Castle Fractal: Combat Prototype 02

Devlog

• 10/21/2024: Castle Fractal v0.9b Coming Next Month!
  October 21, 2024 by Hatfelt Prototypes

  It's been a busy two months... Once classes started, Castle Fractal work slowed down significantly, as did devlog updates. But those updates also stopped because... well, posting on my itch.io devlog... Continue reading
• 08/08/2024: Main Menu Implementation
  August 09, 2024 by Hatfelt Prototypes#UI, #Controls, #Control Schemes, #Game Design

  These past two weeks, I've been working on getting the Main Menu functional. This was probably some of the most learning I've done, both in Unity/C# technologies and my own programming practices. Cred... Continue reading

  
• 07/25/2024: Main Menu Concept Art
  July 26, 2024 by Hatfelt Prototypes#Game Design, #Menus, #UI

  This week in Castle Fractal development was UI concept art, and getting those visuals into Unity. And I'm just going to get right to it: emotionally, seeing this in game makes the game feel... real. I... Continue reading

  
• 07/18/2024: UI and Game Information
  July 19, 2024 by Hatfelt Prototypes#Game Design, #UI

  I'm back! Had to settle back in from Paris so work slowed down. But in the meantime I got more feedback from Castle Fractal, and so that led to me doing a lot of UI work. I've been trying to avoid spe... Continue reading

  
• 06/26/2024: Rank Up System
  June 26, 2024 by Hatfelt Prototypes

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  This week of Castle Fractal development was mostly focused on bug fixes and improvements based on Prototype Feedback (shoutout to playtester Samson for suggesting mouse aim for melee weapons instead o... Continue reading

  
• 06/19/24: Random Generation- Algorithm Design
  June 19, 2024 by Hatfelt Prototypes#Random Generation, #Roguelite

  This week I'm going to talk more about the design of random generation algorithm. Roguelites use randomly generated rooms to provide variety in gameplay: different terrain impacts the way the player m... Continue reading

  
• 06/12/2024: Random Room Generation- Problem Representation
  June 14, 2024 by Hatfelt Prototypes#Random Generation

  This week I began work on the random generation. This is going to be a more technical devlog update, so I'll try to balance necessary accuracy and brevity. Please understand that I'm going to be simpl... Continue reading
• 06/05/2024: Melee and Ranged Auto-Aiming
  June 06, 2024 by Hatfelt Prototypes#Control Schemes

  This week I worked on some of the settings for the Control Schemes, particularly the melee and ranged auto aim. The most common piece of feedback I got on the first Combat Prototype was the clunkiness... Continue reading

  
• 05/29/24: Multiple Control Schemes
  May 29, 2024 by Hatfelt Prototypes#Controls

  While I continue to receive feedback on the second Castle Fractal combat prototype, I've decided to start formalizing my development process, rather than just the occasional instagram picture of my co... Continue reading