Dev Log 2 - Level Building

Updating animations

Firstly, I decided to change the player's animations as I decided the ones I had preciously did not quite fit what I was looking for when I imagined the character's movement. I like the ones the character currently uses. Though there is an issue with the transition between the double jump and idle animations that I can't quite seemed to figure out. Yet. The updated animations are present in the video at the end of this DevLog.

Building the level

As I previously mentioned in DevLog 1, I decided to go with the Synty Studio's Kingdom pack as I am not quite familiar with 3D modelling yet. Though the plan to become familiar with it lays in the the near future as part of the game development course I am doing. Until then I am happy to use the assets I purchased.

The first step in building my level was creating an environment which had a ground to walk on and some props like trees, grass, flowers, crates and some items at the black smith. Then I added the following building:

• house

• wizard's home

• tavern

• blacksmith

• castle

For now these building serve as background. Though in further levels the player may be able to go into certain buildings to interact with NPC's inside the building. The wizard will teach the player magic, blacksmith will give the player weapons, etc... These features will be decided on later in the development of the game, depending on how far I want to push this game.

During the Unity Asset store's massive sale I managed to get the AllSky asset in a flash sale. It includes more than 220 skyboxes. They look pretty awesome!

Castle

The game starts with the player heading to the King to hear what is expected of them during their given task. The player will return here once their task is completed.

Hopefully in the next step of development I will add an interactable dialogue system enabling the King and player to have conversation where the player will be able to opt for a variety of responses to the King's story.