Survive Diablo

Summary

This game will aim to be a top down (Zelda like) adventure inspired and Diablo 2 skinned game. I have generally tried to replicate old existing game patterns, and this will be what I consider my first project into game development.

Dev Journal

Day 1, 2025/12/01

• Make github repo
• Have rough plan
• Simple Start Button (Multiple Scenes)

Day 2, 2025/12/02

• Finish Basic Start Menu
• Added Player Movement
• Centered Camera to Follow Player
• Stretch: Add Intermediary Scene for Act/Character Selection

Day 3, 2025/12/04

• Reviewing Chunk Generation and Random Prop Generation
• Basic Tile Painting
• Random Prop Prefab Generation

Day 4, 2025/12/05

• Basic, basic chunk generation
• Reworked to capture normalized direction
• allowed octo directional movement

Day 5, 2025/12/06

• Map optimizations

Day 6, 2025/12/07

• Minor menu placement adjustments
• New intermediary Scene for Act Selection
• Small menu system to get out of Acts
• Scrapped current acts for simple Wave Spawner Game

Day 7, 2025/12/08

• Simple barbarian attack animation, idle bouncing
• Trigger animation on Enter Key
• Small Act 1 map edits

Day 8, 2025/12/09

• Fixed movement getting stuck in collision layer
• Rotation to Cursor (for attacking)
• Basic enemy spawner and movement

Day 9, 2025/12/10

• Added enemy health and health bars
• Static Damage

Day 10, 2025/12/11

• Den of Evil
• Enemy Aggro Radius (WIP)
• Scene management

Day 11, 2025/12/13

• Reworked movement collision
• Added enemy movepoint
• Updated prefab models ( need to make "core" enemy and boss prefabs )

Day 12, 2025/12/14

• Flash effect on enemies
• Re-organized enemy prefabs
• User and Enemy namespaces
• Map manager / scene loading

Day 13, 2025/12/15

• Encampment Added
• Cold Plains Added
• More Scene Transitions
• NPC Placeholders

Day 14, 2025/12/16

• Simple Waypoint Canvas / Functionality

Day 15, 2025/12/19

• Simple Audio PointerEnter Audio
• Imported Audio

Day 16, 2025/12/20

• Waiting Audio (BB82DABN) added
• build 003 to test
• Cold Plains Scene Placeholders + Dungeon Music

Day 17, 2025/12/21

• Small Recording of Gameplay so far

Day 18, 2025/12/23

• Small usage of sprites ; playing around with rotation / sizing