BlazeRunners : Bullet Ballet

Devlog

• New Feature and Improvements
  July 02, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio

  New UI Components: We know how crucial it is to keep track of your progress during intense races. That’s why we’ve developed a new lap counter UI to help keep track and display it for you, whether... Continue reading

  
• Progressing with Steam Integration and Lobby Functionality
  May 03, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio#multiplayer, #lobby, #steam, #hosting, #unity

  I’m thrilled to share our progress on implementing Steam integration and lobby functionality. With every step forward, we’re getting closer to creating multiplayer experience where friends can gat... Continue reading

  
• Network Ownership and Server Timer
  May 03, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio

  When sending data between the server and client, the client car is still very jumpy for no reason and trying to see through the BaseCar script what could be the issue but nothing seems odd. Until look... Continue reading

  
• Tutorial UI Setup and Timer Bugs
  May 03, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio#timer, #ui, #maps, #unity, #tutorial

  Part 1: The Problem - This week’s problem came white setting up the tutorial UI. The tutorial UI needed careful design and implementation to ensure clarity and user-friendliness, however there was a... Continue reading

  
• Networking the AI
  May 03, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio

  Welcome! Lets start off with why networking the AI. We place AI players into the game to compete against the players, the AI will be added to the race based on how many real players are in the race. T... Continue reading
• Fixing Wheelies
  May 02, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio

  One major problem that we kept running into in our game was wheele-ing. When the player would drive off almost anything and while holding the accelerator, would then make the car wheelie. This would m... Continue reading
• Networking Objects
  April 27, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio

  When adding the network scripts onto our items and itemboxes a couple of issues arose with trying to get the client to see changes with what the server can see. When the host or client picks up an ite... Continue reading

  
• Enhancing Game Tutorial Logic and UI Layout
  April 27, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio#tutorial, #unity, #ui

  Part 1: The Problem This week’s challenges related to the game tutorial logic and the UI layout in our project. The code logic for the tutorial has been a struggle to test, due to it involving setti... Continue reading

  
• Lobby Functionality for Multiplayer
  April 26, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio#multiplayer, #unity, #lobby, #steam, #fishnet, #research

  As we progress forward in the development of the project, one critical feature stands out: the ability for friends to join the game and race against each other. However, we face a roadblock as we curr... Continue reading

  
• Aim Assisted Predictive Aiming
  April 26, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio

  Welcome! this part of the project was something a bit more challenging than I anticipated this to be. At first since I want to track the closest racer and the players car was counting as the closest c... Continue reading

  
• Reworking Leaderboard System
  April 26, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio

  Today I’m going to be going over how I’m completely reworking the entire leaderboard system. The only problem that I ran into with the leaderboard system was how would I deal with people who have... Continue reading
• Desync with Player movement
  April 20, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio

  When the client connects to server and the server host’s car has moved prior on the client’s side it respawns the server host’s car. Which is weird while testing with different objects the issue... Continue reading

  
• Implementing Splash Screen and Build's Icon
  April 20, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio#splash screen, #icon, #unity, #design

  The Problem: The game’s executable build lacked a cohesive branding presence. It lacked showcasing team’s identity and also no icon for the executable build. Additionally, the absence of a splash... Continue reading

  
• Wrong way issues
  April 20, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio

  The issues that I ran into when testing the game was anytime that you would purposefully go backwards there would be no indicator showing you that you were going backwards. So I wanted to try and solv... Continue reading

  
• Resolving Speedometer Integration Issue in Unity UI
  April 20, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio#unity, #user interface

  The Problem: One of the key hurdles I came across this week involved integrating the speedometer into our Unity UI. Despite our efforts, I couldn’t get the slider to accurately intake the accelerati... Continue reading

  
• AI Spacing
  April 19, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio

  The issue I ran into finally adding multiple AI racers from my single AI testing is that they ended up cluttered up all the time because they have the same goals and points around the map. This made i... Continue reading

