I didn’t get a whole lot done today, as my energy has been directed elsewhere, but I did knock down issue #14.

I wasn’t thrilled with the colors that Unity was giving me by default, so I’ve added the ability for me to define custom colors, which I’ve had some fun with. I was also not terribly happy with my lighting scheme, so I added another light to the rig and brightened things up a bit!

In the next couple of days I’ll be adding an unlocked camera so that the player can choose which angle they view the board from, as well as some back-end features to lay the groundwork for more flexible game play.

As always, the latest build can be found here.

I upgraded my Unity installation today to 4.6. This version has some new and interesting support for putting UI elements in world space, so I figured I would leverage that and make my health bars look a bit nicer.

I added a health bar manager to handle decreasing the health and changing the health bar colors as health decreases. Here’s what the setup looks like in Unity:

You can snag the script from Hex’s GitHub (if you just want the health bar script, this is where you want to go).

As always, I’ve updated the deployed game, so if you want to see them in action, head on over to Hex.

Today I finished the first major iteration of Hex. While there were a lot of behind-the-scenes changes that went into it, on the front end, it means that the arrows now turn when they move, and the units are shinier than before. The board is now also set up symmetrically. Check it out here.

While there are still bugs to be squashed, and polish to add, it’s exciting to have a first draft of this game out in the world.

Today I deployed Hex to the web! You can go try it out over here. This resolves GitHub issue #9.

I might do some more development tonight, but for now, I’m off to play volleyball for the night.

This month, I’ll be taking part in the #1GAM (one game a month) challenge with a game that I started a while back. Right now, I’m calling it Hex, though that might change. I’ve been making decent progress on it for the last week or so, and to keep me motivated, I’ll be blogging about my progress each day. The challenge ends on February 28th, so Hex will be available to play by then at the latest.

On to the status update. Today I added a new type of unit to Hex, called an Arrow (resolving GitHub issue #6). Arrows are unique because they can attack twice before becoming exhausted, which allows them to attack multiple targets, or to burst a single target. They can also move between attacks. There are two other kinds of units- Cubes, and Pyramids- which I will describe in more detail in the coming days. Both of the other unit types have already been implemented.

I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to bake good polymorphism and inheritance into this kind of code; having a solid Unit base class to work with is making the other unit classes much smaller.

Here’s how things look right now:

I’m excited to continue working on Hex!