Games Development Final year project.

Snap out Farmer

For my Final year project, I have decided to make a game that uses unique ways to teach the player that things you love aren’t always what you hope for. In this project I will find a way to implement the game using all the things I have learned from years of experience in the Unity3D engine and C# language. I have landed on the idea of using a manager-based game that can be split into modules making it easy to remove or add features without changing much or any of the code, rather than just disabling a specific manager. This approach does have a lot of benefits as it becomes harder and more complex the more managers and controllers you add on to it, the reason is because one of the managers may interfere with the actions that another one also controls or modifies. This game will be set in a medieval time period with a low polygon themed inspired by the well-known game World of Warcraft, having quest and interactions with the environment in order to proceed the story of the game.

Created player
Movement manager
Camera manager
Intro to raycast manager (Interaction system)

B1) Fixed - viewer Vector3 is zero
B2) Fixed - rotation reseting unwanted
B3) Fixed - zooming inverted

Added on focus controller
Intro to interaction point

B4) Fixed - Focus items do not defocus, they override

Worked on fixing bug in defocusing an interact point

Finished focus controller
Finished interaction system

B5) Fixed - When interacting with an object and leaving the interaction area the interaction doesn't "pause"
B6) Fixed - Small Interaction items don't work

Created model for coin and textures/materials for it
re-orginized files in unity

Started model for loot chest

Re-Modeled coins
Created a script for Custom Scriptable Objects
Implemented a player stats system
Implemented a Currency Loot script
Player has a working Balance

B7) Fixed - After picking up items the interaction in PlayerFocus is pointing to missing

Implemented the basics for an inventory manager
Added singletons and delegates to update inventory manager and items
Player has a semi working LootItem->Inventory connection

B8) Fixed - When inventory slots are all full the invoke points to a null item reference

Started convertion from LWRP to URP rendering pipeline
Created a shader for the hidden interactables
Started creating a glow effect when the player hovers mouse over an interactable

B9) Fixed - some interactables do not glow when in a specific area/angle

Changed method of indicating interactable material using PBR shaders
Added PostProcessing volume and layer
Fixed bugs and optimised code layout

B10) Fixed - Coin piles do not glow correctly, needs re-modeling

Changed indicator with glowing cirle PBR shader
Implemented a flexible loot chest system
Created animations for the chest interactions
Fixed B5 and B10
Scripts need cleaning up

Implemented an inventory system with interaction support
Added temp items and combined interactable items with scriptable object items
Created grass shader graph behavior
Re-arranged folders and files

B11) Fixed - Grass collision does not react to the right axis

Added ability to stack specific items together in the inventory
Edited currency models to fine tune pivot point rotation
Worked on chest loot system, loot now spawns relative to the rotation of its parent chest rotation

B12) Fixed - fixed issue with relative rotation for chest
B13) Pending - Small interactable items clip out of playable area

Worked on inventory system, started implementation of drag and drop fuctionality

B14) Dropped - UI item holder does not hold items

Dropped idea for drag and drop (no point of creating one)
Implemented a right click to inventory to drop item

B15) Fixed - Counter does not display correct item count
B16) Fixed - Chest can not apply spawn force to specific game objects

Optimizing grass spawn script
orginized files

Added support for area specific post processing
Implemented a developer console in game view (Outputs only)
Optimizing group bush spawning

B17) Fixed - grass spawns only with specific amount of pre generated prefabs
B18) Fixed - Using items action wont show in developer console

Fixed github project cloning micro issues
Worked on optimizing the group grass spawner
Bug fixing (B16,B17,B18)

B19) Fixed - Custom console does not show interactable logs

Worked on orginizing scripts
Started working on custom keybinding methods using script
Bug fixing (B19)

Worked on UIControl optimization
Null and double signed key detection

Worked on Custom console UI
Bug fixing (B20)

B20) Fixed - When Custom console was deactivated messeges threw null reference errors

Started convertion of equipment items to custom scriptable objects
Re-orginized files
Started work on implementing a simple equipment properties menu

