Auto Food Fight Devlog #6 - Starting Combat

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From 06-21-2022

This took quite a while to get going. I spent a lot time looking into different design patterns to figure out what would work best for the combat.

I got a bit too lost in my head and just started tackling it head on at some point. It is a different scene in Unity, but I don't think I'll need a loading screen since it is fairly light on resources at this point. So it should load quickly.

It took a chunk of time to learn the saving and loading options common for Unity. I found a SaveLoad script someone put up on a GitHub repo ( https://github.com/GameGrind/Binary-Save-For-Unity/blob/master/SaveData.cs ) . It basically uses Unity's BinaryFormatter and FileStream serializing. So for now it saves data to a file. There's one for the Store and one for the Player. There's potentially a concern for cheating by editing these, but since it'll be singleplayer initially I don't really mind if people cheat for that.

Since I don't have AI yet, the enemy just copies your team before battle. I wrote some functions to have combat working, but they weren't ready to use by this point.

The next focus is working on actually starting battle and having fighting take place.