Devlog 6 - Power Ups and Buyables

Day 6

Hello, and here's a summary of what I did today:

• Set up a power up system that creates a random power up at random if a robot is killed
• 4 power ups can be created
• Power up 1 = Bug
• Power up 2 = Virus
  
• Power up 3 = 2X
• Power up 4 = Blue Heart
  
• Reload Indicator now isn't affected by light
• Started work on buyables, can buy stuff but wont do anything

Well first I started by creating a system that every time a robot dies, it created a random number. If the number is between 0 and 100, a power up is spawned. These power ups are: Bug, Virus, 2X, and Blue Heart. All of these except for 2X have their assets done but I want to wait a few days before I reveal them.

Bug is a simple power up. Its meant to be a joke based off computer bugs, usually not many computers are affected by the same bug because certain things need to happen so the player can instantly kill any robot they attack.

Viruses on the other hand, are a lot more harder to stop just like computer viruses and kill all robots instantly providing a small score bonus as well.

The 2X is simple, it just doubles your score that you gain while its active. Easy points.

Blue hearts is a reference to the blue ammo clip indicator included in the game and the red hearts shot mixing them together to make blue hearts which refills your ammo for free.

After that, I decided to fix the reload indicator because whenever there wasn't any light on it, it got a bit harder to tell how close you where until you finished reloading. So I changed the layer and how the position was set to fix this bug.

Finally I started work on buyables so now if you walk on top of a buyable, a prompt will show letting you buy the buyable and will take your score from you giving you nothing in return, for now.

Thanks for reading, as a special thanks for going through my devlogs, I'm going to give you a hint to get an easter egg working. The first letter of the thing that used green and blue to represent computers and real life.