Initial Dev Log (Dec 7th 2023-Feb 2nd 2024)

This is the first entry in my development log for “Sacrifices Must Be Made!”

This isn’t my first day of development(in fact it’s a few months in the making now) but I will try my best to summarize my approximate timeline by month.

December 2023

• Created the project in Unity! Flawless beginning!
• Configured the XR Controller inputs
• Imported some Synty assets to use for the world and units
• From the start, using the following design patterns:(not an exhaustive list, will edit as I remember)
  • Command
  • Observer
• Created scripts for:
  • box select units
  • Move commands
  • preliminary patrol move for enemy for testing purposes(it just picks a random point from a set of predefined points to move to, and attacks the villagers if it gets close to one)
  • happiness test(units listen to you more when they’re happy)

January 2024

• Added spells
• Added functionality to queue commands
• Fixed units not travelling to their intended destination(checking distance was part of my script that checks if the unit reached the destination, and NavMeshAgents return a distance of infinity when not on their last leg of the path, I assume this undocumented behaviour is to reduce computation)

February 2024

• Added more commands such as collect resources, attack, and build.