Vaults & Vampires

Devlog

• Refactored Shadows for Performance
  August 18, 2024 by rcxa

  I returned to this project after several months away. The next item I had in the backlog was to optimize shadow rendering for collectibles. I had been using a third-party asset for blob shadows. In th... Continue reading
• Audio Controller for Sound Effects
  February 18, 2024 by rcxa

  I picked up two sound effect libraries recently and decided to try to implement those in-game. I have minimal experience with sound effects. In the past, I've used a single controller for the couple o... Continue reading
• Refactoring and Starting Combat
  February 03, 2024 by rcxa

  I'm preparing to build a tutorial level to replace the current test level. The two major systems I need to build for this are combat and cinematics. I have started to build the combat system. Clicking... Continue reading
• Double Jumping
  January 29, 2024 by rcxa

  This update ended up being larger than I anticipated. The feature I set out to implement was double jumping. My goal was pretty simple, if the player is in the air and has not already double jumped, t... Continue reading
• Spikes and Mobile Interface
  January 21, 2024 by rcxa

  I'm planning on redesigning the demo level soon. During the planning, I realized I needed to add hazards to the game before introducing more obstacles and movement mechanics. Without adding hazards I'... Continue reading
• Player Health and Death
  January 15, 2024 by rcxa

  After implementing the waypoint system I spent some time refactoring the game code and fixed some minor bugs. After I felt like the project was in a good state I started working on the player health s... Continue reading
• Waypoint System
  January 14, 2024 by rcxa

  While a lot of code changes have happened recently, the project pretty much looks the same. One workflow issue that I have been running into is creating waypoints for objects like moving platforms. In... Continue reading
• Jumping and Landing Feedback
  January 08, 2024 by rcxa

  I spent some time improving the visuals for jumping and landing. One minor tweak that I did was to alternate the jumping animation so that each time the player jumps the animation will be mirrored hor... Continue reading
• Codebase Restructuring and Walk Animations
  January 06, 2024 by rcxa

  The bulk of my night was spent implementing assemblies in my project. Assembly definitions are easy to create in Unity, but they can cause compilation errors if your functional domains are not clearly... Continue reading
• Player Animation Controller
  January 04, 2024 by rcxa

  I started building out the player animation controller. In its current iteration, there's 8-directional movement along with 4-directional aim-locked movement. There is also a jumping animation that is... Continue reading
• Building a Test Level
  December 23, 2023 by rcxa

  The quick scene that I threw together for testing the character controller needed replacing. It wasn't a very good test of the character controller because it didn't represent the type of movement tha... Continue reading
• Pickups and Blob Shadows
  December 20, 2023 by rcxa

  One of the next features I'm working on is pickups. This will be copper, silver, and gold coins in its first iteration. I created prefabs for the different coins with cylinders for the coin visual. Th... Continue reading
• Initial State of the Prototype
  December 16, 2023 by rcxa#update

  So far I have been working on basic adventure platformer mechanics. I've been looking at old N64 Rareware games for inspiration. In the current (2023-12-16) build I have achieved the following: A kine... Continue reading