Element Clash

Devlog

• End of the Road
  May 26, 2023 by B0SS0770

  Hello everyone! I proudly announce that our game has officially reached beta (release 1.0). After 4 months of blood, sweat, and tears (The Rock reference) we have finished the demo version of our game... Continue reading

  
• Sooo stupid...
  May 18, 2023 by B0SS0770

  OKAY! So Im back, yeah, let's cut to the chase, remember how I had trouble getting the enemy to flash when hit? YEAH, I got it working. I duplicated a premade material that came with the default proje... Continue reading

  
• Flash Darn It
  May 12, 2023 by B0SS0770

  Hey there, I am back this week to talk about something I was working on which did not work whatsoever no matter what I tried. I am talking about making the enemy ai flash when you hit them. I tried ma... Continue reading
• The beginning of the End
  May 05, 2023 by B0SS0770

  Hello again. I can't believe it's already been a week since the last update, time flies. Well, we are now officially in our last month of production for our game (demo) and it is focusing on polishing... Continue reading

  
• Slow day at the office...
  April 29, 2023 by B0SS0770

  Hello, I'm back with the final update for April 2023. Over the past week and a half, there really has been nothing exciting or difficulties I had to overcome that I can talk about here. Everything has... Continue reading
• Some things are that easy
  April 21, 2023 by B0SS0770

  Hello again. I am back with another update. Although this time it's relatively short because there weren't enough significant problems to talk about, so I will generalize by talking about small bugs... Continue reading

  
• Math for Experience - Dustin Myers
  April 14, 2023 by DJMyers16

  Our game has had an experience system for some time now, however its functionality had not been implemented correctly during that time. Whenever the player kills an enemy, that enemy is supposed to aw... Continue reading
• Research EVERYTHING
  April 11, 2023 by B0SS0770

  Hey, it's been a while. It has been a busy few weeks working on Element Clash. As you all know I am the AI programmer for this project and it is my first time doing this. When we first started we boug... Continue reading

  
• Growing a Skill Tree - Dustin Myers
  March 18, 2023 by DJMyers16#skill tree

  A lot of games lock progression behind a skill tree. And honestly, its a great thing to have! By letting the player choose what to invest points into while they play, it allows them to specialize in t... Continue reading

  
• To shoot or not to Shoot
  March 11, 2023 by B0SS0770

  Welcome back. This week I will talk to you a little bit about ranged AI issues that you might run into while making your own game. As you all know many games have enemies that have ranged attacks, but... Continue reading

  
• Rumble and Shake - Dustin Myers
  March 11, 2023 by DJMyers16

  Seeing a massive arm silently stop upon colliding with the ground is probably one of the most anti-climatic thing you will ever see. Seeing exploding spheres fall from the sky and quietly explode with... Continue reading
• Less is More
  March 04, 2023 by B0SS0770

  Hello there, welcome back. On this weeks devLog I will talk a little bit about strategizing. I will also be expanding on my previous dev blog. This week we, as a team, decided to put our focus on impr... Continue reading
• Creating a Boss - Dustin Myers
  March 04, 2023 by DJMyers16

  This last week I have been busy creating a boss for our game. To make things simple I based the bosses attacks off of early 2000's games, where you would have a massive monster slam their arms down on... Continue reading

  
• AI Strain
  February 24, 2023 by B0SS0770

  Author: Khumoyun Rustamov Posted on 2/23/2023 This week I had many issues to overcome. And I overcame many, but alas there was an issue that I could not get to work. Most of the week I spent on trying... Continue reading
• UI and Damage troubles
  February 24, 2023 by MaxMatusR

  Author: Max Matus As the first prototype of our game soon needed to be finished, all the members of the team got their hands full with different assignments. I got to do health and stamina systems, th... Continue reading
• Teleporter Troubles -Dustin Myers
  February 24, 2023 by DJMyers16

  Now that our level making is making progress, we need a fast way to get from place to place. What's more, I have a teleporter design from a previous project that is the perfect solution to this proble... Continue reading

  
• On the road for the 2nd build
  February 17, 2023 by MaxMatusR

  Author: Max Matus At the beginning of the week, I made a mistake when checking out the project which caused some trouble in the source control application we use, fortunately that was fixed, and we we... Continue reading
• Problems with AI
  February 17, 2023 by B0SS0770#AI, #Indie

  Author: Khumoyun Rustamov Posted on 2/16/2023 For our project, codename: Element Clash, I was put in charge of the Artificial Intelligence systems ranging from simple enemies to bosses. However, so fa... Continue reading

  
• Modular Character Adventure
  February 17, 2023 by willj003

  In this week's episode of things I do for fun that makes me want to rip my hair out, we have modular characters. So all last week it was our intention as a group to use a paragon character as our main... Continue reading
• A level's beginnings - Dustin Myers
  February 16, 2023 by DJMyers16

  This week I was put in charge of designing the level layout for our Element Clash demo. This quickly proved to be problem as it is difficult sometimes to get an idea out of your head and into a game,... Continue reading