On this week’s blogpost, We’ll take a look at the approach I took at the most interactive part of Bunker 21: the ActionPad. On the ActionPad is where the player makes gameplay choices and ultimately I want that container component to be easy to navigate and simple to understand. ActionPad.js …

It’s been a couple of weeks since I started this project and I’ve been having a blast, here’s a rundown on how things are coming along so far. The UI I’m keeping it simple on that front. I’m more interested in the gameplay than the actual looks of the Bunker 21, less…

Weather plays an important part in Bunker 21, whether it affects the type of creature that shows up at the bunker or even the power levels of the computer system etc. Here’s how it works A Pattern on Two Levels As I progress through each component I noticed a simple pattern emerge; Calculate something, then…

Slowly making progress, I’ve had a busy week so I didn’t get as far as I wanted to but the important thing is to keep pushing, even if it’s baby steps. I worked on the recording the passing of time. Previously I created a counter that just kept track of…

I decided to go native and do my own time counting. The idea is simple, Time.js processes time with setInterval() and every (game) hour it uses redux to make time accessible to any component that has access tot the global state. Time.js Here’s the entire component, we’ll take it one step…

The game has been baptized “Bunker 21” specifically because it’s a bunker I started creating in 2021, duh. No puns this time. The first real feature I designed is called “flicker,” any element that calls it gets to flicker at a certain rate, simulating a slight malfunction. The Code Let’s follow the…

What is the game about? PCB is a survival game set in the near future, in a post-apocalyptic world. Strange dreams lead you, the protagonist, to an underground bunker where you survived the global holocaust that decimated most of the world’s population. …

Progress so Far foeSure ended up becoming no just a foe generator but an NPC generator; why limit it to just making bad guys when it can serve for every generated character in the game? It’s pretty much the same thing but with a friendly attribute, the other ones stay the same. …

What originally was going to be a stand-alone module enemy character creator is becoming a general character creator that accommodates good, evil, and neutral characters. What does it do? With foeSure i’m testing out a seed system of character creation to simplify the whole process of adding them into the (currently untitled) game. By…