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Create a cutscene and add stuff for shipping

PR link

Things done:

• Created a defense up action
• Added sprites for cards and defense amount

Things Done:

• create loss and win menus
• create end screen
• periodically re-add cards on the start of the player turn
• refactor more code

PR link once repo is public

Video shows my final checks to make sure no errors happen because of scene switching and pause menuing.

Things Done:

• Made card movement frame rate independent by multiplying Lerp factors by Time.deltaTime
• Created title menu and pause menu
  • Had to prevent issues with static variables retaining variables between scenes
  • Also had to prevent issues with NaN numbers when pausing, since there’s a lot of behind the hood math for the card visuals
• Also refactored some code

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Things Done:

• Created the basic logic for characters dying
  • Prevented characters from performing actions on dead characters
  • Removed cards who’s caster is dead
  • Drew art for dead characters
  • Prevented instantiated hidden “prefab” cards from being removed

PR link when repo is public

Things done:

• Touched up on the attack animations and action coroutines/sequences
• Fixed enemy’s random selection of a target (it used to not select the last character created)
• Fixed a divide by zero error when there is only one card
• Made some visual changes with the card arch

PR link (when repo is public)

Things Done:

• Created separate scripts for team of allies and enemies, since their behavior is different. (Using inheritance)
• Debugged a NullReferenceException for like an hour and then I found out that NonSerializedvariables aren’t copied over when you instantiate a copy of a GameObject. So … the reference to the script of the character that started an attack was null. This was fixed through Serializing the variable, but hiding in inspector.
• Once a card is used, made it so that the positions of remaining cards update

PR link once repo is public

Things Done:

• Created cards so that based off things assigned in inspector the character will add cards. This makes it so that each individual character can add a unique set of cards
• It randomly picks cards based off how many cards are assigned in deck (so red cards are going to be seen more often in the video, since they have a higher weight)
• Created a lot of helper methods and classes for future use… (I probably should’ve waited to do this later)
  • Created an abstract Action class that has the minimum info for an action needed to take place.
  • Created an ActionParameters class that contains any bonus info for an Action that is needed
  • Created helper methods for running the actual turn-based game
• Cleaned up a lot of old code

Link to commit (once the repo is public)

Things done:

• Ported old code over from a previous project
• Drew character sprite
• Structured the healthbar and indicators for the character
• Tried to remove code that I didn’t understand from the old ported code

In an effort to write better devlogs here’s what’s been done:

• Lab write-ups now open in a new tab
• Make all clickable things move up and underline when hovered over
• Make “View Repo” and “View Write-up” buttons have a larger font size
• Refactors some animated-underline css into a separate css file
• Removed company logos off write-ups because of trademark laws (commit link)

Here’s a link to the PR of the changes

Now, uses smaller image sizes for lab thumbnails, so that the loading is faster (the video with the slower loading times is the one with larger file sizes)
Additional stuff

• Wrote README
• Cleaned up various things to prepare to ship

Created a popup for when users click a lab, so they can see a description of the purpose of the lab

Added a small bio only when the viewport width is greater than 550px

Autogenerate first 3 labs on the homepage as a preview

Outline homepage structure

Make the title/header part of the homepage respond to media queries in css

Make labs page work mostly for mobile

Design the homepage

• Added a background image around the title area
• Added my profile picture
• Added some sample bio text

• Added buttons to the labs
• Reverted the weird offset I was doing to other lab boxes when hovering over one of the labs
• Made the labs rise quicker and expand quicker to make that animation “pop” a bit more

Added a symbol next to button to get to networking portfolio

Offset labs to avoid clipping when hovering over a lab

Use a grid to autosize the labs for different zoom sizes and aspect ratios

prototype homepage

add a subtle pulsing animation for the buttons

Prototyped some cool glowy buttons!

Got rid of round look to the lab containers
Added CSS transitions for the lab blocks

Added networking labs and adjusted UI containers for labs

Wrote some java script that pulls data from a JSON file to generate these “lab” boxes

Prototyped the design of a grid of blocks to show the networking labs that I’ve done

Outlined the website structure and added Jost* for font