P0_B1

I will probably spend most of this month debugging and testing the project. I may also extend and improve the quests system if I have time.

I have fixed several bugs with the inventory system and other systems, and I have made some improvements to the guis, such as adding scrolling, etc to the text fields.

I have also fixed the final issues that I was having with the addressables system. This system is now fully working, which is a huge step forward, and will be a very useful tool that I can use in the future.

I have spent a day working on a replacement for playerprefs.

Playerprefs make is very easy to store data persistently, but they store data in the systems registry, not in the game folder, which would cause problems if a game project needed to be moved from one drive to another.

Playerprefs are also not really designed to store large amounts of data, and they are stored in plaintext, so they can be easily edited by players.

I have implemented simple JSON saving and loading now, with similiar functionality to player prefs. I have also added simple encryption to the JSON files so that they cannot be easily modified by players.

The procedural story system is going quite well.

I have added just two randomised quests, and even these are implemented in a conceptual way, but the core system works quite well and it more powerful and easier to use than previous systems that I have implemented.

There are more features and better integration with this system than with the alternatives, and in the future, with more improvements, it could in fact become quite powerful.

I will probably not improve this system any more now. I had planned to add more quests, but I don’t really think it’s necessary at this stage, I have achieved proof of concept for this system. I can add more quests later.

The random story generator is going very well.

I have most of the core concept done, and I am now adding more features to the system.

I will spend another week or so on this, and I should end up with a barebones, somewhat conceptual, but basically working system, which I can improve upon later.

The idea of a true procedural story system is something that will need a lot more time and effort to research.

Planning the random story generator is proving to be difficult.

I will need to reduce the scope of what I had planned to do for now, and implement a simpler random story generator which makes use of templates with randomisation, as opposed to a completely random system.

Initial experiments with this system are promising, and I should be able to get some reasonably good results, although it is not truly procedural, which was the goal.

I have been experimenting with addressabled in my project, and it has gone very well.

I have not fully integrated the addressable code into my project because there is a minor bug that I don’t have time to fix, but the core concept does work, and I hope to switch over to using addressables later.

The next step is to add some a very basic dynamic story system to the project. I intend to expand on this incrementally later.

The character creator for the enemies is going very well.

I have added just a handful of clothing and costume types, but even so there is quite a bit of randomness.

In future, I should be able to use this for randomising all NPC’s in the game (Which are currently randomly chosen from a random list of preset NPC’s), in addition to, eventually, the player. That is, unless I decide to transition away from the M3D system.

The next goal is to animate the enemies and work on the AI logic.

The next goal is to create simple random enemies to populate the worlds of the project.

I am using the now-obsolete Morph3D character system, and using this I should be able to create a randomised group of enemies with different clothing and costume types.

There should be support for different “factions” or groups of enemies, and enemies from different factions should attack each other, as well as interact with native wildlife.

This system will be simple for now, but I intend to build on it extensively later.

The skills menu is also basically done.

I have not added the actual effects yet, this will come later.

However, most of the gui work is done and works well.

I will need to spend quite a bit of time testing this later though.