In this lesson we will begin adding Stats to our game. Experience and Level are particularly important stats, so we will begin by focusing on those and show how we might distribute experience between heroes in a party. As enough experience is gained, the level of the hero can also be incremented. Along the way I will also address how one system might create an exception-to-the-rule in another system and offer a solution on how to allow them to interract while keeping things as decoupled as possible.
Month: July 2015
Custom Component Based System
In this post I will present my own implementation of a component-based architecture which closely mimics Unity’s implementation. It really isn’t as hard as one might think. Why would I ever do such a thing? I think I have plenty of good reasons, but I’ll let you decide whether or not its all worth it. As always, feel free to critique!
Ability Menu
In this post we will continue to flesh out the UI by adding the Ability Menu. This menu will allow the user to determine what phase of a turn is active- such as moving, attacking, etc. as well as what to do during a turn- such as what kind of skill to use during an attack. We will actually implement the menu where possible (Move), and anything we haven’t gotten to yet will use placeholder content (Attack, Magic etc). We will also see how to support canceling a move and be able to restore an earlier state.
Object Pooling
Object pooling is a relatively common practice in games. By reusing your GameObjects instead of destroying and recreating them you can save precious CPU cycles. It is easy to find a lot of free scripts and tutorials on the subject – even Unity has provided one in a Live Training session. Their presentation, while a great introduction, was not what I would consider production ready. In this post I’ll share my thoughts on their implementation as well as how I would improve upon it.