Just A Simple Farming Game

Devlog

• Sneak Peek: Farm Cutscene
  March 19, 2024 by zoleda_davila

  Author: Zoleda Davila Posted: March 19, 2024 Here is a cutscene from "Just A Simple Farming Game" when you first enter your farm... Continue reading
• Fine-tuning Enemy AI
  March 01, 2024 by thackattack42

  This week, since I created all the enemies we are going to have for now, I focused on fine-tuning the enemy AI and debugging anything that didn't seem quite right. I ended up having to fix more than I... Continue reading

  
• Major Perforce Issues
  March 01, 2024 by SenorCarlito

  This week my job was supposed to be finalizing NPC mechanics, however, Perforce had different plans for me. I started off my workday as I usually do, getting the latest revision before beginning work,... Continue reading

  
• Animations Failing To Play
  March 01, 2024 by SeotatopDehsam

  This week we were working on getting the player to play a death animation and then respawn at the bed at the farm. At first we tried playing the animation via a Dynamic Montage slot but for some reaso... Continue reading

  
• Getting Random Location In a NavMesh
  February 29, 2024 by WendigoCrypt

  So for this week of development the big problem I ran into was the inability to use the GetRandmonLocationInNavigableRadius. For a long time I tried to use the method call but it would always return f... Continue reading

  
• Issues with Testing Spawn Points
  February 29, 2024 by zoleda_davila

  Author: Zoleda Davila Posted on 2/29/24 A couple weeks ago, I was given the task of creating different spawn points depending on the map that the player is leaving from and entering to. At first, I cr... Continue reading

  
• Double Use of Seed Items
  February 25, 2024 by SeotatopDehsam

  While implementing the sprinklers I noticed that two were being used at a time instead of just one. Because the sprinklers are a child of the Seed Bag item I checked that blue prints functionality as... Continue reading

  
• NavMesh not updating
  February 24, 2024 by WendigoCrypt

  uthor- Christian Romo Original Date Published - 2/24/2024 The problem that I encountered this week with developing our game was getting our navmesh to update. For the longest time I would be able to s... Continue reading

  
• Issues with Player Location
  February 23, 2024 by zoleda_davila

  Author: Zoleda Davila Posted on 2/23/24 This week, one of my tasks was to fix a bug with the player location that was discovered in the previous milestone's build. The issue was that when you played t... Continue reading

  
• Foundations of Enemies and Animations
  February 17, 2024 by thackattack42

  This week I was attempting to start adding more enemies to the game now that I have some of the framework for how they should be setup. I started finding more models and animations to use and setting... Continue reading

  
• Struggle with crafting system
  February 17, 2024 by SenorCarlito

  This week I focused on finishing up some NPC logic such as walking animations for the NPCs. But the task that took up most of my time was the crafting system. I was tasked with creating a system where... Continue reading

  
• Sell Icon not updating quantity left
  February 17, 2024 by WendigoCrypt

  A current issue that is occurring with the build is that when you go to sell an item the count wont correctly change. There's actually two different ways this has been occurring so far. The first way... Continue reading

  
• Issues with Saving Plant Growth
  February 17, 2024 by zoleda_davila

  Author: Zoleda Davila Posted on 2/16/24 This week, one of my tasks was to give the game the ability to save plants and their information when you leave the farm map. We wanted this to happen so that w... Continue reading

  
• Converting to static mesh with mirrored objects
  February 17, 2024 by MOOster_MOO

  When designing some of the buildings with my team for our game, I did not anticipate that mirroring objects along the x-axis would pose a problem in the future. Despite this, I continued with my proce... Continue reading

  
• Skeletal Mesh Sizes and Their Effects On Child Actors
  February 17, 2024 by SeotatopDehsam

  This week we had a strange issue with some hitboxes. The hitboxes for the Apple Tree boss enemy were extremely large when socketed into the skeletal mesh as child actors. This was an issue we had not... Continue reading

  
• Restricted Folder Names and Packaging UE5 Projects
  February 10, 2024 by SeotatopDehsam

  When we went to package our build for the weekly upload for school, we kept hitting a critical error that would cause our automated packaging to fail. Originally the troubleshooting was being done by... Continue reading

  
• Animation Import issues
  February 10, 2024 by SenorCarlito

  This week I mainly focused on having animation montages play when the player interacts with an NPC, the whole system would end up playing different animations for each NPC whenever a play clicked thro... Continue reading

