Belghast's Dominion

Belghast’s Dominion was a third-person RPG I was creating during 2020, this was my first large independent project and had a lot of learning opportunities because of this. However, it also had a fairly large amount of problems with lack of preplanning, and lack of knowledge as how to create certain systems.

Built in Unity 2020.1.14f1

Built in 6 months. June 2020 - December 2020

Features

Inventory System

Serialized Save Data System

Player and Enemy Levels

Different Enemy Types

Tweets

Been a long time since I showed an updated version of my #RPG project. The inventory system is now fully implemented complete with enemy drops (currently not balanced) Player can equip and unequip items some that have additional effects as well #gamedev #gamedevelopment #unity pic.twitter.com/oiowBML94E
— Adam Harris (@AdamHarrisDev) December 21, 2020

Here's a demonstration of my inventory's dragging system which works for all items. Also shows a few of the item descriptions and dropping them into there armour slots etc, next up is actually equipping the items #gamedev #gamedevelopment #unity2020 #madeinunity #indiegamedev pic.twitter.com/UIdbGtYyzz
— Adam Harris (@AdamHarrisDev) October 27, 2020

Been about a week since I last showcased my #RPG project. So the new features include basic audio, damage text, improved AI systems. #gamedev #gamdevelopment #indie #indiegamedev #unity3d #MadeInUnity pic.twitter.com/hf6igAWSup
— Adam Harris (@AdamHarrisDev) August 10, 2020

Challenges

Managing AI States. Early on in the development of Belghast’s Dominion I decided on using a Finite State Machine for controlling the enemy AI agents in each level, this provided an interesting challenge as it was my first time doing AI programming, overall the main challenges from this came from creating perception systems, and balancing the Ais attacks so they wouldn’t frustrate the player.

Inventory. Developing the Inventory System for Belghast’s Dominion was a considerable challenge as it involved using a lot of new aspects of Unity’s UI system such as generating content based on item’s descriptions or using Unity’s dragging systems to enable the player to drag items around their inventory screens.