Adding the First Enemy to My Indie Game 

There should be a hard mode where all of them attack you

the idea of making the character attack towards the direction the camera is facing is actually really smart, i'm gonna keep that one in mind !!

When you get out of aggro distance, perhaps set the new spawn/patrol area to where the enemy is at that moment. That way it's less abusable. Unturned Zombies do the "retreat/zone out" thing, and it makes fighting so much more boring. Adding knockback that cancel enemy attack animations may be a pretty good way to make combat better.

The crowd of onlookers after you implemented that "four enemies in attack state max" code is absolutely killing me. It's like that meme/vid after the sick burn where all the people around the guy explode into cheers!

I can't stop thinking about the flamethrower and how it would probably shred through the crowds of enemies. Also I like the dodge roll, the robot looks so cute doing it

I love this series, and love that you share my sentiment toward making it work now, and fixing later lol One suggestion I would make: Instead of using all of those raycasts, maybe use a sphere collider on the enemy marked as a trigger to detect the player. You can probably restrain it to only check certain areas of the collider, or use it to check the entire area of the collider. Using this single component would be much less resource intensive, especially when you have loads of enemies, and each one has 10+ casts all returning data constantly, even if that data is null.

man your crowd sources is a damn great idea, this is looking pretty ok and i imagine having people constantly provide you feedback is keeping you interested in creating

I have a suggestion, maybe add a day/night cycle, with you needing to return home to turn on some floodlights to allow a farm to grow overnight. There could be a mechanic where, when out in the forest and seeing an enemy at night time, they might ignore you and rush the house because it stands out in the nighttime, so you have a limited time to rush home and save the kid?

You should add the wise mystical tree

For your robot rain/water damage why not do a corrosion bar that lowers your max health until the robot has been in for maintenance?

It would be pretty funny if Enemies that are watching a fight have their faces turned into a confetti symbol or something like that, could give it a lot more personality that way instead of it just angrily watching

My buddies put on a Dunkey vid while we were hanging out and I went “hey! There’s a gamedev channel I watch that joked abt adding in a feature since Dunkey has a game company now…” so tomorrow I’m making them watch this vid of yours lol. Loved ur summary of the year’s progress too. Best wishes! The grind can be rough but you’ve made a lot of cool progress. So awesome!

Cool stuff! IMO the crops would look better if they were about 5 times larger, similar to Minecraft in terms of how big they are compared to the player.

Loving this series and the work you’re putting into it. Looking forward to the next video!!

Lol enemy robot ray cast rave I love it. Great stuff man keep it up

This game is really cool and I'm incredibly invested in your videos! My one recommendation would be instead of targeting you as the player, the enemies should target the boy and the farmhouse/crops or whatever you are growing, this makes it seem so you are more defending the more rather than just being a robot! Other than that its amazing!

dont mess with the BEAN GANG 3:08

This sounds so amazing .First game I have been interested in in a while.Amazing work

you should give the enemys hoard energy where they clumb up in like stations

I freaking love the side liners I laughed so hard at it ! This is a feature ❤️

I love this. I can't express how much I'm hyped for this game. But I can suggest an idea of mine (or someone else's, it has probably been suggested by others). I think the combat could go in many directions, however the tactical one would a fitting one. I have thousands of ideas, but I will only write down one, that explains my concept. What if the player had bombs? One that would alert enemies in a radius, so you can toss that, and deal with the rest, or let all enemies get close to you, toss that bomb down, use an ability that gets you out of places quickly, like a rocket or a grappling hook, and attack enemies with a wide range attack. Okay, my idea went all over the place, and it probably doesn't make any sense, but it shows, how much I get excited for this game, even in this early state. So I hope I could show you that what you do inspires people. I want to say something wholesome, but I don't know how to express myself, so imagine the best compliment, you would like to receive. You deserve it!

Adding some screen shake when you hit something/are hit will make the combat feel way better for a very small amount of effort

+1 to the people saying to look into the NavMesh Components package. It allows you to bake the navmesh in real time, which you might also be able to use when building in the game. Loving the progress!

Great video and great sense of humor! Keep going!

You should have two modes 1.base mode 2.Explore mode the boy puts a vr headset on like in superhot to control the robot.

