Devlog #5 Fantasy Overhaul

Another good day to get some dev done! up at 6am with the daughter, got in some gamedev before work while she slept again. There’s a cracking cool breeze. Work was pretty chill. Let’s get cracking!

🛠 What I Did

Started overhaul of aesthetics
Completed main menu
Completed in game „hud“
Completed spelling menu, not bug free, but minor layout fuckery.
Completed game over menu
Completed options menu, just a placeholder with a back button for now. But soon!
Overhauled colouring within the game using a Theme manager to eventually cater different eye conditions and preferences. Accessibility isn’t hard to at least think about early.
Overhauled the grid, no more .png. generated at runtime. Opens up a whole bunch of potential and control. As well as it had to be done to work with the Theme manager.
Created a logo
Attempted to animate it.. but it’s shit, so bad..
Added in menu music. Will eventually get the same kind of treatment as the themes. Exposing the menu track, I found this great pack over on freesound.org so makes sense to have either cycle of all the tracks in the pack or pick one to be the in menu music. For when you’re chilling from the stress of snake and trying to think of words.
Overhauled all buttons. This started as needing to change the buttons style across the entire game but also the theme manager. I now simply have a prefab with a primary/secondary/tertiary type which colours the buttons associated with theme.
ok animation is actually alright now
Found a great plugin for unity to parse the hierarchy into xml so it’s easier to parse by llms. This is a big win!! the main problems with llm’s and unity code is they can’t see the editor. They haven’t a clue what’s up so they do the llm thing, make bullshit up

🤔 Thoughts & Challenges

Should probably create a prefab for panels. I’m going to be making a lot more panels and having some basic stuff in place speeds things up
Still got that damn sound bug on restart.
When to go bigger.