you how I
3. 0:04implemented the game world for my indie
4. 0:06game this time I want to make the world
5. 0:08feel a little bit more Alive by adding
6. 0:09mobs and a combat system I also
7. 0:12implemented and fixed some things that
8. 0:13people mentioned in the comments but
9. 0:15before we get started you can now
10. 0:16wishlist isore which is the working
11. 0:18title at the moment on Steam so if you
12. 0:20really want to support this project
13. 0:21check out the link in the description
14. 0:23and wishlist isore and steam now that
15. 0:25would be a great help thanks in the
16. 0:27comments of the last video a lot of
17. 0:28people were triggered by the overlap
18. 0:30Shadows I was planning on fixing that
19. 0:32later on in the game but since it got
20. 0:33mentioned so much I decided to fix it
21. 0:35right away to fix this I use the
22. 0:38rendering layer of the object which is
23. 0:39calculated by adding the X grid position
24. 0:41to the y- grid position now I apply a
25. 0:44mask on every shadow that gets casted
26. 0:46and if two Shadows overlap I only render
27. 0:48either the higher or lower layer shadow
28. 0:50in the overlapping
29. 0:51area this works well except when two
30. 0:54Shadows of the same rendering layer
31. 0:55overlap but I do think that it looks
32. 0:57good for now and I'll leave it up for
33. 0:59later to find a solution for that too
34. 1:02another thing that a lot of people
35. 1:03commented on the last video was that
36. 1:05they didn't like the grid lines I
37. 1:07personally am not sure if I like to look
38. 1:08more with or without them so I'm just
39. 1:10going to let you decide in the comments
40. 1:12which look you prefer some other things
41. 1:14that I did was animating the player with
42. 1:16my very poor animation skills I also
43. 1:19added a bit more variety to the nature
44. 1:21by adding some sand old tree trunks and
45. 1:23some ruins but now that we talked enough
46. 1:25about other features let's get to the
47. 1:27topic of the video in my last video I
48. 1:29had already implemented M the first mob
49. 1:31but the problem was that I did that
50. 1:32without really thinking about how I
51. 1:33wanted to implement the rest of the
52. 1:35combat system and at the same time the
53. 1:37slimes were a little buggy sometimes
54. 1:39what I wanted though is kind of a
55. 1:41building kit so that I can implement the
56. 1:43rest of the mobs without having to code
57. 1:45every single time so I scraped the old
58. 1:46slimes and reimplemented them I wrote
59. 1:48this creature script for example that
60. 1:50moves a creature to a desired
61. 1:51destination or Target by The Chosen way
62. 1:53of movement for testing I added two mobs
63. 1:56blue slime and a floating skeleton skull
64. 1:58if the player dies at the moment he gets
65. 2:00reset to the pillar and the inventory he
66. 2:02was carrying around gets erased now I
67. 2:05basically had a simple but working
68. 2:06combat system but since nothing really
69. 2:08happened when you hit the mobs except
70. 2:09when killing them it didn't really feel
71. 2:11rewarding so the next step was adding
72. 2:14feedback the first change I made was
73. 2:16giving the mobs knock back this already
74. 2:18made a huge difference to before but it
75. 2:20still didn't feel as satisfying as I
76. 2:22wanted and also having to run behind the
77. 2:24mob every time you hit it became quite
78. 2:26annoying after some time to avoid that I
79. 2:28implemented a three- hit combo this
80. 2:30means that the mob only receives knock
81. 2:32back when hit three times in a row in a
82. 2:34certain amount of time and additionally
83. 2:36the third strike deals more damage to
84. 2:38still increase the feeling of feedback I
85. 2:39added a camera Shake every time the mob
86. 2:41receives knock back and I pause the game
87. 2:43time a little on each hit to even give
88. 2:45it more impact now hitting the mop felt
89. 2:48responsive and satisfying and it not
90. 2:50flying away on every strike added a nice
91. 2:51level of difficulty to the combat since
92. 2:54fighting is not the main component of my
93. 2:55game I could have just left there and
94. 2:56started adding new Mobs but I wanted the
95. 2:58player to have more than just just a
96. 3:00simple option of hitting the mobs
97. 3:01specifically I wanted to make the way
98. 3:03you move around during combat a bit more
99. 3:05diverse so I came up with a dash the
100. 3:08dash works so that you dash up to three
101. 3:09cells into the direction that you're
102. 3:11currently looking at by pressing the
103. 3:12space bar but it's really unsatisfying
104. 3:15when dashing into a mob and just getting
105. 3:17damage so I added that dashing into an
106. 3:19object triggers a hit and in combination
107. 3:22that the mobs don't fly away on the
108. 3:23first hit the dash felt really nice for
109. 3:26approaching mobs and or getting away
110. 3:27from them now that was happy with the
111. 3:29comments system the only thing left was
112. 3:31spawning the mobs for that I chose a
113. 3:33pretty simple approach the spawning
114. 3:34system just spawns mobs around the
115. 3:36player and as further away the player
116. 3:38gets from the center the mobs become
117. 3:40stronger and more the idea is to keep
118. 3:42the player in a closer area first and
119. 3:44exploring and exploiting local resources
120. 3:46before reaching further territory and
121. 3:48expanding the map at the end I'm happy
122. 3:50with how the combat system turned out
123. 3:52it's still pretty simple but for now
124. 3:54it's more than enough of course I will
125. 3:56be adding a lot more stuff or change
126. 3:58things over time feel free to tell tell
127. 3:59me in the comments how you think that it
128. 4:01turned out also maybe consider
129. 4:03subscribing and leaving a like since you
130. 4:05already made it so far either way I hope
131. 4:07you have a great day and see you in the
132. 4:08next one