Mythicism

Devlog

• DOT Particle Effect Not Working In Release Build | Tech Discussion
  June 24, 2022 by Arcane Studios#reilly da silva, #ue4, #Mythicism, #Game Design

  For this tech discussion I will explain a problem I had with a particle effect for a DOT (damage over time) object in Mythicism and how I solved it. To start I will explain how the DOT was set up to b... Continue reading
• Tech Discussion | Boss Post Mortem
  June 23, 2022 by Arcane Studios#Dominic Taylor-Axtell, #Mythicism

  Boss is now in its final stages with all polish, animations, and sounds implemented. The boss is complete with two separate combat phases with a healing stage in between. - Defeating boss spawns win p... Continue reading
• Ranged Enemy Aiming Problem | Tech Discussion
  June 17, 2022 by Arcane Studios

  In this Tech Discussion I will be explaining how I solved a problem with our ranged enemies’ aiming logic. Before the fix, when our ranged enemies fired a spell they would do the following: Begin pl... Continue reading
• A Problem With Blade Trails | Tech Discussion
  June 10, 2022 by Arcane Studios

  For this tech discussion I’m going to talk about a decision I had to make to solve a problem based on priority. The problem was how we might go about adding blade trails to the game. There seemed to... Continue reading
• Tech Discussion | Boss Behavior
  June 10, 2022 by Arcane Studios#Dominic Taylor-Axtell, #Mythicism

  The boss now has even more feature implemented with more to be coming soon. Our boss is a two-phase boss using melee and magic attacks on the player, the boss is able to heal herself at stages of the... Continue reading
• How To Edit Animation Sequences (Additive Layer Tracks) In UE4 | Tech Discussion
  June 03, 2022 by Arcane Studios

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  With Mythicism as my first project in UE4, I was used to how animation assets in Unity allow you to see and edit the keyframes. This had proved extremely useful in times where I had animations that we... Continue reading

  
• Tech Discussion | Altar System and Player leveling
  May 23, 2022 by Arcane Studios#Mythicism, #Dominic Taylor-Axtell

  The altar in our game stands as an interactable barrel which brings up a UI menu for the player to spend their currency they have earned from defeating enemies. Stats (there are 4 stats to level each... Continue reading
• Tech Discussion | Save System
  May 23, 2022 by Arcane Studios#mythicism, #Dominic Taylor-Axtell

  The save system has been being developed for quite some time now and should be fully completed by the end of this weeks build. Save System (currently): - Saves player inventory - Saves player stats -... Continue reading
• Adding Varied Footstep Sounds | Tech Discussion
  May 15, 2022 by Arcane Studios#Reilly da Silva, #UE4, #Mythicism, #Game Design

  This wil be a short and simple tech discussion, but I think the solution I came up is quite useful for anyone wanting to add footstep sounds to their 3rd person game in UE4. The desired features: Foot... Continue reading
• Designing A Souls-like Block Mechanic In UE4 | Tech Discussion
  May 14, 2022 by Arcane Studios#reilly da silva, #Mythicism, #UE4, #Mechanics, #Gameplay programming

  In this tech discussion I'll describe how I went about adding a block mechanic in Mythicism . In a previous blog post I explained how our combat was designed. To summarize, there is an interface IDama... Continue reading
• Integrating Spell Casting With The Animation State Machine | Tech Discussion
  May 02, 2022 by Arcane Studios

  Continuing with the player’s animation system, I was tasked with designing our spell system this week. In this discussion I’ll be describing how I implemented responding to user input for spell ca... Continue reading
• Optimization The Animation Trigger System | Tech Discussion
  May 01, 2022 by Arcane Studios

  In a previous blog post I explained how I replicated Unity’s Animator.SetTrigger() functionality in UE4. The way I accomplished this was by creating an actor component attached to the player bluepri... Continue reading
• Enemy Behavior Improvements | Tech Discussion
  April 24, 2022 by Arcane Studios#Dominic Taylor-Axtell, #Mythicism

  This build I focused on Improving the existing behavior of the enemies and expanding upon it, along with some minor tweaks to other parts of the project. Colliders: - Worked in part with another membe... Continue reading
• Stamina and more | Tech Discussion
  April 21, 2022 by Arcane Studios#Amara Gitomer, #mythicism, #tech discussion

  There was a lot that I did in the background and the foreground of the game. A few early wins that I got out of the way were the integration of console commands to allow players to fill their mana and... Continue reading

