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Regular work may be a rare commodity for many people during these strange times. This is why I consider myself particularly lucky having double the business currently. This has a negative impact on my game design activity though. I was however able to squeeze in some hours here and there for the past 2 months. This way Heresy platformer announced in September project moved at a very slow, albeit steady pace. However today I am ready to post a short Heresy platformer gameplay reveal. In this time I was able to create: a physical character controller that takes uniform input...

The Covid-19 lockdown was a very special experience for everyone involved, especially for parents with school aged children. Juggling work, parenting and part time work of a teacher was quite challenging. During this time I took a break from Unity to focus on my programming skills. I took some courses on coding that focused on issues from basic to advanced. I wanted to revise what my knowledge to be in good shape when the children, hopefully, go back to school. The time has finally come and I keep my fingers crossed. I can now announce the start of my new...

In my previous post I described the way I implemented physical combat in my game based on RPG Core Combat Creator course. In this entry I would like to provide some details on additional modifications I made to the game. Modifications to health and stamina system – vitality and rest The original game featured a standard Health+Stamina system. I extended it with another resource called Vitality. This resource functions as a pool of points from which the player regenerates lost Health and Stamina while resting. I also implemented a rest animation to support this functionality. Below you can see the...

In my last post I justified the addition of dodge mechanics to the game’s core movement system. To briefly summarize that post, physical combat, i.e. combat that uses physics to calculate hits, requires a method for avoiding such physically calculated hits. Extending the movement system was one thing. But physical combat also required the weapons and fighters to have actual collision. For character collision, I decided to stay with the capsule collider solution proposed in the RPG Core Combat Creator course. Thus, my characters retained the capsule collider approximating the shape of their body. Improving the weapon system The weapon...

In the last post I briefly described my experience with RPG Core Combat Creator course from GameDev.tv. This time I would like to focus on my additions to movement mechanics. The basic movement system designed by the tutors relies on Raycasting and Navmeshes. The player clicks a location on walkable terrain. Next the Navmesh Agent on the player’s character tries to find the optimal route to that point. This is an ideal solution for a traditional Action RPG, like Diablo. However, I also wanted to add physical combat model. Physical vs Mathematical combat model Whenever I analyze systems of a game...

Ben Tristem’s Complete C# Unity Developer: Learn to Code Making Games was probably the most important online course I have ever taken. In my life I had several adventures with coding. But after finishing Complete C# Unity Developer I decided that I would be seriously focusing on learning to code. Having taken a few other courses, I decided to enroll to RPG Core Combat Creator. It is a intermediate course by Ben Tristem and Rick Davidson. The course is by no means easy and requires an intermediate knowledge of Unity and C#. I was certainly not an intermediate coder when...