Draco Disease Design Notes – Intro

How do mechanics lend to the gameplay loop naturally?

The Loop
Defend > Collect > Explore > Invest

Defend:
We need some kind of feedback for hitting targets. Maybe a flash of red for damage, or a number shows up.

Character Design – need some color palette contrast between enemies and friendlies.
Fine Tuning hit boxes

Explore:
Need to add a map.

Collect:
Need sound queues for when different items are collected.
Some pronounced HUD counter for coins and/or items.

Invest:

Investments allow for projection on return so we need to not only setup a shop, but also have it be a tiered system that grows as a character grows. Maybe have different tiers to each weapon type. Or special skills and an ultimate that can be unlocked at the end.

Level development

Draco Disease – 01-06 Task List

1/6/2025 Finished up all previous tasks and had another meeting with the team. I am still waiting on 3d art to start replacing blockmesh assets. The screenshot below shows the level at the end of the second BlockMesh Sprint. My next steps will be to build out the...

Level Development sprint 2.

Draco Disease – 01-01 Task List

1/1/2025 Handed off the project to the lead programmer and took a break for the holidays and now I’m getting on with my next tasks. Got the project back with gameplay mechanics implemented for the survival map. It is a lot of fun already but needs polish and fixes....

Block mesh updates

Draco Disease – 12-22 Task List

12/22/2024 Received feedback from team members on Block mesh Progress. They wanted to see a few changes and directions with the design moving forward. Add Staircases on the sides of the districts moving from zone 1 to zone 2 as a side entrance or “backstreet” Build...

Block mesh house asset.

Draco Disease – 12-20 Task List

12/20/2024 Block mesh the Village: Create a block mesh in UE5 Seek Feedback from team Iterate Add train Stations to the designFirst iteration to establish scaling with Block mesh House asset.Beginning process of block meshing out set design for the different nodes,...

Level Concept

Draco Disease – 12-13 Task List

12/13 Task List Start building the new version of the Village map. It's an area that players must defend from waves but can also explore between waves. Concept the Village: Draw up concept Art Discuss how core gameplay loop exists here Concept Gates and Valves...

Draco Disease – 12-09 Task List

12/9 Task List GitHub Desktop Git-SCM Unreal 5.3.2 Get the project and attach to Revision Control. Menu Design / Add widgets Find, Widget refresher tutorial Reference Mockup from Orrib in discord DMs Summary of Work: The first week was all about getting setup with...