Rabbits vs Marblez- WIP progression

jbskaggs

By posting on here it helps me to keep focused on maintaining a daily work flow and also a diary log and maybe generate some interest.

Ive progressed out of the concept stage and now actually coding.

All buttons work Scene changes work Music loads and plays World map with selector, highlighted buttons, and preview windows work Tons more gui finished. Coding designed for many functions and implemented fist fighting an artist over what "cute soldier rabbit" looks like.

Lots of stuff done today, ahead of schedule on several fronts.

I have like almost 100 sprite images to create for rabbit towers. My artist may rebel and leave because they dont like rabbits. She prefers people and etc.

Very happy with progress this week.

Xmas break though followed by chemo may toss a landmine into my plans, I hope not.

jbskaggs

Well after a 8 hour roundtrip I came back and wrote my enemy marble wave generator.

This took more finagaling than I thought it would. Worked about 3 hours on trying to understand why I was only getting one enemy- then realized my timer was set wrong and it dumped all 25 enemies at once- so it only looked like one enemy.

Basically the marble generator uses an array to hold the level marble wave qty type and pattern.

I amz happyz I gotz it done.

Merry Christmas all.

jbskaggs

Added the shooter tower purchase button, the shooter tower placement cursor, the actual shooter tower and added code rotate tower to follow closest marble.

Next adding shooting mechanics.

snoopdouglas

My artist may rebel and leave because they dont like rabbits.

This made me laugh. Hope she stays! :p

Are these rabbits Martian by any chance?

jbskaggs

Hmm they could be- thats a good idea. :)

jbskaggs

12/272020 progress

fixed tower rotation,

Fixed marbles popping themselves.

Fixed path follows not being freed.

Fixed scene freeing at scene change

Fixed gun firing not stopping when marbles were all dead.

Added selected button to map select.

Added unselect to map select

added restart button to desertmap

added comments to code annotating most areas

updated game doc

fixed preview

I also learned moving resources around into new folders can really break a game. I was trying to reorganize my resources into more folders- and even after I reattached all of them and updated all my urls and paths they game would not work. So I reloaded my backup and will just live with it.

I also learned that the terms are not always intuitive and thinking they are can cause headaches and unclear understanding.

jbskaggs

today :

I am finding groups, singletons, and copy node path to be very helpful.

Created a singleton to hold global variables

I added options menu with sound on off music on off

on map play: I added placement collisions so towers cannot be placed on roads or enemies or objects or gui objects. added lives gui and countdown when marbles escape added starting gold and gold earned each marble destroyed

Infrastructure is nearly done. Then it will be just the grind of adding new towers, enemies and levels.

jbskaggs

today I: added pause on between waves. added 3 new marbles added 3 new levels with wave generator finally working fixed some weird glitches on collisions and urls.

jbskaggs

Added some screenshots.

Today:

Added more gui: New Level info popup. Shows level and upcoming marbles Unlocked tower popup. Added some solid backgrounds to button textures added new buttons on map for options, plat, replay, and quit

Added and changed fonts

general stuff: fixed the gold update glitch added build cancel via escape key and right mouse fixed the lose lives glitch when marbles reached end of path moved and streamlined some code commented more code fixed pause glitch fixed gold update glitch that blocked tower button from activating

found new bug: On game restart tower cost variable equals global gold.

ready to start sfx, and ffx. Already have music done.

jbskaggs

1/10/2021 I drew all the gui to a scifi theme. I animated all buttons and added a beep sfx I deleted options node I created new sound on/off gui and implemented codes I created new music on/off gui and implemented codes I added a video player on level select I changed game resolution to 1920x1084 Created a new splash screen.

jbskaggs

Added new gui for the actual level map. Changed option menu to pause menu Added sound and music on/off buttons to level map. The background needs to be changed to better match theme.

jbskaggs

I remade the background maps to match the sci fi gui. Added shadows to the marbles. tweaked the path mechanisms. Tweaked the bullet generation. Also I reverted back to a top view of my towers. The 8 direction sprites look wonky when in gameplay.