Game Gen - Week 23

Finished Tarot Game and Continued 2D Mobile Game Progress:


The last two weeks I have made progress on two different games I've been working on. I finished up a demo of a Tarot Card experience that my friends and I have been working on, and I think it came out really nice! Here's a video going through how I created the game: 

Tarot Game Video Overview:


This is a somewhat simple game, but I learned some cool new tricks, including using Media Players and playing videos using Blueprints. I also learned a lot about using Lerp and Timelines to move objects. I had a lot of fun creating this with some help! 

The art is nearly complete, though I have some touch-ups I want to make on the card art itself. 

2D Game Progress:

I also continued to make progress on the 2D Mobile game "Starpaws" that I've been developing. We mainly worked on the trade and inventory system, including a save system that works with the inventory. So overall we created a save system, a trade inventory system, and the widgets to manipulate the trade system as well. Here are some screenshots of the code implementation to show you what I've done:

First, here's a video where I go more in-depth over the code implementation: 




Here's a short gif of the game itself as it is now:


Here is how the Trade Inventory Menu looks currently:


Here is the blueprint to create the Items in the Trade Inventory list as shown above:


This is the Data Table which uses a Structure that is defined in C++ and then we add the information about the items in the game here: 


This is where we define the functions and variables for the Save System: 


Here's how the save system works, it's pretty simple. We can get the inventory when needed, and we can update it either using a pointer to F Inventory Data or local data. 


Here's the functionality for how we first verify the save system for the trade inventory manager, and then we create a saved game. 


Here are the Trade Inventory functions that grab the items from the data table or load them from the saved game if there is one. 


This is how we created the Struct for the Inventory Item data that is used throughout the game. This is what the Data Table is using for it's structure as well. 


This is how we set the actual data for the individual item in the item's to trade list. 


This is the function used to update the quantity of the items to sell from the Trade Item Widget. 


So far, I have learned a lot about C++ and am starting to really get a grasp of how it works. Figuring out how to utilize the Data Table with C++ was challenging, but a great learning opportunity! 

Next week I hope to continue on the Trade System and how the NPCs will purchase only items available to trade, and won't spawn if no items are yet added to sell. I also want to begin working on how farming will function, but not sure what we will want to tackle next yet. 



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Game Gen - Week 19

Image
Continuing in C++ and Unreal Engine! Over the last two weeks, I've focused on developing the core mechanics of my 2D resource game, "Star Paws." Here's a summary of the key C++ classes and functionality I've implemented: Here are the C++ Classes and functionality I've made over the last two weeks: Here's a short GIF of my 2D game, which is still very early in development.  Player Character  Setup : Created a Paper2D character using a C++ class, then converted it to a Blueprint. Functionality : The player character moves to the Base Console on tap, triggering the Base Management mission control menu upon arrival. A snippet of how we control the player's movement with timers.  Trade Table System  Structure : Developed a C++ class and Blueprint for managing trade goods using Enums and Structs. Mechanics : On interaction, items are sold, and the appropriate gold amount is added. NPCs trigger sales by moving to the table and purchasing items. A weighted sys...
Read more

Game Gen - Week 1

Image
 This Week In My Adventures... Imported Public Domain Assets I utilized assets from various websites licensed with Public Domain to make the level more interesting.  Created Third Person Project Walked through setting up a new third-person project with Vives. Created Hamburger Pickup What started as just a plain white ball pickup turned into a fun giant hamburger, resulting in a normal-sized hamburger in your hand on collision.  Created Health and Mana Reduction Items for Testing I jazzed up the basic HP "damage" causing item and replicated it for mana reduction.  Created Health and Mana Potions for Restoration I found more public-domain assets online to use for my health and mana potions.  I then implemented the same functionality as my "damage-doers" but instead of subtracting from the variables, I added to them.  Created the Beginnings of UI with Functional Health and Mana bars.  Vives taught me how to start making a basic UI including a health bar....
Read more

Game Gen - Week 4

Image
This week, we really dove into many more of the deeper mechanics of Unreal Engine blueprinting and gameplay. We focused mainly on further developing the player character before moving on to start the actual gameplay loop mechanics. This involved delving into the math for curves, with which I'm not super familiar. However, Vives did an awesome job helping me understand, as did my girlfriend, who is way better at math than I am! Ha! This week I had a lot I accomplished, but here are the highlights: Improved character mechanics: We added a cooldown on the attack to prevent the character from freezing. This involved the mechanics of a cooldown paired with connecting it to the UI. Improved the map layout: I replaced the simple map with a better, larger layout with these neat medieval assets I found online that are public domain.  Improved the AI's path-finding ability: I added the use of an Environment Query System using Pathing Grids and looking for the Distance to the Flag or Play...
Read more