Game Off 2021 - YourWaifuIsALie

Blog and documentation for Game Off 2021 attempt.

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Game Off 2021 - Day 4

November 05, 2021

Battle mechanics

Bugs could be part of normal battle mechanics, or could be one-off gimmicks. It’s more interesting if they can be worked into normal gameplay, so that over a full game you’d have multiple battle decisions. For this game jam it’s probably fine if they’re gimmicks; after being used in one battle, the antagonist makes the enemies immune (patched oops).

• Alternatively, enemies start using the same bugs?

Bugs:

• Integer overflow: over-heal = death
• Endianness: ability to cause a bytes-swap in health values (your own first, enemies later?)
  • Probably needs some kind of “prediction” graphic so it doesn’t feel random to non-programmers
• Pointers: ability to redirect targets (selecting target affects unintended character)
• Unsanitized input: get a targetable menu option that can “drop enemy table”
  • Being able to target variable things (like menu options, UI elements, backgrounds) has a bunch of possibilities

If I need more I can implement more later. I doubt we’ll even get to implementing these four.

Composable function and essentially programming-lite for battle mechanics seems interesting, but needs a lot more careful design.

Progress

• Cloudflare analytics for GitHub Pages
• Made an empty Unity project. It’s almost time to get off my butt and do things…
• Figure out a few “bugs” to implement for battles

TODO

• Figure out how to make Unity play nice with Git
• Keep playing with Jekyll, fixing things like links
• Continue nailing down specific battle mechanics and overworld power-ups
  • Bug-themed things
• Main character designs and 2d “sprite” (probably cutout animation) for both overworld and battle
  • Can visualize the rest of the world around the main character for consistency
• Start programming
  • Menus
  • Options
  • Overworld
  • Battle

Time Spent

7 + 1hr