Psyche

Devlog

• Problem: Harder Isn't Always More Fun
  December 14, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios#Atmospheric, #Fantasy, #Indie, #mind-bending, #psyche, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer, #Souls-like, #Third Person

  Figure 1. Blue path was originally only way to get to center. Yellow was added afterwards. THE PROBLEM In our quest to enhance our game, we identified a new challenge: incorporating puzzles without sa... Continue reading

  
• How to make the controller feel more responsive
  December 14, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios

  Reported By: Eldar Bertsel December 13st, 2023 THE PROBLEM This final week when I was playtesting the game, I realized that while fighting enemies the player literally can't do anything other than get... Continue reading
• ModelMayhem: A Programmer's Tale
  December 08, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios

  In the past weeks I have been working on fixing the player character models because they were different from the actual models that should be in the game. Unfortunately for me I didn't do it at the be... Continue reading
• Problem: Face Your Fears
  December 03, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios#Atmospheric, #Fantasy, #Indie, #mind-bending, #psyche, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer, #Souls-like, #Third Person

  Reported By: David Tarnowski December 3rd, 2023 THE PROBLEM In our ongoing efforts to refine the gaming experience, we encountered a new challenge: inconsistent enemy movement. This issue was particul... Continue reading

  
• Time to show our real main character
  December 01, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios

  Reported By: Eldar Bertsel December 1st, 2023 THE PROBLEM This week I finally decided to change our main character model from the skeleton that we have to the real main character that you could see in... Continue reading

  
• Problems: melee combat system is too boring
  November 24, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios

  Reported By: Eldar Bertsel November 24th, 2023 THE PROBLEM This week when I was testing our game I noticed that consecutively attacking enemies sucks because player character is just standing in one p... Continue reading
• Problem: Frames Win Games?
  November 17, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios#Atmospheric, #Fantasy, #Indie, #mind-bending, #psyche, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer, #Souls-like, #Third Person

  Reported By: David Tarnowski November 17th, 2023 THE PROBLEM This week, our focus shifted to a critical performance issue affecting our game. Players experienced significant framerate drops while expl... Continue reading

  
• Problem with camera transition
  November 16, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios

  Reported by: Eldar Bertsel November 16, 2023 THE PROBLEM Last week I worked on the transitions between my player follow camera and an aiming camera because every time the transition would happen the c... Continue reading
• Combo Attack system
  November 11, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios

  Reported by: Eldar Bertsel November 10, 2023 THE PROBLEM This week one thing that I worked on was a combo attack system that would add more diversity because having single attack that is the same ever... Continue reading
• Problems with code reusability
  November 03, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios

  Reported by: Eldar Bertsel November 3, 2023 THE PROBLEM This week I finally got to reorganizing and reworking the player scripts because they are awful. In our game we currently have 3 playable classe... Continue reading

  
• Problem: Personal Space!
  November 03, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios#Atmospheric, #Fantasy, #Indie, #mind-bending, #psyche, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer, #Souls-like, #Third Person

  Reported By: David Tarnowski November 3rd, 2023 THE PROBLEM Figure A: Stepping works for some enemies, just not the magician, Issue Identified In recent playtesting sessions, an issue was identified w... Continue reading

  
• Problem: Spaghetti (Code)
  October 30, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios#Atmospheric, #Fantasy, #Indie, #mind-bending, #psyche, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer, #Souls-like, #Third Person

  Reported By: David Tarnowski October 30th, 2023 Figure A. Not your mom's spaghetti THE PROBLEM As we navigated the complex maze of game development, we stumbled upon a codebase conundrum that was anyt... Continue reading

  
• Camera is not good enough
  October 27, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios

  Reported by: Eldar Bertsel October 27, 2023 THE PROBLEM This week I had work on fixing the camera because the FOV was too low, the player couldn't look up and overall it just felt bad. First issue tha... Continue reading
• Camera lockOn view blocking
  October 19, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios

  Reported by: Eldar Bertsel October 19, 2023 THE PROBLEM One of the problems that I had to deal with was related to the lock on view blocking mechanic that I had implemented. Basically, it is a mechani... Continue reading
• Problem: Creating Imagination
  October 19, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios#Atmospheric, #Fantasy, #Indie, #mind-bending, #psyche, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer, #Souls-like, #Third Person

  Reported By: David Tarnowski October 19th, 2023 THE PROBLEM In our quest to push boundaries and continuously innovate, we faced a unique design hurdle this week. The team grappled with the intricate t... Continue reading

