Bullet Hell Lane Shooter

Devlog

• PROJECT ON HOLD
  April 08, 2019 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Game Dev, #Development

  BULLET HELL LANE SHOOTER'S DEVELOPMENT IS CURRENTLY ON HOLD. OK, But Why? So a few weeks back I had a major hardware failure with my PC which meant replacing most of the major components. All the data... Continue reading
• 14/01/2019 Progress Report
  January 14, 2019 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Game Dev, #Development

  What's Working/Changed: Fixed a bug with the new up/down movement when using a gamepad. Various bug fixes. Added a new item that forces the player to move up or down. More waves added. What I Need To... Continue reading
• 14/11/2018 Progress Report
  November 14, 2018 by ADMAN#Game Dev, #Progress Report, #Development

  What's Working/Changed: Levels changed to be more fun and interesting. Menus working with controllers. Various tweaks and changes. Screenshot feature added. Changes to controls; can now use W/S to mov... Continue reading
• DEMO DAY 23 DEMO OUT NOW
  October 31, 2018 by ADMAN#Game Dev, #Demo

  /agdg/'s Demo Day 23 is coming up this weekend, but I've put up the demo now. Give it a try and give me some feedback. Next progress report is gonna be a little while because I'm taking a small break... Continue reading
• 12/10/2018 Progress Report
  October 12, 2018 by ADMAN#Game Dev, #Progress Report, #Development

  What's Working/Changed: First boss designed and implemented with placeholder art. Including some basic animation. Main and end demo menus added. Sound mixer implemented. Options menu implemented and m... Continue reading

  
• 22/09/2018 Progress Report
  September 22, 2018 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Game Dev, #Development

  What's Working/Changed: Removed custom inspector stuff as it wasn't working out. Various tweaks. New art work - Sprites for item pick ups. Rough design of the first boss complete. New enemy types desi... Continue reading

  
• 19/08/2018 Progress Report
  August 19, 2018 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Game Dev, #Development

  What's Working/Changed: DualShock 4 controller support added (Xbox 360 pad currently not supported, I'm working on a solution). Updated to a more recent version of Unity. Added custom inspectors which... Continue reading
• 17/07/2018 Progress Report
  July 17, 2018 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Game Dev, #Development

  What's Working/Changed: New special weapon added, Quake. It goes down the lane destroying all enemies in its path. Added an explosion effect when objects are destroyed. More sound effects added. Vario... Continue reading
• 21/06/2018 Progress Report
  June 21, 2018 by ADMAN#Game Dev, #Progress Report, #Development

  What's Working/Changed: Fixed that script so now all objects respond to getting hit. Set up a system that spawns boss fights. There's only one in there at the moment though. Set up a thing that displa... Continue reading

  
• 19/05/2018 Progress Report
  May 18, 2018 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Game Dev, #Development

  What's Working/Changed: Weapon pickups added. Basic checkpoint system added. New HUD elements for displaying health and weapons. New system that activates certain weapons and modifiers on certain wave... Continue reading
• 06/05/2018 Progress Report
  May 06, 2018 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Game Dev, #Development

  What's Working/Changed: Wave system that now stores the information within a list that goes through as the game progresses. Fixed the item spawning for pickup items to use a better implemented weighte... Continue reading
• Prototype Demo 2 OUT!
  May 05, 2018 by ADMAN#Prototype, #Demo, #Game Dev

  Demo for /agdg/'s Demo Day 20. Improvements include: Hold to fire Sound effects Game speed increased Various tweaks to balance As always, you can give me feedback in the comments... Continue reading
• Prototype Demo 1 Available!
  May 02, 2018 by ADMAN#Prototype Demo, #Demo, #Game Dev

  First demo available! OK, it's not perfect. You do have to Alt-F4 to exit, and when the demo ends it just suddenly resets to the intro scene. Feel free to leave feedback here... Continue reading
• 08/03/2018 Progress Report
  March 08, 2018 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Game Dev, #Development

  What's Working: All the 3D models are made Made some art changes to a couple of objects Fixed some bugs with the wave system What I Need To Work On: Textures and shaders for the models Saving and load... Continue reading
• 12/02/2018 Progress Report
  February 12, 2018 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Game Dev, #Development

