I spent the Christmas break and the New year working and planning my projects:
Phone APP, AR tcg tools and HnS_TB-RPG game.
Here is link of the GDD:
Phone APP: https://ravensbourne-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/personal/97501623_rave_ac_uk/Documents/Power%20Ranger%20Morphers%20app_GDD.docx?d=w5a0412b38c0d4ec2bef8dd74a4d6d4dd&csf=1&web=1&e=qanRM6
AR TCG: https://ravensbourne-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/personal/97501623_rave_ac_uk/Documents/AR%20TCG%20Tools_ITDD.docx?d=w9e3e875051d6487980552f1ff994debf&csf=1&web=1&e=NMAxXW
HnS_TB-RPG: https://ravensbourne-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/personal/97501623_rave_ac_uk/_layouts/15/Doc.aspx?sourcedoc=%7BC042B985-4C12-4E85-994C-6A578E747510%7D&file=BHT_GDD.docx&action=default&mobileredirect=true
WEEK 8(LOG_1)
1/20 - 1/21/2025
On the first day back , first thing I did is set up the build placing it on my hard drive and linking it to Github. I then imported the TB-engine ,and trust me there is alot of things that is covered on there. I went through most of the code and set up as well trying demo to have better understanding on how it works. There pdf/word doc how to add new items, characters etc.
The build comes menus, money, items, inventory etc party system, encounters like pokemon.
From the first to the second day I did/included:
-Inside the overworld Heirarchy, I made two Gameobject that is linked to the Main player , medieval and Future, this are the same player that you willbe switching between when you go through a portal I will switch characters. I have put code that allowed switch between both version. For the level I did something similar switching from Med to future. And I somewhat combined so it switch the character and the level. Later I will attach it to Gameobject that will be a portal, making it trigger enable so it will switch without press of a button.
- I used the HnS and shooting mechanic I learned previously and implemented from different build before. There was some issue with attack point where there point move on the direction I point at the reason in opinion is because my game bird eye view so I change the radius so attack function will activate within the radius. The shooting mechanic somewhat difficult like attack point it need directional point so I will but it on hold for the mean time.
For the mean time I will temp sprites, pixel cells.
WEEK 8
1/22 - 1/26
During these days, I've spent on Two thing, Getting the Time switcher working & Getting the Trigger portal for time switcher. Time switcher is a playable game function, where you go through a portal and it switch the time and environment/design.
So far from Weds to Sun I spent most of my days working on the Time switcher with key, And figuring out how to have both of my player {game Object} characters stay in the same place when switching from medieval(Ancient) to Future(Modern). Using follow played technique code. Different can be activated depending on which player you are using. There was a problem within those days. I had some issues, switching from ancient to future function. It was working I can switch, but I wanted to make sure that when you switch you are in the same/similar position.
The first solution I found hid the future char but it moved the future char to the same position as the ancient char. The second solution was to find a way to follow follow game Object, which had two versions, the second version was better but needed to be tweaked a bit. For some reason, it would work but the future character won't move. Solved the issues. This was a pain in the butt, took me 4 days to fix. I tried the teleport it wasn't working now I will try another attempt next.
Week 9(LOG_2)
(JAN)1/27/2025
Today I filled up some of the stuff on the Gamestudio journal doc leaving the rest for my teammates to fill. Also, I spent the rest of the day figuring out how to get the trigger to enter 2D to work,It allows to teleport when walking on it. Which I feel doesn't look any different from how I have been trying to do it, but it finally works, so that Is the only thing that matters.
My team partner arrived, And we used the whole day to discuss how the group would be run, and how the game studio worked, I got the GitHub project running for him. We signed project forms to be sent to the professor and discussed our positions. It was great and informative and it made it easier for us to be on the same page. Oh yeah, I added him to the discord group.
We discussed things about life positions, how the combat in the hack-n-slash part looks like, which will have low and heavy attacks, controls, social media, etc
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:448f591e-f8bd-54b5-8600-34bfa4a160cd
1/30/2025
We discussed what we would do for next couple of weeks and our roles and responsibilities. As well as mechanics we plan to implement and who would be responsible for what. We plan to scout people with certain skills in Pixels art to sound engineering and maybe even animation.
This is what I & Prince did
Benjamin(ME): I organised the hierarchy and I reused a mechanic where the environment hides, and another environment shows. And in this the room is visible while the environment hides as the player enters the room. Furthermore, when the player the player touches the door trigger, this activates the function where the room appears the outside disappears.
Prince: I worked on making the main menu. For now, it’s working at minimal functionality so the Play and quit game button are working as intended. While also familiarised me with the turn-based system that will play a big role in this game project.
Issues we ran into:
Everything went smoothly up until it was time to save our work and upload it onto GitHub.
Benjamin first Committed and pushed his work and then I committed but this is where we think we went wrong. After I committed, I fetched and pulled Benjamins work. Which then prompted me to merge his work and before I could finalise it, I had to deal with the conflicts which is pretty much normal. We made sure not to touch files we both plan to work on to avoid having a serious conflict problem.
But even after being cautious we got caught slippin and we ran into a problem unfortunately.
Now back to the conflicts I mentioned, yes, it is normal to have them and due to the rules we set the conflict we had was with Asset Log files and also Shader Compiler Log which are temporary files. So we successfully avoided getting scripts and etc conflicted.
I merged the files to main branch instead of origin/main and then I pushed. And seemingly at the same time GitHub website seemed to have closed temporarily referring to the problem as a Major outage. At first, I thought it was GitHub being the problem, but it turned out the true
(JAN)1/31/2025
I went through a quick run through of the back-bone of the turn-based system with my teammate Prince. To know where certain things are, as well as how it looked and how it functioned. I did this so we know what to tweak and what to leave alone since most of the stuff was already pre-built and working.
