Project Infernal Hell
0.3

Notes: As i progress the game is now in a stage that can be properly tested for a period of time. The skeleton of the game is mostly built with skills, weapons, items, objects all usable and purchasable. Rounds with scaling difficulty and bosses. Special enemies that interact differently. Secret areas for special bonuses, a proper area to play in. A place to defend that properly takes damage. With this update I feel the game is in a real state of playability and will now be having people i trust test the game and provide proper feedback. I will be putting a lot of work into polish and visualization within the next few updates.

 

WARNING: These patch notes are made as i create/do things so some of them may conflict or repeat implied information. If anything serious is conflicted

either it will be removed or i will state the issue in the things to remember below this warning!

Things to remember: Skills are DISABLED as of right now, i need to finish developing the automatic hotkey placement that is used.

Programming
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- Added shadow AI, these enemies spawn constantly. They spawn in between rounds and come after the player rather than the base.
Low HP and reward no points upon death. They are a medium speed and spawn every 15 seconds.

- Secret object now permanently applies a bonus to the players( right now it's 20% damage increase when you go near it)

- Reduced chance of ai getting stuck in areas

- Balanced prices of items within the store

- Significantly optimized AI, game should be able to run much better above 6 ai now

- Revamped the skill system(all under the hood) More skills are now implementable as i continue to work on them

- Started work on a skill that forces ai backward in front of you

- Added a skill that pushes the enemies back in a radius around you(weaker than the forward push but appliable to multiple directions)

- Player hp fully implemented. You can now take damage and die due to it. Shadow AI deal damage to the player as does meteors and erupting fire

- UI now shows what placeable is equiped and how much of one you have

- Grenades now have a delay between uses and cannot be used while shooting

- Player character now has HP and is indicated inside the ui

- Bullets now fire after clicking with no delay

- Base HP indicator is now above the portal rather than on screen

- Bullets are no longer affected by gravity and move significantly faster

- Added in turret, does basic damage to enemies within a certain range until they are out of range or dead.
-- Now in store for 200 points

- Added the ability to switch between placeable items when equiped. These range from spikes, turrets and mines

- Turret now attacks enemies in range based on a timer and repeater as they enter into a viable range.

- Added visual indicator to Enemies that lasts a split second. This will be improved on as time goes on
-- Lasts .1 second and is bright red

- Created and added a dash mechanic skill that propels you forward on the click of a button
-- Lasts a few seconds, sticks you to ground and moves you forward a distance. 15 Second cooldown currently

- Dash now has a skill image on the bottom with indicator of when it's usable

- Began implementation of Turret Upgrades and turret menu(non of this is quite ready yet)
-- 4 Upgrades, Lazer(Constant Low damage), TripleShot(Fires 3 shots at medium damage), Explosive(Hits multiple enemies per shot medium damage, slow), 
SingleShot(1 shot, slow, heavy damage)

- Enemies now constantly attack the base when near it until death

- Big enemy rounds are now more rare

- Melee enemies now have a health bar that reduces as you do damage

- Towers are now spread out across the map

- Grenades are now more properly added and usable 
-- Right click to use and cost 15 points to refill at store

- Added erupting fire enviromental effect, does no damage right now. Also doesnt have any actual effects or art

- Pistol fire rate cut in half

- Enemies spawn on 2 different angles of the new base location forcing you to look at multiple areas

- Shadow ai spawn and randomly pick between which direction to come at you

- Perma bonus secret applies a buff when you find it from the parkour area

- Began implementation of boss
-- You have to shoot it in a certain area to do damage. Has a lot of hp, slow, does a lot of damage

Visual
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- Added placeholder ground texture for lava

- Parkour rock area is now within the map, explore it to find a secret

- Created terrain and removed old area

- Added ui above certain enemies that show hp(only melee rn)

- Shadow ai are more transparent than normal ai

- Store now has a more obv. view and is easier to find and use

- Added a more stylized rock as i explore that theme of art

- Started work on a starting area that is more proper
-- Creating enviromental art to add to area

- Modeled and textured a basic placeholder portal that you must protect
-- Will expand with time

- Added a post process effect of cell shading to expand on the stylized art direction
-- Outlines all objects

- Set up stylized lava(placeholder)

- Added proper terrain textures(PlaceHolder)

- Blocked out areas on map were poi's will be

- Blocked out base area within the map

- Towers now have distinguishable areas to stand in

Bugs
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- Fixed towers perm. adding buff

- Fixed bug with turrets not shooting

- Fixed bug with ammo not switching visually

- Removed AR given at start of game

- Expanded enemy spawn so they dont spawn on a wall

- Survival AI now chase player

- Shadow AI now chase player

- Base now take constant damage

- Ai HP UI works now

- Ammo reloading now properly works

- Turrets are now fully functional

- Fixed skill indication colors and opacity

- Fixed spawning grenades while shooting

- Fixed spamming grenades