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[darkhog]

I'll try to get out new testbuild next week to show off new controls and enemy AI. Maybe, if I can finish it by the next Wednesday, I'll include first level as well (though chronologically it would fall pretty late as I've figured it's relatively hard to play through, even through the stuff already made for it).

[darkhog]

Look what I've been working on:


The UI is pretty much non-functional yet and values for score, health and virus name are mockups, but it will be soon.

[darkhog]

Testbuild #3 is released! Check this post for download and changes!

[darkhog]

So I've figured out you deserve another screenshot of the level I am making for this game:


As you can see, it is bit more complete than before. Between working on AI and the hud/scoring (which still isn't complete, although Virus can now get hurt and even die), I've managed to also get some work done on the level.

Those waterfally things in the background are in fact part of the future "dome" that will start proper action of the level. The basic idea is for the player to wall jump or get via other means from those red walls to the platform, get through the shaft and then the real action begins. The dome will be linked to other rooms, this will be kinda "choose your own adventure" part of the level that will be less linear, but not too much so you wouldn't get lost.

As you can see, level now just somewhat hangs in the air. That won't be case forever, though. But prettying things up must wait until I have all main code done and all 5 levels for the demo.

[darkhog]

I've finished a Music Processor, which means that now I can set a music to be played thorough level with a simple trigger. Since I don't have much to show, because of an audio nature of this post, please observe this flatshaded music note instead.

[darkhog]

I had to rewrite music processor and implement resource loader before game starts due to performance issues. This was easy, but took a few days.

I've also started to hook up scenes to Playable Main Menu, so I can get from it to level editor (necessary for further testing) and after that I'll implement level list in the menu that lets you get into actual game.

[darkhog]

Phew, my work regarding music trigger is done, now it works as expected. Also I've linked level editor to my playable main menu. One thing I need to do is to add an option to return to main menu from level editor and return from the level to main menu (a rudimentary pause menu). Then I can start working on levels without having to launch Unity.

But that can wait, for now I'll work on the first level. Preferably I want to release a demo before end of March (as in proper playable demo, not testbuild).

[darkhog]

Implemented pause system and a way to get back into level editor after testing level. Now I can get to making level once again, but now in a productive fashion! Yay! Soon I want to post new screenies, I wonder if I manage to.

[darkhog]

The dome starts to look nice. From it, you'll be able to get to other rooms and then to the end of the level.


The main goal of this level will be to recover few datagrams hidden within.

[darkhog]

Still working on that dome thing. Making levels out of basic 3D primitives is HARD!

[darkhog]

Added joystick support for the Computer Virus Simulator. Control scheme isn't perfect yet, but I believe I can get it working.

[darkhog]

I am in the process of integrating dialogue system into Computer Virus Simulator. Would have to do that anyway sooner or later, so this is as good time as any.

[darkhog]

After few weeks of stalled development, I finally found solution to one thing I had to implement for dialogs, randomized pitch sounds for each character in dialog, giving a nice banjo-kazooie like effect without having to record several different samples. Dialog processor is also in the works. I'm happy I can finally resume development again.

Regarding level I'm building, the dome is almost finished and I've even started to beautify it a bit with non-level necessary objects, such as clouds.

[darkhog]

Working on a dialogue editor. While you wait for me to finish it, have a screenshot of a level I'm working on for the initial demo:


As you can see, progress has been made on it.

[darkhog]

Work is almost done on dialogue editor. After short depression episode I've manage to virtually finish GUI and code behind it. Few things need to be done still, but it's working and remaining stuff shouldn't be too hard.

Here's how it looks like:

[darkhog]

Just checking in to say that dialogue editor is almost finished. The only things that are left to do are saving and changing currently edited sequence. Have a great day!

[darkhog]

Just letting the info out. For the past one and half (well, over half) a week I was unable to work on the game due to my computer screen's failure. Fortunately got a used one cheaply for a good price from an old acquaintance of mine (funny thing: Didn't know I was buying from him until I went to get it as I've found it via Polish CraigsList analogue, OLX) few days ago and I've been working on the game since then.

Just letting it out as I've thought you deserve to know (I value transparency). No new screens or vids/gifs today as there's nothing to show for now, but the dialogue editor is virtually done, the only thing I need to figure out is saving/loading routines. Will have to think about it for few days.

Have a nice weekend!

[darkhog]

Good news. Save/load routines are halfway done - it saves dialogues into level file but does not load them (yet). As soon as I'm done with it and test dialogue processor, I can continue work on actual levels. Amazing, isn't it?

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Woohoo! Dialogues are being loaded and saved properly. Tomorrow I'll start testing dialogue processor, but first I need to create appropriate trigger and document it.

When it's tested and done, I'll get to work on health and datagram pickups (there will be two ways of restoring health: either go on "damage" trigger that has negative value of damage and will heal you or collect red health pickup which will restore 5% of your health*scale of it).

There may be also a video showing off dialogue editor and dialogue system, but I'm not promising anything.

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Dialogue editor is finished. There's a minor UI bug regarding it, but nothing major that has to be fixed ASAP.

Surprisingly enough, Dialogue Processor worked almost the first time I've tried it (though I had to fix a bug that caused a NRE, which was easy). There are minor bugs in it, which I am about to start fixing.

Follow me on Twitter for my ramblings and news regarding CVS. Using hashtag #ComputerVirusSimulator when you're talking about this game would be appreciated as well.