Project Meltdown

Devlog

• Devlog 10: Elijah Jackson: Where the animation at?
  June 06, 2025 by Paratox#UI, #Animation

  "Where the animation at?" Elijah Jackson 06/06/2025 The UI: This week, I wanted to take a break from adding pure, player facing gameplay features. As our game looks towards QA testing and the backend... Continue reading

  
• Devlog 9: Elijah Jackson: Upgrades People, Upgrades!
  May 28, 2025 by Paratox#Player, #Combat

  "Upgrades People, Upgrades!" Elijah Jackson 05/27/2025 Weapon Upgrades: I continued my work for this sprint with weapon upgrades. As the game progresses enemies will get stronger, faster, and spawn mo... Continue reading

  
• Devlog 8: Elijah Jackson: What are you aiming at?!
  May 23, 2025 by Paratox#Player, #Combat, #UI

  "What are you aiming at?!" Elijah Jackson 05/22/2025 Ranged Weapons: My main focus this month has been improving the gameplay experience for the player. Now, I've set my eyes on improving the player's... Continue reading

  
• Devlog 7: Elijah Jackson: Keep Up The Fight
  May 22, 2025 by Paratox#Player, #Combat, #UI

  "Keep Up The Fight" Elijah Jackson 05/21/2025 Game Abilities: My main focus after completing the UI updates was to get more gameplay features working. I began by creating the ability system for new ab... Continue reading

  
• Devlog 6: Elijah Jackson: Now You See Me
  May 16, 2025 by Paratox#Player, #UI

  "Now You See Me" Elijah Jackson 05/15/2025 The Skill Tree: My work on the skill tree continued with the creation of some basic stat altering nodes to give the tree some beginning structure. Then, I ti... Continue reading

  
• Object Pool Implementation
  May 16, 2025 by XsaborZ

  Reason for the change: As a team we agreed that our game would have many spawning and destroying of objects in the world either by bullet destruction, the different types of currency drops and all the... Continue reading

  
• Devlog 5: Elijah Jackson: AbiliTrees
  May 14, 2025 by Paratox#Player, #Combat, #Movment, #Weapons

  "AbiliTrees" Elijah Jackson 05/13/2025 The Dash: I began my work for this week with a basic dash ability that lets the player move rapidly in the direction they are looking. Currently, this ability us... Continue reading
• Devlog 4: Elijah Jackson: I Want *That* Weapon
  May 10, 2025 by Paratox#Player, #Weapons, #Instancing

  "I Want *That* Weapon" Elijah Jackson 05/09/2025 Weapon Instancing: This week, I worked on the instancing of weapons. Our game had the problem of the player only being able to have one weapon at a tim... Continue reading

  
• Currency Drop System and room restricting
  May 02, 2025 by XsaborZ

  “Currency Drop System and room restricting” author: Joseph Horsch Posted on 5/2/2025 Currency Drops Currency Drops is gonna be one of the main types that separates our game from other games like C... Continue reading

  
• Devlog 3: Elijah Jackson: Moving, Buying, & Changing
  May 02, 2025 by Paratox#Player, #Movment, #UI

  "Moving & Knowing" Elijah Jackson 05/02/2025 New Movement: This week, my first major focus was to finish adding new movement options for the player to use during gameplay. As of the last update the pl... Continue reading

  
• Implementing NextRound cheat
  May 02, 2025 by IImezzii

  Blog Entry Part 1: The Problem This week, I needed to implement a developer cheat command that would allow instant progression to the next round in our enemy wave-based system. This cheat, SpawnEnemy... Continue reading

  
• Devlog 2: Elijah Jackson: Let's Get Fighting
  April 26, 2025 by Paratox#Player, #Combat, #Weapons

  "Let's Get Fighting" Elijah Jackson 04/25/2025 The Weapons: With the framework for the player in place, this week was the time to start implementing the combat system. I began with ranged combat this... Continue reading

  
• Enemy Behaviors and Spawning
  April 26, 2025 by XsaborZ

  “Enemy Behaviors and Spawning” author: Joseph Horsch Posted on 4/25/2025 Enemy 1 Behaviors The First enemy behaviors there are three things: Idle, walk and attack. Idle is when either enemy can't... Continue reading

  
• Implementing Developer Cheats
  April 26, 2025 by IImezzii

  author: John Hartley Posted on: 4/25/2025 Blog Entry Part 1: The Problem John had to solve during this week of development During development and testing, it became clear that manually testing things... Continue reading

  
• Creating The Maps & Doors
  April 22, 2025 by Bananarama8910

  Problems with creating the map & the Door Author: Aiden Bentz Blog Entry Part 1: The Problem While I was working with Perforce, I ran into some frustrating issues when trying to submit the code portio... Continue reading

  
• Devlog 1: Elijah Jackson: Crafting The Player
  April 19, 2025 by Paratox#Player, #Animations

  "Crafting The Player" Elijah Jackson 04/18/2025 Player & Animations: This week my effort was placed towards setting up the base for the player. During my work, I wanted to make sure to build a base th... Continue reading

  
• Enemy AI Perception
  April 19, 2025 by XsaborZ

  “Problems with Ai Perception” author: Joseph Horsch Posted on 4/18/2025 Blog Entry Part 1: The Problem Goal: For our game, Project Meltdown, we want the game to be multiplayer compatible. In Zombi... Continue reading

  
• Steam Overlay
  April 18, 2025 by IImezzii

  “Problems with Steam Overlay” author: John Hartley Posted on 4/18/2025 Blog Entry Part 1: The Problem John, had to solve during this week of development In editor steam overlay was not working Thi... Continue reading