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[Pemanent]

Over a month since my last gif. Lots of progress just haven't felt like posting. Here is some UI and inventory work tho.

[Beastboy]

Interface is very user friendly and clean, I like it

[mobilelast]

Those materials and rough textures look fantastic. How are they done? In Blender, Substance or some other way?

[Pemanent]

Interface is very user friendly and clean, I like it

Thanks! So far this is mostly just for functional purposes. But longterm I'm going for a flat minimal style because I personally like it, and also it makes ui production easier.

Those materials and rough textures look fantastic. How are they done? In Blender, Substance or some other way?

Basically yeah. Blender for model -> Substance for PBR textures -> custom PBR shader in engine with Image Based Lighting. And for that I didn't do anything besides follow this tutorial https://learnopengl.com/PBR/Theory


just more ui stuff. Now monster vault to view your entire collection and move monsters from vault to team

[Pemanent]

Working on a detailed stats panel. Maybe this is overwhelming for some players. I think the type of players that I'm targeting love this type of depth.

[Pemanent]

Working on another guy. I like to breakup the engine work with some art-content work.
His ability will be to do a small amount of damage and also stun them for a bit.

[Pemanent]

Now in engine. Name is B33 because it looks like a bee

[mobilelast]

You could also name it "Freddy Krueger".

[Beastboy]

Interesting design as alaways

[Pemanent]

Thanks yall!
he is very spikey!

[Pemanent]

Another one. This will be a support type role.
Does not deal damage. Instead gives entire ally team some combat readiness and heals them slightly.

I'm planning on bots following a thematic / mechanical / design grouping. These are all Robust type, so they will be overall slower and do less damage but have high health.

[Beastboy]

This one looks robust, peronality wise it got a bit of enginner/mcv constructor work bot. Robust and practial

[Pemanent]

and much better, resolution independent type / font rendering.
Using multichannel signed distance fields from here https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdf-atlas-gen

[Pemanent]

Only design changes these past few weeks. So no gifs.

Removal of the overworld / map entirely
When I was working on the movement system I wrote that it wasn't a core part of the game.... soooo I started wondering why it was even in the game at all. If its not core to the experience, then remove it. So I did. Battles now happen in rounds, one right after another. No need to wander around a map. Also I'm just one person, so I can't afford to put time into non essential elements.

Replace blueprints with shards.
Now to build a new robot you need to collect 5 shards.
Before you needed blueprints, and blueprints would require an assortment of parts. Like 100 metal and 20 transistors and 2 cpus. But that is difficult to track and hard to grasp your goals and progress.
Now its much simpler. "ok I need two more shards to get this new robot"

Its actually a playable experience now, so I'm focusing on the core and working on nailing the fundamental uniqueness that I'm hoping to capture.

[Pemanent]

Lots of ui changes
- Better equipping ability UI
- Better ability inspection UI
- Better battle ability UI

[Pemanent]

This one is Arty Lary.
Anytime an ally with Taunt attacks, he also attacks with 200% damage.

[Alain]

I'm growing more and more fond of your robots, keep them coming

[Pemanent]

Thanks! I'm not super happy with this last one. but its sufficient I think. I'm only just one programmer, so my goal is to get something that is "pretty good" and move on to the next task.

[Alain]

Thanks! I'm not super happy with this last one. but its sufficient I think. I'm only just one programmer, so my goal is to get something that is "pretty good" and move on to the next task.

It totally makes sense to pick your fights well and get most out of the manpower you have. In my opinion you are doing a nice job with your low poly models and fleshing them out with more realistic textures.

[Pemanent]

and another!
This one does additional damage for each subsequent attack on the same target