Delve into the Abyss Development Blog - Week 16

 

   Despite being the final week of the project, this week was sort of uninteresting on my end. We started the week of as we normally do and did sprint planning. In general the team is trying to fix up any potential loose ends prior to making a build. I was paired with Lucas to find a problem regarding the upgrade functionality not working.

   It wasn't until the day after that I got the time to actually search for a fix. It was actually kind of annoying because I wasn't exactly sure what could have caused the logic problem initially. The altars insisted that you didn't have enough resources in your inventory even though you actually did have resources, which meant that somehow they just weren't able to call the inventory system even though the code does call for it. So I had to use the Debug Log system in order to determine what the code was able to execute and what the code wasn't.

   I had to do the same for the inventory code and that's when I found something out. None of the items had been going to our player's inventory. So this led to me wondering just where had they been going? Turns out when Lucas was creating a save system, he altered the inventory protocols and made it so items go into a inventory in the save system so that they can carry over between levels. Everything in the game was altered to call to this new inventory system... except the upgrade functionality script. This inventory system also used a different system of handling the inventory from our original inventory, so I relayed this information to the group and had Lucas fix it himself. Then I tested out the fixes and, well, they work! Still, what a grueling one and a half hours.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Delve into the Abyss Development Blog - Week 27

Image
   This week was a continuation of my narrative work. I was tasked with creating more audio logs, specifically those for the Temple and Maze levels. I wanted to get both of them done since my main focus was to get the miner's side of the plot done and dusted. This mainly just meant explaining more things on the miner's end and trying to expand upon the eventual chaos that leads to the death of the miners.     Really my only complaint with the narrative is I can already tell the pacing in this regard is a little bit off. However, I don't feel like I have enough time to redraft. I've made a list of everything else I need to do for the narrative and realized that if I want to implement everything else to some degree then having a constantly redraft process is going to be impossible. This mildly infuriates me, but I guess this just proves that I should've pushed to start the narrative work earlier in the semester instead of letting my team agree to put it off until ...
Read more

Delve into the Abyss Development Blog - Week 1

Image
     Week ones are always relatively uneventful in these classes, but I think I have at least a bit more to say in this blog than I would the normal week 1. I was a little blindsided that we had to present a project on the very first day, but honestly it should have been expected considering this is a two semester course. At worst I just feel embarrassed that my project was similar to another person's, but I guess that happens a lot in the field of game development. In truth though I wasn't all that attached to my project. I didn't really want to be a project owner again since the last time it happened it was rather stressful for me.    So instead I went off to look for a team. I had a few choices, but I mainly went with Michael's team for Delve into the Abyss since it looked like it interested me the most. Plus I had familiarity with Michael from last semester and I tend to work better with people I'm familiar with. Once the team was actually integrated I had d...
Read more

Delve into the Abyss Development Blog - Week 14

Image
     This week I helped with polishing up the maze map with Chance. Chance mainly handled the lighting and props, and I did what I've done in the past few maps and populated this map with enemies. I tried to make it a little bit more perilous than the other maps since this is our final level, so a lot of the rooms have close-quarters combat with Elite enemies or generally just hoards of enemies. Although I didn't put too many enemies around since I didn't want to overwhelm the player.    Other than enemy population I also did some refining around the map. I noticed a few walls and ceilings had openings between the cracks that didn't seem intentional, so I sealed those up where I could. I'm not sure if I found them all but I did it to the most noticeable cracks that stuck out to me while roaming around the level. So I'd count that as something.    Lastly I added invisible walls to the railings to players wouldn't be able to jump into the maze and ignore...
Read more