Mini Devlog - #3

Another Devlog already! 

I had a pretty productive weekend, and wanted to give you all an idea of the amount of work that I can pull off when I forfeit social activity and other human things from time to time ;)

I haven't done a game jam in a while, and also had a lot of things "Breeze code" related that I wanted to get out the way, so I set a timer for 48 hours and got busy ~

I'll probably not be programming too much this week, and and instead will be putting on my animator hat.

(Please keep in mind, images/sprites/animations shown are heavily in progress)

New Features 

• Special Attacks can activate Screen Effects now (changing color of screen, dimming it, shaking it, etc)
• Added a Clash (Parrying) state. Attacks with the same “priority” will cancel each other out if they connect
• Game now shows game over text when you like, die
• Created a manager that handles creating effects like particles and positioning them
• Will expand on this later to make it easily configurable
• Implemented new feature to show a blue dimming Screen Effect when switching into a other Weather Forms* (more to come on that in a later post...)
• Added Feature to prevent same attack from landing multiple times
• Added Slowmo feature because video games
• Update to Sodo behavior tree: Added case for Parries

Improvements

• Created a "Dummy" Behavior Machine that I can just beat up
• Created a "Dummy" Sodo that I can just beat up
• Since y'all love Sodo so much, I decided to use him as a punching bag
• Special attacks can have their own particle effects
• Fancy effect that plays on the character actor before the attack starts
• Programmed the Dpad to toggle between Form move sets
• Spawned Sounds effects are added to the correct Audio Mixer now
• Added additional controller Inputs for Breeze’s features (no more switching back and forth to the keyboard during testing)
• VibrateController() function renamed (it had a stupid name before...)
• Added waits to Sodo's behavior tree because he’s crazy and attacks relentlessly right now
• Added Sodo hit sprite!
• Update to display current Weather Form in HUD
• Moved Screenshake logic into a new ScreenEffectsManager

Bugfixes

• Bug fixed where Breeze couldn’t attack immediately after jumping 
• Fixed issues with Actor's Recovery State not using the correct duration variable
• Fixed issue where disabled loopable audio sources would attempt to play
• Fixed bug where battle UI shaking doesn’t rest/reset correctly
• Fixed Slamming Physics so that heavy attacks will make character actor bounce off of stuff