Status Report #40

     Wow. I can't believe I wrote 40 of these things so far. Well I've certainly tried to be productive this week. There is a working level up system now, spells that get stronger, status effects that affect characters, and enemies that stay dead when you kill them. Find out all that was made and see them in action below!

Clearing Rooms in Equica

     Yesterday I finally finished off spell upgrades and status effects. Now each spell has 4 tiers and enemies (as well as the player) can succumb to burn damage, paralysis immobility, wet electricity weakness, and so on. The next thing I jumped onto was managing how enemies respawn in the overworld.

     To keep it as simple as possible I made an ArrayList, a dynamic list with each scene's enemy names. Enemies are placed onto the room prefab and positioned by hand and labeled "E_(name here)#", then when the player wins a battle against it that enemy's name is added to the "Kill Off These Guys" list that is ran when the overworld starts up. They will only respawn when the map loads if you came from another overworld scene and not a battle or menu. This way is pretty efficient and allows me to dynamically add baddies to scenes when I need to.

Scrapped: Enemy Tracking Decoy Spell

     Confound these blasted Decoy ponies. I tried and tried but my list of workarounds are only making a mess of the game. I wanted level 2 & 3 Decoy spells to be able to turn towards enemies one way or another but long story short it's better to just drop it before I waste another day trying. I simply readjusted the upgrade perks so that level 1 just attracts enemies, level 2 shoots, level 3 has more shots and is stronger, and level 3 has even more shots and power.

     I hate seeing this feature go, but there's a lot to do if I want this game to come out this year. I have to decide when to cut corners in the least painful ways possible. This is another one of those times. I'll definitely be keeping this idea in mind if I ever do a sequel.

Gushing About: Glover

     If you remember this game, give yourself 10 cool points. I assume you grew up in a time where Pokemon was the greatest thing ever and Spongebob was actually funny. Glover is a pretty obscure game by good ol' Hasbro and is responsible for numerous nightmares and impacting my imagination. to find out how and why, read on below.