Devlog: Nokandu Update 0.1.1 - December 16, 2022

1 year ago by Bumblebean Games (@bumblebeangames)

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This week I focused on initial usability for a player because I'm bringing this to a playtesting event in Chicago this evening. If you have any questions or comments please let me know and I hope you enjoy!

Bug Fixes:

Fixed save system bug where there was no default value if a key did not exist in GameManager script
Fixed bug where harvested/deleted crops loading as full plants
Fixed bug with TAB menu pack slots where couldn’t place an item in an empty slot and if exit out of menu when moving item would crash the moving item script
Fixed bug where Canvas input was enabled during the intro story
Fixed bug where on Market unlocked, active NPC would not get deleted from camp
Fixed bug with Alex dialogue wrapping on itself

Gameplay Changes:

Added new Goal dropdown menu to make clearer the objectives (new code and art)
Added 2x cursors (default, can interact with something) and code to support
Added new goal: Escape Crater (for more early game direction)
Added new goal: Find Survivors (for more early game direction)
Added onScreen buttons to open Pack, Library, Crafting, and Goals– new art, code, and animation
Added support for number pad scroll through inventory (Pressing 0-9 will highlight that inventory slot)
Added dowse animation and code to support
Added new MARVIN/Goal UI art and animation
Added sprites for storage container to show when empty versus full
Added animation for water tank (and tweaked design) to better show is a water tank
Added description for multitool book and shortened book descriptions for smelter and refiner
Added more trees to forest (of types 2 and 3)
Added more function to SPACE click (item left click)
Added sprite light to top of cindersack tree
Added 2x sounds: OnFind NPC and OnCompleteGoal
Added exit buttons to the following UI(MarvinUI, TabMenu, Store, MachineUI, CraftingUI, NarrativeUI)
Removed shovel recipe book from Lani camp and made it part of initial dialogue instead
Changed brick book in start scene to scrap (trying to remove books from environment)
Tweaked Farm tomato count goal in goal and dialogue (from a mismatch of 5/20 to 10)
Changed Mae goal from 3 to 2 days (for the sake of playtesting)
Added brick recipe book to quincy dialogue 3 and added 2x dialogue blocks to support
Edited Quincy dialogue because bone cave doesn’t exist in current version and some dialogue blocks too long
Tweaked Alex dialogue 1 because 1x dialogue block too long
Tweaked Mae dialogue 1 because 1x dialogue block too long
Farming tutorial now in Lani goal description instead of big text pop up
Removed crafting tutorial popup (too much text, trying to guide players with visual cues instead)
Change “Find Magazine” Goal name to “Recover Magazine”
Changed helpUI to include new hotkeys
Spread out the village
Tweaked Lani site to shed more light on character
Changed Start scene ground texture
Tweaked the tilemaps for forest and bone yard
Removed canteen from OnStart inventory, made it an item to get picked up in Start scene

System Changes:

Change light order of bluevine bush arm light from 0→1, bluevine area light from 0→-1, and ember grass bulb light from 0→2 to stop flickering issue
Tweaked transparent collider of rocks
Changed prefab of all rocks, bluevine bushes, and ember grass default Z coordinate from 40 to 0
Create keycode shortcut to open the library and the crafting menu
Created a new PlayerInput script to control all input regarding the in game character
Tweaked SPACE priority, now 1) Interact with something nearby 2) LeftClick with highlighted Item
Tweaked SPACE code so that when item=shovel if the player is nearby a hole instead of deleting that hole will dig a new one
Changed each building upgrade from a sprite switch to a prefab switch
Tweaked Fade script and animation to be less intensive and more smooth
Changed trio house and tower house game objects to better pivot (now multiple game objects
Tweaked Skull pivot
Edited hole and seed script so that seed method is no longer called on plant, hole does all the work
Removed "Save" button in pause menu and automatically save when exit (to fix issues with save system)
Removing “Continue” Game option from WebGL builds, only available on PC builds