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[Keith]

The prototype I'm working on is 2D so this information is useful. Are both your sprites and camera angled at 45 or are the sprites angled differently? I'll keep messing around with it to try to get the feeling right, I may have to hit you up in the future to try to get a sample scene off you. Haha.

As for your game, once they beat all the bosses and levels, what will be left to do?

[mochakingup]

The prototype I'm working on is 2D so this information is useful. Are both your sprites and camera angled at 45 or are the sprites angled differently? I'll keep messing around with it to try to get the feeling right, I may have to hit you up in the future to try to get a sample scene off you. Haha.

yeah, they all angled at 45, so it's pretty much the same look as in 2D mode
this is how they set up at the moment



could it be, by any chance that what you meant by 3D feel is the parallaxed background and foreground?

As for your game, once they beat all the bosses and levels, what will be left to do?

That's a good question! for now there's not much to do, the game is pretty linear
but I guess people can max their characters' level, unlock weapons and new playable characters, if they want to
we have plan for hidden bosses that trigger at some specific action and such, but it's not in the work yet

any suggestion would be welcome, of course

[mochakingup]

A little update on our progress,

Ebin is working on the menu right now,
while I've been doing some trivial stuff, like making this food drop items



getting a bit carried away, I think I made more than what we actually need in the game 
the food drop is actually money, the currency in our game is food
while you can only heal using potion items

another thing, I have started to make some icons for skill,



taking a lot of inspiration from whole lot of other games out there, since logo and icon is not really my forte
It took me more time than what I'd like to admit on these icons, but I think I'm starting to get the hang of it.

[io3 creations]

yeah, they all angled at 45, so it's pretty much the same look as in 2D mode
this is how they set up at the moment

That's a great visual to describe what you mean!

@Keith Yeah, it's not really possible to achieve the same view if you use a 3d scene without some "tricks".  Based on mochakingup's approach, if you also rotate your models, background and other environmental objects by 45 degrees and then use orthographic projection then you should be able to have the same type of view with 3d models.

[io3 creations]

another thing, I have started to make some icons for skill,

I really like the the first four but the last two feels off.  My first guess would be that the colors contrast well for the first four but the light blue and white colors are too close.

[mochakingup]

Oof, it's been a while (a while is an understatement)
We've been attending some local events, showing off the combat demo, some bugs here and there, but the overall responses is pretty great.

But what took most of our time in this past couple of months is some reworking/refactoring on some parts of the project, from players' perspective it might not look like much progress were made, but it needs to be done. We've changed how the combos are handled and how the enemy behavior/state operated behind the scene, hopefully this will result in less random bug.
The other is we've made our own input system previously, but the further we get into the project, it became increasingly clear that our input system isn't gonna cut it. So we've decided to switch to 'Rewired' from the unity asset store.

Now to the more visible progress that we can show here.

Dialog editor



We've made a simple dialog editor so it's much easier to write dialog and assign names and portraits directly in Unity. The dialog is saved as text asset that can be triggered in game.

And here's how the dialog look in game:




Weapon Calculator

I've touched a bit about weapon in early post, but not all. To recap there are 5 type of weapons in paw paw paw: one handed/regular, two handed/heavy, small/light, bow, and shield. to expand on that, there are 4 tiers of weapons and 4 rarity level: common, rare, epic, and legendary.

Now here's the problem, how do I classify the rarity and tier? So I've decided to make a simple weapon calculator. The weapon tier is determined by the average damage and the rarity is based on the bonus stat the weapon has.



There are two usage cases for this.

First case is when I know exactly what the weapon bonuses will be, ex: An ice sword should have freeze chance, but I have no clue what should the rarity be. So I can set the desired bonus and calculate the rarity based on the bonus and damage.

Second use case is when I know that a weapon should be legendary or epic, but I don't have any specific bonuses in mind for this weapon. In this case I can simply randomize the bonus depending on the rarity that I wanted.

[mochakingup]

Tiny update. Today on thing that isn't supposed to happen:



I was making this new animal, a miniphant. and started animating, but then I put the wrong walking animation file (it was the animation for the hound several post back) and it ended up looking like a frog of somekind  

On another note, I've decided to have a little fun and challenge myself on the weapons. I'm gonna make an epic/legendary weapon set based on astrology/zodiac sign. starting with Aries:



Aries symbol is ram, which based on the argonauts myth. It's pretty straightforward, I know it's not the most creative interpretation, but I'm quite happy with the results   Most of these weapons will have bonus stats on Strength and Defese.

[Ebinkatsu]

Bow String

I know it's kinda late to post this. We’re using Line Renderer (https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-LineRenderer.html) to create a visualization of a string attached to a character's bow. Line Renderer takes an array of two or more points to draw line between them. We can add points and adjust the position to our needs.


