SNKRX/devlog.md

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Day 1 - 17/02/21

Ideaguyed the basics of the game's classes and mechanics, and implemented basic movement and setting of all the stats it will have. Here are the initial characters, synergies and stats I want to have:

Characters

  • Vagrant: shoots a projectile at any nearby enemy, medium range
  • Scout: throws a knife at any nearby enemy that chains, small range
  • Cleric: heals every unit when any one drops below 50% HP
  • Swordsman: deals damage in an area around the unit, small range
  • Archer: shoots an arrow at any nearby enemy in front of the unit, long range
  • Wizard: shoots a projectile at any nearby enemy and deals AoE damage on contact, small range

Synergies

  • Ranger: yellow, buff attack speed
  • Warrior: orange, buff attack damage
  • Healer: green, buff healing effectiveness
  • Mage: blue, debuff enemy defense
  • Cycler: purple, buff cycle speed

Stats

  • HP
  • Damage
  • Attack speed: stacks additively, starts at 1 and capped at minimum 0.125s or +300%
  • Defense: if defense >= 0 then dmg_m = 100/(100+defense) else dmg_m = 2-100/(100-defense)
  • Cycle speed: stacks additively, starts at 2 and capped at minimum 0.5s or +300%

Perhaps I'm overengineering it already with the stats but I wanna see where this goes. From SHOOTRX it seems like figuring out stats earlier is better than later, and these seem like they have enough flexibility.

Day 2 - 18/02/21

Went through like 3 small refactors of how I was laying out Unit, Player and Enemy classes and how I wanted enemies to behave. Settled on just copying enemy behavior 100% from SHOOTRX, which is likely the more correct decision since it saves a lot of time.

Right now basic player and enemy movement works, as well as melee collisions between player and enemy. To do for tomorrow:

  • HP bar should be drawn on top of all player units
  • Projectiles
  • Areas
  • Stats: attack speed, damage, cycle
  • One or a few of the characters
  • Port over enemy spawn logic from SHOOTRX
  • Sounds

Day 3 - 19/02/21

Managed to get the first 4 items of the previous todo list done. Removed the cycle stat because the way projectiles work (they're autoshot) already feels like a cycle so having that in would feel redundant. I changed it for area damage + area size stats which feel more fundamental. So currently the synergies are:

  • Ranger: yellow, buff attack speed
  • Warrior: orange, buff attack damage
  • Healer: green, buff healing effectiveness
  • Mage: blue, debuff enemy defense
  • Void: purple, buff area damage and size

And the stats are:

  • HP
  • Damage
  • Area damage
  • Area of effect
  • Attack speed
  • Defense -> if defense >= 0 then dmg_m = 100/(100+defense) else dmg_m = 2-100/(100-defense)

HP, damage and defense are flat stats, whereas area damage, area of effect and attack speed are multipliers. This is because each character/attack has its own attack speed/area and trying to generalize that too much wouldn't work well. For tomorrow I'll just try to finish the rest of the todo, which is add more characters, port enemy spawning logic from SHOOTRX and add sounds.

Day 4 - 20/02/21

Ported over enemy spawning logic and added all characters. The characters currently are:

  • Vagrant: shoots an ethereal projectile at any nearby enemy that deals physical and magical damage, medium range
  • Scout: throws a knife that chains 3 times at any nearby enemy, small range
  • Cleric: heals every unit when any one drops below 50% HP
  • Swordsman: deals physical damage in an area around the unit, small range
  • Archer: shoots an arrow that pierces at any nearby enemy, very long range
  • Wizard: shoots a projectile at any nearby enemy and deals AoE magical damage on contact, small range, AoE has very small range

The classes are:

  • Ranger: yellow, buff attack speed
  • Warrior: orange, buff attack damage
  • Healer: green, buff healing effectiveness
  • Mage: blue, debuff enemy defense
  • Void: purple, buff area damage and size
  • Builder: orange, buffs construct damage, attack speed and duration
  • Rogue: red, chance to crit dealing 4x damage

I'm not sure what I should focus on next. I know that there's sounds left to add, but after that I should probably start doing the actual game progression, but for that I think need a bunch more characters. I should probably try to think of a cast of maybe 15-20 characters (however that number should be as low as possible) that fills up the current classes to their multiple levels. Levels possible are: 1, 2, 3, 2/4, 2/4/6 and 3/6.

Day 5 - 21/02/21

Sounds done for everything. Surprising to me how much sounds added to the game and helped me sell all the different attacks way better than with just graphics. I should probably make it a habit to add sounds earlier rather than later from now on.

Tomorrow I should probably ideaguy the full set of characters and classes that I'll need so that the game is playable and start on implementing those additional characters as well as some class bonuses.

Day 6 - 22/02/21

Ideaguyed the entire roster for the demo and implemented a few of them.