I worked on some AI stuff during my thesis, and I suggest you look into the G.O.A.P (Goal-Oriented-Action-Planning) Architecture. There are also multiple videos on youtube regarding that. The benefit is, that you can define goals and actions. Then through A* the AI creates an action-sequence to achieve a goal. With that system you don't have to add transitions from all states to the others. Makes the whole AI Stuff way more modular and easier to add completly new behaviour. Makes it also harder to predict, as the AI could achieve a goal through different steps each time, as they are dynamically generated.

Love this series, your game is coming on great! Recently for a tower defense game I used Dijkstra’s pathfinding, which is far simplier than a*, might be worth looking into it.

You can use a sphere type cast its a thing i just dont remember what its actually called but it would be way more performant and accurate

Oh and you should make it depending on the robot that you kill you can get parts to upgrade your own robot

not right now, but you should make it so that they enemies that are standing back actually cheer for the enemy, BUT when one dies, the ones watching might be surprised and jump in cause they are mad you killed there friend itd also be cool if the more you beat them, the more would gang up on you, in fear that they may all die, that means that if you decide to be more passive and you kill one, then you might have like one or two actually on your tale, where as if your kicking there butts, then they all kinda sense your gonna be a more formidable opponent obviously if this doesn't actually fit into the style or it ends up being overwhelming or not fun, then dont, but it might be a cool way to add more character to the enemies in the future

Its been a while but you can bake the navmesh in the loading screen when the map is generated. Could also give the trees and rocks a navmesh unit component and tick cutout and it will cut them out of the nav mesh

this game will be my favourite soulsborne

love the don hertzfeldt reference.... mah shpooon.... is too BIIG

I think a better method for enemys detecting you, would be: Cast one single ray from the enemy to the player. If it hits the player, check distance. If close enouth, get angle between enemy forward vecor and player position (so you know the player is in front of the enemy, the max allowed angle would be the enemys field of view) This way you need way less raycasts :)

If the robot is controlled by a boy on his tv, maybe you can add a filter around the screen to make it look like a tv

The robot looks kinda of like Karen from Spongebob.

Hey! What about a "scout drone" enemy that flies over the world and alerts all the nearby enemies (in a wider area) when they see you? Loved the little A* bit too, i was thinking the same thing but it would be too hard to implement individually for each enemy. Maybe if the nearby world shape was already loaded as a resource all enemies could access and was updated everytime you built or destroyed something (instead of constantly refreshing, wich would make the game unplayable in basic computers). If you did that, the enemy would be able to trace the optimal route between him and you. And I had a question: If you're protecting the boy, does that mean the robots will attack him too? Is that where the tower defense comes in?

To detect whether mob should chase you or not you can simply calculate range to player and view angle and check if all of that within correct bounds

0:34 You don’t need to write GetComponent on the Player gameobject,just write Player.transform. Like the line before „transform“ is just a default variable of Monobehaviour that basically calls GetComponent at the start of the game and can therefore increase performance

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You can make navmesh update regularly during a game. Brackeys has a tutorial on it and so does code monkey (i believe) this way you can have it navmesh after the spawning of your map and after a change to the world.

For the base defence there should be walls and upgrades you can get to defend yourself

You should make enemy levels like where they used to be program for is depending on how they're difficult is like if they're a cop they're hard to fight if they're like a military one they should be like a boss

you should take a look at the physics overlap sphere for detecting the player

Hi, I am actually working on a game that I think is similar to this (making my first devlog in about a week). For the enemy navigation, I am baking the navmesh at the start of the game, which takes a few minutes to load the start of the game depending on the size of the terrain and the , but the other thing I would try since you're already raycasting from the enemy and checking what the object it hit is, and if it is an actual obstacle and not just the procedural terrain in front of it, and the distance between that object and the enemy is less than like 3 (or whatever value works best for you) Then instead of setting the speed to the forward direction, make it go sideways until the raycast isn't colliding. I hope this made sense, and I haven't tried this so it might not work, but at least give it a shot. Good luck!

Great content and Great editing

Look up NavMeshSurface component -- it's a part of the Unity.AI.Navigation package. Attach to a gameObject (the parent of your level) and you can bake the navMesh in realtime through code. That should let you generate a navMesh on the fly for procedurally generated levels.

