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Alpha 1.0.3 Upcoming Changes (wip)

Chapter One Rpg — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 19:07:08 +0000

New Features

Upgradeable Weapons
1. Use resources to upgrade a weapon and make it more powerful
Player Magic Weapons
1. Likely will be a staff of some sort
NPC Focusing

Quality of Life

Improve Input Buffering
Better display of item stats when examining items in inventory and the crafting menu
Health meter shows if it's hidden and you strike an enemy
Mage Meteor Shower too oppresive
1. Make meteors not interupt player
2. Reduce frequency of Meteor attack
3. Slow down the instantiation of Meteors

Bug Fixes

Skinwriting Meter drains at a more appropriate speed
Fixed Golem Abilities
1. Jumping in air and stomp ground
2. Running attack
Show Pickaxe when mining

Alpha 1.0.2

Chapter One Rpg — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 17:59:28 +0000

High Priority

3 new Greatsword attacks
1. Right Click does a charging stab
2. Shift attack after 1st basic attack rotates the player around the enemy
3. Shift attack after the above shift attack makes the player jump in the air for an execution-style attack
1 new Sword attack
1. Right click make the player flip forward and attack
Implemented Auto Save
1. Auto Save now happens every time the player leaves combat
Added "Load Auto Save" option to UI
Add Keybind documentation for Skin Writing Ability
Player will stop using potion when full health is reached
Player can no longer drink potions while interuptted
Added a death animation layer so that it will override all other animation layers and prevent the player from animating after death
Player's Head IK no longer looks at random spots on the ground
Update UI for Character panel
Update UI for Crafting to make it more intuitive

Medium-High Priority

Consumable Toolbelt (ex: Potions) now shows a number of how many consumables are left
1. The toolbelt UI will gray out when consumable count is 0
Unequipping an item that is active and equipped will unequip it from the player
Equipping a weapon will not affect the equip state of an unrelated active weapon
Damage text is now more animated (although it still needs work)
Greatsword is now utilizing colliders for collision detection instead of the old raycast web method

Medium Priority

(Prototyping) Add music when combat begins for Golem
Fix Shadows on Firepit

Alpha v1.0.2 - Upcoming Changes

Chapter One Rpg — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:50:07 +0000

High Priority

3 new Greatsword attacks
1. Right Click does a charging stab
2. Shift attack after 1st basic attack rotates the player around the enemy
3. Shift attack after the above shift attack makes the player jump in the air for an execution-style attack
1 new Sword attack
1. Right click make the player flip forward and attack
Implemented Auto Save
1. Auto Save now happens every time the player leaves combat
Added "Load Auto Save" option to UI
Add Keybind documentation for Skin Writing Ability
Player will stop using potion when full health is reached
Player can no longer drink potions while interuptted
Added a death animation layer so that it will override all other animation layers and prevent the player from animating after death
~~Health meter shows if it's hidden and you strike an enemy~~
~~Skinwriting Meter drains at a more appropriate speed~~
Player's Head IK no longer looks at random spots on the ground
Update UI for Character panel
Update UI for Crafting to make it more intuitive
~~Fixed Golem Abilities~~
1. ~~Jumping in air and stomp ground~~
2. ~~Running attack~~
~~Mage Meteor Shower too oppresive~~
1. ~~Make meteors not interupt player~~
2. ~~Reduce frequency of Meteor attack~~
3. ~~Slow down the instantiation of Meteors~~

Medium-High Priority

Consumable Toolbelt (ex: Potions) now shows a number of how many consumables are left
1. The toolbelt UI will gray out when consumable count is 0
Unequipping an item that is active and equipped will unequip it from the player
Equipping a weapon will not affect the equip state of an unrelated active weapon
Damage text is now more animated (although it still needs work)
Greatsword is now utilizing colliders for collision detection instead of the old raycast web method

Medium Priority

(Prototyping) Add music when combat begins for Golem and Mage
Fix Shadows on Firepit

Backlog

Chapter One Rpg — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 21:50:58 +0000

Work Item Prioritized List

High Priority

Can interact with things through the wall
Sometimes the interact text stays after being away from the object you can interact with
Add Keybind documentation for Skin Writing Ability
All NPC damage is defaulted to scale with strength currently (including the mage npc's attacks)
Fix player's head IK he keeps looking at random places on the ground
Golem
1. Jump ability is broken
2. Running attack doesnt hit with the 2nd swing
If health is full player should stop using potion
You should not be able to drink a potion/switch weapons when knocked down/interupted

