Continuing My Quest

Over the past few weeks I continued building Treasure Hunter adding in more features, including some requested ones (can you say multibuy!). Play the latest version of Treasure Hunter: Quixxen’s Suit now.

Major Improvements

First off, I implemented the most requested feature, multibuy. Almost everyone who tested my game said they wanted this feature. I brushed up my math skills and added in the code to make it work. For now it only supports 1, 10, and max options, however, I will add in more later. In my release testing I noticed the encounters will turn green while the multibuy amount still says zero, I believe this has to do with my rounding. I'll address it in the next pass.

I redesigned the encounter display so instead of a 3x4 grid, I used a list. This greatly reduced the repetitive text and I think the layout works better.

I updated all the formulas so the game difficulty starts taking shape. I still need to balance the goals and formulas so better playability, however, this worked for my first pass.

I updated a bunch of other features, some visible and some behind the scenes. Read the full patch notes below for all the details. Drop me a comment with suggestions, feedback, or anything else.

Life’s an adventure, what’s your quest?

Full Patch Notes

Exploration Zone

• Fix scrollbars in each zone
• Add zone specific scrolling to entire zone area
• Fix pass thru scrolling in exploration zone
• Fix exploration zone scroll bar not reach the bottom
• Add new progress bar piping
• Add Swamps background
• Hide progress bar when a quest cannot be started
• Show correct map and map fragment counts
• Add simple (and cheap) highlight to selected quest
  • Will update later when I redesign quest display

Quest & Quest Display

• Move goal button to under the quest title
• Redesign encounter display
• Display multibuy option in encounter name
• Implement multibuy for 1, 10, max (more options to come)
• Update encounter names to use mostly generic titles for easier testing
  • The Plains has some names, but all other zones have a generic description
• Refactor base income formula
• Switch Encounters to standard formulas

Quest Goals

• Update GoalFactory to use all goals in Editor
• Update goal descriptions to be more clear
• Add 3 new goals
  • Completed Tiers goal
    • Goal: Complete encounters {x}-{x+4}, each {y} times
    • Example: Complete encounters 1-5, each 30 times
  • Earn Income Total goal
    • Goal: Earn {x} income from {location}
    • Example: Earn 440 income from Fight a Plains Goblin
  • Times Completed goal
    • Goal: Complete {encounter} {x} times
    • Exmaple: Complete Fight a Plains Goblin 55 times
• Update existing 3 goals
  • Encounter Type goal
    • Goal: Complete {x} {location} encounters
    • Example: Complete 500 Combat encounters
  • Have Amount goal
    • Goal: Have {x} total currency
    • Example: Have 1,000,000 total currency
  • Income Goal
    • Goal: Reach {x} income per second
    • Example: Reach 5,000 income per second
• Refactor and test all goal classes
• Switch Goals to use standard formula
• Improve quest titling slightly, did not do much as a graphic overhaul is coming

Research

• Add background displays to research panel (Plains, Rivers, and Swamps for now)
• Update research panel and associated research items
  • replace button with book icon
  • made Plains zone the default Research Tree
  • fixed bugs associated with not being able to create new tech prefabs
• Add research point text highlight when selected
  • This has a buy where it won’t highlight until you select the Rivers research points, then it will highlight fine after that
• Refactor research to use ExplorationZone directly
  • Undid this as it caused problems saving the game
• Refactor ResearchItem to use ExplorationZone directly
  • Undid this as it caused problems saving the game
• Add new method to implement research effects
• Move applying research effects into their respective ResearchItem derived class
• Switch Research to use standard formulas

General

• Hide close button in WebGl and Editor versions
• Update game reset file
• Remove adventurer display area
  • Will add back in when I add in adventurers

Technical Updates

• Update project name in Unity
• Setup game for testing in Unity Editor
• Turn off autosave during Editor testing
• Fix null ref error in Editor mode
• Mark all formula locations for future standardizing and updates
• Create sprite atlases for UI sprites
• Fix issue with setting zone for new locations
• Refactor research panel point display switch statement

– Blog originally written and posted at my site as Treasure Hunter Alpha 3 Released