Hi all,
This week was a lot of UI tweaks and polish. I think I have the new game flow to a point where I consider it "usable", but there are a few things I need to finish. Beyond that, I finally got to working on the party management screen. Again, there's more to do, but it looks much closer to how it'll be in the end (most likely).
Once that view is done, I think the next major milestone will be hooking up the new game flow to the start of the "travel" gameplay. Initially, this should be very simple by generating a starter inventory and such. Later I'll build it out to be more involved.
One other thing I added this week that's completely new is "backstories." When creating a character you'll be able to select a backstory that further augments the traits that you'll have at your disposal. For example, "The Forlorn Salaryman" backstory has a unique bio that will stick with the character and the bartering trait. I'm not 100% certain on the scope of backstories as far as how many there will be, and they'll need to not conflict with the skillset that you select, so it's definitely a work in progress.
My current goal is to have a playable "alpha" as soon as possible. That is, have the following completed:
* New game flow
* Transition from new game flow to travel gameplay
* Be able to interchange between traveling (2D) and exploring (3D) whilst tracking inventory and health
* Transition from travel or exploration to failure flow
* Be able to reach your destination and end the playthrough
Each of these pieces are in various states, somewhere between just started and almost feature-complete.
Sorry, no screenshots this week! I should have something for next weekend to show off a bit.
Thanks!
- C
Change Log:
Went through and refactored/renamed more things (profession -> skillset).
Deleted and cleaned up things referencing the outdated profession structures.
Reworked some of the Person helper methods.
Fix bug in MusicPlayer (not initializing the current biome at first).
Remove all of the existing custom party creation stuff for now. By the time I get back to it, it'll need to be redone completely anyway.
Sprites can be seen by the UI scene camera now (now that I fixed the layer), maybe a bug with older Unity versions?
Portraits in party screen are working now.
Update party management window to be generally functional and not ugly.
Update music player to utilize biome-specific music.
Update test party to have portraits.
Update person class to track morale (need to revisit and broaden how this is calculated).
Fix some general bugs from left-over (and old) UI implementations.
Forgot a file. Fix trait enums not being set.
Move three scriptable object loading methods into loader class, out of person.
Add debug way to skip initial dialog sequence.
Re-add gender descriptor to first name field of license.
Add descriptor tags to the character portrait and character backstory scriptables.
Fix general flow of character info view.
Fix Portrait selection buttons.
Implement backstory menu page.
Still need to finish wiring these pages into character info screen (grid buttons mainly).
Reorganized scriptable objects.
Layout of the character license screen changes.
Added character background scriptable object.
Implemented a few Character Backgrounds.