Paablo's Game

Devlog

• Paablo's Game: Dev Log 28
  May 04, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  Here's a new take on the main menu music. The story of the game is on the darker side so I'm trying to experiment with darkening the atmosphere. This is just two guitar tracks so really just a rough d... Continue reading

  
• Paablo's Game: Dev Log 27
  April 24, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  Just added in an audio system to be able to organize and prioritize SFX and music in the overall mix. Also wrote a rough draft of some music for the main menu. For now I’ve borrowed a track for the... Continue reading

  
• Paablo’s Game: Dev Log 26
  April 21, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  The last few days I've put some effort into improving visuals for Paablo's Game. I still need to update the animations that play when a spell is cast but everything else is starting to come together... Continue reading

  
• Paablo's Game: Dev Log 25
  April 17, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  Spells can chain into each other to allow for drastic changes during the game... Continue reading

  
• Paablo's Game: Dev Log 24
  April 12, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  After many iterations it seems like we're finally getting close to something unique and fun. Having to strategize around a changing environment and try to knock your opponents pieces off the board def... Continue reading

  
• Paablo's Game: Dev Log 23
  April 02, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  Finally getting back up and running after the redesign. Hoping to show off some of the new environmental effects with visuals soon. For today I just did another pass on the visual for hovering a tile... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 22
  March 26, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  It's been a long time since I've written any music so it was really nostalgic to sit down and think through a theme/motif for Paablo's Game. I don't know if this is too sad for the main theme but I de... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 21
  March 17, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  New piece layout. More like chess but still with spell casting. Liking this placeholder music too... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 20
  March 12, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  New working title for this game is "Paablo's Game" - The reason for the name change has to do with the story but I want to leave that as a surprise. Hoping to release a demo this month where you can p... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 19
  March 09, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  Working on a dynamic piece select list. I took some inspiration from #hearthstone for the power and health display numbers... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 17
  March 05, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  Been working on simplifying the interface so it's easier to understand what's happening. The big difference in this snapshot is the updated effects when hovering over a tile. There's still work to do... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 17
  March 02, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  Reduced board size and started changing the atmosphere to be a little darker. I made the board smaller to decrease the amount of things the player has to track. Having to keep track of the health, pos... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 16
  February 27, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  done refactoring for now... need rest.. then back to building... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 14
  February 20, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  The game now starts with each player taking turns selecting pieces. There are 4 pieces which all have different stats. Knight: Defense Witch: Power Gargoyle: Mobility Demon: Balanced... Continue reading
• Alchachess: Dev Log 13
  February 16, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  Tons of changes coming as soon as I can catch up on some refactoring: - selecting your pieces at the beginning of a game - spells stacking and being able to be cast on a later turn - new UI - new spel... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 13
  February 07, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  Doing some testing to improve the depth of gameplay. I don't want to make it any more difficult to play but if a player is interested in mastery they should have some rich strategic depth to explore... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 12
  February 02, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  Increased the size of pieces and removed one column from the board to bring it to 8x8. At this point I need to up the AI's intelligence so it's harder to beat. --Side Note-- Spell names are randomly g... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 11
  January 30, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  Decided to improve the atmosphere and add some mystery to the opponent model. There will be a few levels of AI to choose from in game and I'm hoping one can be a ML agent that will learn while the pla... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 10
  January 26, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  Changed how spells work. Now they affect pieces and the environment. Environmental effects can be used to trap/block movement of enemy pieces, effectively preventing them from being able to make speci... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 9
  January 22, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  Finally beat version 1 of my AI!! This is a simple implementation of an AI that assesses the board by assigning scores to each possible move. They consider many factors including how much damage a mov... Continue reading
• Alchachess: Dev Log 8
  January 19, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  Pieces leveling up is something I really want to have as part of the main strategy of this game. I think it would be interesting to be able to choose pieces you find valuable and try to level them up... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 7
  January 15, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  Starting to get the piece UI in place. Still a LOT of polish needed but I'm liking seeing the stats for the piece hover right around it and not on a separate UI. I also added a placeholder opponent mo... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 6
  January 12, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  Added a more interesting environment to play in including a day/night cycle. I have the day and night cycle sped up in the video to showcase. I'm debating leaving this free movement camera in the game... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 6
  January 08, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  Cleaning up the level up system today. Getting the timing of each animation to feel good and not take too long is tricky. If anyone has recommendations for resources about designing this kind of user... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 5
  January 05, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  Almost done with the phases that make up a turn. Making sure all the data is registered and all the animations play at the correct time has been a bit of a challenge but at this point pieces can move,... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 4
  January 02, 2022 by Lost One Studios

  Spent this morning working on the leveling phase of each turn. When a piece's attack results in being the health of another piece to 0 that other piece is destroyed and the attacking piece gains exper... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 3
  December 29, 2021 by Lost One Studios#gamedesign, #pokemon, #finalfantasy

  Spent today's working session on the calculations for gaining levels. Took some inspiration from final fantasy and pokemon as far as how to calculate how much exp a piece gains from defeating another... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 2
  December 27, 2021 by Lost One Studios

  Finally fixed an annoying bug that made it so all the data was lost on tiles down and left of a piece that was moved. The but was in the distance calculation. To get the distance of the path selected... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 1
  December 24, 2021 by Lost One Studios

  Today's session was focused on the chain of events that are triggered when a player moves a piece. I've found that a set of phases (move, cast spell, upkeep, switch players) where the phases play out... Continue reading

  
• Alchachess: Dev Log 0
  December 23, 2021 by Lost One Studios

  I'm really excited to be working on a new game. The concept is similar to chess where each player tries to move their pieces around the board and defeat other pieces. The biggest difference is that th... Continue reading