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• Winning random
  November 18, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Dev: Jacob Zhu This week is when level building randomization is finally in the game! It took a lot of hard work, and this week it was mainly adapting my data structure code in the base class of the b... Continue reading

  
• Components Vs Actors
  November 10, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Dev: Jacob Zhu This week a lot of effort has been put in trying to convert the proximity enable logic of the Actor that detects a player, and spawns AI from a pool, and transfer it into a component th... Continue reading

  
• UI subsystem abstraction
  November 03, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

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• UI versus Shared Pointers
  October 28, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Dev: Jacob Zhu For this week, we've been trying to polish the game up for the Full Sail Project showcase, and a really troublesome bug appeared. Apparently, when getting in and out of our sentry in th... Continue reading
• AI Accidental Martydom
  October 23, 2023 by Ren#Dev Bryan | Ren, #AI, #General Post

  Author: Dev Bryan | Ren Welcome all again, this is the official final of development and the team has been fixing up some bugs here and there. I for one forgot to disable AI behavior on death, which m... Continue reading

  
• Clashing systems
  October 20, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Dev: Jacob Zhu This week we tried to implement randomization within the levels. To explain, each of our buildings in the game come bundled with enemy AI spawns that are designed to trigger when the pl... Continue reading

  
• Positioning a randomized object
  October 16, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Dev: Jacob Zhu This week the challenge was to place the houses into proper positions in the levels, by assigned them their randomized positions. Problem is that taking reference to the world matrix me... Continue reading
• Dev Log: Issues with Turning Mesh
  October 14, 2023 by TheCephaloDev

  Devlog author: Alex Afternoon everyone! Today's Devlog might be a tad bit shorter, since this week was more trouble than expected for just one actor: the sentry. Where do I even begin. Since the begin... Continue reading

  
• UI Player Feedback and Direction
  October 14, 2023 by Ren#Dev Bryan | Ren, #UI, #General Post

  Author: Dev Bryan | Ren This week I conducted some playtest with some people around my university, some knew straight away what needed to be done from prior game experience, but many were confused. Af... Continue reading

  
• DevLog: Point System and Random Items
  October 07, 2023 by TheCephaloDev

  DevLog author: Alex Evening ya'll. Today I'm bringing an update on two main features that were implemented during this week. First, A points system was implemented, which tracks how many objectives th... Continue reading

  
• AI Operating beyond expected parameters
  October 07, 2023 by Ren#Dev Bryan | Ren, #AI, #General Post

  Author: Dev Bryan | Ren This week I conducted an in-game play test for several hours to search for bugs and disconnect features. One behavior I believed was unexpected, but still tolerable, ended up b... Continue reading

  
• How to randomize a level?
  October 07, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

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• Credits and Animation
  October 06, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Dev Name: Agustin Luis Date: 10/06/2023 As for the past two weeks, I have been expanding my knowledge on UI and how to make elements of the UI seem lest static. For example, there is a tab within the... Continue reading

  
• New Settings Menu
  October 06, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Dev Name: Agustin Luis Date: 9/29/2023 So its been a while, when it come to my update on the UI. There have been many changes throughout the past month. First off, the UI art for the main menu was cha... Continue reading

  
• Hidden from sight, hidden from code
  September 30, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Dev: Jacob Zhu This week has been a frantic search to try to get a good grasp of an annoying bug: AI actors seemingly acting blind when spawned into the world. From our tests of the game, we realized... Continue reading
• AI Sensory Overload
  September 30, 2023 by Ren#Dev Bryan | Ren, #AI, #General Post

  Author: Dev Bryan | Ren Hello everybody! First of all apologies for missing last week's post, but I ran into an actual brain wracking problem. The team recently implemented a spawning pool that would... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log: Controller Support and its Struggles
  September 25, 2023 by TheCephaloDev

  Devlog Author: Alex Afternoon ya'll. Its been a hot minute on my end. Today, I want to talk about what I have been working on for the past few days: controller support. As of now, we are currently usi... Continue reading
• Unreal Engine's class comparisons
  September 22, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Dev: Jacob Zhu Here is an issue that Unreal Engine presents to anyone doing data checks: How do we prevent class inheritance from affecting specific programming that we are trying to implement? To ela... Continue reading

  
• Chance and numbers
  September 22, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Dev: Jacob Zhu Today the post is about randomization. Specifically, randomization down in programming. Because of the way randomization algorithms work, it leads to "predictable randomization", and an... Continue reading

  
• AI deterrent
  September 18, 2023 by Ren#Dev Bryan | Ren, #AI, #General Post

  Author: Dev Bryan | Ren This week there was much more focus on the design of the game. Some enemies were not the greatest to interact with this may cause players to feel as if the game is unfair or no... Continue reading

  
• AI Human
  September 09, 2023 by Ren#General Post, #Dev Bryan | Ren, #AI

  Author: Dev Bryan | Ren This week had a lot of work to be done outside of the code like getting people to deliver on the assets that were promised for us. The issue for this week was just getting the... Continue reading

  
• The Issue with Spawning a 100 Part 2
  September 08, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Dev: Jacob Zhu For this week, much of the effort was spent trying to debug the problems the spawn pool possesses. To recap, the spawn pool is supposed to create the AI actors on Begin Play, and hold t... Continue reading

  
• AI Solved Tweaks
  September 02, 2023 by Ren#Dev Bryan | Ren, #General Post, #AI

  Author: Dev Bryan | Ren This week AI was being tested with a spawning feature that is still in the works but the first phase was finally implemented. I had an issue where I could not disable the AI be... Continue reading

