Hello, and thank you for checking this post out. Last post I declared that I was going to work on starting the combat system, make some 2D assets, and finish the introduction area. I have no idea what I was smoking to think that I'd just "Finish the introduction area, lol!" but that did not happen.

Latest Progress

I finished the inventory system, involving establishing resources for all types of items and equipment (helmets, belts, tanks, chains, hooks, and fists have their own resource value, as their inventory spot is a fixed and unique one for each of them). I made separated instances of inventory for things like chests and containers. I also coded in a player-manager script that allows me to incorporate health, and thusly healing items. Additionally, I created 2D assets for both the inventory UI, Equipment UI, and hotbar UI- as well as some Pixel/Drawn sprites. The pixel sprites will be in the 3D world, while the 2D sprites will be in the dialogue menus.

Here's what two of them look like.

Very fun stuff.

In this post's video, I go over the visuals of the inventory as well as what the dialogue might look like in the finished game. You can much better see what I mean when I say that each equipment type has it's own slot. (I also did a new area with hanging lights. Woo-Hoo!)

What's Next?

Okay, let's try to make this one more accurate than the previous.

I'm going to mess around with the first person elements of the UI. Visible hands, weapons, switching, and so on. I also want to try and establish a way to quickly switch between weapon-types (there are two, chain+sickle and fists) on the fly. I think it'd be really cool to add the health-visual as a heart-monitor kind of thing, to add some of that sci-fi flavor into it. I might add a run. I'm going to add a kick. I also plan to add visual indications of stats once I write them up. Currency would be nice too- Okay, nevermind. I probably will do half of these things.