  
• Time Change Problems
  February 10, 2024 by WendigoCrypt

  Author: Christian Romo Posted on 2/9/2024 A current problem we have that has been an issue is that when our player decides to sleep or dies there should be time shift forward. Currently the problem th... Continue reading

  
• Static vs Skeletal Meshes
  February 10, 2024 by thackattack42

  This week I was tweaking the drops that come from enemies when you defeat them. Similar to Minecraft, our player is able to equip any item and swing it as if it were a weapon so to get this to work, t... Continue reading

  
• Having Only One of Each Tool
  February 08, 2024 by zoleda_davila

  Author: Zoleda Davila Posted on 2/8/2024 A special feature I wanted for the inventory is that the player could only have one of each tool at a time. An issue I was having was even though the limit was... Continue reading

  
• References changing without pulling or changing any code
  February 08, 2024 by MOOster_MOO

  When working on documenting my team's work through our game, I encountered some issues with our references. When I tried to open a reference, it would be completely empty, with not even the blueprint... Continue reading

  
• Hitboxes and Animations
  February 02, 2024 by thackattack42

  The main issue this week was finding animations for the enemies and tying them to the existing AI behaviors, such as attacking. The animations themselves were easy enough, however with the current hit... Continue reading

  
• Camera Issues with the NPCs
  February 02, 2024 by SenorCarlito

  This week I worked on finalizing the NPCs by adding the rest of the NPC characters along with their models and idle animations for the NPCs. I had to give myself a refresher on how to import models fr... Continue reading

  
• Hitboxes and Hurt Boxes
  February 01, 2024 by SeotatopDehsam

  With the addition of an interact system to the player character, the hitbox and hurt boxes I thought were functioning properly were not. When I originally integrated them into the weapons, enemies, an... Continue reading

  
• Problems with Colliders on Items
  February 01, 2024 by zoleda_davila

  Author: Zoleda Davila Posted on 2/1/2024 One of the key features we wanted in our game was to give the player the ability to equipped items in their hand that they had in their inventory. A reference... Continue reading

  
• Market System Malfunction
  February 01, 2024 by WendigoCrypt

  Author: Christian Romo Posted On: 2/1/2024 The biggest issue that came with the merchant and blacksmith NPC's was that their shops proved to be a problem to implement and tie into our inventory system... Continue reading

  
• converting to skeletal mesh
  January 27, 2024 by MOOster_MOO

  In the process of working on a basic planting system, I've been actively exploring methods to spawn and transition objects through different phases. my research mostly uncovered information about the... Continue reading
• The Ins and Outs of Enemy AI
  January 27, 2024 by thackattack42

  My responsibility was to begin working on the AI systems for our enemies. My main focus at the beginning was to future-proof as much as possible so when I started making more enemies, a lot of the fra... Continue reading
• NPC Issues
  January 27, 2024 by SenorCarlito

  This week I worked on creating the logic for interaction between the player and the NPC's. I was creating a system that allowed the player to click through and select different dialogue options so tha... Continue reading
• Challenges of Debugging Animation Blueprints
  January 27, 2024 by SeotatopDehsam

  As a game striving for Souls-like combat, charged attacks are an essential part of Just a Simple Farming Game. The bug I encountered was of my own doing. While setting up for charged attacks I allowed... Continue reading

  
• Problems with procedural generation with certain meshes
  January 27, 2024 by WendigoCrypt

  Author: Christian Romo Posted on 1/26/20 The part of the game that I was tasked with working on was the procedural generation of the games mine. For the starting process I was just aiming for a very b... Continue reading
• Problems with the Volume Controls
  January 26, 2024 by zoleda_davila

  Author: Zoleda Davila Posted On: 1/26/2024 The game was experiencing issues trying to control the volume of the backgorund music and sound effects that were in the game, as well as, saving their volum... Continue reading
• Inital Set-Up of Game
  January 19, 2024 by Golden Goblins

  This is the inital setup of our game. We will have four locations you can go to: Your farm, the town, the mine entrance, and the mine... Continue reading
• Synopsis of "Just A Simple Farming Game"
  January 19, 2024 by Golden Goblins

  In this thrilling third-person action-adventure farming simulator, the protagonist finds themselves at the mercy of a sinister farm after being shipwrecked on a dark, mysterious island. Taking on the... Continue reading