Worked on equipment system
Added the ability to drop and equip items
Implemented equipment swap when slot already occupied
Worked on placeholder textures
Bug fixing (B21)

B21) Fixed - Items clipping out of the world when dropped from inventory

Added equipment UI
UI can now display current equipped items
Converted all UI updates to delegate singletons

B22) Fixed - Player can interact behind the equipment ui
B23) Fixed - Un-Equip button doesn't work

Player can interact with Inventories
Items have unique tool tips
Removed Custom Console Box (Beta)

B24) Fixed - Player pointing does not update correctly

Worked on technical plan of this project
Bug fixing (B23, B24)

Worked on custom GUI for gizmos in inspector
Improved Gizmos control and apperance

Worked on Gizmos
Optimized the structure of gizmo list updating

B25) Fixed - Null reference onDrawGizmos and onDrawGizmosSelected
B26) Fixed - Gizmos flicker and not all of them work

Finished Gizmo manager
Cleaned code
Made a list that has all the interactable items in the scene
Bug fixing (B25, B26)

Created placeholders for all equipable slots
Created a better equipment stat system
Removed the Gameobject.Find() with a singleton instance of the player for all scripts
Fixed tool tip UI to show new traits system
Fixed bugs
Code cleaning needed

Added unique positive and negative traits for equipment
Added scalable UI for tooltip with new stat system support
Temp imported a frame viewer for performance testing

B27) Fixed - Null focus pointer when dropping items
B28) Fixed - Gizmos trying to render items that are picked up

Fixed error with item dropping and having a null focus pointer
Fixed error gizmos trying to render inventory items or armor
Completely removed Custom console GUI

Changed OS on laptop device and had to clone and push new files

Equipment Inventory automatically closes/opens depending on Inventory state
Applying traits to player in realtime depending on equipment

Implemented paths that Ai/NPC can navigate to
Added probability to the direction of the Ai
Created tool for easy creation of Paths

Added save/load game ability

B29) Dropped - Scriptable Objects do not save/load

Reworked save function
scriptable objects save capable but needs work

Worked more on save/load implementation
Created asset bundles and hosting them via XAMPP (locally)
Removed fps counter asset
Worked on enemy states, tracking and action triggers
Started creating a nicer scene

B30) Fixed - Fixed build issues

Player stats work (equipment and enemies are affected by it)
Enemies patrol a generated path randomly
Enemies can detect/attack/forget the player
Each enemy has unique attack damage and attack type chances
dropped save/load functionality (scriptable objects do not like it)

B31) Fixed - Stats not applying all the timeplayer can attack enemies

Tweaked test enemies values
Enemies can die
Added ui above enemies with health and name
Added visualization for grass spawner
Created shop custom editor
Added moving shop and static shop options

Dropped static/moving shop type (core limitation)
Added shop blueprint
Custom editor for shop blueprint
Text now follows camera correctly
Created the template UI for the shop

B32) Fixed - Shop trigger is of type trigger
B33) Fixed - Shop UI does not open/close

Worked on shop handler
Dynamically setting up the shop depending on shops stock
Player can interact with shop and when walking away shop closes and player loses focus

Shop UI now have dynamically scaling slots with scroll bar
Shop has buyable items/equipments
Bought items spawn in-front of their shop

B34) Fixed - Player focus reference gets lost after several item purchases, not able to replicate constantly
B35) Fixed - Equipment stats do not scale well

Added enemy loot drops
Fixed equipment stat modifiers

B36) Fixed - Player needs to focus the enemy multiple times until the attack is triggered

Added loot drop chances
Fixed enemy attack inaccurate attack values
Added terrain bounds
Added trees rocks greenery
Started adding real enemies and paths

Created 3 zones that demonstrate how easy is to create enemies tools equipment and paths
Project is NOT done but the Thesis ends here, no matter the grade this project will be finished one day :)

B37) Fixed - Player looses focus reference when focusing specific order of enemies

Fixed bug B37