Project Visionaries - MMORPG

Devlog

• Update 17: Item Management & new assets
  November 23, 2021 by PVDev

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  #2D, #Action RPG, #Isometric, #libGDX, #MMORPG, #Multiplayer, #Post-apocalyptic, #Procedural Generation, #PvP, #mmo, #project, #visionaries, #project visionaries, #online, #UI, #loot, #inventory, #equipment, #items, #diablo

  Hello fellow visionaries! A lot has happened in the past two months and even though I've delayed posting this update for longer than I initially intended, I believe it's been worth it, so let's get in... Continue reading

  
• Update 16: Loot, UI work & scalability
  August 21, 2021 by PVDev

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  #2D, #Action RPG, #Isometric, #libGDX, #MMORPG, #Multiplayer, #Post-apocalyptic, #Procedural Generation, #PvP, #mmo, #project, #visionaries, #project visionaries, #online, #UI, #loot, #inventory, #scalability, #networking, #headless, #client

  Hey guys, Today I'm coming at you with another update that'll be about loot, more UI work and a scalability test I did after building a headless version of the game client. So let's get to it! Note: A... Continue reading

  
• Update 15: New skills, map & UI features
  July 30, 2021 by PVDev

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  #2D, #Action RPG, #Isometric, #libGDX, #MMORPG, #Multiplayer, #Post-apocalyptic, #Procedural Generation, #PvP, #mmo, #project, #visionaries, #project visionaries, #online, #UI, #skills, #teleport, #nova, #ping, #UDP, #TCP, #network, #networking, #animation, #animations, #chat

  This is Dorian aka pvd coming at you with an another update about our progress on our MMO-RPG titled Project Visionaries ! There's lots of neat stuff to talk about so this time I'm having to pick and... Continue reading

  
• Update 14: Fog of War and Network issues
  July 02, 2021 by PVDev

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  #networking, #udp, #fogofwar, #kubernetes, #k8s, #docker, #project visionaries, #arpg, #rpg, #indie, #diablo, #mmo, #mmorpg

  In this update, I'm going to focus on the following two topics: fog of war and server infrastructure (with a focus on networking and UDP routing). Designing Fog of War Shortly after my last update, I... Continue reading

  
• Update 13: Multi-world management and more UI work
  May 30, 2021 by PVDev

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  #project visionaries, #arpg, #mmo, #mmorpg, #rpg, #indie, #ui, #skin, #world, #map, #instance, #shared, #diablo, #pvp, #pvm, #portal, #transfer, #java, #libgdx

  Adding pieces to the UI puzzle While the UI is obviously not the most important part of an RPG, my intent is still to keep working on it on and off on and improving it as I go because not only will it... Continue reading

  
• Update 12: Asynchronous rendering & asset loading, UI skinning
  May 12, 2021 by PVDev#project visionaries, #arpg, #rpg, #indie, #diablo, #ui, #skin, #async, #rendering, #assets, #loading, #mmo, #mmorpg

  One of the exciting things I've worked on over the last few weeks was improving on the very bare UI fragments I had implemented into the game in the PoC phase (using scene2d). I had initially started... Continue reading

  
• Update 11: Tile interactions & merged rendering
  April 21, 2021 by PVDev#events, #rendering, #performance

  Over the last couple of weeks, I've been working on several fronts: I introduced the first tile interactions for players (opening/closing a chest, a door) I've completely revamped the rendering logic... Continue reading

  
• Update 10: Pathfinding, Lighting, and a New map!
  April 21, 2021 by PVDev#pathfinding, #lighting, #map, #ai, #rendering

  Hi Folks! I can't believe it's been a month since my last update, I must be slacking! Well actually, we're definitely not slacking, far from that even. Less frequent updates recently has translated in... Continue reading
• Update 9: The foundations of PvM
  April 21, 2021 by PVDev#pvm, #map, #tiled, #persistency, #mongodb, #mongojack, #ai

  In this update, I'm going to discuss 3 aspects that I've started addressing a few weeks back in order to build the PvM experience: map environment, monsters and persistency. The map environment is an... Continue reading

  
• Update 8: Reworking animations
  April 21, 2021 by PVDev#animations, #spritesheets

  Following the 10-player playtesting event at the end of January which I covered in my last update, it was obvious that there were still many things relating to controls, motion and combat which needed... Continue reading

  
• Update 7: Iterating on core mechanics
  April 21, 2021 by PVDev#music, #audio, #ableton, #battle royale

  At the end of the last update, I left you with a preview of the new skill I had just introduced which leads to the creation of a temporary entity: the projectile. This wasn't a trivial feature to add... Continue reading

  
• Update 6: Making the Arena Fun Again
  April 21, 2021 by PVDev#battle royale, #gameplay

  So after my last update and a few days after Christmas, I released version 0.0.4 of the game , which featured an early draft of the Battle Royale game mode as well as a basic Leaderboard window to inf... Continue reading

  
• Update 5: Road to Battle Royale
  April 21, 2021 by PVDev#battle royale, #gameplay

  So at the end of my last update a couple of weeks ago, I left you with my idea and high priority of creating a game launcher with auto-update and multi-environment capability even as early as then. I... Continue reading

  
• Update 4: Continuous Deployment with Docker, K8S & JPMS
  April 21, 2021 by PVDev#docker, #k8s, #kubernetes, #JPMS, #Java, #JPackage, #CI, #CD

  So at the end of update 3, I mentioned how I had stabilized the game into a demo-worthy state which allows for basic multiplayer battles. I just uploaded the following video which contains some of the... Continue reading

  
• Update 3: The first prototype
  April 21, 2021 by PVDev#prototype, #rpg, #combat, #JPMS

  With some of the key building blocks of my project ready, I was open for business. Business code that is. And I did go down the rabbit hole for a couple of weeks and implement my prototype (surprising... Continue reading

  
• Update 2: Adding ECS to the mix
  April 21, 2021 by PVDev#ecs, #artemis, #libgdx, #framework, #networking, #kryonet

  W hile libgdx is an absolutely fantastic framework, a tremendous open-source contribution as well as the enabler of an even nicer community, it lacks too many libraries and specific modules to be able... Continue reading

  
• Update 1: Picking a framework
  April 21, 2021 by PVDev#framework, #libgdx, #2D, #isometric, #rpg

  Hello there and welcome to Project Visionaries' first dev-log entry. For the first 6 months of development, I decided not to publish anything in the open and instead, posted regular updates privately... Continue reading