🛠 Devlog #1 — Spear Throw Prototype is Live!

⚔ What is Spear Throw?

A fast-paced third-person action game where you fight waves of enemies using:

• A throwable spear

• Teleportation to the spear’s hit point

• A stylish dash ability
  All combined to create smooth, satisfying combat movement.

🌊 Wave System

This prototype features a 10-wave enemy system:

• Each wave requires more enemy kills to progress

• Enemies spawn dynamically and scale in challenge

• A final boss arena is planned for post-jam updates!

💡 What I’ve Done So Far:

• ✅ Combat system (spear throwing, teleporting, dashing)

• ✅ Flying & melee enemies with unique AI

• ✅ Healthbar with Soulslike "delayed damage effect"

• ✅ Wave-based progression

• ✅ UI manager with cooldown bars

• ✅ One complete level + boss arena ready

• ✅ Pause & Game Over menus

• ✅ Prototype-level polish with SFX, camera shake, and feedback

🧩 Challenges I Faced

This project wasn't smooth all the way — here's a few key challenges I ran into:

• ❌ Teleporting with Character Controller
   Unity’s CharacterController doesn’t let you move the player directly using transform.position. Fixed it by disabling the CharacterController, moving the player, then re-enabling it.

• ❌ Animation Rigging Errors
   When I attached a healthbar canvas to the animated armature, I got TransformStreamHandle errors. Took some debugging to realize it was a rigging-related limitation and I needed to reparent the health bar outside the animated bone structure.

• ❌ VFX Instantly Disappearing
   Tried destroying teleport VFX instantly and got Unity’s “Destroying assets is not permitted” error. Fixed it by instantiating a clone and then using a fade-out before destruction.

• ❌ NavMesh Not Updating
   Baked navmesh was still showing old geometry. Resolved by restarting Unity and baking again.

🔮 What’s Next?

This is just the beginning! After the jam:

• I’ll be adding more enemy types

• Polishing the boss battle

• Expanding the level design

• Adding story context and secrets 👀

🐣 Easter Egg Alert

There’s a hidden boss model teasing future updates—try and find it 😄

🧠 Special Thanks

• Models & Animations: Sketchfab, Mixamo, Unity Asset Store

• Music/SFX: SoundBible, Pixabay, Mixkit

• Code Support: GPT (bug fixing & optimization)

• Game Dev: Aniket Kumar 👋

Thanks for playing and supporting indie games. Feel free to leave feedback — I’d love to hear what you think and how you’d improve it.

More updates coming soon!

— Aniket Kumar