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HIERARCHY is a game about survival in an unfamiliar environment. You start with nothing and must level up off the nearby mercenaries and creatures of the planet to build your strength allowing you to access new areas.
Exploration is rewarded with items and weapons, and as you level up you will unlock new powers and abilities... You are not alone-others, like you, were also put here. You must build yourself up to end your enemies before they find you. Set traps, use the environment to your advantage, and track down players to destroy.
Work your way up the Hierarchy, and become the ultimate survivor, for once you are dead, you are lost forever in this world.
Hierarchy will offer 2 main game modes at launch with an additional one coming post launch. The 2 game modes are as follows:

Fallen- You start with nothing. Level up as fast as possible and defeat the other players. Permadeath exists in this mode, but points you earn will go towards your career.

Career- When you start the game you play as one hero, forever adding to this heroes abilities and skills. Points you earn in other games will better this hero ever so slightly, and although there is no permadeath, dying will cost you significantly.

Hunted - More info Coming Soon..

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Diving into Game Dev Update #8!

Welcome to Game Dev update #8; sorry it's taken so long but my plate has been overflowing with things to do in the last two weeks with lots going on. It's cooled down for a couple of days before I go on holiday for two weeks so I thought what better to do than show off some of the new features that I have been working on! As usual I have a nice detailed text update and an accompanying GameDev video for those visual enthusiasts to watch!

And to get you started - a picture of the scene view of our hero about to get destroyed:

bot destruction

Building a crafting system

What a meta title! That's right though! I started looking into the logic behind various potential crafting systems and what would be best for hierarchy. Naturally we already have a sturdy item system in place, so I hooked into that and have extended it to cater for Items that are 'ICraftable'. An ICraftable item has a recipe responsible for creating it!

crafting code

So the system that I added in for testing is probably about 50% done in terms of a basic implementation (excluding GUI - just logic). However right now it is a very simple system and merely the beginnings of something great. I am hoping to have a load of recipes when the game is finished for all those survivalists that love crafting,

Hunter AI - The Start

One of the final AI systems that I will implement for the very base edition of the playable game will be the Hunter AI. It doesn't take much explanation as to what this badboy specialises in, however I can tell you that there will be a very special version of it in the game, and it will come to be one of the key features and mechanics of Hierarchy!

Currently I am working on a tracking system that will allow for an inventive approach to having AI find you without having that 'I CAN'T SEE YOU BUT I AM GONNA FIND YOU' feel that many games unfortunately have. I give a brief description of it in the video but currently Living entities leave an invisible trail (currently visible for debug purposes) which a theoretical Hunter AI can find, and then investigate further to see if it can find the player.

leaf track

After it has found 'X' amount of tracks it will increase in speed and find the source of the tracks. If you don't escape you will die. There are ways around it such as slowing it down with traps, or going to high ground and teleporting to areas that require a longer walking route! Again the system is in it's infancy but I am hoping that it will be ready for show after I get some development done after my holiday!

Powers, Status Effects and Refactor

In addition to the usual, I have done some refactoring of movement to allow for status effects to correctly affect it, updates to powers so they are more accurate, as well as general improvement across the solution.

One part of this update was the addition of two new debuffs: stun and slow! They now work well and can be attached to projectiles, AOE Powers and more! Just a sign of things to come as we move forward with development - if you want to see the stun in action just check the video!a

3D Modeller and Artist

This week I spoke to a 3D Modeller and artist who were interested in joining the project - one is working on a terrain mesh and another is working on some items for within the game! Hopefully in the next update we can show some of the creations off as its really looking great!

The World of Hierarchy


I did a sketch of a top down view of the map recently, and it was incredibly messy so I converted it into a more colourful and understandable format so that when the time comes that the terrain mesh is built it can be used as a guide of sorts - I explain parts of it in the video however here is is:

Map

If you are interested in a high-res version head over to the gallery!

Video Goodness


Below is the video of the above news in a different format!

Until Next Time

Well that's it for this week, and although it was a short and sweet update I am hoping next time to have some more juicy stuff and get this show on the road! I am going on holiday for two weeks after which time I will be full steam ahead! Thanks for reading and don't forget to 'Watch' the project here, Follow me on twitter, and subscribe on YouTube! Don't forget to leave feedback, and if you feel you have something to offer get in touch!

Speak to you soon, heroes.

Hierarchy - Game Dev - Update #7

Hierarchy - Game Dev - Update #7

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Welcome to Game Dev update #7 at IndieDb! Discussing the new status effect system with the first healing move, the beginnings of evasion steering mechanics...

Hierarchy - Game Dev - Update #6

Hierarchy - Game Dev - Update #6

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Hierarchy - Game Dev - Update #5

Hierarchy - Game Dev - Update #5

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In this weeks Game Dev update - I talk about Teleportation Discs, More AI Behaviours and advancing some existing mechanics! Some new behaviours such as...

Unity3D Hierarchy GameDev Playlist

Unity3D Hierarchy GameDev Playlist

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A playlist of all the game development done so far on Hierarchy.

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druss66
druss66

looks good do we know when we will be able to play it?

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