TOE week 7: Secondary Weapons and Secondary Priorities

              This week I managed to implement 3 secondary weapons. Aside from a couple of Google searches to tell me, ‘just how do I use this syntax?’ everything was pretty easy aside from new things I broke. I also colored some pictures for the other project that I am still trying to finish. I now have some Blender work to do to finalize the background of the image. This week wasn’t a good week for the game but it wasn’t a bad one either. More down the middle. 

                My three new weapons are basically a gun, a boomerang, and an angry bird. They don’t all behave correctly at all times. But that is standard fair as I have seen of late. The angry bird a parabolic based weapon works great until I cross over the  0,0,0 mark in the world and x is negative, then it decides that it doesn’t need to fly up anymore. There is something fishy about this. I will have to look into it and find out how to kill this problem. 

The gun and boomerang went off mostly without a hitch. Guns in a 2D platformer are pretty simple. Send object that way then destroy object when too far away. Aside from the problem that when wall sliding the secondary weapons are shot in the direction of the wall the player is stuck to… Really minor but wrong. I could nix this real fast by saying you can’t fire a secondary weapon while wall sliding but I haven’t decided if I want that or not. Firing from a wall is actually kind of cool. Think Megaman X. 

I still don’t love the Get Component calls in Unity C#. I wish I could just say hey these two attached objects should know about each other’s public variables. I guess that is what a Get Component call really does but it is clunkier than C++. Really though that is the only thing that Unity C# is clunkier than C++ about. 

I haven’t been able to work as hard on this project this week or even on the other project. I am the stay at home dad again. But as of end of day today the wife is on Summer Vacation again so I can put in more time next week maybe… I say maybe because we have A LOT going on next week with my son’s doctors visits. Our free days are rapidly disappearing. Not for fun cool stuff either. Also this week I focused a fair amount of time into fitness and was just too damn tired to work on anything game related as much as I should have. 

I had some delusions that I could hammer out this demo before my wife went back to work in August. YEAH that really doesn’t seem likely now. Sigh. Delusions of grandeur I suppose. I am also going to visit more family in a week and I really want to bring my Laptop to show this off to people. I regret not brining it for our last trip but there wasn’t enough room in the car and I didn’t want to crush the thing. 

Next week I might have to put in some targets to hit with my fancy new Secondary Weapons. I also need to find a way to assign what weapon you’re using. Like pick up a gun and drop the boomerang.