Here’s a preview of Line Renderer attached to a bow. _line (Line Renderer) adjusts its second Positions’ value according to _pivot’s position.


And here’s a complete preview of character holding a bow. I’ve created a script attached to character’s right hand (the one that holding a bow) so the bow string will be stretched to follow the other hand as long as certain property is being toggled.

[io3 creations]

Looking good!

The LineRenderer looks like a nice tool.  Thanks for mentioning it. I'm sure I'll be able to use it.

[mochakingup]

Looking good!

The LineRenderer looks like a nice tool.  Thanks for mentioning it. I'm sure I'll be able to use it.

Thanks io3! 


Since we're talking about bow, I made a short video highlighting some of the archer's moveset. I thought I'd share it here as well.





was trying out video recording and figuring out what format works best.

[mochakingup]

NPC

Hi again, everyone!
I've been working on creating the first NPCs.
These guys will be stationed at camp and outposts, to help you on your journey.



The first is the potion master, he will open up a shop interface and sell you some potion. And right next to him is the trainer, you'll need to interact with him to level up your character and upgrade your skills.

Another Weapon Set

this is a continuation from my previous post about zodiac weapon set. here are some preview of the set



Aquarius set. will mostly have freeze chance bonus



Taurus set. it'll probably have strength buff, haven't decided on all the bonuses yet.

On top of that, we've also started working on the intro/prologue.
That's all for now, as always cnc are welcome!

[irn]

Nice work! The bear creatures remind me of those cute fluffy ones from Star Wars :D

[mochakingup]

Nice work! The bear creatures remind me of those cute fluffy ones from Star Wars :D

thanks! it does look like an ewok, hahaha :D

[mochakingup]

Intro

Hi everyone,
So I've been working for a week just for 2.5 minutes worth of animation for the backstory intro.
and this is just a temporary/placeholder until we got the actual art done and I'll have to do it all again.



was going for pop-up book feels for this placeholder intro, and here are some behind the scenes capture:




Crater

aand moving on to less important stuff, been polishing some of the battle effects here and there.
One of them being the crater that you left on the ground for some specific skills.

here is the original crater:



it doesn't really fit the style of the environment since the environment all are painted, while the crater still following the character style. So here's the new one:



overall I think it blends better with the environment style.
And also made the larger version to be used for more powerful skills, or something

[io3 creations]

The intro's pop-up book style is looking good!

One note about the craters: In the third crater picture it looks as if the character still walking as if the crater and surrounding blocks wheren't there. By that I mean, the character should be lower in the hole and higher when walking on the surrounding blocks.  To me, that kind of thing is quite illusion breaking.  If you don't want to change the terrain height then it might be better to go with one of the other crater types.  But that's just my opinion.

[mochakingup]

The intro's pop-up book style is looking good!

One note about the craters: In the third crater picture it looks as if the character still walking as if the crater and surrounding blocks wheren't there. By that I mean, the character should be lower in the hole and higher when walking on the surrounding blocks.  To me, that kind of thing is quite illusion breaking.  If you don't want to change the terrain height then it might be better to go with one of the other crater types.  But that's just my opinion.

yeah, I hear you. unfortunately, with our current setup I can't drill a hole in the ground 
it got me thinking though, maybe instead of making a hole I could add colliders on the sides.



it kinda works, but after further testing, it bounds to cause more problems. The crater completely broke on uneven/elevated ground causing invisible walls and characters to stuck. Another issue is I can't make the collider fade out as the sprite does.

so I'll probably keep it as it is for now, but thanks for the feedback, we really appreciate it!

[io3 creations]

and this is just a temporary/placeholder until we got the actual art done and I'll have to do it all again.

But, but ... why? 

Couldn't you have set up the animation in a way to allow "simple" swap of the images?  That's what I would've done!

Oh, how did you create the animation?  With an asset or custom script?

[mochakingup]

But, but ... why? 

This is mostly caused by my own fault and stupidity, hahaha

Couldn't you have set up the animation in a way to allow "simple" swap of the images?  That's what I would've done!

that's what I did at first, the original intro doesn't really have much animation, mostly just panning the camera around, zoom in zoom out that kinda things. but with the placeholder arts, it looks like crap, and I kinda need it to look somewhat passable for demo purpose. So I thought 'hey, you know what looks good with this placeholder arts? popup book animation!'.
So basically this is a poor decision making on my part. 

Oh, how did you create the animation?  With an asset or custom script?

For this particular animation, we don't use custom asset or script. They're all actually just sprite that I rotate and scale around in 3D space, animated using the native animation system in Unity.

[mochakingup]

Our first trailer is finally here, I'm really excited! 

[MereMonkey]

Loving the trailer! The game's environments are awesome