Prototype Progress 2022/04/29

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Done List:

• Tried to fix [Revealing the area is less important when the game is going --> How to solve that?]
  • Implemented Hint on Fog of War
  • Implemented Random factors in Fog of War
• Pacing
  • Implemented Time Warning for incoming waves
    
  • Fixed Spawn time problem
  • Slow Down the First Wave of Enemy to give the extra time to explore in the early game
• Thought about how Fog of War will work with the new Hint System in level design & player feeling

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Fog of War & Hint:

Random: 30% Enemy & 70% Treasure, this value may be changed by other systems (card, treasure, etc.)

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Playthrough with Area-FogOfWar:

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Playthrough with Whole-FogOfWar:

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Need to Think:

• Trap_ Lava Floor
  • This is too imba even if I increase the price
  • Similar traps in other games have "Capacity" of the amount of damage then it needs to be a cooldown --> should I do that?
• Trap _ Freeze Pulse
  • Keep Shooting / Triggered by Enemies?
    • If Triggered by Enemies --> the high-speed enemies will be meaningful --> more macro
    • If Keep Shooting --> Player need to catch the timing of building? --> more micro
• Exploring Unknown Areas && Planning the Maze 
• Areas are explored easily in the beginning, how to solve this pacing problem?
  • Plan A: Decrease the chance of gold pile treasure? Increase the chance of mining-speed treasure to avoid having a lot of money in the early game.
  • Plan B: Increase map size
  • Plan C: Increase the price of the same action every time the player performs it.
  • Plan D: Let [building things] to unlock Fog of War
  • Plan E: Card System & Fog of War Relation
  • Plan F: Difference between early Fow and late Fow 
• Fog of war needs to have more surprise

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Known "Bugs":

• Destroy Rock
  • The player should not be able to destroy rock that is not near the main road.
  • Destroy Rock Action is more likely to have bugs in the later game
  • Can not disable fog of war correctly sometimes(when the core is not connected to the Main Road due to Trap_Block). Need to ignore Block while Finding Main Road during Deleting Rock Action. 

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Need to improve:

• PathFinding
  • With the introduction of new enemy types, the Unity NavMesh occurs more and more problems, need to make my own pathfinding based on Tiles, and with group-AI. Gonna do that after the semester end.
• UI when Build Traps
  • The building process is not intuitive
  • Now: 
    • Select a Tile --> Click a Button on the Card --> Delete Rock / Build Sth on the Ground
    • Selected a Tile --> Select a Direction --> Click a Button on the Directional Trap Card --> Build Directional Trap on Wall
  • Want to be:
    • Select a Card --> Move the mouse --> show if can build here && Possible Direction if have && Affect Range
• Incoming Wave needs more detail

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Todo List: 

• Tile System
  • Check if the selected tile is near the main road while doing "Delete Rock" Action
• Card System
• Whole System
  • Think About how to deal with the "Trap_Block" && "Trap_LavaFloor" Problems
• Tag System
  • For future builds, need to start thinking about how to implement this feature
• Reconsider the progress  during one play
• Trap
  • Description UI
  • CD UI
• Treasure
  • Description UI
  • Simple Collecting Animation(From Collected Place to UI Panel?)
• Tool Refine
  • Level
    • Fix magic number
    • Code-Refine: Update the Treasure, Enemy Data Structures for more data in the future
    • Need to visualize the current Level Matrix/Array for debugging
  • Wave
    • Different portals have different settings, should not update the settings in the enemyPortal Prefab
  • Trap
    • The Data of Traps, the card & cost, need to be in the same place for balancing (XML/excel)
  • Enemies
    • Same as Trap
• PathFinding
  • Need to redo pathfinding, make my own pathfinding based on "tile", and let the enemy be able to have the Flocking feature.