Arcade-Maniac/Devlog.md

Devlogs

10/15/2021 (21ga1015.0)

4 down! (Would have been 5, but I missed last week)

0.

Alright, so these past 2 weeks were very unproductive. I've just been distracted almost every day. I won't be able to stream this weekend, because I'll be going on a camping trip, but hopefully I'll be able to stream next weekend, and that will finally get me back into the mood. I've done some stuff here and there, but overall not very much. You can see where I just stopped, basically after the 7th.

1.

The first thing I've done is changed the name of the ball enemy from Rolling Enemy to Enemy Rolling, just so all the enemies appear together alphabetically. I've also made that, along with the base abstract class, actually work. One thing to note is that so far, the rolling enemy doesn't have any speed cap. So that might be something I have to do. But for now, and for any bumpy and weird terrain, it works fine. The rolling enemy will disable its gravity to climb up slopes, because otherwise it can't. The enemy will also despawn when below the death barrier, and not move at all when off screen. This does leave room for seeing the enemy be a little weird when you move over to it after being off screen, but it works for now, and I don't have too much of any intention of changing it. If I would, I might just increase the bounds of the check (somehow, not sure yet). Lastly, the player will now bounce off the enemy when stomping it, higher if holding jump.

2.

Added a canvas for the game interface, and added a health bar. The bar has an animation for taking damage and gaining health. To be honest, I think working on the canvas is what burnt me out this week, but I'm not super sure.

3.

It's extension time! I added an extension to any monobehavior to shake it's gameobject. I did that instead of making it monobehavior specific, because I'm definitely going to use the exact same shake method many times in Arcade Maniac (not just EMD). So, might as well make it easy to access in many places. That also saved me the burden of making an animation that shakes the health bar, because I already wanted to do that. Sometimes, coroutines are just better than animations. Speaking of which, for those of you who don't know what a coroutine is, it is basically Unity's way of making a function that can last several frames. You make one by making the return type of a method System.Collections.IEnumerator, and now anything before a yield return <something, usually null. literally doesn't matter>; statement will be executed in that frame. Every one of those statements is equivalent to waiting for the next frame. They do have to be called in a special way, though. You have to run StartCoroutine(IEnumerator) for it. Otherwise, it will run like a normal method. Anyways, that's coroutines for you.

Ending.

And you wanna know what? That's it. In 2 weeks. That's all of it. As you can see, I was really unproductive this week. Hopefully I can make it up next week. I have a goal to get at least a changelog the size of this one or larger in the week. We'll see how it goes. I sure hope I can make that goal. Anyways, that's all. Have a nice week, you guys!

- Nerd

Stuff to Do:

• I have to make the arcade cabinet account for framerate like the player controller does when it angles the camera towards itself.
• Fix light flickering
• Reset the HDRP default settings and make custom ones for this camera only.
• Remodel the cabinet screen to use a well-known aspect ratio
• Add more details to cabinet
• Fix the camera acting weird when the player interacts with the cabinet by pressing "Space"
• Add stone textures to EMD
• Add an ability for the EMD hittable blocks to be hit multiple times
• Make the EMD falling platforms a little less glitchy when falling onto the player from above
• Make the EMD enemy, you know, actually work
• Make the EMD player not be able to walk off screen
• Make the EMD player flash into a given color instead of only between clear and red
• Obviously more.

Complete changelog:

