sgthale

MyRobot Development Part 40

Added 2024-11-10 00:24:57 +0000 UTC

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

Ongoing Tremendous Project Success
Planning November
Pause Menu

Ongoing Tremendous Project Success

This project doubled twice in the past 20 days! And the trajectory is PARABOLIC! Where is this project going? It's going towards "First Massively Successful AI Game" on the internet. Thank you!

Planning November

With the new funds I have dispatched a music, art, and 3D sculpting team that are in charge of creating:

Proper outdoor music soundtrack (a la Ori and The Willow Wisp/Journey)
Art (Promotional graphics)
3D Sculpting (The next NPC characters/enemies)

This has saved me a ton of time since I can continue to focus on the programming framework of the game and implement more features!

November as I've stated before will be a polish pass for the actual game itself with some minor character improvements. The game needs a pause menu, a welcome screen, UI infrastructure changes, and bug fixes!

Also the controls will be receiving a small rework so they are more intuitive. I've seen a lot of people not understand how to use the eyelash tool or related (It's middle mouse but that isn't told anywhere, leading to feature loss in playthroughs).

Pause Menu

The Pause Menu will pop up and look like a half open phone with the game's logo on the back. I haven't actually made the buttons and menus inside it yet but it will look very cool!

The UI for the game at the moment is very unintuitive! November will be addressing this issue to ensure it is much much easier to use.

Additionally (If I get to it in time before Thanksgiving), I will be reworking the Robot Editor's UI as well to implement feature upgrades. So for example your grapple hook will be upgradeable to increase firing distance. Also it will include new features such as a pre-made list of voices that you can pick from to change the AI robot's voice as opposed to always uploading your own voice file.

Really fun stuff coming. Honestly ridiculously thankful for being given this opportunity.

-sgthale