The Force And You

Devlog

• Game Available Now!
  August 05, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Hello! The game is out now to try! It's just a small little game 5-10 minutes. You say hi and run around a bit. Have fun!... Continue reading
• End Game Updates
  July 25, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Lots of little updates today. I made it so that all the villagers have dialogue. Also it changes when the game ends. Also the scale will now properly release the things its carrying because I have it... Continue reading
• Sometimes weird things happen
  July 25, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I don't know what just happened, but it does look cool... Continue reading
• Bonfire and Pond
  July 24, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I created a pond for the fishes and a fire for the branches. Now I actually have a thing to do with the things you collect in the game... Continue reading
• Music and Trees
  July 22, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I added some music, just something free that I could find. Updated the branches that spawn from the tree to be better. Changed it so that it spawns multiple all at once. Added axes to the game. Also c... Continue reading
• Scale and Water
  July 21, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I got it where things can move in the scale now. I had to attach them and turn off their physics otherwise they would fly out. I also added a little water drops to the fish fall. Now also the scale wi... Continue reading
• Waterfall of Fish
  July 19, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I spent a while trying to figure out why my fish wouldn't fall. At first I thought it was because it was a nanite static mesh. I figured out it was because it didn't have a simple collision on it. So... Continue reading
• Changed Movement
  July 17, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  So i changed the movement from using a different actor and attaching the scale and using a spline to just having the actor lerp the rotation and location from one point to another... Continue reading
• Moving Scale
  July 16, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I made a little rock scale mover dude. It sort of works... Continue reading
• Meat Waterfall
  July 12, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I made a meat waterfall because that makes sense. I like how I made it though because it has a collision at the bottom that just sets the position to the top. I track the number that are going through... Continue reading
• Floating Trees
  July 11, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I fixed the niagara effect that accidentally had a big rock in the small one and a small no in the big one which is why i sometimes had two big rocks or none at all. I also made a spawner that regener... Continue reading
• Talk Improved
  July 09, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Now it shows the word talk if the AI has something to say. Then you click on them and they say their dialogue. But only if you are looking at them and the raycast hits them... Continue reading
• Made A Village
  July 08, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I made a village and set up smart objects so that they can move to different places. Don't they look so life like... ;). I also fixed a bug where they would interact with the little sphere in front of... Continue reading
• Lumberjack in Space
  July 04, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Ok now i've hooked up the portals and started putting activities on the different rocks. The lumberjack is in place and chopping down trees... Continue reading
• Floating Rocks
  July 04, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I made a niagara system to make some floating rocks. It has two different emitters, one for small and one for large rocks. Just to add a little fun to the area... Continue reading
• Box Corridor Teleport
  July 03, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I added the ability for the corridor to teleport back to a box and it can be any box that I specify. I also upgraded the box so that it now has a door that closes and the teleport triggers after the d... Continue reading
• New Intro
  July 02, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I decided that I'm going to have the world be made out of floating rocks and make it a game about building up your powers... Continue reading
• Corridor and Doors
  June 27, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I upgraded the corridor with some doors and lights that turn on as you walk through it... Continue reading
• The Box and the Corridor
  June 26, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  So i've been watching dark matter recently and i thought it might be fun to use it in my game. Here is the first version of the box and the corridor. More to come!... Continue reading
• Fight Arena
  June 22, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I've created a fighting arena so that I can make a fighting game with force users pushing each other. Trying to knock each other off the arena. This is the arena and I created pick ups that will be te... Continue reading
• Target Practice
  June 13, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I made a target kind of like an archery target. It will give you points based on where you hit and sum it up at the top... Continue reading
• Lumberjack
  June 12, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I changed the behavior tree so that it runs a dynamic behavior tree. This way each behavior tree can be small and specific to the activity they are doing. So now there is a scale BT and a lumberjack B... Continue reading
• You Win!
  June 11, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Now you can compete against the AI to see who can fill up the scale first! Now you can hit things and get resources. You hit the tree and it makes wood. That should work for something... Continue reading
• AI Has A Goal
  June 08, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  lots of changes this time. so the character i had last time causes a memory fault when i was compiling. So i switched it out for a new character. I also made new eqs queries to find the AI's goal and... Continue reading
• The Ai Can grab and throw
  June 06, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Ok so I did a lot of stuff this time. I moved all the force code from the first person character to an actor component so that it can be modular and the AI can use it. This required a bit of refactor... Continue reading
• Running Forward
  June 05, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Ok so the mesh was facing the wrong way and I needed to set orient rotation to movement. Oh and I just figured out that you have to tell the AI to use acceleration. That was the main problem... Continue reading
• AI can move
  June 03, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Added an AI. for starters i just got it moving... Continue reading
• Elevator
  June 03, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I made an elevator powered by a furnace! It will go up when powered and down when it loses power... Continue reading
• Fire!
  June 01, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Made a furnace that consumes pick ups and makes energy!... Continue reading
• Made a thing
  June 01, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Well i tried to make a catch thing... it doesn't work yet. I'm frustrated. goodnight... Continue reading
• Materials and Selections
  May 22, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Now the raycast for checking what object you want to pick up ignores ones that you are already holding. I also change the material when you grab and throw objects so you can tell that they are already... Continue reading
• Using Raycasts!
  May 21, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Now I'm using raycasts for precise grabbing. much better then a sphere overlap... Continue reading
• Weight Based Throw
  May 18, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Now the throw does an impulse instead of velocity so that they are thrown based on their weight... Continue reading
• New Pick Ups
  May 16, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I made new pick ups and added a list of pick ups to the thrower so now it can throw any pick up. Right now it's just set to random... Continue reading
• Drop
  May 15, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Added Drop as an action. So now you can pick up items and drop them... Continue reading
• A Scale For Weighing
  May 12, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I made a scale for weighing objects that are in it and displaying the weight. Now I can set up goals and challenges... Continue reading
• Directional Force
  May 11, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Now objects are pushed in relation to where they are in the force bubble. so if they are to the right they will go right and if they are centered they will go straight... Continue reading
• More Force Push
  May 10, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Before you could only force push objects that you had previously pulled into your influence. Now you can push any object and it will also push the ones that you have under your control... Continue reading
• Finally Caught It
  May 09, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Now I stop velocity when the object goes through the force field. So now I can catch moving targets. I also changed the input to allow for ongoing checks. So now I can catch things by holding down the... Continue reading
• Not My Cabbages
  May 08, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Alright I added some assets and got my first actual prop. Only the true fans will get the reference! I created a little throwing device. Apparently I can't catch them. I'm working on that. Its happeni... Continue reading
• Force Push
  May 07, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Now you can push the objects that you grab. Had a bug where I was removing them from the array at the same time i was trying to loop over them. Now I add velocity to all of them and then loop over and... Continue reading
• Multiple Pickups
  May 05, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I added the ability to grab multiple items, as well as, now when the pick up gets too far away from the center it will fall and no longer be under your influence... Continue reading
• Keeping Centered
  May 04, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Today I worked through how to keep things in view but feel like its moving with force. So i can't just keep it stationary. I tried a physics constraint first but that felt like it was swinging on a ro... Continue reading
• The Force Awakens
  May 04, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Finally got the sphere overlap actors working. For some reason the c++ version was being difficult. Turns out they don't name the object collisions. Did you know that this ObjectTypeQuery3 is for phys... Continue reading
• Time to start a new project!
  May 03, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Here we go. I've updated rider, downloaded the new version of unreal engine ready to go. and... first error... apparently the graphics driver is too old. welp time to get a new driver. and we are good... Continue reading