My goal for my last sprint of Ciros work was to implement two more enemy types, with placeholder sprites that will be added and animated by another team member.
Both enemy types are stationary, but they both have some form of projectile, which doesn't really exist for any other enem…
I made more progress with balancing the flow/pacing of an average run, and I think it's at a pretty good spot now. Originally we had visions of each run lasting 20-30 minutes, but I think we just don't have the content to support that at the moment, so I tried to focus on getting t…
After reviewing the pooling branch, we noticed that occasionally enemies would be re-enabled and then immediately die. After some testing, we found that it was because the enemies' health wasn't being re-set to the max upon being re-enabled. This should have been an easy fix by jus…
I had a couple different tasks this week, and managed to get both of them done. I wasn't sure how long each of them was going to take, so we allocated an extra week to pooling if necessary, but it should be fully functional now. The easier task was improving the circle spawning to …
As I mentioned last week, the Piercing-Elemental synergy has needed some reworking and refactoring. Because it's designed to duplicate the current projectile instead of spawning some new projectile, the behavior depends on the original crystal. I ended up making a separate script …
Now that our basic features are “complete” for release, there are a lot of bugs (visual or otherwise) that need to be ironed out. Synergies are one of the newest additions, so I've gotten a lot of feedback from the team for how we could make things feel more impactful, juicy, or b…
Moving on from synergies and other new features, we're going into full balance and polish mode. One of our biggest points of feedback from gameplay testing has been gameplay length and difficulty. After a few minutes, the spawn rates get really overwhelming, and the whole screen wi…
This is the last synergy planned for feature-completeness. They'll all need some polish and juiciness for the full release, but having the mechanics working was priority #1. This synergy spawns a non-damaging “tornado” projectile, which acts similarly to the Black Hole crystal abil…
We're quickly approaching the end of the synergy list, which is good because we need to start getting all hands on deck for polish and improvements instead of new content.
Piercing-Elemental is another on-hit synergy, so the system works the same as the past two weeks. However, this…
This week was focused on another synergy: Explosive-Summoning, which drops a mine whenever a summoning crystal hits an enemy.
Fortunately, a lot of the structure is already in the game. Last week we implemented another on-hit synergy, so that activation is already working. Additiona…