  
• Problem: Skip Memory
  October 14, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios

  Reported By: Nicholas Taveras October 13th, 2023 THE PROBLEM In Psyche Memories are essentially cutscenes. When you play a memory from the memory menu and skip a memory it would cause the memory menu... Continue reading

  
• Problem: Wait Your Turn!
  October 13, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios#Atmospheric, #Fantasy, #Indie, #mind-bending, #psyche, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer, #Souls-like, #Third Person

  Reported By: David Tarnowski October 13th, 2023 THE PROBLEM Image A: The Animation Snag During our latest round of internal testing, we stumbled upon a jarring issue affecting enemy behavior. Specific... Continue reading

  
• Problem with ability cooldowns
  October 13, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios

  Reported by: Eldar Bertsel October 13, 2023 THE PROBLEM This week I ran into a problem while implementing the ability cooldowns. My abilities are made using scriptable objects and how I later learned... Continue reading
• Problems with a grounded check for the player character
  October 06, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios

  Reported by: Eldar Bertsel October 6, 2023 THE PROBLEM I ran into an issue where the grounded check for the player controller wasn't being consistent. I was using CharacterController built in isGround... Continue reading
• Problem: A Round of Ground Pound for Everyone!
  October 06, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios#Atmospheric, #Fantasy, #Indie, #mind-bending, #psyche, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer, #Souls-like, #Third Person

  Reported By: David Tarnowski October 5th, 2023 THE PROBLEM Figure A: The problematic block of code During recent playtests, a glaring issue with the ground pound ability was detected. While the abilit... Continue reading

  
• Bug that allows the action to replay every time you click action button
  September 30, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios

  Reported by: Eldar Bertsel September 29, 2023 THE PROBLEM I had in issue where if the player would press any of the action buttons like light, heavy, ability1, ability2, and/or ultimate ability it wou... Continue reading
• Problem: Go To Your State!
  September 29, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios#Atmospheric, #Fantasy, #Indie, #mind-bending, #psyche, #Sci-fi, #Singleplayer, #Souls-like, #Third Person

  Reported By: David Tarnowski September 29th, 2023 THE PROBLEM This week I spent time debugging issues with our enemy AI's behavior. The main problems were inconsistent state transitions and irregular... Continue reading

  
• Problem with class hot swap
  September 21, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios

  Reported by: Eldar Bertsel September 21, 2023 THE PROBLEM When I started creating classes, having one class was no problem. All the stats, models and abilities where correct, but when I added multiple... Continue reading
• Dev Log 3
  September 21, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios#Atmospheric, #Fantasy, #Indie, #mind-bending, #psyche, #Sci-Fi, #Singleplayer, #Souls-like, #Third Person

  Greetings from Sad Ogre Studios! We're back with an exciting update on the development progress for Psyche. It's been a busy week implementing major new features and content. On the programming side,... Continue reading

  
• Problems with Colliders
  September 21, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios

  Reported By: David Tarnowski September 22, 2023 THE PROBLEM This week I encountered an issue where the collider on the player's sword was active at all times, even when not attacking. This meant the s... Continue reading

  
• Problem with camera rotation
  September 15, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios

  Reported by: Eldar Bertsel September 15, 2023 THE PROBLEM For this week while I was working on the player controller I ran into the issue with a player camera rotation being very slow and non responsi... Continue reading
• Problems with Enemy Detection
  September 15, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios

  Reported By: David Tarnowski September 15, 2023 THE PROBLEM This week I ran into issues with the enemy AI detection that caused problems for gameplay and the user experience. The enemies were not prop... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log 2
  September 15, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios#Atmospheric, #Fantasy, #Indie, #Mind-Bending, #Psyche, #Sci-Fi, #Singleplayer, #Souls-like, #Third Person

  Hello again! The Sad Ogre Studios team is back with another devlog update on the progress of Psyche. It's been an exciting week since our last update. We've made big strides on core gameplay functiona... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log 1
  September 08, 2023 by Sad Ogre Studios#adventure, #atmospheric, #fantasy, #indie, #mind-bending, #psyche, #science-fiction, #singleplayer, #souls-like, #third-person

  In Psyche, you play as Anna, a seemingly ordinary person who has found herself in an extraordinary situation. As you race against time to find and release your husband's consciousness from his subcons... Continue reading