Tyler Sweppenhiser- Dev Log #1

The last two weeks have been challenging in all the best ways. Code is and game design is never really a straight shot for me. It is a long process sometimes that regardless how good I get always ends with one or two google searches. The problem with what I had been working on was that it was not easy to google. There was only one tutorial that I could find and even that was only somewhat helpful.

The software I had been using was ORK Framework. At the surface looking into it I was excited. This was a tool to make RPG systems and mechanics easier and faster. I do think that it does do this, but the learning curve for it can be difficult. Overall after the search for how to use this tool was over. The final product works pretty good and Monochrome is going to be better in the end after this tool is learned and put to its full potential.

The first thing I worked on was a new main menu for Monochrome. This was the easiest thing to make and I love how it turned out. The process began with learning the tabs and UI of ORK Framework. After I knew where everything was, it was not much longer before I had a working prototype of the main menu in the game. The next steps with the menu will be to create a functional settings tab. Creating UI is one of my favorite things to do. I’m glad to be working more with UI rather than the battle system for now.

Monochrome is a very quirky and funny game with jokes and interactions all over the place. Now with our shiny new framework added to unity we needed a dialogue system to go along with it. ORK Framework has its own detection system for Unity however, it’s not the best. It took three days to understand how it worked without conflicting with the game’s original code.  Fear not though we figured it out…and then decided to scrap using dialogue through ORK.