a Deep PVP get together sport!

The primary theme is the store city theme. That is the one you’re already acquainted with. It options wood buildings, retailers, and indicators. The store city theme seems like a Western metropolis, however we’d change that. It fits the title of our sport, and we can have a vendor (a vendor that you would be able to purchase weapons from throughout fight), and it suits this theme completely.

The second theme is the crystal mines. That is one other new theme that we’ve been experimenting with lately. It options darkish tunnels, glowing crystals, metallic buildings, and pits. The crystal mines theme is darker and mysterious, including extra problem and rigidity to the gameplay. We’re contemplating open areas the place gamers can fall off the map, however we’re nonetheless figuring out. We need to use our twister mechanic, which may pull gamers towards water or different hazards. If we’ve pits as a substitute of water, the twister may also not work as a result of the twister container will fall into the pit (examine the twister within the objects showcase https://boards.tigsource.com/index.php?subject=73729.msg1455218#msg1455218).
We’ve improved the crystal mines theme by including some water within the background, which seems good. We’re glad with the ultimate outcomes.

The third theme remains to be in progress; we are going to reveal it later. We hope you want our new updates, and keep tuned for extra!

Nothing says royalty like a glazed pastry in your noggin

(this was a tweet that I did)

Nevertheless, we achieved a number of issues throughout this time.

First
We’ve two absolutely playable mechs.
The Minigun Mech, and the Flame thrower Mech.

Second
We’re additionally nearly executed with the seller: He serves as an in-match Vendor, the place you must danger your life to purchase one thing from it or -even better- Improve your present weapon to a golden weapon!

Final
Golden weapons are extra highly effective variations of the identical weapon. They do not simply add stats… that’s the reason I’ll submit concerning the Golden weapons individually, in addition to a submit concerning the mechs we’ve.

keep tuned!

Lastly, I’ve completed engaged on the bots immediately, they serve their objective for now, individuals can check and check out the sport after they do not have anybody to play with!, the AI nonetheless wants lots of enhancements and it is positively no match for the common participant, we are going to enhance it over time hopefully, nevertheless it’s not our focus to make the AI very robust, and it is not the purpose of the sport in any respect.

I need to share with you 2 details on the AI, the unity construction, and the final algorithm.

Unity Construction:

you’ll be able to return to the submit I made greater than a yr in the past to see how it began, nevertheless, I attempted so simplify issues, no want for bushes or any subtle instruments.
https://boards.tigsource.com/index.php?subject=73729.msg1453276#msg1453276

The mind element is 2 components, the logic pipeline and the shared logic and sensor.
the pipeline as you’ll be able to see is a sequence of items of logic that execute so as, and so they share the data utilizing the mind element and get occasions from it, for example, when an enemy is close by, the mind will inform the logic components.

How does the bot typically behave ?
You possibly can see from the earlier picture that the bot works in easy steps, it decides who the present goal is, determine the place it ought to transfer based mostly on the present aggression stage, and the taking pictures logic takes care of when to shoot by checking if the goal is in sight or not.

essentially the most sophisticated a part of this complete factor is the motion half, say the AI needs to cover, what’s the greatest hiding place ?

The overall algorithm relies on islands, the AI scans the complete map at first and saves all islands, and can preserve monitor of the islands adjustments based mostly on partitions destructions.

The AI will create bins round every island of blocks, and based mostly on how aggressive/defensive it is, it decides which island to make use of as a defend or as an attacking level

It is lots of Vector math to determine what level is the most secure based mostly on all enemies places, or based mostly on the place it needs to assault.

I hope this was attention-grabbing, I needed to share my battle for the previous few months.

So lately we added a brand new map theme, however extra importantly, we made the pit a bit extra interactive!

As talked about earlier than, the pit is an important a part of the sport as a result of it provides the middle of the map extra worth. It permits the participant to throw his weapon to achieve it again within the subsequent spherical, giving him a big benefit over all people’s pistol.

It used to appear like this: (this can be a participant throwing his weapon in)

The brand new pit seems like this:

As well as, we created a 3rd map for the sport, following Chris Zukowski’s recommendation, your steam web page wants to indicate at the very least 3 totally different enironments, in any other case the consumers would possibly assume the sport is low on content material.

The third theme is the Jungle, now in fact, the ultimate model may need totally different maps per-theme, however for the trailer + the steam web page, I simply needed to have 3 themes prepared.

Making a Occasion Recreation that retains gamers coming again – Devlog #1

On this episode, I speak concerning the sport objectives and the objectives of my youtube channel.