Medium-High Priority

Once out of potions, the icon stays there
1. Update the toolbelt when out of potions
Unequipping item from inventory does not affect what player is wielding
Equipping an item when there is already an active item will force the player to equip the active item
Show number next to consumable UI showing the number of potions left
Will keep rolling/dodging until out of stamina if the movement key is held down while dodging
Animator inconsistencies between weapons
1. Consume potion, ladders, etc
Going up hill slows character down by like 75% speed
No penalty when walking in water
Animations are jaggy
All enemies need hit reactions
Weapons need impact effects
Damage Text Add some interesting flare to the animation style (e.g. start out very bright for 0.2 seconds, stay at medium for 0.4 seconds, then fade out)
Make damage text different colors depending on the type of attack
1. Impact (physical?)
2. Damage over time
3. Magic
4. etc

Medium Priority

Cleanup World
1. Water clips through floor
  1. New waves are showing above landscape
  2. Clips above land near castle
2. Trees inside of Rocks
3. Sticks on the ground float off the ground
Add a real Settings menu page
1. Features:
  1. Dynamic keybindings
2. Annoying when wanting to control stuff like audio levels
When interact shows up, show the key to interact so the player doesn't have to guess
1. Show the interact key next to the text
Armored Skeleton goes flying sometimes
Implement Auto Save
Add Lock-On mechanic for combat
Add music when combat begins, fade out when it ends
Add dust effects on the feet of your characters for their combat animations to sell the power of their movement
Enemy abilities

Medium-Low Priority

Game took 57 seconds to create
1. Start loading assets the moment the game is launched
2. This is mostly due to the audio library
Camera clips through rocks
player appears to clip into the floor as player while walking up hills
1. Look into IK
No fall damage

Low Priority

Firepit doesn't damage player

Fight Mechanics

Golem

Lots of health but not complex
Knight fight was better

Knight

More intricate mechanics compared to Golem

Mage

Needs to move around the room more

Uncategorized

Cave location is way too dark to see what is going on clearly

Alpha v1.0.1

Chapter One Rpg — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 21:35:57 +0000

Change Log

`Un-Categorized`

Fixed Weapon woosh/strike audio
Weapon attacks now freeze the player animator temporarily to sell the effect of phyiscal contact being made
Test Combat music implemented for some boss npcs (Golem)

`High Priority`

Disabled entryway to room
1. ~~Philosopher Room Black Screen~~
  1. ~~Disable the philosopher room entry until the gateway logic is resolved~~
Hid control until feature is implemented
1. ~~Auto-Save does not exist even though death screen shows to load auto-save~~
  1. ~~Rename/hide auto-save option until feature is implemented~~.
Removed from drop tables
1. ~~Disable Claymore~~
  1. ~~Add it back later when there's actually a good plan for it~~
Trim "(Clone)" from ends of names | better fix down the road will be to assign name value from json
1. ~~Npc names are being displayed with "Clone"~~
Added a 0.25 second input cooldown to control logic speed
1. ~~Changing weapons doesn't always work~~
  1. ~~Holding down weapon/consumable cycle keys will keep cycling~~
    1. ~~That should not happen~~
Removed Courtyard key and unlocked door to rocky outcropping
Fixed dodge for Greatsword
1. ~~Dodge does not work with greatsword (doesn't work with any weapon but regular sword right now)~~
Implemented Skin Writing Mechanic Prototype
1. ~~Plan out Skin Writing Mechanic~~
  1. ~~ Attacks fill a meter depending on what style of attack it is~~
    1. ~~Melee fills meter with melee power~~
    2. ~~Magic fills meter with magic power~~
  2. ~~Maybe special potions can accentuate the meter to some extent?~~
    1. ~~I have no clue whether or not accentuate is actually a word~~
  3. ~~(Idea) Maybe when the meter is full player, can activate their "skin writing power" and receive a boost to their attack styles based on how the meter was filled~~
    1. If player maxed out meter using only melee, then melee attacks are boosted
    2. ~~If player maxed out meter using on magic, then magic attacks are boosted~~
    3. ~~If player maxed out meter using a combination of melee/magic, then melee/magic attacks boosted depending on the meter's ratio of melee/magic~~
  4. ~~Maybe herb concoctions can be consumed to add additional affects like increased attack/movement speed, increased damage output, incoming damage reduction,~~

`Medium-High Priority`

Disabled and cleared artificial gravity buildup when rigidbody is set to kinematic
1. ~~Ladder teleports the player to the bottom and sometimes the player gets stuck~~
Randomized Damage Text
1. ~~Damage Text Velocity randomized~~