Continued work on my turn based battle system.

Added a bit of UI, thought this really needs characters and animations soon!

Got the Healer brain to work (heals allies below 50%) and the defend + counter attack feature (without infinite counter loop) 😅

Fun stuff!

Making a turn based RPG battle system today. I've never made one more simple than just back and forth attack/health turns and wanted to give it a shot!! It's just text so far but it supports multiple combatants, turn order/amount from speed, and even a few enemy AI profiles.

Realized today that it would be kind of trivial to make the tile editor work at runtime, so I did that. Should I do a level editor or is this just a horrible distraction??? Yes!!

Animations in dialog, woo! I ended up re-writing my fancy playable-mixer-animation thing and am just playing these cosmetic animations on an 'extra' layer of the regular Animator state machine.

Spent some time on dialog sequencing today. Added an ID system to link scene objects to scriptable objects, making them easy to reference in dialog etc. Also some quality of life stuff: a quick “Add Opposite Dialog” shortcut and hid extra params in foldouts.

I've decided to keep both dialog bubbles and the text box. Figure they'll be useful in different contexts. That's enough time working on Dialog UI, time to get back to ... gameplay? art? level design? 🤔

Made a stem for the dialog bubbles 💬

Working on a 'bubble' version of the dialog player UI. I got positioning + screen clamping working. Next up will be the 'stem' graphic and placement. Maybe some padding.

Ok don't get too excited, I put together a graphics settings screen. Contain your excitement!! It is only a menu screen.

Why am I making things in Godot now? It's pretty cool actually. Much improved from the last time I tried it. I gotta get back to Unity so I don't restart this project again 😖

It's been a little while! I have been adding a health bar, as well as items and food that you can eat to heal. There's a whole Item Manager / ID / Pooling thing too, but that's hard to show in a video.

Oh, finally got respawn working properly too!

Put together a simple scene loader + transition + checkpoint saving setup. Now we can wander between scenes with the right entry/exit points, and even load into a save game in the right place.

Everybody's favourite - smashable props!

Also realized I had been calculating knock back wrong. Fixed!

Made a little editor thing that lets me read/write parameters from another script directly in animation states. The fields don't actually exist in the animator state. Neat and hopefully not confusing later, haha.

I've got some simple combat up and running nicely this morning. Contemplating a dodge roll 🤔