Xodius Studios: Forgotten Memories

        Xodius Studios Blog #13 A Little Shine to Make it Prime! Author:Justin Palmer Published: 05/25/23 21:00 The Problem:     The main problem this week was getting the game ready for a demo release.  There were a lot of minor and major bugs that still needed fixed.  Finding and fixing bugs are essential to a well working game that can make the player feel more involved and 'in the zone', so to speak.  If a player doesn't enjoy the game, they will not talk about it to their friends, and most likely won't pay for any add-ons that may be made further down the road.  Polishing is just as important as getting the game to function!  Some of the bugs we found after playing multiple playthrough were: Shopkeeper not working with controller, some corner pillars having gaps from the floor and needing lowered, enemies weren't dying when using the bow and arrow, tutorial popups all were doubled on accident, and the text would stack on each other when popup occurred.   The S

     Xodius Studios Blog #13 Final UI Assets: Consumable slots, Equip menu slots, Inventory slots. Consumable Hotkey System. Bug Fixes: Duplication, Health & Mana Cap, Consumable Amount Update, Bow and Misc. Spawning action menu. Author: Kanitha Charoenpanich Published: 05/24/2023 20:24 The Features: I finally finished my consumable slot system during this final week of polishing. The consumable slot system works with the inventory, action menu, equip menu, and consumable slots. I also added the final touches on assets. I added a border to the inventory, equipment menu, and consumable slots. The consumable slots also got an ornament placeholder when there are no items equipped in the consumable slots. The health and mana also got a new code. The consumable amounts also update correctly on all menus when picking up another potion. The inputs in the project settings were also updated to work with the player controller input that controls the hotkeys for the consumable slots.  Current

 Name: Jared Barker Date: May 23rd, 2023 Time: 12:28 AM EST Final Polish in "Forgotten Memories" I'll keep it brief being that this will be our final log for this game. I managed to add atmospheric fog in the main level and I also added sounds for the game.  For the atmospheric fog, I had to do some adjustments as well as confirm the adjustment to the rest of the team. One of the adjustments was the fog multiplier. The fog multiplier had to be adjusted to 80 and the density multiplier adjusted to 1.9. Also, I had to uncheck the atmosphere affecting the color. It was making the fog purple and it doesn't fit with the atmosphere for the main level. With all of these adjustments, it brought a wonderful atmosphere and emersion to the main level. As for the sounds, some of them were added in the animation/animation montage, and others needed to be played in the blueprint. For the animation, I added sound notifications for the player's walk, death, etc. It needed to be a

      Xodius Studios Blog #12 Game Controller to Control Widgets! Author:Justin Palmer Published: 05/18/23 21:00 The Problem:     The main problem this week was getting a game controller to work with the game.  Although the SteamDeck comes with touch functionality to work as a mouse, we wanted to be able and play the game from start to finish by just using a controller.  Playing with a game controller makes the game feel a lot more fun in my opinion.  The issue arises when you have a widget pop-up as the game controller is still controlling the player character.   The Solution:     There is a function called 'Set Focus'.  This sets the Gamepad Controller to control the widget.  The components of the widget have a variable called 'isFocusable' and must be turned on for the controller to access each specific part of the widget you want the controller to interact.  Therefore, after adding and changing the InputMode to 'UI Only' (so the player character will stop r

First off welcome back to our blog. It has been a long week of development and getting the bosses to work more or less correctly has been a pain. I had to rebase the bosses and create a few new functions to handle their fire attacks. I have them firing when they are supposed to minus the one or 2 random fireballs that pop out with the wing attack from time to time. We will call that a feature and move on. I spent a few hours of balancing all the enemies to make them a bit harder and to knock them back a bit upon being struck.  I also spent a lot of last week getting the shop/quest system implemented. It now works as intended and can accept more than one quest as well. Thats all for now, thanks for reading. PS........ It's been a while coming, so wish us luck and hope you come back to try out the game after release!! Release day May 31, 2023. Graduation day June 2, 2023!!

    Xodius Studios Blog #12 Final UI Assets: Shop, Audio menu, Graphics Menu, Credits Menu, Player Stats Bar. Hover and Pressed UI to Audio, Credits, & Graphics Buttons. Bug Fix: Shop Author: Kanitha Charoenpanich Published: 05/18/2023 15:35 The Features: I added the final UI art to the shop this week, including audio, graphics, credits menu, and player stats HUD. The hover and pressed UI to the audio, credits, and graphics button. I was also helping Mike fix the shop bug. Each menu needed a new background and buttons. I changed the shop UI to also match the rest of the game. The shop bug was that the shop items were not appearing in the shop. Mike figured out that we needed to just delete and re-add the shop NPC to make the items appear again.  Current Status of Features: Photo 1 - Audio Menu The Audio menu got a new background. It also got new buttons and the volume sliders are colored to match the rest of the color pallet. Photo 2 - Graphics Menu The graphics menu also got a new