Few hours of animating, little adjustments to companion visualization, some little things like icon, description, stats and upgrades - and the windmill is fully implemented into game! Wilfred and Ugylk say it works just fine in its place. The dwarf is especially happy about it as he don't need to pedal whole the tank on his own now.
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While reworking inventory UI is still in progress, I found some time to make new engine for Wilfred's tank. Yep, that's a windmill. And I know it can't possibly produce enough power to move a vehicle that big, but neither can dwarfcycle. Though I always try to create tank parts with some visual explanation of how they work, it was never about total physical accuracy.
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Although I already had a track for progression screen, I felt it shouldn't play there all the time and suits only for one of later locations. So I decided to make a separate menu soundtrack for each location. And another one of them is already here, it's called Campfire and will accompany player between stages of the forest location. With this one, total amount of soundtrack is reaching 20 tracks with 55 minutes total length, which is probably already too much for a game like Dwarfinator. But I just can't stop. Maybe making a game was just an excuse for making a music.
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Inventory-related UI rework in progress. Stuck here for a while, for many existing features were inefficient or not reusable. Right now, for instance, I'm making general icon system to decerase UI latency and make possible partial updates of multiple icons. It's become possible with building icons from multiple parts such as background, content, frame and others instead of baking full icon and using scriptable objects to store values of those parts as single style asset. I can also merge multiple styles into new one at runtime, which allows me to store some changes in icon, like highlighting or selecting, as common style for every icon of certain type.
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Working on a new tank parts management system. Previous one was quite a chunk of code, so making it again from scratch should take some time. That's why I can't show any new content for now. In its current state the system is already able to build fully functional tank, but I still need to integrate it into user interface.
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It's been almost two years since first gameplay video and now I'm finally ready to show you a new one. It's still work in progress and some things may change again, but it's quite close to what I meant this game to be. A lot of enemies of different sizes and abilities, active skills and buffs for the player, much more intense fights with dynamic difficulty adjustments, various improvements in visual and sound effects - I've been quite busy those two years. And I'm going to keep it that way.
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Until now there was no visual representation of tank buffs and debuffs in the game, but today it's changed, and I can show you some basic lightning effects for "Overdrive" buff. And it seems I never posted anything buff-related before, so you can find full sequence of activating buff from active skill in attached video.
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I don't know why I never create sounds at the same time with entity supposed to making them. But I've been filling this gap for a couple of weeks, and now I have something to show you. Screams of pain and rage, sounds of shoots and hits, wolf's howl and orc's spells - now the game has a lot new ways to break the silence.
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One more piece of soundtrack for the game. Light and magical - just exactly what fairy needs as a character theme. And since there is one certain fairy in the game - May, I'll give it straight to her.
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What's a game good for without a loading screen? And Dwarfinator now has one, with progress bar and dynamic gameplay hints. Took a lot of coding to make it work properly, as most of the game init and loading systems was written quite a long time ago, when I was just a begginer in programming, so they were ugly as hell. They are still ugly though, now their uglyness is unified!
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