Devlog #2

Between the last devlog and this, I built majority of features + frameworks.

List of things completed in this devlog

• Shop System (Hyperlink between abilities and one-time-use purchases)

  • Created a modular system to manage prices and purchases (Datastore saves abilities such as Double Jump & Block).
  • UI animations:
    • Zoom in with background blur when opening the shop.
    • Inverse animation on close.

• Complete Combat System

  • Players can push each other, and they can also purchase the ability to block.

  • Done using DOT product + magnitude detection.

  • Rewards 50 cash.

  • Blocking simply fires a remote communicating to the server that a player is blocking. On attack verification, if the player is in the CURRENT_PROTECTED array, it prevents damage + ragdoll, and instead plays a thud sound effect.

• Datastore

  • Managing money, wins, and how many slaps a player has.
  • This is important for many things, eg purchasing, gaining / losing money.

• UI Elements (Currency, Winning, Kill Feed)

  • Currency

    • When a player gains money, it has a shake effect + a green floating Δ+ which promptly disappears with a sound effect.
    • Losing money does the same thing, but in red with Δ-.

  • Winning

    • See image attatched :D

  • Kill Feed

    • Created a kill feed with randomly generated text.
    • Using RichText, I also made the attacker and victim have different colours.

    This works through a RemoteEvent being fired to all players. Example messages:

    {{attacker}} just <font color='rgb(122, 200, 255)'>REKT</font> {{victim}}

    {{victim}} bit the <font color='rgb(122, 200, 255)'>DUST</font>

• Abilities & One-Time Purchases

  • Abilities work through datastore management.
  • Purchased abilities are saved, and on CharacterAdded, their LocalScript gets inserted into the player’s character.
  • One-time purchases simply fire a RemoteEvent (with sanity checks to verify the purchase) which then completes the action.

  Current abilities

  • Double Jump
  • Block

  Current one-time purchases

  • Kill All
  • Ragdoll All
  • Low Gravity

• Animations

  • Spent time making animations for:
    • Push
    • Block
    • Double Jump (flip animation)

• Tower Generation

  • There is a folder in ReplicatedStorage containing every possible stage.

  • Using Lua’s % 2 operator, I check remainder for stage alignment (logic below).

    isRotated = index % 2 == 0

    rotate(stage, isRotated and 180 or 0)

  • Then, I simply calculate the current tower height and place the new stage directly on top.

  • Shuffling stages is also straightforward, I use math.random on table index.

• Winning

  • The server fires a RemoteEvent telling every client that somebody has won, rewards the winner, reshuffles the tower, and respawns every player.
  • The tower also automatically reshuffles every 600 seconds (10 minutes) if nobody wins.

• Stage Elements

  • Added the following stage elements using Roblox’s CollectionService tag system

I also made ~ 10 stages (with own quirks, eg not being able to jump). Spent a lot of time on sound design aswell.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwGzDpOlbbk