Joseph Kills Lucy

Devlog

• Devlog 8 (Coding) - Bus Attack Patterns
  December 14, 2023 by Yannan Ma (Mayan)

  Added Boss Attack Patterns The boss now has set types of attacks that are determined based on which attack "phase" the boss is in. There are three types of attacks: Attack 1: this is a basic projectil... Continue reading
• Devlog 7 (Coding) - Shield (Combo 2)
  December 14, 2023 by Yannan Ma (Mayan)

  Added Shield (Combo 2) When the inputs for combo 2 are pressed successfully, a shield prefab will instantiate around Lucy's model. The shield completely negates all incoming damage for the next 3 seco... Continue reading
• Devlog 6 (Coding) - Added Heavy Attack (Combo 1)
  December 14, 2023 by Yannan Ma (Mayan)

  Added Heavy Attack (Combo 1) When the player successfully inputs the keys for Combo 1, a heavy attack launches. The heavy attack is larger than a basic attack but moves slower. Currently, heavy attack... Continue reading
• Devlog 5 (Coding) - Bus Charge Attack and Damage Reduction
  December 14, 2023 by Yannan Ma (Mayan)

  Added Initial Bus Charge When charging, the bus will change its position randomly to one of four possible positions. The bus will also rotate to face the player. The bus is currently set to deal 30 da... Continue reading
• Devlog 4 (UI + Visuals) - GUI & Environment Update
  December 14, 2023 by Roann Cordova

  [November 29 - December 5, 2023] GUI + Environment Fine Tuning and Adjustments Environment Stage has been updated along with the rough GUI that has selected a typeface that matches the game's aestheti... Continue reading

  
• Devlog 4 (Coding) - Health and Damage
  December 14, 2023 by Yannan Ma (Mayan)

  Both the boss and the Lucy have their own health scripts, but they are functionally the same. Both the boss and the Lucy start the game with 100 health and this amount will deplete after colliding wit... Continue reading
• Devlog 3 (UI + Visuals) - Animations + Post Processing
  December 14, 2023 by Roann Cordova

  [November 16 - 28, 2023] Animation Update (Idle & Movement) Applying animations to the models has been one of the most complicated yet rewarding tasks that I have encountered during the development of... Continue reading

  
• Devlog 3 (Coding) - Combo System
  December 14, 2023 by Yannan Ma (Mayan)

  Added Combo System When "K" is pressed, it initiates combo mode, in which "J K L" are used to perform a particular combo. While in combo mode, "J" does not fire a basic attack and "L" does not reduce... Continue reading

  
• Devlog 3 - (Music Production) Action Combo & Music States
  December 14, 2023 by Roann Cordova#devlog, #soundtrack, #music

  [October 24, 2023] Call-&-Response Mechanic Changed to Action Combo Since the Call-and-response has not been implemented in early prototypes yet, Mayan and Justine (the game's core coding team) decide... Continue reading
• Devlog 2 (UI + Visuals) - Stage Setting
  December 14, 2023 by Roann Cordova

  [October 26, 2023 - November 16, 2023] Sample Stage Setting After importing the asset models and creating materials for the scene, I created a rough setup of how the environment would look based on ou... Continue reading

  
• Devlog 2 (Coding) - Beat Tracking
  December 14, 2023 by Yannan Ma (Mayan)

  One of the core systems of any rhythm-based game is how functions are timed to the beat of the song. For this, we need an accurate and fool-proof method for keeping track of the song's beat. In our pr... Continue reading

  
• Devlog 2 (Music Production) - Call and Response
  December 14, 2023 by Roann Cordova#devlog

  [Septemer 21, 2023 ] Basic Attack vs Call - & - Response Mechanic (Design Intent) After making a "full version" of the base soundtrack for JKL , we brainstormed a type of mechanic that could be implem... Continue reading
• Devlog 2 (Visuals) - Asset Development Timeline
  December 14, 2023 by cappa888#Art, #devlog, #development, #3d model, #assets

  September 30th-5th: I experimented with sculpting for the first time using Nomad Sculpt. I mainly used it to mold Lucy’s face to match the concept art I made. It did take me a while to experiment wi... Continue reading

  
• Devlog 1 (Design) - Boss Design
  December 14, 2023 by justine

  The first boss of our game is a large tour bus. The fun yet challenging thing about having a bus as the boss is coming up with mechanics and attacks that make sense for its character. When thinking of... Continue reading

  
• Devlog 1 (UI + Visuals) - Toon Shaders
  December 14, 2023 by Roann Cordova

  [October 24 - 30, 2023] Toon Shaders + Environment Building asd The main goal for the aesthetics is to imitate and recreate a "comic book" or "cartoonish" look for the game. With the existing models t... Continue reading

  
• Devlog 1 (Coding) - Prototype 1 Development
  October 05, 2023 by Yannan Ma (Mayan)

  Purpose of Prototyping Almost as soon as we began ideating how we wanted our game to look, sound, and feel, we also began to work on creating a playable prototype. The purpose of the prototype is to h... Continue reading
• Devlog 1 (Music Production)
  October 03, 2023 by Roann Cordova

  [September 21, 2023] Producing the music and establishing a theme is one of the first step for our game's direction. Before making one of our own, we gathered a lot of inspiration from listening to di... Continue reading

  
• Devlog 1 (Visuals) - Welcome!
  September 26, 2023 by justine

  [26 September 2023] Hello everyone, welcome to our first Devlog for Joseph Kills Lucy ! This is a game that we are developing as our thesis project. Our aim is to make a game with audio and music as t... Continue reading