As mentioned in the end of my Game Patches post, I have been working on a leader board ahead of the 0.0.2 release.

Right now it is just a basic table that ranks players (by IP and name) based on number of kills. I will work on stylizing it more later, but as of right now the basic functionality exists and is implemented into the game.

Check it out here.

Changes:

• Set name and robe color
• Fixed animation bug
• Reimplemented casting effect
• Ragdoll improvements
• No targeting ghosts
• Fizzle on damage
• Fizzle on low mana
• Add Buff/Debuff bar
• Projectile spells follow

Area effect spells are in!

I have been putting this one off for a little while because I wasn’t sure how to approach it. But last night I was able to get the concuss spell working and laid the ground work for AOE style spells.

Casting:

• Fizzle on damage
• Fizzle on low mana
• No targeting ghosts
• Reimplement casting effect

Character

• Fix animation bug

HUD

• Display poison on health bar (make hp green)
• Add Buff/Debuff icon placeholders

Spells

• Add icon holder for buff/debuff icon to be displayed on HUD

Map

• Add rez spot near center
• Make map more interesting

I have been trying to make a push to get WebGl working for alpha testing, however as it turns out there are a few issues with unity’s webgl at the moment. The client’s don’t fully disconnect and the connections max out, and I am still running into issues with people dropping connection when spells are casted.

So until I can get a more stable build that works, I will have to resort back to standalone builds.

So not that I have a slew of new particle effects for my spells:

And I have learned a bunch about ScriptableObjects… I have had to rebuild a lot of how this system works.

I am currently about 90% done with implementing the changes to incorporating these changes, and I was able to refactor the code into a tighter, better functioning system.

As I make the push for a WebGL, I have had to rework some of the ways I was doing things. One of the major changes is I have been stripping out the client-side code in the headless server build, and stripping out the server code in the client build. I am working hard to make certain that as much of the core functionality of the game is server side to help prevent wide spread hacking.

I am also beginning to implement messaging. I have system messages being sent from the server. This will allow me to bring back chat. I am not certain if I will go for a chat window style or over the head chat yet.

So because a lot of the parts of Unity are new to me, I may not have built things in the greatest way… at least not on the first pass.

Originally I wrote the spell system with a game object that implements a script that just holds information about the spell.

public class Spell: MonoBehaviour {
    public KeyCode key;
    public GameObject effect;
    public string type;
    public string words;
    public float castTime;
    public float manaCost;
    public float effectValue;
    public string effectTarget;
    public string effectType;
    public float delayTime;
    public float expireTime;
}

So after watching a tutorial on ScriptableObjects I have begun moving my spell system over.

public class SpellList : ScriptableObject 
{
    public List<Spell> spellList;
}

[System.Serializable]
public class Spell 
{
    public string spellName = “New Spell“;
    public Texture2D spellIcon = null;
    public KeyCode hotkey = null;
    public ParticleSystem spellEffect = null;
    public SpellType type = null;
    public string incantation = ““;
    public float castTime = 0.0f;
    public float manaCost = 0.0f;
    public float effectValue = 0.0f;
    public EffectType effectType = null;
    public EffectTarget effectTarget = null;
    public float delayTime = 0.0f;
    public float expireTime = 0.0f;
}