  
• The Issue with Spawning a 100
  September 02, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Date: 1st September 2023 Dev Name: Jacob Zhu For this week, the issue was that dynamically creating our AI enemies caused perfomance drops during runtime of the game. Unreal Engine's SpawnActor functi... Continue reading

  
• Updating the Save System and the Stamina Component
  September 02, 2023 by TheCephaloDev

  Devlog author: Alex Afternoon everyone. For this devlog I wanted to delve a bit into some of the work I made to the stamina component and additions to what the save system, well, saves. First, I will... Continue reading

  
• The New Elements
  September 01, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Dev Name: Agustin Luis Date: 8/25/2023 So far with the build, I have noticed the transition between the character selection menu and the actual level there was a very big pause/freeze in the applicati... Continue reading

  
• Everything NEW UI/Level
  August 25, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Dev Name: Agustin Luis Date: 8/25/2023 With the new coming of the new week, we received a new level from our level designer. We were amazed at the quality of the level and all the things we could do n... Continue reading

  
• Well, The UI Has Progressed Again
  August 25, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Dev Name: Agustin Luis Date: 8/18/2023 Through out the gameplay so far, there has not been many visual representation of player feedback when it comes to the hud elements. That was an issue until rece... Continue reading
• AI Attempted Tweaks
  August 25, 2023 by Ren#Bryan | Ren, #AI, #General Post

  Author: Dev Bryan | Ren This week has been a little chaotic for me, so no big changes happened. I tweaked already existing features to deal with some ambiguous behaviors here and there. AI still needs... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log: A Big Accomplishment (for me)
  August 25, 2023 by TheCephaloDev

  Afternoon ya'll. For this week's dev log, I want to talk about some of my accomplishments for this week. I'll first talk about what we were missing for this week, then I will talk about the solution I... Continue reading

  
• Learning how burnout feels like (plus updates)
  August 20, 2023 by TheCephaloDev

  Devlog author: Alex Evening ya'll, hope you guys are having a wonderful day. Today I wanted to talk about something that is to be expected, but wished it would have happened to me much later: Burnout... Continue reading

  
• AI from visual scripting prototype to code
  August 19, 2023 by Ren#Bryan | Ren, #General Post, #AI

  Author: Dev Bryan | Ren This week I mostly turned everything I made so far this month into its code equivalent. Nothing too interesting so far just a normal week of converting everything. I ran into s... Continue reading

  
• AI Swarm
  August 12, 2023 by Ren#Bryan | Ren, #AI, #General Post

  Author: Bryan | Ren This week the dev team started working more on the other part of the cycle of survival. At night time you will be swarmed by many enemies that you may need to fend of for a time. A... Continue reading

  
• How UI Has Progressed
  August 12, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Dev Name: Agustin Luis Date: 8/11/2023 For this post, I will be discussing how the game has progressed and what the UI has evolved to so far. As for the game, we have now include both the day and nigh... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log: Code Refactoring and Bug Fixing
  August 11, 2023 by TheCephaloDev

  Log author: Alex This dev log will be slightly shorter that usual. For this sprint, I decided to work on mainly refactoring, cleaning, and finding bugs on my code base. This week has been kind of slow... Continue reading

  
• The UI Update
  August 05, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Dev Name: Agustin Luis Date: 8/04/2023 For this post, I will be discussing what has been achieved so far during the implementation of the UI. Since the last post, I was able to include a function to p... Continue reading

  
• The Great thing about VInterpTo (and other fun HUD manipulation)
  August 05, 2023 by TheCephaloDev

  Author: Alexander Capó Date published: 8/4/2023 Hey peeps. I want to take this blog post to talk about two interesting functions/issues I had the pleasure to solve... after breaking my head open from... Continue reading

  
• AI Mania
  August 04, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos#AI, #Bryan | Ren, #General Post

  Author: Dev Bryan Santiago This week started with some very lengthy sessions of discussions as to the direction of the game and resulted with me being able to implement and update a handful of AI's. T... Continue reading
• What Next For UI?
  July 21, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  With the implementation of each UI element for the core interactions, the question I ask myself is what's next? The answer to that question is implementing the functionality for saving. How I envision... Continue reading
• I am going to have fun later huh (Refactoring)
  July 20, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Dev Author: Alex Morning, afternoon, whatever time you read this, hope you are having a good day/night. For this latest sprint the team underwent, I noticed that most of my issues when programming ten... Continue reading
• AI Trials and Truths
  July 19, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos#Bryan | Ren, #General Post, #AI

  Author: Dev Bryan Santiago This week started very fun with me implementing tow different AI enemy types, both made to enrich and restrict gameplay. For the first AI I took inspiration from a classic e... Continue reading
• The Implementation of the UI
  July 17, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Dev Name: Agustin Luis Date: 7/17/2023 For this post, I will be discussing the implementation process for the UI and how each portion connects to the gameplay. When creating the UI for the player, the... Continue reading

  
• Ideas take time to translate well to code
  July 14, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos

  Dev name: Alexander Capó In this post, I will be talking about one of my biggest issues that I usually encounter when writing the gameplay logic for this game, as well as any project that I work on... Continue reading
• AI Initial implementation
  July 14, 2023 by The Vermilion Chocobos#Bryan | Ren, #General Post, #AI

  Author: Dev Bryan Santiago This week, two AI's were put in place for the project one to kill the player and the other to destroy the objective. The player hunting AI right now is very basic and will r... Continue reading