Date	Change
10/01/2021	Upgraded to Unity 2021.1.23f1
10/02/2021	Applied all variables to the EMD rolling enemy prefab (Source/Assets/Minigames/Entity March Dream/Prefabs/Rolling Enemy.prefab)
10/02/2021	Renamed the prefab to "Enemy Rolling"
10/02/2021	Added a using modifier for System.Linq in the EMD abstract enemy class (Source/Assets/Minigames/Entity March Dream/Scripts/Abstract/Enemy.cs)
10/02/2021	Changed the AssignVars() method in the EMD enemy to instead of looking for only one tilemap collider, look for all and filter for a specific one
10/02/2021	Changed the AssignVars() method to modify the rigidbody shared material instead of the collider's
10/02/2021	Changed the Awake() method in the EMD rolling enemy script to modify the rigidbody shared material instead of the collider's (Source/Assets/Minigames/Entity March Dream/Scripts/EnemyRolling.cs)
10/02/2021	Removed some comments in the EMD rolling enemy script that was there for clarification
10/02/2021	Added a new variable groundDist in the EMD rolling enemy
10/02/2021	Made the Move() method in the EMD rolling enemy detect when it is next to a slope and disable gravity when it is (to make it able to climb) on lines 42 - 48
10/02/2021	Added an OnCollisionStay2D(Collision2D collision) method in the EMD rolling enemy that detects when the enemy has hit a wall and makes it turn around
10/02/2021	Set the player's mass to be 100 (Source/Assets/Minigames/Entity March Dream/Prefabs/Player.prefab)
10/02/2021	Changed the height of the semisolid platform in the example from 3.36 (idk why it was like that) to 2
10/02/2021	Changed the rolling enemy prefab speed to 2
10/02/2021	Added a Renderer private variable to the emd abstract enemy (assigned in the AssignVars() method)
10/02/2021	Made the abstract enemy's rigidbody be disabled and not run the Move() method if the enemy is not on screen
10/02/2021	Added a call to OnHitPlayer() if the abstract enemy's bounding collider touches the player
10/02/2021	Made the abstract enemy despawn when it falls off the world
10/05/2021	Swapped line 22 in the abstract enemy script with a new virtual method OnCollisionStay2D(Collision2D collision), which checks for if the player is moving down or not. If it is, execute OnPlayerStomp(), otherwise execute OnHitPlayer()
10/05/2021	Marked the rolling enemy's OnCollisionStay2D(Collision2D collision) as protected and override, and made it execute the base method
10/06/2021	Added bounceHeight and bounceHeightExtra variables to the EMD abstract enemy
10/06/2021	Made the OnPlayerStomp() method virtual in the EMD abstract enemy, and moved the code from the rolling enemy's version there
10/06/2021	Removed the OnPlayerStomp() method in the rolling enemy
10/06/2021	Made the player bounce when stomping on an enemy, higher if holding up
10/06/2021	Applied the bounceHeight and bounceHeightExtra variables to the rolling enemy prefab
10/06/2021	Added a canvas for UI and made it a prefab (Source/Assets/Minigames/Entity March Dream/Prefabs/Game Interface.prefab)
10/06/2021	Added a health slider in the canvas
10/06/2021	Made a texture for the health bar (Source/Assets/Minigames/Entity March Dream/Textures/Health-Bar.png)
10/07/2021	Created a script for each piece of the UI (Source/Assets/Minigames/Entity March Dream/Scripts/GameInterfacePiece.cs)
10/07/2021	Made the abstract enemy class use OnCollisionEnter2D instead of OnCollisionStay2D
10/07/2021	Created a folder for managing bunches of scripts in EMD (a bunch being many different scripts controlling tiny pieces of one thing. Ex: the many components in a canvas) (Source/Assets/Minigames/Entity March Dream/Scripts/Bunches/)
10/07/2021	Created a folder for managing the bunch of game interface scripts (Source/Assets/Minigames/Entity March Dream/Scripts/Bundles/Game Interface)
10/07/2021	Created a script to manage the health bar in the game interface (Source/Assets/Minigames/Entity March Dream/Scripts/Bundles/Game Interface/HealthBar.cs)
10/07/2021	Gave the health bar its script
10/13/2021	Added an extension script for representing gameobject shaking (Source/Assets/Misc/Scripts/Extensions/ShakeExtension.cs)
10/13/2021	Added an object model for shake data (Source/Assets/Misc/Scripts/Object Models/ShakeData.cs)
10/13/2021	Added a dictionary in the EMD stats script that contains all canvas components based on their gameobject
10/13/2021	Added a constructor to the EMD stats script that assigns all canvas components to the variable
10/13/2021	Makes the player health variable in the EMD stats script call OnGainHealth() or OnLoseHealth() in the EMD health bar depending on if you are gaining or losing health
10/14/2021	Created an animation for the EMD health bar when it gains health (Source/Assets/Minigames/Entity March Dream/Animations/Game Interface/Health Bar/Gain Health.anim)