Dev Log 1

Hello Gladiators

Welcome to the very first entry in the "Crystalis Descendant Dev Log,"

We will step into the shoes of our game developers and experience the process of creating a game from nothing. September’s been a very busy month for us and we wanted to take the opportunity to share some progress with you all before our memories fade. We will try to keep up with monthly development logs as it’s a good way to track our progress and keep you all in the loop.

We’ve been a bit quiet about sharing our progress lately for a few reasons. One is that we’ve been working hard towards finalizing the game systems. This isn’t flashy work and it doesn’t look great in gifs, but oh does it add to the feel of the game.

With systems comes boring stuff like menus, settings, languages, UI, game state, save data, controls, and transitions… but there are also a few features that came together this month that we’re really excited to share.

Without any further ado let's jump in.

New Mutation: Fracturion

• New mutation barges into the arena!

• Has armored scales and takes significantly reduced damage

  

• Has 3 different attacks: ➛ Stomp attack ➛ Charge attack ➛ Bounce attack

• Enrages when below 50% HP

Animations

Crystal

• Basic idle

• Start of wave

• Wave idle

• End of wave

• Overload

• Overload idle

• Corrupted (when mutation invades the arena)

• Corrupted idle

• End of corruption

Gladiators

Gunslinger:

• Idle

• Run

• Spawn

• Faint

Crystallisk

Ravager:

• Run

• Spawn

• Bite

Mutations

Fracturion:

• Roar

• Idle

• Run

• Stomp attack

• Anticipation for charge attack

• Charge attack

• Slamming into obstacles

• Bounce attack

• Anticipation for bounce attack

• Enraging

• Defeated

Environment

• Torch flickering

Audio

Crystal

• Basic idle

• Start of wave

• Wave idle

• End of wave

• Overload

Crystallisk

• Added a death sound for the Crystallisk

Mutations

Fracturion:

• Roar

• Stomp attack

• Run

• Rolling

• Impact: Armored

• Impact: Exposed

• Impact: Obstacle

• Exhale

• Defeated

Environment

• Gate crashing

UI

• Added button sounds for the different menus

Environment

Arena gate:

• Broken

• Intact

Generic:

• Torches

VFX

• Added several different VFX elements

General

Updated sprites for several game assets:

• Crystal

• Gunslinger

• Minigun

• Crystallisk

• Fracturion

Tweaks

Gladiators

• Added different stats for the Gladiators: ➛ Vitality: Amount of hitpoints ➛ Agility: How fast the Gladiator moves ➛Fortitude: Damage reduction ➛Luck: Chance to evade an attack

Gunslinger:

• Increased the Gunslinger’s movement speed slightly

• Increased the Gunslinger’s HP to 105 (was 95)

Crystallisk

• Increased spawn rate of Crystallisk significantly

Ravager Crystallisk:

• Decreased the Ravager’s HP to 45 (was 125)

• Decreased the Ravager’s damage to 11 (was 14)

• Decreased the Ravager’s HP gain per wave to 2 (was 4)

Burrows

• Increased amount of Burrows per wave slightly

Mutations

Fracturion:

• Increased amount of XP rewarded for defeating Fracturion to 6300 (was 3045)

• Removed basic attack sequence

• Decreased amount of XP rewarded for defeating Fracturion to 4000 (was 6300)

General

• Upgrades now display the amount of stacks you unlocked

• Decreased XP-scaling per level

• Increased amount of XP gained per shard

• Increased required XP for first level

System

• Reworked combat system for Mutations to be more consistent

Audio

• Adjusted volume of sound effects for volume balancing

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Fracturion would not charge to a fixed distance

• Fixed text overflowing on large numbers for the floating damage numbers

• Fixed pause menu not working after some time

Known Issues

• Lightning strike upgrade does not get reset

• Dashing through the gate

• Title PRESS E TO INTERACT stays present

• Burrow states are visible on top of each other

• Pause menu stops working

• Pausing when Fracturion roars keeps roar VFX present

• Wave stats on result screen displays 14 waves completed instead of 15

Web Build

• Menu scaling

• Browser sometimes displays error when attempting to go fullscreen