Category: Doomsday Everyday

AdInf Dev Journals #6: Sootheslayer (C# Unity)

Games Mentioned

• Sootheslayer

Due to increased work responsibilities I haven’t been able to/ have been less motivated to work on personal projects. I was hitting creative blocks and having trouble rationalizing continuation of projects which has led me to start work on a different game, working title: Sootheslayer.

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The current plan for Sootheslayer is for it to be a 2D Mystery Dungeon-esque RPG . The player’s actions and choices will affect their alignment on Lawful/Chaotic and Good/Evil binaries. Many of the ideas drafted for this game are spiritual successors from DDED with the main difference between the projects being DDED being a text-based game built with Twine 2 and Sootheslayer being built with C# Unity. Unity uses methods similar to those that I use in my main developer job and makes it quite easy to create, customize, and visualize game assets.

Initial prototype goals:

Key: Completed In-progress/Pending

• Planning demo quest
• Developing assets
• Researching and drafting mechanisms to implement
• Experimenting with Unity functionality

• Later:
  • A lot more!

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AdInf Dev Journals #5: DDED Development + Updates

Games Mentioned

• Doomsday Everyday

In my last post, I detailed my plans for a text-based post-apocalyptic RPG. For about a month I developed the game intensely, creating a backend of game mechanics, menus, and content using Twine’s strength of hyperlink-focused syntax. After being pre-occupied with a long month at my day job, I’m returning to the project and hoping to get the build to the point of being a fully playable demo 🙂

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Initial prototype goals:

Key: Completed In-progress/Pending

• Pre-alpha posted on my other site https://www.whataremyodds.app/dded-pre-alpha
• Barebones character creation including:
  • Classes, skills, and held items
• Established integral menu settings
  • Boot-up screen, main menu, HUD with journal and other player progress resources, dialogue foundations
• Created 40 pages containing content to be displayed using a module format (ex. displaying the HUD ‘page’ on non-dialogue passages)
• Began optimizations for mobile/desktop adjustments for user experience.

• Implementing:
  • Creating chapter 1 in Twine for demo
  • Consider further macro-plan for project
  • Figure out how stat calculations will work
  • Create a good home screen for the game and play around with .css options

• Later:
  • A lot more!

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Check out the DDED source code on my github! 

Aside from DDED, I am currently learning more about C# .NET Core for my SWE role :D

AdInf Dev Journals #4: Doomsday Everyday

Games Mentioned

• Doomsday Everyday

I’ve been busy with work/life but have been thinking about the upcoming project I plan on devoting a large portion of my time towards: Doomsday Everyday – a text-based game built using Twine 2 (recommended by a friend who is an Amazon Game Studios designer).

Here’s my initial outline of what I’m hoping to be the core of this game:

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Genre: Apocalyptic text-based RPG

Premise: Simulate various apocalypse scenarios

Gameplay:

• Create a detail-rich character:
  • Pick boosted attributes
  • Pick proficient skills
  • Pick character traits
  • Pick character items
  • Pick character backstory
• Face different challenges and reap many rewards
  • Combat, looting, barter, allegiances, decisions
  • Encounters where your character is at a genuine advantage or disadvantage
  • Multiple avenues of success ranging from absolute win paths to RNG-based lucky paths.
  • To start with: 9 chapter segments – death possible at anytime. Dialog with characters that enablers large amounts of player choice.

Scenarios:

• Follow schema of {Adjective-class} {Event-class}
  • First scenario will be Zombie Flood, with the zombie part adding additional survival elements and the Flood event prompting immediate immersion into how this game works.
  • Adjective-class ideas
    • Zombie
    • Nuclear
    • Fake
    • Future
    • Spooky
  • Event-class ideas
    • Flood
    • Civil War
    • Eruption
    • Invasion
    • Aliens

Initial prototype goals:

Key: Completed In-progress/Pending

• This journal entry

• Implementing:
  • Create chapter 1 in Twine
  • Consider macro-plan for project
  • Figure out how stats will work
  • Create a good home screen for the game

• Later:
  • A lot!

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