Power Gem Progress

I like posting pictures of broken things like this... because when you play it and see everything working, you will know how far it came. Spider & Tunik have been working on the power gems & inventory... hit the read more below for full details. 

We had an ambitious list on Tuesday. The code features have been implemented. I tested the latest version of the game on Friday but we still have a few outlier User Interface issues like the cursed 4:3 aspect ratio screenshot above.  I am extremely eager to see Damage numbers and Health as the primary stat displayed on the Gem screens. Here is what Spider & Tunik sent into chat on Friday. 

I added comments in gray to help explain what the changes mean.

Spider (Code)

• Player's equipped gear now has fallback stats to 0 if no gems equipped (So even items without gems will have some power)
• Power Gems use the same list Item prefab as regular items (So you can see them in your inventory list)
• Power Gems have been combined into main inventory (So players can keep them as items)
• When selected, Power Gems in the inventory open the Gem preview instead of the regular item preview
• Functionality exists to use the "power up" button on un-gemmed items
• Implemented Stat comparisons when viewing an item should compare to your currently equipped  

Tunik (UI)

• Inventory preview
  • Made the window it taller so players can see more
  • Sell back value is no longer shown outside of shops
  • Fixed the issue where the armors were not displaying in the preview window
  • Zoomed out on all items so they fit in the window better
  • Full stat names are used in the description "Strength" instead of "STR", etc
  • Equip button is the full width of the window
  • Destroy button has been moved to the top left of the preview window
• Loot
  • "Destroy all" text has been changed to "Discard All"
• Inventory
  • Items are sorted by recency
  • Removed the gem tabs
  • Fixed an issue with the list item prefab where it couldn't be clicked on the right side
• Gems window
  • Fixed the click-blocker hit-box​

Next Up

At this coming Monday's full team meeting we will be testing the upgrade system and reviewing intro. These will be the focus of the next Tech Demo.