TheWedge

Devlog

• video review of the last dev build
  June 28, 2018 by acp

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• added shot cooldown
  June 08, 2018 by acp

  Shots now have a cooldown rather than just requiring sweeping over the enemies. This opens up the possibility of different enemy types or features like shields and health bars. To make up for the in... Continue reading
• added sound and music
  June 06, 2018 by acp

  I think sound and music are my least favorite parts of dev, nobody really notices unless you do a bad job, then everyone notices And you are obligated to include music and sound even if you know most... Continue reading
• added enemy movement
  June 04, 2018 by acp

  The enemies now movie with the player and wander between lanes Added 50% alpha to powerup announce words so they don't block the view as much... Continue reading
• added animation to movement
  June 03, 2018 by acp

  The movement now has animation and a particle effect. Not exactly how I imagined it but it does the job. Had one minor issue with the anim that I needed to fix. I turns out if a trigger is set in a... Continue reading
• graphics work
  May 31, 2018 by acp

  Spent a while working on graphics, lighting, and some vfx, it is slow going because I don't know what I'm doing at all but I'm learning. The flames are from a particle effect asset in the unity store... Continue reading

  
• hitting obstacles or enemies now slows to 50%
  May 27, 2018 by acp

  Instead of coming to a dead stop I changed the "speed penalty" from 100% to 50%. Also all obstacles are removed on hit in addition to enemies. This change appears to make the gameplay feel much sm... Continue reading
• running into enemies hurts player
  May 26, 2018 by acp

  enemies now hurt the player but to make up for that I greatly increased the enemy spawn distance the game dynamic feels a lot more engaging dev trello... Continue reading
• changed controls
  May 26, 2018 by acp

  after getting a lot of feedback about the controls I finally changed them to be more conventional A moves left, D moves right, no center lane key technically this should make the game harder but it lo... Continue reading
• added difficulty settings
  May 24, 2018 by acp

  several playtesters gave feedback that the game was too hard so i implemented difficulty settings that took longer than anticipated and I appear to be paying the technical debt I incurred by using the... Continue reading
• changed forward movement to be physics based
  May 22, 2018 by acp

  Previously the movement was translation based which caused problems with the powerup raycast collisions at higher speeds. It didn't take too long to change things to physics based and pass control of... Continue reading

  
• pretty new screenshot
  May 22, 2018 by acp

  new screenshot showing off fonts in the UI... Continue reading

  
• added font
  May 21, 2018 by acp

  the default fonts looked bad in the build but not he editor so I changed the font the ui is much nicer now... Continue reading

  
• removed gameover screen, added some ui style
  May 21, 2018 by acp

  a couple of players said they wanted to quickly replay after a game was over and the fade between the gameover, title, and game screen was taking too long for them I removed the gameover screen and me... Continue reading
• added powerups
  May 17, 2018 by acp

  Added a few powerups to spice things up, the dev came together much easier than I thought it would. The game appears to be a bit too easy now so I might have to change some settings for balance but ov... Continue reading
• added obstacle animations
  May 16, 2018 by acp

  when the obstacle comes close to the player a wall pops up hopefully indicating that the player shouldn't move to that lane as you get faster the wall pop up stops helping but it is still another moti... Continue reading
• changed movement to teleport based
  May 15, 2018 by acp

  Now the movement teleports you to a lane instead of being continuous. This should prevent there from being any "unfair" obstacle constellations. I'm not sure I like the movement better but I'll give... Continue reading
• changed border
  May 14, 2018 by acp

  removed the static cylinder mesh borders and added pretty particle flames, hopefully that doesnt nuke performance based on reddit feedback decreased fade times from 2 seconds to a lot less which is le... Continue reading

  
• changed html template
  May 14, 2018 by acp

  added instructions in html template... Continue reading
• UI update
  May 11, 2018 by acp

  moved timer to a "health bar" changed the speedometer to only display a single value once the player accelerates to the target speed... Continue reading
• did some re-balancing
  May 10, 2018 by acp

  making you stop dead when you hit an obstacle made the game too easy, so the games went too long, so I did a bit of re-balancing 1. made all enemies disappear when you hit an obstacle, this doesn't ch... Continue reading
• added acceleration and player stops on hitting obstacle
  May 09, 2018 by acp

  The increased starting speed was a bit abrupt so I added acceleration, I think it takes about 5 seconds to get up to full initial speed The player also stops dead on hitting an obstacles and accelerat... Continue reading
• increased difficulty, added hud icons
  May 08, 2018 by acp

  the hud was bare so I added icons saying what everything is also I increased the difficulty by increasing the base speed from 20 to 40, will probably have do a ramp up from the beginning because you h... Continue reading
• added enemy warp in animation
  May 07, 2018 by acp#progress, #feature

  enemies/targets don't just pop in anymore, added a simple animation that scales them up from 0 probably should add some bounce-in to make them look more "alive" but this is an improvement over what I... Continue reading
• First release
  May 07, 2018 by acp

  The game is complete in that I don't see major game loop features that are missing or look awful. Thats good enough for me to release ... Continue reading