Day 2, let's go!
I slept quite much for jam-standards (6h or so), since I’m a bit old for non-sleep jams :D. Good black tea and good to start the day!.
This was the main development day, we had some tasks to do and we did them!
- [X] Orbital camera around a target
- [X] Sphere (planet) that will be replace by the real planet.
- [X] Things that appear at random angles of the sphere.
- [ ] Nice-looking stuff (nope)
This was the first iteration, it was using Unity’s gravity which later was found to be a terrible idea. How it works is:
- Find a good position around the sphere (for now without any limit) with some separation from the surface.
- Create a
GameObject(later to be replaced by the real creatures) at that position, with some physics stuff on (so they fall). - Detect collision with the surface and then deactivate physics when happens.
Most of the work was done in this day:
New planet from designer
We had a new planet asset and it looked nice! (it’s so cool to have a real artist in the team). I had to update my prototype to make sure it was not possible to land in some areas, like water or lava.
Civilization simulation
The prototype was updated to add/remove creatures based on some input parameters. At this point the physics had to be removed because of the performance
Was a long day! :D
