Business Heartbeat - September 20 2019
This week is the last dev week before pencil's down for the September update coming out next week.
It's been a mad rush to get as many pieces of the Halloween updates in as possible.
Our original plan was to add Darkness & Lights & Ghosts & Player Death.
We managed to get Darkness & Lights, leaving Ghosts & Player Death to slip to a mid-month update for Halloween.
Lights have been on the roadmap for most of the project, so this work has been super exciting.
There have been a ton of little decisions to make - how darkness gets added to things, where to place lights, how common should light-creating items be, etc.
It's also interesting in terms of learning Unity due to a lot of little details with lighting that need to be worked through.
Completed
- Prismatic Maze
- Added Effects to Pigment Creatures
- Added Dark as an Effect that Pigment Creatures contract during their growth cycle when they haven't increased in size recently enough
- Added Dark Decoration to tiles in areas where Pigment Creature has Darkness effect
- Added light to player avatar
- Added transition to/from dark area based on Dark decoration on tiles, turning down ambient light & turning on player light in dark areas
- Added Items: Candle & Torch as consumable items that increase player light projection range
- Added Item: Darkness as treasure acquired by capturing the seed of a Pigment Creature with Darkness effect
- Added Lights to tiles in areas of Pigment Creature with Darkness effect
- Added Telemetry for Merchant transactions
- Patreon
- Got our First Patron! Thanks Tyler!
In Progress
- Prismatic Maze
- Customize Lights in maze area
Next Milestone
- September Update ~20190925