Catastrophe Devlog April 26th, 2024

Kept you waiting, huh?

Apologies for the rather long hiatus. Game dev for me has been a rollercoaster of: no-lifing development of Catastrophe for 2 weeks straight, 12 hours a day, followed by not touching the game for weeks, or longer. BUT this new build comes packed with new content, changes, and bug fixes, which are listed below!

WEAPONS:

-Spells have been added to the game. Lighting blast and grenade/bomb. These need mana to use.

-When using spells, the player's hands will turn blue when the lightning charge is full, and red when the bomb charge is full. The bomb hands have been made orange to differentiate it from the lightning spell. When the hands are grey, it means the spell is recharging/reloading, and cannot be cast until the colour reverts back to its starting colour.

WORLD:

-Wizards spawn more commonly, while Zombies now spawn less.

-More Wizards appear in the dungeon, while Zombies appear less in the dungeon.

-More items have been placed in the world and dungeon.

ENEMIES:

-Zombies now have more health, taking 2 Hammer hits to kill.

-Fireball Wizards have less health, taking 1 Hammer hit to kill.

-Both Wizards now drop a new item: Mana Potions.

Zombies now deal more damage, but take longer to attack the player between hits.

AUDIO:

-The Hammer now has an impact sound when making contact with an enemy.

-Zombies now make a grunting sound when hit.

-Player will make a hurt sound when taking a large amount of damage.

-Zombie attacks now make a scratching sound.

-Almost every pickup now has a unique sound effect when picking it up.

MISC:

-During the opening text crawl, a prompt will appear to let the player know they can speed up the text if they hit the spacebar.

-New item: Mana Potion. Dropped by Wizards and is found throughout the world. Gives player 30 mana to use.

-HUD changes to accommodate new spells/mana.

-The Hammer now animates when the player is walking (the other weapons will soon™)

-Probably a bunch of little things I'm forgetting...