Classes

Class Color Set Effect
Ranger yellow chance to release a barrage
Warrior orange increased defense
Healer green increased healing effectiveness
Mage blue decreased enemy defense
Nuker purple increased area damage and size
Conjurer orange increased construct damage and duration
Rogue red chance to crit dealing 4x damage
Enchanter pink increased damage to all allies
Psy white returns damage taken based on number of active psy units

Characters

Character Description Trigger Range Effect Range
Vagrant shoots a projectile medium
Scout throws a knife that chains 3 times small
Cleric heals every unit when any one drops below 50% HP
Swordsman deals physical damage in an area around the unit small medium
Archer shoots an arrow that pierces very long
Wizard shoots a projectile that deals AoE damage long very small
Outlaw throws a fan of 5 knives medium
Blade shoots multiple blades that deal AoE damage on contact small small
Elementor deals massive AoE damage to a random target long medium
Ninja creates clones that roam and shoot shurikens very small
Linker links nearby enemies together making them share damage taken medium small
Sage shoots a slow projectile that draws enemies in medium medium
Squire improves damage and defense for adjacent units as well as healing them periodically
Cannoneer shoots a projectile that deals massive AoE damage long medium
Dual Gunner shoots two parallel projectiles medium
Hunter shoots an arrow with a chance to summon a pet long small
Chronomancer dramatically improves attack speed for adjacent units
Spellblade knives orbit you and hoam towards nearby enemies small small
Psykeeper all damage taken is stored and distributed as healing
Gambler drops a sentry that uses random attacks medium

Character Classes

Character Classes
Vagrant warrior, ranger, psy
Scout rogue
Cleric healer
Swordsman warrior
Archer ranger
Wizard mage
Outlaw rogue, warrior
Blade warrior, nuker
Elementor mage, nuker
Ninja rogue, conjurer
Linker enchanter, nuker
Sage mage, nuker
Squire warrior, healer, enchanter
Cannoneer ranger, nuker
Dual unner [ranger, rogue
Hunter ranger, conjurer
Chronomancer mage, enchanter
Spellblade mage, rogue
Psykeeper healer, psy
Gambler conjurer

Class Numbers

Class Set Levels Total Units
Ranger 2, 4 5
Warrior 2, 4 5
Healer 3 3
Mage 2, 4 5
Nuker 2, 4 5
Conjurer 2 3
Rogue 2, 4 5
Enchanter 3 3
Psy n 2

Class Stat Multipliers

Class HP DMG ASPD Area DMG Area Size DEF MVSPD
Warrior 1.4 1.1 0.9 1.0 1.0 1.25 0.9
Ranger 1.0 1.2 1.5 1.0 1.0 0.9 1.2
Healer 1.2 1.0 0.5 1.0 1.0 1.2 1.0
Mage 0.6 1.4 1.0 1.25 1.25 0.75 1.0
Rogue 0.8 1.3 1.1 0.6 0.6 0.8 1.4
Nuker 0.9 1.4 0.75 1.5 1.3 1.0 1.0
Conjurer 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Enchanter 1.2 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.2 1.2
Psy 1.5 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.5 1.0

I've implemented up to Elementor today and ATM in the process of doing Ninja, but today seems like a particularly low energy day so I'm just going to play some games instead.

Day 7 - 23/02/21

Not a lot done today... My sleep schedule is fucked up and I've been unable to focus properly. I managed to get 2 characters done though and also changed their definitions a bit:

  • Ninja -> Saboteur: calls on other saboteurs to seek targets and explode on contact, AoE has small range
  • Ninja -> Saboteur: rogue, conjurer, nuker
  • Linker -> Stormweaver: infuses all projetile attacks with chain lightning, medium range
  • Linker -> Stormweaver: enchanter, nuker

Day 8-9 - 24-25/02/21

Finished all characters finally. My sleep is so fucked these two days blended together seamlessly. It's so fucking hot and I'm so tired. God damn I fucking hate the summer so fucking much. I hope I can sleep properly today. Definition changes for one character: Spellblade - knives slowly spiral outwards.

Tomorrow I'll probably do some UI work so the player can buy new characters as he goes from arena to arena, or work on the game's progression in terms of enemy HP and DMG. These are fundamentally the only two things missing and I have a essentially 1 week to do them, which should be more than enough.

Note: remember to attribute https://freesound.org/people/Hybrid_V/sounds/321215/ for turret_deploy sound in credits.

Day 10 - 26/02/21

Another day with almost no sleep and just general low energy because of it... I managed to things done though. I got all the class set bonuses working. Here's what they do:

Class Set Numbers Set Effect
Ranger 2/4 10/20% chance to release a barrage
Warrior 2/4 +25/+50 defense
Healer 3 +25% healing effectiveness
Mage 2/4 -15/-30 enemy defense
Nuker 2/4 +15/25% area damage and size
Conjurer 2 +25% construct damage and duration
Rogue 2/4 10/20% chance to crit dealing 4x damage
Enchanter 3 +25% damage to all allies

Tomorrow I should get started on going from arena to arena, buying characters and figuring out enemy scaling.