I went to a game dinner this week it hamstrung progress for two days but I found out alligator taste good!
This week I believe I finished the sound effects and I also made an intro that just needs a few more adjustments before being finished, as usual I also spent a bunch of time working on fixing bugs and trying to balance the game. I fell a little short of my goals in terms of working on the save system mostly because I know its going to be painful to do - but I know what I have to do so finishing it should only take one day if I put my nose to the grindstone.
For the week ahead I'm planning on fleshing out the leveling system, the game over screen and end credits, the save system, fixing bugs and balance.
Things truly are wrapping up if things feel good I might try to put a demo up on steam and maybe two weeks from now ill release on steam in early access. If been doing kind of short thoughts on the mistakes I've made on this project and one I was thinking about today was about my use of functions. If you are not a programmer a function is just a neat little package that lets you reuse code without having to type it out again, so because of the way a structured the project I avoided using large amount of functions out of fear that it would lead to a confusing mess but I was looking at some of my code today and I was just hit the realization that I'm an idiot. I definitely should have used a lot more of them especially now that I'm better at c++ and just moving around code in general.
Thats it for this one it wasn't a bad week considering how many distractions there were so hopefully you all had a good week, and hopefully next week is even better.
Change Log
-shop now alternates when it appears
-fixed graphical glitch causing orange line
-replaced priest and questo original class sprites
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-working on balance again
-bleed isn't being applied I fixed it
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-red pop up text now shows for bleed damage
-combat log now has a message for when an enemy bleeds
-Sagittarii class description updated
-enemies afflicted with bleed take one point of damage whenever they attack
-Sagittarii class attack now also applies bleed
-bleed set to false when enemy is made
-gave enemies a bleed state
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-made it so heroes level up after 3 dungeons instead of 4
-bug found knocked out sound effect keeps triggering[fixed]
-delayed when the music starts but let ambient sound play through logo
-reset alpha at end of intro (my buttons were invisible)
-text and background now fade out with logo
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-adjusting text
-made text for my dev name and motto(need to think of motto)
-logo sound now plays as logo fades in
-ok it seems to be working pretty clean
-logo now fades in and out nice and smooth
-having issue with logo fade in[fixed]
-made a countdown timer for splash screens
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-got alpha blending to work cant remember if its the first time
-main logo now renders
-new shop sprite now renders (so cute)
-logo and shop sprite loaded into game
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-hero level ups now play the level up sound
-dropped items now make the money sound
-hero team getting knocked out plays the logo sound
-finishing the dungeon plays the finish dungeon sound
-when heroes are knocked out or enemies killed theres a sound
-Scholae now gets an armor clang sound
-Triarii get spear attack sound
-Hastiliarius special attack gets big attack sound
-Velites speed boost gets buff sound
-changing resolution plays level up sound
-raising and lowering music plays buff and debuff sound
-shop gets the open building sound
-opening the shop plays the open shop sound
-loading up the main menu now plays dungeon sound (should have named this transition sound)
-if the team is empty it plays the debuff sound
-embarking now plays the dungeon finished sound
-continue game now plays finished dungeon sound
-buttons that do nothing now play the debuff sound
-new game sound in and works
-every sound effect now changed in options menu