I continued what I promised to do yesterday, which was the inventor/key system. And as a result, I was able to make a key item and include it into the inventory database. And I made a Loot drop where the key dropped from the enemy after beating in the turned-based combat mode.
Furthermore, I completed half of what I wanted to do for the interactive key, when you obtain from the overworld. What I got completed was that when you walk towards the key, it would disappear. Meaning it should be in your inventory. So now, I need to figure how to obtain the key from the inventory and use it as a usable item.
WEEK 10(LOG_3)
The plans we discussed for this week was that Benjamin would be continue working on the Inventory System while I am working on the save system. While also asking.
Benjamin:
I’ve been trying to get the inventory system to work as intended. So, I’ve been trying to obtain an item from the overview world for it to be sent to the inventory. And it didn’t go so well. I’ve tried different ways to get it to work. I looked through the code. But I am still far from figuring out what went wrong and why. Did I write mostly correct but I’m missing something? Or I did it incorrectly which messed it up from the beginning and I’m just not seeing where I messed up.
While looking through the script, at the same time I am researching online on how to correctly reference the relevant scriptable objects to get the inventory up and running. But it’s no use. I couldn't make any sense of it. So, I have tried contacting the creator of the turn-based RPG plugin.
From the time this is written it has already been a week since I’ve contacted but and have waited for him to get back to me. Like he said he would. But he kept delaying due to him being busy. Due to the delays, I decided to ask my professor.
WEEK 11(LOG_4)
[FEB]2/11/2025
I'm, currently focused on the enemy AI and the health bar for the enemy. For the meantime, he decided to put the inventory on hold until he is ready to come back to it. I did this to avoid wasting time.
[FEB]2/12/2025
I spent today fixing the Health bar tweaking method thx to this Link: "Healthbar".
I had it stick to the character as an overlay. I used a slider scroll as as the health bar. For coding I we wrote the health bar script we edit the enemy script for it to work with healthbar script.
[FEB]2/13 - 15/2025
I decided the rest of the week which after Wednesday, the plan was while Prince work on portal design and the save system, I'll be working on level design using the tiles/sprites that came from TB to create my Medieval fantasy time part level 1 stage, I decided to create half of it for the prototype, I was also planning on working on tiles/sprites for the modern futuristic part level 1, but I ended up spending most of the days on Med-FAN. I finished the Med-FAN half part and I hoping to create my sprites for MOD-Fur next week while I work on more moves for TB.
Prince did ask friend from previous school to help but couldn't because of his own course project so I had take over sprites design which try my best same us Prince.
WEEK 5
[FEB]2/18/2025
Today, me and Prince discussed the moves for the turn-based combat moves and wanted to add more abilities such as magic, skills and basic attack moves. Furthermore, I added the moves as objects. Later on, I am going to fill up the right attributes to the moves and then work on the level progression. And if I will be adding some of the moves we thought up to the main roster.
FEB17, FEB19-22/2025
Benjamin: I spent those days I went back level design, by creating some tils assets like roads/sidewalk/walkpath & infrastructure objects for futuristic level design and started placing it into the unity project. I also worked on Level progression and getting a special abilities or item when I level up
WEEK 6
[FEB]2/24/2025
I spent the rest of day continuing the tiles and putting in my game
25/02/2025
Benjamin:
I've been working on the furturistic aspect of the level.
Benjamin:
I've been working on the furturistic aspect of the level.
Today and this week I am going to focus on getting the futuristic aspect of the map completed.
Furthermore, I ran into an error which messed up my progress. After prince pushed his work. I attempted to pull his work and merge it with my progress on GitHub desktop. But we ran into some trouble as I had trouble pulling his work due to log files. Again. So I deleted the log files in my project and prince did the same and I was finally able to pull and merge. But I did this only to find out my work has disappeared as if it was never saved as it didn’t even appear on GitHub as modified at least. So, I now must redo all the work I did today straight after this as it would be hard to get back into the flow after losing my work even though I saved.
rest of week 6
I ’ve been working on the colliders to block off areas in the scene. And worked on the environment such as the roads, traffic lights etc.
I ran into a issue with my second player collider which resulted in me working on the issue for the rest of the week.
This week I intend to continue working on the environment. More specifically the buildings for the Cyber as well as the Medieval maps.
[Future Me, Week 7] - It turned out to be the player, and I figured out how to fix the problems.turistic level design. Almost done . I did come across some errors like github, same old same old, log messing up having to delete for it get updated on github servers. The other issue is that my other collider wont work on future player, it took whole week trying to figure it. My suspicion was the player. [FUTURE me week7] - It was the player and I figured out how to fix my problems.
WEEK 8
I fixed the collider problem, by tweaking the player sticking with one player and using a true false to flip flop from hns mode to non hns mode
add vehicles with collision tweak little something
I’m using building assets that the team bought to fill up the spaces in the futuristic scenery.
Made Endgame menu screen and end game function. Added portal pixel. Done most of my half level 1 future part.
Added the enemies etc
During this week I fixed up my collider problem, by tweaking one player which was the medieval player character. In the player controller script I made a function which flip flops the character between the medieval and Futuristic character designs at the same time the level map switches environment.
WEEK 9
(March)3/11/2025
Today I did my presentation with Prince which showcased what our game is about and what we have done so far it was recorded. The professor said I did better in the last presentation I had more confidence.
I created a presentation video on what we have made LINK[https://shorturl.at/iUBGS]
(March)3/16/2025
The person who created the Turnbased system based, finally got back to me about my Inquiry about [picking an item in the Overworld], the guy was busy so it was hard for him to help and get back to me. But luckily he got back to me randomly when I sent him my reply, and. I will try it implement next week.