Well I just found you and watched all your videos....more pls

love your videos man

Looks like you're making great progress. You could look into "Runtime Navmesh Baking". It's what I'm currently using on my project, it should suit yours as well. Also I had no idea that you could stop coroutines outside of the functions scope, thanks!

A suggestion: maybe a nice mobiliario thing, if you roll and jump out of it when it ends, you maintaing the the speed/momentum of the roll, allowing for you to move fast (like in the new donkeykonh country games)

Maybe make it so that the enemies who aren't actively attacking you orbit you & will attack if you get too close at that point?

Hey, I've run into the same problem with the NavMeshs while working for my Masters thesis, since I was generating the terrain as a mesh with the Perlin noise trick for elevations. I was able to bake it at runtime (just after generating the mesh and its content, like trees and that stuff). I can make a more detailed explanation or help you with some code/images. Let me know and good luck.

2:10 using alot of raycasts can be very resource demanding, a better fix i think would be to use a cone cast, its like a raycast but a cone instead of line, it will make the field of view a little more realistic, and its not hard to learn

very good progress my guy

Nice, getting AI is always a pain but a nice challenge. Id suggest using a physics.spherecast + an angle check for enemy field of view + one raycast to the player to check if there is an object blocking their vision. Also, if rain damages your robot does it also damage enemy robots?

Love seeing the updates 😊

Great video as always! ❤

great video there getting more entertaining by the vid

at 4:40 i was gonna comment it looks like karen from spongebob but you said it first at 4:43

Oh and where they used to be programmed for depends on what weapons they have

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Maybe it would be cool if you could upgrade your robot's parts to make it stronger, and possibly give it new abilities.

How about like a laser that shoots but to keep it survival like you have to craft and get certain items, which would then give you enough energy to shoot

Not sure if you found a workaround for the enemies getting stuck behind "walls". If they're robots, why can't they also break down rocks and trees and whatever else your character can but drop few or no items. This could be a workaround to prevent cheesing and slightly punish the player for attempting that. Also, if they're also robots, maybe defeating them could drop compatible resources for your robot upgrade? :)

Add shaders and a grass texture, it would make everything easier to look at.

Dude we need a beta to test

You should add money and npc so you can sell and buy stuff its fun i recomend it, it would fit this game

Good job i must say!

Im sad to inform you, but there is something called overlap sphere, which returns a list of colliders inside of this sphere (instead of the million ray casts that you are using)

great vid. 10/10

Yaaaay! love these

2:11 Yikes. I mean... I'm sure that's not the worst way to do it but um. Maybe try using a hemisphere cast?

Hey, I think you should change the UI design to a metallic style, as well as "health" (the red color is reminiscent of blood, which robots don't have). Also, I don't know if you redid the model in the future, but I think it should make legs longer and sippy, or think about how a robot with that appearance would walk irl Oh, and how would it stand on flat, smooth surfaces like marble? And how does he plant plants and hold things if there are no hands? Where does he put things? Maybe you make a backpack?

I Think A Mechanic Enemy Would Be Cool, Who Would Buff Enemys And Debuff You.

what u doin karen?

the enemy looks like it's from karlson

Nice!

Make the robot have a certain amount of battery so he needs to return to his charging bay and he can upgrade his charging bay so it’s fsdter

Lets go

Isn't there a thing called cone cast that you can use?

START IT EARLY

What video editing tool do you use? Maybe I want to create my own devlogs :)

Will this game run well on low end hardware? Like Gt 710 and below.

plz make the last gorilla animation a thing

Make the game more colorful a bright

add knockback the combat will feel better

How do they make ai in games for 3d environments?

I can make high quality robot and droid audio. If you need any of such custom vocal audio hit me up.

Its weird that it has been 5 months now, where u at with one piece now?

Will you smail reference?

0:47 Steak the code 💀 u pressed one button

But what’s the robot’s name 😢

pls make it for phone

pls make its for mobile

pls make it for mobile

pls make a mobile version

wow your AI metods are soo bad xd. cool video tho

Unsubscribed because of stupid “premiere”. Just release the video. I hate the premiere feature since the vid shows up in my sub feed now. But i can’t watch it. Once I can watch it, it’ll be dar down in my sub feed and I won’t see it again. Stop using Premiere. Unsubscribed to teach him a lesson