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- Completely redesigned the prototype with better placeholders to cut away a lot of the weird fonts \/ gradients.<\/li>\n
- Set up a Main Menu scene along with a Stage 01<\/li>\n
- Added in a fading transition between scenes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
9\/4\/2019 — Wednesday
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- Created singletons to handle level changing and managing levels individually<\/li>\n
- Ended up having to rebuild most of the fading transition from scratch to get it to work correctly with the new singleton process<\/li>\n
- Constructed dialogue UI elements for Stage 01, along with a basic animation so that the dialogue element pops into view using a mask.<\/li>\n
- Began using Unity Collab as version control because I’m working alone and don’t have the internet bandwidth to set up a perforce server like I initially wanted to<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
9\/5\/2019 — Thursday
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- Created a settings UI with animation opening and closing<\/li>\n
- Spent most of my time researching animation and the potential for using Timeline for cutscenes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
9\/6\/2019 —\u00a0 Friday
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- Went to Home Depot and purchased marker board material<\/li>\n
- Spent the rest of the night installing it with great success<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"Whiteboard\"](\"http:\/\/www.caleb-perkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whiteboard-294x300.jpg\")
<\/p>\n9\/7\/2019 —\u00a0 Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- Reworked the dialogue animation to preserve a better hierarchy similar to the settings interface<\/li>\n
- Reworked the prototype dialogue scripts to be more efficient and work with my singletons<\/li>\n
- Added text animation!<\/li>\n
- Began reaching out to an artist and musician I hope to collaborate with.<\/li>\n
- Did my first #screenshotsaturday!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The Good Stuff<\/h1>\n
Main Menu, transition to Stage 01, transition back to Main Menu:<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.caleb-perkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MainTransition.gif\")
<\/p>\nMy dialogue animation, with the demonstration of tapping while it’s auto-typing to instantly complete the line:<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.caleb-perkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stage01.gif\")
<\/p>\nGoals<\/h1>\n
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- Set up scenes for all 16 main levels, plus the final draw (the “boss” level”)<\/li>\n
- Implement options.\u00a0 Make sure they stay saved in player prefs between sessions.<\/li>\n
- Spend an indeterminate amount of time working on the narrative<\/li>\n
- Stretch goal:\u00a0 spend more time investigating the idea of writing narrative into a JSON file and using those as assets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Last Thoughts<\/h1>\n
In other exciting news, I’m getting a new monitor to help with development.\u00a0 The ones I currently have are dying on me, and using Unity on my laptop screen is a pain when I need to have a lot of editors open at the same time, like the animator timeline.\u00a0 As time goes on, I’m going to really be able to invest in my development pipeline and get myself the tools I need to be better and faster.\u00a0 I can already tell that this whiteboard has been a huge boon to the design process.<\/p>\n
My birthday is coming up this weekend and while I don’t think I’ll be doing anything then, I do plan to celebrate it sometime this month, so that’ll probably affect development speed that weekend.<\/p>\n