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MyRobot Development Part 49

Added 2025-02-26 01:53:26 +0000 UTC

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

Incinerator
Teleporter
Robot Part Mechanics Rework

Incinerator

So this was a minor issue but an annoyance nonetheless, especially if you mis-ordered robot parts; you had no way of getting rid of them. The incinerator goes above and beyond to absolutely destroy whatever garbage you throw at it.

It's a pit so you can, make your robot walk the plank. ☠

Teleporter

This one was also annoying but also part of a bigger rework of the game loop. To give context: whenever you the player or the robot get stuck, it was hard to unstuck yourself and there was hardly much of a "reset/game over" function. You could have loaded another save but that wasn't very elegant. The teleporter addresses this by allowing you and your robot to give up and teleport back to home base. This is a one way teleportation device so you won't be able to use it to fast travel to other places. Think of it as an emergency escape pod.

The fast travel system will remain using the bug holes. More on this later.

Robot Part Mechanic Rework

There were issues with the money system, namely the possibility of soft-locking yourself if you didn't have anymore money to build a robot. The blueprint system now allows you to build as many of something as you want provided you have the blueprint for it! Many will be scattered across hard to reach places, fueling the need to go on adventures.

This indeed does mean that the delivery drone is going bye bye (Amazoo/Amadong was a silly gag anyways).

There are 12 days left for the Kickstarter and as you can see, I am just taking existing core mechanics and simplifying/fixing before the official development schedule begins! MyRobot has a lot of great ideas but of course the demo alone could not deliver those ideas in their imperfect form. So again, I'm taking what I have and simplifying to make it easier, better, and less bug-prone. Also helps with development speed and makes things more fun!

Many of the new models have been made by our new resident modeler AFileska. There are plenty of fun models in the works right now.

Development continues at a rapid pace!

Stay tuned!