Crate Before Attack

Devlog

• Ghosts and Leaderboards
  October 25, 2020 by koalefant

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  #highscore, #leaderboard, #race

  In Quick Race mode one will now race against ghosts of real players (instead of AI) . New online leaderboard shows player position on a histogram of all attempts... Continue reading
• A summary of July updates
  July 31, 2020 by koalefant

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  #grappling-hook, #multiplayer, #chat

  Here is a summary of July updates to Crate Before Attack: https://cratebeforeattack.com/posts/20200731-july-update/... Continue reading

  
• Ruins map and match obseration.
  July 25, 2020 by koalefant

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  #grappling-hook, #frogs, #strategy

  A new beautiful level from Kesha Astafyev: https:// behance.net/spoon_tar It is now possible to join and observe a match that is already in progress by playing a deterministic replay... Continue reading

  
• Golf-Club is a New Weapon
  July 12, 2020 by koalefant

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  Just added a Golf-club - a new weapon allowing for strong and precise melee attacks... Continue reading

  
• Playing with eye animation
  July 12, 2020 by koalefant

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  Adding eye tracking to the game... Continue reading

  
• New map - Dinosaurs
  July 04, 2020 by koalefant

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  #grappling hook, #dinosaurs

  Added second artist-painted map to the game. Enjoy!... Continue reading
• First level art
  June 29, 2020 by koalefant

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  Adding first level art to the game... Continue reading
• Improved terrain normal generation.
  June 06, 2020 by koalefant

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  #physics, #distance field

  Terrain normals (used for physical contacts) are way more stable now. Red - old one using naive signed distance field gradient. Green - using convex hull of local terrain fragment generated with Graha... Continue reading
• Work in progress: AI attack and retreat
  May 31, 2020 by koalefant

  I am working on improving AI and it is now able to both attack and retreat... Continue reading
• Alpha Update 4
  May 24, 2020 by koalefant

  Another update focused on Race-mode: * PNG maps: dramatically reduced memory usage, 8-bit images are not expanded to full color anymore, upscaling is done in the shader. E.g. Pizza map went down from... Continue reading
• AI in racing mode
  May 24, 2020 by koalefant

  AI in racing mode trying to outperform itself... Continue reading
• Decision tree of AI
  May 16, 2020 by koalefant#ai, #shopper

  Decision tree of an AI doing navigation (work in progress)... Continue reading
• Race rules
  May 16, 2020 by koalefant#race, #rope-race

  Alpha Update 3 is online: * Race: player can now choose different game rules, and there is now a Race mode available * Switched over from Vorbis to Opus as Vorbis is not supported by Safari * Fixing B... Continue reading
• Adding distance maps for navigation
  May 09, 2020 by koalefant#ai, #navigation, #path-finding

  Adding distance maps that can answer the question: what is the distance to closest crate considering obstacles? A gradient of such map would tell us a direction that we need to move to reach the crate... Continue reading

  
• Bugfix update
  May 08, 2020 by koalefant

  Update contains mostly bugfixes: * Fixed occasional crash during tongue elongation/contraction (that is the one @StepS had I assume) * Fixed crash on Safari due to missing Vorbis support (now it runs... Continue reading
• Bugfix update
  May 05, 2020 by koalefant

  Bugfix update: Fixed frogs ocassionally being blocked by placed projectiles Fixed scroll of the itch.io window with arrow keys Initial session seed is now random... Continue reading