Killer 2017 - Entry Fifty Nine

Today I've worked on what happens when Garcian dies. I have to admit that I didn't remember what the game over screen in Killer 7 looked like, but now it's starting to get made in Killer2017. I debated a bit whether I should add it or not - after all, I could just kick the player back to the loading menu when they game over, which wouldn't be the craziest thing in the world - but I felt in the end that it's a part of Killer 7, and I want this fangame to be representative of the original in as many ways as I can.

• Time spent on the project so far: 94 hours
• Currently working on: Work on game over screen

Killer 2017 - Entry Fifty Eight

Today I've also worked on dying and losing characters, I've also fixed a few issues with running away from battle. Tomorrow I'll either work on dying as Garcian, or ressurecting slain characters.

• Time spent on the project so far: 93 hours
• Currently working on: Work on death

Killer 2017 - Entry Fifty Six

Today I added a few more text lines, this being an adventure game will require me to write quite a few of them for all characters, but as a question of scope it's not vital that I do so. I worked a bit on the tutorial panel for enemies - giving the player info about defeated heaven smiles - and continued working on the elevator hall.

• Time spent on the project so far: 90 hours
• Currently working on: Continuing 'Angel', work on tutorial panel, adding texts

Killer 2017 - Entry Fifty Three

ore work on skills today. Cockiness (Dan Smith's map skill) is pretty much done. It doubles the odds of encountering enemies. I still have to work out if there are any downsides, since you could just use it constantly, as it doesn't require any thin blood vials. I also made the Vision Ring's map ability work. I'm still going back and forth on other skills and how stuff works, but that's the fun part of implementing game design!

• Time spent on the project so far: 85 hours
• Currently working on: Implementing skill hooks

Killer 2017 - Entry Fifty Two

Started working on more rooms - the elevator hall - which features the first truly random encounters. I added mechanics for the 'Melee' enemy passive, and explosive damage. I still have plenty of mechanics to implement and tons of text to write, so I'll stay in that first room for a while!

• Time spent on the project so far: 84 hours
• Currently working on: Implementing skill hooks and audio

Killer 2017 - Entry Fifty

Today was spent entirely on the new text system so I couldn't add to the story. That will go for next time! This improvement makes it so strings aren't as hardcoded in-game as they were, and now I can view everything in a single google spreadsheet. I wonder if I'll work on this game much during my upcoming vacation, but I'll try to put a few hours in here and there!

• Time spent on the project so far: 82 hours
• Currently working on: Continuing with the story

Killer 2017 - Entry Forty Nine

This morning I've completed ring switching, created weapons and some more entries for the tutorial panel, and started to wonder about how I'm storing text. Right not these are hard-coded lines stored in prefabs - and while we're at it, let me say that oh boy, there's going to be A TON of text, most of it new as well - and that's a bit cumbersome to work with. I think I'll do what we use at work and create a google sheets spreadsheet and import it in-game. That'll make things more manageable! 

If everything goes well, tomorrow I'll work on that and create new content!

• Time spent on the project so far: 81 hours
• Currently working on: Continuing with the story, improved text storage system

Killer 2017 - Entry Forty Eight

Working on character and ring swapping now. Doing some game design, adding skills and weapon descriptions, adding tutorial entries for the tutorial panel, moving forward before continuing with the level!

• Time spent on the project so far: 80 hours
• Currently working on: Character swapping, ring selection

Killer 2017 - Entry Forty Six

This UI is starting to be a bit much, luckily I'll be done this week and will be able to move on with other kind of mechanics. The problem I have these days is that I don't even have an hour to work on the game per day, so it goes quite slowly.

• Time spent on the project so far: 78 hours
• Currently working on: Character TV UI

Killer 2017 - Entry Forty Five

Today I've been working on the weapon UI. In the original Killer 7, most characters only had one weapon. For instance, Kevin had knives, and these were your knives the whole game. Dan and Mask had upgrades, but I've always felt weird that Dan is the only one to get three different weapons. It's like he's the game's 'main' character or something! In Killer 2017, every character will get a choice of three weapons - except Garcian and Old Harman - which their own strengths and weaknesses. 

Some might deal more damage, others might have a higher capacity, others might have more special powers, it's not going to be straight upgrades, because that wouldn't work with only three weapons.

• Time spent on the project so far: 77 hours
• Currently working on: Character TV UI

Killer 2017 - Entry Forty Three

More work done on the TV UI today, mainly buying stat upgrades. I've also started the skill screen, which should go by quickly, then the weapon screen, which at this point is also simple. I've reworked how I create and assign weapons as well.

• Time spent on the project so far: 76 hours
• Currently working on: Character TV UI

Killer 2017 - Entry Forty Two

More UI work today, added serum bottles to represent the cost of stat upgrades, reduced the size of tutorial lines to fit more per page, continued to move forward with basic TV UI functionalities.

• Time spent on the project so far: 75 hours
• Currently working on: Character TV UI