It is time for yet another wrap-up post! Last year, I was confident that we could go into early access.. well, last year. But GameDev is a multifaceted endeavour with many surprises. And we discovered a lot of things that needed improvement. The most major of them is the introduction of mouse support. Previously, you…
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It is time for another yearly wrap-up blog post! Information flow has been a bit meh, but a lot was done in 2018. Here are some of the highlights: Security Improvements: Important gameplay is now handed server-sided (should have been done like this from the start, I admit it) Traps: Bear Trap, Deadweight Trap, ……
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It has been some months since I last wrote an update. They were supposed to be regularily written but I didn’t get the interaction I hoped for, so I decided to put my focus on the actual implementation. It’s not that easy to find a balance between keeping an audience up to date and making…
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It’s been a while since the last update! However, that doesn’t mean that Kojou development has stalled. It’s just that I had to rework the network design and make some general network additions and improvements. Kojou is using Unity’s network engine UNET which is.. well.. a little unpredictable, even more so if you are using…
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Sometimes, a video says more than a few hundred words… What do you think? It still needs more polishing as it is a little stiff, but it does the job currently. When players die, they respawn as a ghost with limited capabilities. They can then manipulate parts of the castle to make it easier…
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I was away on a business trip last week and additionally caught a cold, so my productivity was limited. Just kidding – I implemented network features for most of the elements that exist within the game and added three traps! Prepare to get your hide burnt! I actually wanted to prepare a trailer (with…
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For today, I actually wanted to post a short gameplay video because some things look just more awesome in movement (and with audio)! But I wanted to complete some tasks before that so it will probably happen next week. Kojou now has some more stuff lying around that can be used as a more…
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Did anyone say that building a castle was easy? Well, it’s not. The past week was spent setting up the castle layout, and also finding some nice decorative(?) stuff! This process is not finished. The castle is getting livelier and livelier though. In the first iteration, the castle was somewhat linear. I was not satisfied…
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First of all, I implemented a new challenge system at the start of last week. The deal with challenges is that some actions in Kojou require time, e.g. repairing the generator takes time. Now, occasionally, this waiting time is interrupted by some kind of mini game that the player has to solve within a short…
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So for a while now, I wanted to document the kind of mental obstacles that typically prevent a project from ever being completed or even being started. This record is from my own experience and of course, by no means claims to be a complete list. 😉 Most of the people I know did at…
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