MyRobot Development Part 50

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

• New Robot Builder

• Ledge Climbing

New Robot Builder

This system was built in mind with scalability and mod support. It is replacing the online robot store for various reasons. For one, it was clumsy purchasing robot parts like a real online store, it didn't translate fluidly in a game. So now it's click and build!

Another reason for replacing the store is the speed of use when searching through a ton of robot parts. Since there are now accessible category buttons on the same page as the list, going through each group of parts is now much much faster.

As discussed in the previous development post, money is no longer a thing in the game, blueprints is now how the game progresses. Find blueprints to build new robot parts.

The main reason this builder takes 3 seconds to construct each robot part is because I wanted to fix the issue with people ordering 99 quantity of a certain part. This time delay ensures that people think twice before spamming a button. I am adding a way to cancel queued items soon.

I also plan to add additional search filters for things such as clothing. There will be a filter for mechanical and aesthetic robot parts.

Ledge Climbing

Ledge climbing is now a unique feature of normal robot hands. This was done to balance their usefulness. Before, hands were used just to punch through barricades and they would afterward die out after a single use. This will no longer be the case. Hands will no longer burn up as well. Hands are now infinitely useful! But of course, to use ledge climbing will require you to have at least 1 hand equipped.

This means that the core adventure game loop will require thinking hard about which limbs to take when going out. You can mix a grapple hook + a hand to maximize vertical movement or you can sport grapple hook + laser to maximize horizontal reach (burn your way through etc.).

This system of "do you want to go around or over?" will feed in nicely in the late game with upgrades because it will allow you to upgrade, for example, your grapple hook to also reel in causing the hand climbing to be obsolete and allowing you to take the laser hand instead.

5 days left before the Kickstarter development schedule begins.

Stay tuned!