  
• Predictive Aiming
  April 13, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio

  When creating the aim assist system, something that I noticed when trying to hit an opponent with the items is the trajectory of the projectiles will only be shot towards the car’s previous position... Continue reading

  
• AI Self Awareness
  April 13, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio

  Problem with picking up “Mystery-Boxes” At first before the Agent became aware of there being “Mystery-Boxes” that exists, he would just drive casually around the map. Now with adding 3 rays t... Continue reading

  
• Reworking Checkpoints
  April 13, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio

  Hello all again, today I’m going over the problems that I ran into when trying to rework the checkpoint system. Some of the problems that I ran into when trying to rework the entire checkpoint syste... Continue reading

  
• Maps Update: Terrain and Skybox
  April 13, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio#terrain, #skybox, #unity assets

  Part 1: The Problem: Initially, the first level in the game lacked visual depth and immersion. While the track itself was well-designed, the surrounding environment felt empty and lacked detail. Witho... Continue reading

  
• Overcoming Personal Hurdles
  April 13, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio#time management

  Part 1: The Problem I found myself grappling not only with technical challenges but also with personal issues that threatened to slow our progress. As I worked to fix maps and integrate sound effects... Continue reading

  
• AI Drifting
  March 29, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio

  The issues that I’m facing from the AI is how to make him drift around a curve and super sharp turns. When noticing this I had a system for normal driving on sharp turns when approaching a single sh... Continue reading

  
• Networking Integration Woes
  March 29, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio#networking, #multiplayer, #unity, #input system, #transmission of data, #devlog, #RPC, #development

  As Network Program, I delved into integrating networking functionalities into the game and during development, this week I encountered a significant hurdle. While I successfully addressed ownership is... Continue reading

  
• Action Feedback
  March 29, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio

  When working with my systems with the items we want to make sure the player can know visually, how many uses the current item has, and on top of that some items should have a visual indication of bein... Continue reading
• Troubleshooting Weapon Icons and Track Maps [UI]
  March 28, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio#user interface, #unity, #probuilder, #weapon icons, #prefabs, #maps, #assets

  The Problem: This week one of my main problems was regarding the UI elements, particularly the weapon icon images. Despite having assets, they were in a spreadsheet and the UV mapping on the sprite sh... Continue reading

  
• Problems with Checkpoints
  March 28, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio

  When beginning to work on the Game Manager portion of the game, I started to run into problems with how the old checkpoint system worked. It was simple and didn’t check for the player’s next check... Continue reading

  
• Aiming System
  March 23, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio#shooting, #loot boxes, #weapon system, #aiming

  When picking up an item by running onto the mystery item box, some of it can be a gun that will be set onto an empty game object that’s attached on the car. When grabbing a weapon item, I implemente... Continue reading

  
• Problems with Arcade Physics
  March 23, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio#physics, #multiplayer, #arcade, #racing

  When starting our project I decided to go with easiest way of making car related physics, which was using the built in Wheel Colliders provided by unity. But the problem with the given wheel colliders... Continue reading

  
• Respawn UI
  March 23, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio#win/loss, #respawn mechanics, #checkpoints, #UI

  I am responsible for implementing User Interface in the game and this week, I encountered a challenge when I was polishing the UI for our game – the absence of UI for death (i.e. falling out of the... Continue reading
• Enhancing Enemy AI
  March 23, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio#artificial intelligence, #path tracking, #enemy ai

  What went right: The task of introducing enemy AI for our game went like a breeze with thorough research and a clear plan in mind. The initial implementation of the AI racing cars showed promise, and... Continue reading

  
• Networking in the Game
  March 23, 2024 by Pixel Pulse Studio

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  #networking, #multiplayer

  As I dive into implementing networking features for the game, I’ve encountered a significant hurdle. Currently, when a player controls their car on either the client or server side, both cars move s... Continue reading