Game Off 2021 - YourWaifuIsALie

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Game Off 2021 - Day 19

November 20, 2021

Study

• Unity RTS - Box Selection Tutorial

Time and scope

A little more than one week left and I definitely don’t put in enough time to complete this.

Crunch time?

If we’re de-scoping further I think that means:

• Removing the overworld aspect, and instead have a canned series of fights with no choices beyond battle decisions
  • More like a puzzle, discovering “how” the game is buggy and steps needed to clear fights
  • Don’t need more system programming, can re-use the same battle background
  • Walk-in/walk-out transition + quick victory celebration
• Using all the free assets I can get my hands on
  • Scenery, models with animations, and sound/music
  • My art + blender animation is still week and will probably take way too much time, that’s a development for later
    • If I do have time, some simple “bug” main character would be great
  • Just implementing usage of graphics, animation, SFX, and sound will take a lot of time since I haven’t done it.
• Keep the “bug-level” idea and, if possible, the cute ending video
  • It really helps bring together the bug theme and can provide a satisfying conclusion to this ~10 minute experience

Progress

• Added basic mouse selection of game objects for targeting of player actions
  • Add ground to selectable layer, but ignore it upon selection (to avoid accidental passthrough selections)
• Logic to disable action button when action is currently selected

TODO

• Options menu
  • Resolution
  • Windowed
  • Volume
• Credits menu: all the asset creators
• Battle
  • Battle submenus (i.e. skill selection, item selection)
  • Other “bug” effects. Let’s go simpler
    • Negative numbers (i.e. “reduce damage = heal boost”)
    • Attack the turn order (prevents OHKO)
    • Some on-the-nose abilities if this isn’t enough
  • Graphics + animations
  • Battle transitions
  • Mouse over descriptions (skills, enemies)
    • This has to be where the narrative is told
  • Retry on defeat
• Assets
  • Find enemies + main character
  • Songs: main menu, battle music, victory, defeat, ending
  • Sound effects + visual effects
    • On-hit, skill effects (i.e. heal noise)
  • “Buggy” effects on all graphics/sound
    • Frame of disjointed squares
    • Sudden pitch/volume changes/play backwards

Time Spent

34.75 + 2.5hr