Beastiary Encyclopedia

Anthony Palermo - 4/28/2023

Over the course of this week I finished the work on the Beastiary Encyclopedia and player stats. On the subject of the player stats, the three stats are the same as the enemy stats being ATK, CON, and INT. ATK increases the players damage and CON increases the players health as it did in the enemies. INT on the other hand reduces the mana cost of abilities, as the player abilities are not tied to cooldowns like the enemies.

The encyclopedia needed to show the player what each enemy was capable of doing, so we had made the decision to add that to the same UI widget that the enemy skill trees showed up in. On the left we have the new demonstration of abilities and what they do, and on the right has the skill tree. I will be adding an model of the enemy on the left page under the enemy ability icons, but that is not happening this week. I also made minor tweaks to the Beastiary menu to have the buttons that lead to the skill trees to fill up the area to not have a ton of blank space.

While working on the encyclopedia, I came to the realization that we had not yet made a skill tree for our final enemy type, the missile turtle. So I also had to quickly make a new skill tree for the missile turtle, exactly the same as all the other ones I had done. I only had put place holder text like how the Necromancer skill tree is. I also then added all the same parts that the encyclopedia pages had for all the other enemies.

I also had to make an encyclopedia page for the player character, the slime. Due to the fact that we don't have any intent to make a skill tree for the slime itself, I only needed to add the few descriptions of the slimes abilities and I will be adding the player model later, which will look exactly the same as the player model with the customizations from the customization options.