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New Project Updates and Burn-Out

I have mostly finished the AI system for the guards in the game however it ended up not being the GOAP system that I initially thought I would need. I ended up switching to a Finite State Machine for a number of reasons of which the main one being that it ended up...

GDC Takeaways and New Project

A little late posting this but that's because I've been working on a new project! I don't want to seem like I'm giving up on The Herbalist but after a little reflection and talking to so many people during GDC I've decided to take a step back from the project. The main reason is...

Posted on April 9, 2024

Game Updates and GDC

So it's been a little while since I posted one of these but over the last month I've done a lot of redesigning of the game and put a lot of thought into what I want the initial MVP of the game to end up as. This just so happens to coincide with the fact that I'm planning on attending GDC...

Herb Journal System

I managed to get the Herb Journal implemented and also added in two more Herbs to be placeholders so I could test multiple pages. I also worked on some features that should have been implemented with the other UI such as the Journal and the Inventory functioning...

Restuctuing Code and New Artstyle

During the last two weeks I managed to restructure the code based off of the new UML diagram and clean up a lot of the spaghetti code. Because of cleaning up a lot of the code, I also managed to fix some bugs surrounding the Cauldron system...

Cauldron and NPC Updates

So I was able to get the changes into the Cauldron and NPC working faster than I thought I would. I got both tasks done within the first few days and while neither are release ready, I am happy with the progress I made on them this sprint...

Researching Herbs and Making Potions

So first off I decided to post these every two weeks instead of every week. I found that I was only halfway through the next feature when it was time to post a new update and decided it would be better to have a full feature shown...

Dev Blog

The Herbalist, New Project, and MGDC

New Project Updates and Burn-Out

GDC Takeaways and New Project

Finished First Build and going to GDC

New Journals and UI

Game Updates and GDC

Controller Input and Basic Shrine

Controller Input Continued

Quest Log and Controller Input

Herb Journal System

Crafting System and Bug Fixes

UI Changes and New Quest System

More UI Changes

UI Clean-up and Changes

New Artstyle Implementation

Restuctuing Code and New Artstyle

Code Architecture

The State of the Game and MVP

Cauldron and NPC Updates

Art Art Art

Researching Herbs and Making Potions

First Devblog Post!