Uncommon Potential Games Dev Blog

It's down to the wire. You've fought hard to get this far. The wolhound that's been terrorizing the town snarls at you, blood and spit flying from its teeth. You're both wounded, that much is clear. You just need one final blow... You draw your next card. Is it an attack card? A heal? A buff, poison, or spell? An attack will need to deal damage, buffs and poisons need to be applied to their targets. So how does one card differentiate itself from another? When you use that heal card to save yourself from the savage wolhound, how do you know it won't actually deal damage? Creating Cards A deck is composed of cards, and cards can be many different things in a card based RPG like Dark Miasma. Between damaging attacks, buffs, heals, card draw, and other properties, cards need to have a variety of functions and behaviours while still being, well, cards. Luckily, there are a number of ways to solve this issue. The Trivial Answer - Dangerous in the long...

Gold and Stress For the past few days I've been implementing gold and stress into Dark Miasma. Gold is, as you would expect, how much money you have and is used for buying and crafting cards, training your stats, and relieving stress. You become more stressed by working and fighting, and if you reach maximum stress, you will collapse and be out of commission for a week. Money and stress are two very large factors to consider when deciding how you want to spend your week in Galeport, so we want to display those values openly when you're choosing your activities.  The question now is: How does my display know how much stress I have, and how does my display know when my stress changes? How do does the UI know how much stress I have? This one's pretty simple. Since Dark Miasma is a single player game, I use a singleton to track my player. Being developed in Unity, the Player is currently a GameObject that triggers DoNotDestroyOnLoad, and the Player class keeps a stat...

Welcome!  Hey there! If you don't know who we are, we're Uncommon Potential Games, an indie game development studio developing our first game, Dark Miasma. Dark Miasma is a fantasy role playing game about saving the small town of Galeport from the Miasma, a darkness that sweeps through the lands, destroying all civilization it touches.  To save Galeport from this grave threat you must... well you can't, really. In three years' time, the Miasma will come, and Galeport will  be destroyed. But the townsfolk don't have to be destroyed with it. In the three years before the Miasma, you must gain the favour of the locals and convince them to follow you in a mad journey through treacherous lands, so that you may find refuge in the Capital. You'll have to choose how you spend your time wisely. Will you spend your limited time making friends? Working at the blacksmith to forge the strongest sword? Or will you delve into the wilderness, seeking to strengthen yo...