Aidan Vidal

Game Dev Post 3

In this post I discuss my final additions to my game and also some challenges and difficulties I faced during development. This will be the last post I make on my game development project as I want to explore other projects that interest me.

Introduction

To recap everything that has happened so far, I have made some base features for my game, such as player movement, shooting, and enemy AI. I also have a basic UI that displays the player's health and ammo. I have also created a level layout that is procedurally generated. This was the main focus of my project. I really wanted to challenge myself coding wise and create something that I have never done before.

What I have done since my last post is redo the level generation. I was not happy with the result and I wanted to create something that was more similar to the games I was inspired by. I also fixed some bugs and improved the enemy AI. I added some sound effects to make the game feel less empty and created some rooms. I'm happy with the result and I think it's a good start to a game.

Redoing the Level Generation

I was not happy with the result of the level generation in my last post. I wanted to create something that was more similar to the games I was inspired by. I used a different method that didn't use a graph to generate the level layout. Instead, I placed random rooms to cover the entire screen, I then chose a starting room and randomly connected rooms attached to it. This byfar produced the best results and was the easiest to implement.

MiniMap

As you can see in the above image there is a minimap. This minimap wasn't too hard to implement since I had already created a level layout that was attached in order. I got the position of each room and scaled them down and drew squares to represent them. To find where the player is I just got the player's position and found the closest room to it. I then drew a square in that room to represent the player's position. I also updated the minimap to show completed rooms. I used a signal which is called when the room is completed to accomplish this.

Enemy AI

The previous enemy AI worked fine, but I wanted to try something else just to see how it would turn out. I created a new enemy AI that would orbit the player based on a set distance. If the player got too far the mob would go closer, if the player got to close it would go further. This worked well enough to make the enemies feel alive and not totally like a computer.