Inconnu - Small 2.5D RPG Project

xRegnarokx

Hello all,

Thought I'd share for feedback, motivation, and just because I felt like procrastinating.

This is that I am working towards creating any sort of minimal working prototype for, many of my other projects were messing around and learning. I have only been coding for maybe 2 years (off and on sometimes several months inbetween). So, this is totally a noob project, and I have been helped tons to even be able to do what is in this video by many people on this very forum.

Well here is a short video of my character moving around, and attacking an enemy, no fancy art or animations, very barebones, sorry that it isn't more fleshed out yet.

xRegnarokx

For those interested in actually moving the character around (I know it is very boring atm) I am going to link the itch.io page, it is free.

Inconnu - Prototype RPG

xRegnarokx

So, I have implemented a basic attack skill, here is a video demonstrating using my debug white box for skill placement reference. I haven't updated my itch.io game files since this is still a pragmatic hackjob. I am going to refactor a little bit and implement a skill selection screen so you can choose which of the four slots/hotkeys the skill is associated with.

Thanks all!

Edit:

Here is start of character skill selection:

xRegnarokx

So, I have updated a few things, still old files on itch.io. I have some bugs to iron out first, and also a few more things I want to implement before updating the files there.

However, here are some photos of my skill menu, some fruit bushes, and I have a controls menu so you know what the controls are before starting up the game.

Well, off to procrastinate from implementing the next thing since it is late and ran out of steam haha.

Edit:
Here is the video of all these updates in action!

xRegnarokx

My plan and goal was to implement a few aspects of my game by the weekend and update the game files on itch.io.

-Consumables
-Inventory
-Balance damage
-Fix attack range
-Create two interactable objects
-Create secret zone for kicks and giggles

However, as I often do, I ran across a bug, and in the process of fixing it I realized two things. I had a bad case of speghetti code, and I had pre-optimized systems that were making it more difficult for me, example; behavior trees (my enemies are not yet complex enough to need one).

Alas, I could have fixed the bug and kept on, but I decided to see if I could simplify my code a bit to make it easier for me to follow.

In the process of rewritting my two primary systems, cell map generation and player movement, I managed to streamline thosee slightly, as well as adding in a simple visual debugger system to make it easier in the future.

Though the biggest victory was finally learning about _unhandled_inputs() and the benefits of using event.

I had a node that was creating speghetti code by continually casting a ray at mouse position and updating player with what was under the mouse, so that if the player clicked, the player would interact with that object...

It was a mess. I optimized by using a boolean to only allow casting the ray once when the mouse is clicked, rather then every physics frame like I was stupidly doing before. I also realized that my "player" node didn't need to know any of that information, and the node handling the ray casting could also just handle the information.

So, all in all I have probably eliminated 3 to 4 extra func, a few signals, a handful of var, and many lines of code.

I shall reimplement everything else now, while setting up StateMachine logic rather than BehaviorTrees.

Sorry for the long update, I hope it finds all you champs doing well, those of you who made it to the end that is.

kuligs2

xRegnarokx i wonder, the character rig, did you rig it yourself or used ready made asset? If you did rig it, any pointers how to streamline the process? Also how to streamline creating animations like walking and stuff.. i keep making following tutorials but end up looking ugly or the animation feels too rigid and not natural and thus cant find a way to sync up with the speed of character moving

xRegnarokx

kuligs2 So, in general I haven't followed anything for making this project (Except to get a starting point if I am stuck). Eventually I want to mess around with maybe blender for creating animations. However, for this project at the moment I wanted to create placeholder characters with basic animations.

What I did was fairly simple, I made a Node3D for each joint I wanted to move (arms, legs, ect...) anything attached to that joint became a child of that joint. I then just used animation player to interpolate the rotation value of the joints to create my walking animation.

I haven't yet figured out how to make the animation sync with variable speed, but in my game because movement is a set time that the character will move, I just set the animation length to that.

For streamlining, not sure if my process is exactly streamlined. My character uses head, chest nodes, then 4 node3d for arms and legs, then I have two nodes attached to each of those nodes to make the arms and legs with shoulder/hips.

xRegnarokx

Hey all! So, it has been a week, I didn't want to stay silent about what I've been working on for to long. I haven't yet updated the game files on itch (will update you guys when the new ones are uploaded). As I said in my last post I decided to do a lot of rewriting and refactoring, and to take a little more time, be less rushed in general. I am not expecting to sell this as a business or really make any money off it, it is just a hobby project. That said, I haven't made as much progress as I'd have liked with Mothersday and work being kind of busy this last week.

However, here is a short video of my UI that I've redesigned a little.

I want to connect the UI to my world scene, and then make it so you can pick fruits that'll go into your inventory screen. I will probably update the files on itch once I have that figured out.

I will then work on reimplementing a basic skill and making the fruits more than just decoration! I will keep you posted!

xRegnarokx

So, I thought I'd post this small update here, I got my inventory/item collecting interactions connected now. I can collect berries, so, I'll be moving onto attacking and consuming the berries for health.