CrumBrawler

Devlog

• Story Time
  March 01, 2024 by Dukiie

  The Problem: Up to this point in the development process, the Story element has been completely left out. When pitching the game I thought of a scenario and a backstory that would work and leave us wi... Continue reading

  
• But....We Have Too Many Buttons
  March 01, 2024 by Jsmic0928

  The Problem Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life. UI/UX is work to me. UI/UX with a mobile game is even worse as I have to fill my screen space with buttons. Phone screens are a l... Continue reading

  
• Anti-Optimization
  February 24, 2024 by Dukiie

  The Problem: The main issue that cost me a large amount of time this week had to do with the way visual studio and Unreal optimize things during compile. In the process of coding the enemy ai state I... Continue reading

  
• So Much Room To Move.... So Much Room to Miss
  February 24, 2024 by Jsmic0928

  The Problem 2.5d'ish Beat 'em Up games have different styles and different approaches to what is 2 dimensional, and what is 3 dimensional. Our controls, we decided for the 3D approach with 360 degree... Continue reading

  
• Getting Started : To Code or not to Code
  February 17, 2024 by Dukiie

  The Problem: This week the focus was to start migrating our prototype to full c++. What I figured would be a somewhat slow but tedious task, quickly became a long struggle of what seemed to be nothing... Continue reading
• New Phone, New Problems
  February 17, 2024 by Jsmic0928

  The Problem This last week I upgraded my phone to a galaxy 24. Wasn't by choice, I broke my old one from dropping it and breaking the screen. With the new phone, I transfered all my data/contacts. Upo... Continue reading

  
• Arnn Powell - Unreal Saving
  February 10, 2024 by Dukiie

  The Problem: While implementing the system to lock and unlock characters, buy them in the store menu, my save file was being overwritten with a fresh save for some items. I must admit I do not have a... Continue reading
• doesComboSystemHaveTooManyBools = True
  February 10, 2024 by Jsmic0928

  THE PROBLEM In my head, using booleans for a combo system seemed straight forward. isPunching, false? Then canPunch, true. Was simple until I realized I had to track more and more with each combo'd at... Continue reading

  
• Arnn Powell Devlog 2 - Progression Lost
  February 02, 2024 by Dukiie

  PROBLEM: I worked on the character progression system this week which is in charge of saving different levels for each playable character in the game. Was quickly able to create a CharacterRoster comp... Continue reading
• Collisions, Collisions, Collisions
  February 01, 2024 by Jsmic0928

  Game development and design is fun until you need to deal with collisions. The problem I faced was using sphere colliders on hands and feet of the character to apply damage to the enemy. The idea in o... Continue reading

  
• Combo System Animation Issues
  January 27, 2024 by Jsmic0928

  The Problem I'm currently facing a challenging issue in Unreal Engine 5 while trying to implement a combo system for my animations. The core problem revolves around accurately tracking the state of at... Continue reading
• Systems Build Video Week 3
  January 27, 2024 by Dukiie

  This is the Systems Build for Week 3. Starting to look like the design document we created with some UI and simple player actions... Continue reading
• Arnn Powell Devlog - Character Select Implementation
  January 27, 2024 by Dukiie

  PROBLEM: Today I setup the character select screen. Since this is a temporary setup getting the correct mesh to load into the level it took a little while longer to accomplish. The first plan was to c... Continue reading
• Setup Build Gameplay Video 1
  January 20, 2024 by Dukiie

  Jestin shows the very first build with the character movement, animations, audio, and a temporary main menu. Running on pc and Android devices... Continue reading
• Jestin McMahon First Post
  January 20, 2024 by Jsmic0928

  My name is Jestin McMahon. Over the next four months, I plan on working with my teammate (Arnn Powell) on our Mobile 2.5D Sidescroller Beat 'em up game. Some short-term goals of mine is to log often t... Continue reading
• Arnn Powell First Post
  January 20, 2024 by Dukiie

  My name is Arnn Powell and together with my teammate Jestin McMahon we will be building a 2.5D Beat Em Up. Over the next four months I look forward to sharing our progress as we build CrumBrawlers and... Continue reading