  
• Setting Up Differening Animations Per Weapon in UE4 | Tech Discussion
  April 19, 2022 by Arcane Studios#reilly da silva, #Unreal Engine, #Mythicism, #UE4, #Combat System, #Anim Graph

  This past week I began building upon the foundation I laid the week prior for how I would design our player's animation system. In short, the system works as follows: An event occurs on the player blu... Continue reading
• Enemy Types , Weapons, and Animations | Tech Discussion
  April 13, 2022 by Arcane Studios#Dominic Taylor-Axtell, #Mythicism

  New Enemy Types: Charger Enemy Behavior: will run straight towards player to launch a slam attack when in range, will then play a roar animation as it prepares for next attack Hoping to add a lunge or... Continue reading
• Triggering Animations in UE4's Animation State Machine | Tech Discussion
  April 10, 2022 by Arcane Studios

  Being as Mythicism is a 3rd person game, we decided to use the Third Person Character template as a base for our player. The Third Person Character template used its blueprint for handling movement an... Continue reading
• Target Lock | Tech Discussion
  April 10, 2022 by Arcane Studios#mythicism, #tech discussion, #amara gitomer

  This week there was not too much done as I mainly focused on creating a functioning target lock. As per the previous post there was an issue with the target lock-on where I was trying to figure out ho... Continue reading

  
• Github Issues With UE4 | Tech Discussion
  March 26, 2022 by Arcane Studios#GitHub, #reilly-da-silva, #unreal, #Unreal Engine, #visual-studio

  This week and last our team had some major difficulties using GitHub for our project. We many bizzare issues from files being lost to the ether when failing to close Unreal before switching branches t... Continue reading
• Prototype Build | Devlog
  March 24, 2022 by Arcane Studios#devlog, #mythicism

  In the last build, we had a simple scene with player movement, including our roll mechanic, the bare bones of the combat system, and a simple AI that was able to detect the player and follow after the... Continue reading
• New Animations and Other Features | Tech Discussion
  March 23, 2022 by Arcane Studios#tech discussion, #mythicism, #Amara Gitomer

  This week I did a lot of little things that help with the foundation of our game. I added in more animations, made a new level to test some new functionality out on, did some minor fixes, and wrestled... Continue reading
• AI Changes | Tech Discussion
  March 23, 2022 by Arcane Studios#tech discussion, #mythicism, #Dominic Taylor-Axtell

  New features added to enemy AI: - strafing left and right - Now will attack player in random intervals - Weapon no longer collides with AI and damages self - AI's attack will move the enemy towards th... Continue reading
• Designing Weapon Interactions | Tech Discussion
  March 20, 2022 by Arcane Studios#Reilly da Silva, #GameMechanics, #UnrealEngine

  This week we began designing and implementing our game's core systems. Being as our game primarily revolves around combat, I tried to spend a good deal of time and intentionality designing that system... Continue reading

  
• System Build | Devlog
  March 19, 2022 by Arcane Studios#devlog, #mythicism

  We just launched our system build. It is not a lot but it is the foundation on which Mythicism will be made. There were many things that we got done for this build some went smoothly and others result... Continue reading
• Designing AI State Switching | Tech Discussion
  March 18, 2022 by Arcane Studios#tech discussion, #mythicism, #Dominic Taylor-Axtell

  When trying to implement strafing for the AI I was having great difficulty with making the enemy change behavior. The enemy character would not switch from his pursue state to his strafe state. After... Continue reading
• Player Movement And Other Features | Tech Discussion
  March 18, 2022 by Arcane Studios#tech discussion, #mythicism, #amara

  For this post, we are discussing the implementation of rolling, dodge, audio, and the test level design. All of these were implemented via Blueprints, the Animation System in Unreal, and the Level Edi... Continue reading
• Progress This Week | Tech Discussion
  March 18, 2022 by Arcane Studios#tech discussion, #mythicism, #owens

  This week we had a lot to get done so to get started on being able to do things like take damage and have beings to fight classes and systems had to be made. This is what has been implemented in our n... Continue reading
• Setup Build | Devlog
  March 12, 2022 by Arcane Studios#devlog, #mythicism

  Mythicism is a souls-like game that is meant to challenge the player's combat and tactics with intense enemies. Use Favor to gain power, the power that gave you the strength to kill Gods. You are able... Continue reading