A Bunch of Changes

Hi Jeff here again. It's been a while since I've posted and here today I want to show off some of the progress with character controls that I've been making. What's shown here is a sample of our environment that's still cluttered up with some test things, but mainly I wanted to highlight the artistic style of our game. The world is full of bright colors with the contrast of our dark sludgy enemies seen in the near and distant environment. I won't talk too much about what the level is just yet since we're probably going to be making another blog post about that in the near future. Shown below is a video of what we've got going on.

I've been handling the character controls from the mapping all the way to feel of gameplay excluding the implementation of the hand which Lucas showed off in another post. The game can be played with either mouse & keyboard or using a controller, which gives the most comfortable feel and I think reminds me the most of the console games that we got our inspiration from when making this game. Another advantage to using the controller is that it provides the most smooth looking movement of the character when changing the direction in which she moves.

What I found most challenging was exactly that though; the character movement direction really got me. It wasn't in the fact that the code is particularly complex, but rather I couldn't pinpoint my thoughts on the right way to implement the code. Now that it's working though, life's good!

Second issue I ran into was trying to tie in the animations to the gameplay and make it look as fluid as possible. There was a lot to get used to with using the Unity animator interface and even now I still have some bugs with the animation that I'm still working on eliminating. All the basic movement animations and jumping are all up to where they should be now though, so that at least cuts down on the list of things I still need to work on.

Some of the stuff left to do include:

-More sounds!

-Music

- Bug Fixes

Look out for the rest of our posts, we'll be showing off the end of the game in a few days!

Thanks for reading,

Jeff