Luddite

Devlog

• Cutscenes
  September 22, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  To enable a flow of gameplay from the combat and movement to talking with the NPCs after quests, or to blend between world transitions, we added a fade mechanic. The screen will fade to black, and the... Continue reading
• Balancing the enemies
  September 22, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  Author: Adam Stagg The enemies used to all always have 10 health, and the player only ever deal 1 damage. This would be an issue because it is the same difficulty to get through the final dungeon as i... Continue reading

  
• Quest Gamefeel
  September 12, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  Currently, the way that the quests work is just internally updating a number and then upon returning to the hub world immediately awarding the items to the player. In this update, we added some feedba... Continue reading

  
• Dungeon Spawns
  September 11, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  Spawning things in the dungeon comes in 3 waves. The first wave will be all the enemies in the dungeon, as we want to ensure we have enough to make the dungeon playable. After that, we decide the boss... Continue reading

  
• Questing Systems
  August 24, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  Author: Adam Stagg Now that we have a working questing backend, we need some way to tie these quests to all other aspects of the game. This could include killing enemies, collecting items, or finishin... Continue reading
• Adding Physics to our Game
  August 19, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  Author: Alejandro Morales During this week in Luddite, I had to implement a bit of physics for some enemy behaviors and attacks. The reason is that there is an enemy that will jump over the player to... Continue reading

  
• Questing backend
  August 16, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  Author: Adam Stagg For the questing system, we needed to implement a lot of backend systems for them to function. We needed some way to track enemies, items, dungeons, and crafting. To do this, I made... Continue reading

  
• Dungeon Nav Mesh
  August 09, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  Author: Adam Stagg For the procedural dungeons, a nav mesh needs to be created so that the AI can traverse the dungeon. There are a few ways to do this, but the initial way I thought of doing it was t... Continue reading

  
• Dungeon Corridors
  July 21, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  Author: Adam Stagg When generating dungeons, we go room by room. When the second room is spawned, we need some way to connect this room to the previous room so that the player is able to walk through... Continue reading

  
• Dungeon floorplan merging
  July 16, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  Author: Adam Stagg To get the dungeon floorplans to feel more organic and unique, there should be a way for rooms to not just be boxes or squares. If all rooms are just the same shape, this can lead t... Continue reading

  
• Sharing Information Between AI
  July 15, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  Author: Alejandro Morales While learning how to create AI in unreal, I came across many bumps and hurdles that I had to overcome. One of these problems was sharing information between the enemies. I w... Continue reading

  
• Dungeon Generation
  July 09, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  Author: Adam Stagg When developing the original dungeon generation algorithm, I decided to use the wave function collapse algorithm. This would make every aspect of the dungeons, the floorplans, the c... Continue reading

  
• How Early Feedback can Change the Trajectory of Your Game
  July 02, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  This week was a crucial one. In terms of getting functionalities done, we didn't make much progress, but we had some industry professionals test our game prototypes and give us feedback. We have been... Continue reading
• Player Attack Animations over the Network
  June 30, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  Author: Adam Stagg The challenge for this week was to get the player attacks working over the network. I was having some issues with the RPCs not working in the correct way, and I am still unsure why... Continue reading

  
• Unreal Trace Channels
  June 24, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  Author: Landon Henry While working on Luddite this week, I started playing around with trace and object channels in Unreal Engine 5. I needed to use them for the target lock system, hitboxes, and fixi... Continue reading
• Blueprints > C++ for some things
  June 24, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  Author: Alejandro Morales This week was a fun one, I had to finish the enemy health and combat system for this week's build. Until now, all of my work has been using c++ classes to create the tasks us... Continue reading
• Procedural Generation
  June 24, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  Author: Adam Stagg For our game, we want to have procedurally generated dungeons that the player will go to when they leave the hub world. We had a pre-built dungeon for testing purposes, but we did n... Continue reading
• Problems with SubMenu Tabbing
  June 20, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions#Development Issues

  Author: Camaro Kalithasan Posted on June 18, 2022 Luddite Blog Entry #2 Problems With SubMenu Tabbing UI Development Part 1: Our game needed a way to leave the game and return to the main menu, which... Continue reading
• The Problems of Enemy AI in a Multiplayer Game
  June 19, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  author: Alejandro Morales During the development of Luddite, we as a team decided to implement pear-to-pear networking for multiplayer. Multiplayer was part of the C feature list but it was recommende... Continue reading
• Networking the Player
  June 19, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  Author: Adam Stagg Problem The player is currently working with movement and animations, however it is not synchronized over the network. Multiple clients can all see their own animations, however ove... Continue reading
• Root Motion in Unreal
  June 18, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions#blogpost

  Author: Landon Henry In the recent iterations of Luddite , we have been using Mixamo models and animations for the game. This is convenient but it does come with its own set of challenges. Our combat... Continue reading
• First Prototype
  June 11, 2022 by Me Gusta Productions

  For our first prototype, we added all of the basic features we need for the game. We added 4 objects, all networked in a different manner, as well as a support for up to 6 clients. There is now an ene... Continue reading