Crystal Chaos

Devlog

• Why are they so cute?
  April 05, 2021 by learuis

  Spent some time today adapting my sprites to respond properly to using a custom axis for layer sorting. This enables me to control the render order for everything without a script that watches the pla... Continue reading

  
• Minor Adjustments
  April 04, 2021 by learuis

  Quick build tonight! Fixed a player position issue that offset the sprite incorrectly, making it look like you could walk on water below you. Adjusted the 2nd large blocker enemy's position to be on a... Continue reading
• Demo Build!
  April 03, 2021 by learuis

  I started this morning working on a tree you can walk behind. I had some solid ideas on how to accomplish it, but ran into trouble. I think the right way to handle it would be a custom axis for transp... Continue reading

  
• No more getting stuck to walls
  April 01, 2021 by learuis

  Tile rules are awesome! After watching some tutorials and experimenting a bit, I got the package installed and started to work on it. I think the way I chose to define them is kind of backwards - I pa... Continue reading
• Better Enemy States
  April 01, 2021 by learuis

  Well, that was a heck of a rabbit hole today... I started out wanting to add a wandering behavior to enemies so they could do more than patrol in a set pattern. As I worked through this, the limitatio... Continue reading
• States and Slots + Animation Rework
  March 29, 2021 by learuis

  Gotta love the way discovering one little bug causes you to rewrite an entire system :) I started looking at why the dash was behaving wrong when you got hit with a fireball while dashing, and found t... Continue reading

  
• Item Slots - First Pass
  March 29, 2021 by learuis

  To move toward the "find magic items and use them in battle" goal, I took a first pass at an item equipment system. The goal is to have 3 items that you can equip at any one time, and tie their functi... Continue reading

  
• Freedom of Movement
  March 28, 2021 by learuis

  I went into Saturday wanting to enable swinging weapons in 4 directions, up, down, left and right. As I worked through how to do that, it became clear that I'd need to do a better job of controlling f... Continue reading
• Dash changes
  March 27, 2021 by learuis

  Dash changes You are now invulnerable while dashing Dash duration is half as long Your size grows by 10% while dashing. Does this make it look like a "jump"? If you hit an enemy while dashing, it will... Continue reading
• First Pass at Impassible Terrain
  March 26, 2021 by learuis

  Spent some time today adding the impassible terrain. With more tiles, I should be able to add quite a bit of variety to the stage. I should even be able to use smaller grids to make structures / walls... Continue reading
• Weapon Slot Rework + lots more
  March 26, 2021 by learuis

  Enemy Behavior Changes Enemies should no longer be able to fire ranged attacks while stunned Enemies now pause for a second after firing their ranged attack Enemy ranged attack firing intervals are no... Continue reading
• Goodness, gracious, quaternions of fire
  March 25, 2021 by learuis

  Fireballs! Enemies now have a flag that toggles the ranged attack behavior. At random intervals, enemies with the behavior enabled will shoot a particle representing a fireball Fireballs deal 2 damage... Continue reading
• Energy System
  March 25, 2021 by learuis

  Added a bare bones energy system Attacks for 3 energy Blocking costs 15 energy. Raising the shield costs nothing, but if you are under 15 energy it will auto release Energy regenerates at a rate of 0... Continue reading
• Particle experimentation
  March 25, 2021 by learuis

  Particles Added particle effects to enemies being hit and killed Hit is a cone that's supposed to emit particles in an opposite angle from the player, and it mostly does that... Death is a burst effec... Continue reading
• Queued Actions + Aggro
  March 24, 2021 by learuis

  Action Queue system Added a really basic queue system for actions to make things feel less clunky. Previously, trying to initiate an attack while you were currently swinging did nothing, same with blo... Continue reading
• Good progress today!
  March 24, 2021 by learuis

  Made some improvements to some backend functionality today and added some new features! State Management! Enemies and Player now use states to control their behavior Simplified(maybe) the enemy behavi... Continue reading
• Early development
  March 21, 2021 by learuis

  This is a prototype for a top-down side scroller action game. The movement and flow is the core of the "feel" I'm going for, I want that to be solid. After a lot of fiddling with timings and learning... Continue reading