Dev Diary

Had a bit of a crisis with my work project today, still coding away on a fix for that now, so I won’t be able to work on my game today. Outcome My only accomplishments on this project today were thinking about what to do next while driving to and from work… In terms of the code the next step is to divorce the domain logic from the Unity components so that I can easily generate a larger map without a lot of manual clicking around… The other reason for that is so that I can put the CityBlocks into a grid so I can calculate distances between them for the movement logic of Squads. ...

Instead of a lot of careful design I’m just going to jump straight into building a prototype! I’ll stick with the name I was using for the board game version of the idea, which is MegaCorps. This “Syndicate 4X” game idea is one I’ve thought about and designed and redesigned in my head nearly half-a-dozen times… I’m sure if I scanned through my Google Drive I’d probably find at least 1 game design document, so I feel fairly comfortable winging it in the design department. ...

As my cousin has already so eloquently explained the GitHub Game Off 2016 started a few hours ago and the theme is hacking &| modding &| augmenting. Since we’re in the GMT+2 timezone and the announcement was made at 13:37 PDT (GMT-7), day 1 of the jam was essentially staying up late enough to see what the theme is before going to bed… I’m really happy with the theme as it fits in nicely with a game idea I’ve been thinking of for a very long time! ...