And here’s the first devnote post, after first week of the game being in development (I’m saying ‘the game’ because I’m, honestly, still uncertain about the final name. I’ll try posing every Friday from now on, even if I have nothing exceptional to report. I think it’s a good way to keep myself in check, as well as to let you know that neither me on the project is dead. Some may say it’s too early for devnotes, but me, personally, I like the idea of documenting the game from day one. Plus I’ll try to talk through some technical details here, so if you’ll ever have similar problems with your projects you can see how I tried to solve them. But let’s get to some of the features are now complete!

Dodging & Dodge Cooldown Meter

Hoo boy, was this one a bitch to implement… First I had issues with the character not moving at all due to friction, so I increased the launch speed to ludicrous amounts and it worked. Too well, one may say. Were you to jump and dodge at the same time, you’d slam into a wall at Mach 10. The easiest way to fix it’ Disable dodging while mid-air. That didn’t solve the issue of being able to launch yourself from a ledge, or even a crate, though. What did the trick, was adding a timer which, when countdown of few milliseconds is over, runs a branch that divides the velocity values by 10 and adds some downwards velocity. Thanks to that I was able to restore dodging while in air.

After much procrastination, countless trials (and errors), experimenting with various genres and ideas I present you my first project that is going public. Codename so far is OneGun. You have one gun, but countless upgrades to it you can find. Swap stocks, receivers, barrels, attachments and whatnot. Get various projectile effects - bouncing, explosions, fire damage, AoE aura… You name it! The work has officially started and I?ll try to keep you updated on the progress as best as I can.