Project C – Journal Entry Release

Short diary about release.

Date: 18.6.2021  
Invested Hours: About 75  - 100 hours.
Activity: Creating game from scratch.
Outcome: Game was finished to playable state, with all major mechanics implemented :) 

Reflection:

So over the last 18 days, I spent most of my time learning, searching, messing with unity, breaking everything I did, coding, crunching just to finish before first exam date. 

Game is completed in a way that it's playable from start to finish. Player can win, by achieving all goals. Game get's gradually little harder by adding more adventurers that bring loots. 

Game is missing primarily sound effects and music, which is mainly due to running out of time and already overworking from original expected 30 hours for this game, I  actually spent around 90 hours in total. 

Original design I created for this game did not fare well as only general idea stayed.
Through each major part survived in it's own way:

• Area for visual indication, become little more robust, then originally planned. Instead of one adventurer that gradually moves faster, it was split to multiple adventurers and as a whole it become a background.
• UI, well it changed a lot, but most major parts exists in some way.
  • Top Banner did not exists originally, and this helped quite a lot to make game visually clear.
  • Stack  is very small, compared to original design. Only 16 items can fit know.
  • Storehouse prepare area is about same size. 32 Items can fit in it currently.
  • Store area is much simpler, as there are universal slot, which can accept  only certain items.
  • Town area was added.
    • This replaced Powers and Adventurer Outfitting area in original design.
• Powers
  • Become Expansions, which currently server only  for buying more slots and improving passive income.
• Adventurer Outfitting area was scrapped.
• Quests were added.
  • They serve as kind of tutorial and goal for player. .. As last quest is required to be completed at least once to win a game.
• Shop was added.
  • Mainly for selling items and buying lootboxes.
• Artisan was added
  • Items can be upgraded to get more score for storing them.

I will wrote more detailed postmortem later today...