Astro Recoil

Devlog

• day - 31 signing off
  October 31, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hello, What a day! Today was 100% working on the project, I added more models, several polish features, added background decor, post-processing and skybox. Fixed bugs as necessary, regular quickly tid... Continue reading
• day 30 - crunch
  October 31, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  We all knew crunch was coming, Kinda tired too write too much but, oh well. Catralitos and Afonso(the new member that jumped on board to help with level design) created a bunch of levels. I just playt... Continue reading
• day 29 - bugfixin'
  October 29, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hey, Short one today, tomorrow I have a class to lecture so I could dedicate too much time. Today, I mostly just fixed a few bugs that Catralitos spotted, mostly just writing to fill my quota, sorry... Continue reading
• day 28 - slimy
  October 29, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hi, What a day, managed to deliver the Uni work 1 day early, and got more time to work on the project. I started out by meeting with Catralitos, he was feeling that the combat wasn't quite right. He m... Continue reading
• day 27 - disaster again + checkpoints
  October 27, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hi, Git has fooled me once more, turns out I lost my main menu and saving features from a few days ago. I got working, bringing those back I also added a checkpoint mechanic as some levels Catralitos... Continue reading
• day 26 - animate
  October 26, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hello, Today, I re-did the animations on the player that had stopped working yesterday, as well as import the main enemy model. While importing the model, I also reworked the enemy's behavior a bit. I... Continue reading
• day 25 -disaster!
  October 25, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hi, So remember when yesterday I showed all the animations? Well, they ALL broke. I just opened Unreal today, had an error message about some missing Bone on the rig which was unchanged and can't get... Continue reading
• day 24 - I'm back!
  October 25, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hello! Glad to be back writing some logs. The break definitely helped me out cause today I was feeling super motivated :D Today, me and Catralitos prepared a burn down chart to manage the remaining ta... Continue reading
• day 22 - taking a break
  October 22, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hi, Many times I have resisted making this devlog, but I feel like delaying it one more day will overall be detrimental to the project. To begin, I want to address that after the first week, progress... Continue reading
• day 21 - menus
  October 21, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hi, Today I decided to focus on something that is, admittedly, pretty boring, but I think it's worth the effort: Main Menus and Save Systems. So I added a Menu with the options of: Start Game, Continu... Continue reading
• day 20 - fog
  October 20, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hey, Today I got to working on a type of hazard. It will be a fog that kills the player and slowly creeps to the left side of the screen. Unfortunately I've been having some difficulties getting this... Continue reading
• day 19 - animate
  October 19, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hello, Another important day, I think everyone was pretty busy today. ChemiTheSnail finished the character model a few days ago(she's now texturing) and Alan_Wakes finished rigging it, with that done... Continue reading
• day 18 - a plan arises
  October 18, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hi! Important day for the project today. You may have noticed that last week not a lot got done other than small improvements and polishes. Well today, me and Catralitos had a meeting and decided on w... Continue reading
• day 17 - FX
  October 17, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Today I looked into the particle system that Unreal offers, it is quite weird and obtuse compared to Unity's solution, but I think I'm starting to understand it a little better. I changed some Starter... Continue reading

  
• day 16 - crashes
  October 16, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hi, Today is also going to be a short one, I was out of the house for most of the day as I was attending a talk by John Romero! I tried adding particle effects but for some reason they just straight u... Continue reading

  
• day 15 - test n' polish
  October 15, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hello, Today I spent most of the day on university work, we had a deadline at midnight. I found some time to conduct a playtest, turns out the reload mechanic from yesterday causes a lot of frustratio... Continue reading
• day 14 - sound
  October 15, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hi there This has been another day with little time for the project for me. There is this University assignment that is kind of kicking my ass XP Fortunately the deadline is tomorrow. I still found so... Continue reading
• day 13 - charge!
  October 13, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hi there! Today I finally finished my experiments with the behavior tree. I got an enemy AI working that alternates between patrolling and charging at the player. After a charge begins, it will keep c... Continue reading
• day 12 - small steps
  October 12, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hello, Today was one, probably the least productive day for me. I spent most of my day working on a university group project and I was feeling very tired during the evening(I usually work on this proj... Continue reading
• day 11 - new horizons
  October 11, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hello, Had some friends play test the game today, a few bugs we're fixed, but the feedback is positive. Tomorrow I'll try to get even more feedback. While I collect feedback, I'll start focusing on en... Continue reading

  
• day 10 - polish
  October 10, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hello, Yesterday, we reached our testing milestone! Unfortunately we haven't gotten enough feedback yet, I'll have to bother some friends xD Regardless, I still polished some things I knew needed to b... Continue reading
• day 9 - ready for feedback
  October 09, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hi Huge day for the project today! Me and Catralitos had a long session of fixing any leftover bugs, tweaking and merging our work. And with that we reach our first milestone, we now have a build read... Continue reading

  
• day 8 - prototype final stretch
  October 09, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999

  Hi there, Today's content was mostly from Catralitos side. He has been adding features to the enemy. Tomorow we will iron out some more bugs and issues and hopefully give you a new build by the end of... Continue reading
• day 7 - the one two
  October 07, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999

  Hey, Almost took the day off, but thinking about having to write a devlog with nothing in it made me push through and add something to the game! The enemy class Catralitos is causing some issues, so w... Continue reading
• day 6 - fight!
  October 07, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999

  Hello, Today me and Catralitos had a meeting where I helped out in some code for the enemy. The enemy still needs a few features to be interesting. Other than that, I only ironed out a few issues I fo... Continue reading
• day 5 - blast
  October 05, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Worked for a few hours in the evening today, I met with Catralitos, and we decided on a milestone for Sunday, having one fight against one enemy, when that basic enemy is defeated the room restarts. T... Continue reading
• day 4 - first build!
  October 04, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hello again, Today, we finally got our movement mechanic fully prototyped :D I played around a lot more in unreal, especially with the Aim1D Offset feature that I love. I managed to add the slide and... Continue reading
• day 3 - hands on
  October 03, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Day 3 of the project and we started to actually work on our own project! Today I moded one of the base projects unreal has, the 2D sidescroller one, and added a wall jump, tweaked the movement, and go... Continue reading

  
• day 2 - preproduction
  October 02, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  One more day has passed, Today we got our first full team discord reunion going. We gave our pitch for the artists, using a state of the art photoshop mockup of the mechanics: In order to kill an enem... Continue reading

  
• day1 - first spark
  October 01, 2021 by MiguelSeabra1999#devtober

  Hi there, Me and a colleague Catralitos, decided that we wanted to learn unreal. We are familiar with Unity but have very little experience in this engine. We wanted to commit to creating something in... Continue reading