Devlog #3 (ish): Jumping shouldn’t be this hard… (+ planning)

Jumping…

• Fixed the player’s jump sometimes not working
  • Lesson learned: check documentation. Unity’s IsGrounded PlayerController state for some reason requires constant downward force on the player.
  • Used a raycast instead. I also accidentally made the ground check ray 100,000,000 units long…oops. (documentation!)
• Added a jump buffer
• Fixed gravity applying, always.
  • Related to more of me not reading documentation.

Planning

• What a mess! After around 2 hours of talking, we landed on this simple diagram which has different wave objective locations for your client (green), different locations/interactables (blue/purple), and general geometry
• Tried to give the player as many different decisions and methods of dealing with enemies as possible
  • (many angles, 2nd floor for dropping items, multiple ways to go to 2nd floor with unique tradeoffs, etc.)