FromTheVoid Devlog #5

V0.1.3 + V0.1.3.1

Hey everyone!

It has been a while since I last worked on this game but after spending some time on my personal life, the flame for development has been reignited! Not a lot of visual changes this time, more of a backend update but I think it's pretty important, so let's get to what's changed!

First things first. In order to get back into the swing of things, I downloaded the game and played it to get an understanding of where I left off. To my dismay, the game didn't even work! How embarrassing. I went to fix this issue and found that I had accidently set the enemy tag on the reference model and not the functional model... oops!

After fixing that issue, I decided to make something quick and easy next (Foreshadowing for later). I settled on making a simple player details and currency system which normally would be easy. However when I was making it, I decided to make it so I could save this data across sessions. Makes sense right? Doing this now would make it easier to scale and use later making it less of a headache. This is where the easy part evaporates. While making the save system I realized that I'm not going to be able to use this at scale later down the line with how restrictive the PlayerPrefs are, so I decided to make this system differently and in a way I can easily scale it. This, of course, wasn't hard but what came next was a flurry of small issues that came from me being inexperienced in development. Every time I would overcome an obstacle, like saving when a scene loads, another issue would arise (when the scene loaded most references would break). This quick 1 day project turned into a 3 day trek through mud. However, I believe the game is in a better place now and will be easier to handle any upcoming changes I make! (woohoo!)

For now that's all that's changed. I'm proud of the work I've done here and can't wait to implement the rest of my vision later!

Thanks for reading!