  That image is a little old, but it shows how the new player model looks. What's Working: Lives system somewhat implemented 3D models for various things have been made and put into the game All items,... Continue reading

  
• 15/01/2018 Progress Report
  January 15, 2018 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Game Dev, #Development

  What's Working: Content system UI mostly there. Partially implemented new item; Bomb. What I Need To Work On: Saving and loading for the content creation system Loading enemy, weapon, and boss types i... Continue reading
• 13/11/2017 Progress Report
  November 13, 2017 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Game Dev, #Development

  What's Working: Content creation system is mostly complete, waves, lanes, and lane sequences can be added. The UI for the menu enables and disables items dynamically. Switching between things keeps th... Continue reading

  
• 30/10/2017 Progress Report
  October 30, 2017 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Game Dev, #Development

  What's Working: Rewrote the object spawning system. It now works on a timing system, and is iterating through a list of objects. Universal controller that handles weapon drops and pickups Controller t... Continue reading

  
• 20/09/2017 Progress Report
  September 20, 2017 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Development, #Game Dev

  What's Working: Player can now obtain other firing types that modify the firing mode. Players can now pick up and use special limited use weapons, currently implemented ones are a laser that instantly... Continue reading
• 01/09/2017 Progress Report
  September 01, 2017 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Game Dev, #Development

  What's Working: Updated the turret enemy with more customisation as well as some additional tweaks. Camera now tracks the player. New enemy type, Ricocheting Bullet. Everything in the game now takes D... Continue reading
• 29/08/2017 Progress Report
  August 29, 2017 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Game Dev, #Development

  What's Working: Two new enemy types, Laser and Turret Couple of additional gameplay mutators Additional tweaks and changes What I Need To Work On: More enemy types Weapons and power ups Visual feedbac... Continue reading
• 10/08/2017 Progress Report
  August 10, 2017 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Game Dev, #Development

  What's Working: A system that handles gameplay modifiers Modifier items that appear in the lanes now work, and several effects are working as intended What I Need To Work On: Making more in-depth game... Continue reading
• 07/08/2017 Progress Report
  August 07, 2017 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Game Dev, #Development

  What's Working: Added some additional levels New enemy type (See GIF), a enemy that moves from side-to-side between lanes Changed the shooting mechanics to let the player shoot more frequently Made so... Continue reading

  
• 10/07/2017 Progress Report
  July 10, 2017 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Game Dev, #Development

  What's Working: Pattern selection system works and now uses the update cycle Score/Wave causing pattern to change Specific patterns can be selected based on wave number and can set to random. What I N... Continue reading
• 04/07/2017 Progress Report
  July 03, 2017 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Game Dev, #Development

  What's Working: Pattern selection system prototype working Score/Wave causing pattern to change Specific patterns can be selected based on wave number and can set to random. What I Need To Work On: Im... Continue reading
• 05/06/2017 Progress Report
  June 05, 2017 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Game Dev, #Development

  Sorry for the wait. What's Working: Enemies now shoot at the player. Player can shoot and items on the lane get destroyed, including non-enemy items. What I Need To Work On: Pattern selection sub-syst... Continue reading
• 16/05/2017 Progress Update
  May 16, 2017 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Development, #Game Dev

  What's Working: Random objects spawning on the lanes Random pattern selection* Game now starts its self What I Need To Work On: *Pattern selection fails once I add more lanes, so that needs to be fixe... Continue reading

  
• 09/05/2017 Progress Update
  May 09, 2017 by ADMAN#Progress Report, #Development, #Game dev

  Fixed the random picking of objects. Switched from C#'s Random class to Unity's one and it works better now. Now I just gotta tweak the amounts so certain things are rarer spawns. That being said, I d... Continue reading
• First Post!
  May 08, 2017 by ADMAN#Devlopment, #Game Dev, #Progress Report

  Good day! So I'm just testing out this devlog thing, but I figured I'd talk about what's going on with the project so far. Things That Work: Lane spawning, adding and removing lanes Player movement Ob... Continue reading