Its been a whole minute since I wrote anything here. Basically, after the last update I started working more on game dev stuff. Sadly I got nowhere on the one game I spent the most time on "Boss Crawler".

Game Development

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Boss Crawler

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I decided to buy a Unity Package for its map editor but ended up not liking it at all. I was thinking of returning it for the 30 day refund but it was actually a very useful tool. It just wasnt good for the game I was making.

Essentially, I was planning on turning Boss Crawler into a 3D Grid Based Dungeon Crawler / Visual Novel. However, when it came to programming the AI the map editor package made it clunky and difficult to work with. While it was possible to do workarounds they would have been so heavily outside of the scope I had planned for. As such I decided to leave the game alone for now.

Asteria Stories: Champion Days

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I decided to swap to work on this game and put Boss Crawler on hold for now. I wanted to least get this up and running to the point it was playable. I looked up a bunch of tutorials on the best way to code a 2D beat em up game. The first tutorial that I used with making the game was TERRIBLE. God awful ass tutorial I'm upset I even coded it like that in the first place. Basically the character is always floating on its shadow as a platform and when they jump I add physics to both the platform and the player to make sure they move at the same time.

Yeah no this was bad. I'm glad ppl liked the game for what it was but it was basically sewn together with cheese. SO, I found a better tutorial that was pretty much what I wanted. The main problem I had with the previous tutorial was handling airborne targets, air attacks, and proper collision detection. I also learned A LOT of better ways to handle hitboxes.

With that being said I'll probably have the updated newer version of the game somewhere around October before the bara jam starts again.

Art

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I'm also gonna return to doing art including concept arting and background stuff for the game so look forward to that.

As for the Legoshi Comic, sorry I keep holding it off at this point I'm gonna wrap up the last 4 pages and be done. And maybe if people really liked it I will do a continuation comic in the future.