I've spent way too long getting this right. It seems so simple to just have a letter appear every fraction of a second in a text block... and it is. At least until you start caring about details like line wrapping not breaking mid-effect and rich text support. I've posted…
You know how in most forms of media (games, comics, movies, whatever) if a group of people gang up on the "hero" or player, they tend to attack one at a time? It's a pretty common trope [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MookChivalry], but at least as far…
I've been working on a prototype for a game in Unreal as a personal endeavor for around 8-9 months now. One of the systems I setup pretty early on was a way to very easily script cutscenes through blueprint. It's primarily based around writing textual dialogue, and is called "TalkMoment"…
In my last post [https://xbloom.io/2020/01/20/scriptable-cinematics-with-coroutines/] I showed off how my cinematic system works. The result was this nice little gif: The caption said, "The navigation system is a little funky and needs a rewrite"... Well, now I've done a large refactor of the navigation…
I've been working on and off on a small 2D ARPG for a year or so. There's very little to show right now (and it's almost entirely using placeholder assets) but I'm incredibly proud of some of the underlying tech. Kenney [https://kenney.nl/] makes some wonderful assets to use…
I've been working on a multiplayer top-down shooter in Unreal 4 recently as a way to learn more about Unreal's multiplayer systems. I recorded a really quick video to show progress after about 1.5 weeks.…
In my previous article [https://xbloom.io/2017/11/10/scriptable-dungeon-generation/] I talked about designing a dungeon generation system for the roguelike I'm working on [https://xbloom.io/2017/11/07/designing-a-web-based-roguelike/], Explore [https://xbloom.io/tag/explore/]. Today I'm going to talk about writing the AI and some of…
I've talked about dungeon generation in the past [https://xbloom.io/2016/04/17/more-complex-dungeon-generation/], specifically an algorithm that I've used in a few places. That same algorithm is at work in my roguelike which I've been calling "Explore [https://xbloom.io/tag/explore/]". Since I've already covered exactly how…