Pem's Code Blog

The latest release of HeroScribe is HeroScribe 1.0pre1 (December 25th 2004) ( http://www.heroscribe.org/download.html ), but luckily it

mepem37 :: 2017/02/11 (Saturday, February 11, 2017) :: HeroQuest, Unreal Engine :: No Comments »

The basic game has four types of traps

mepem37 :: 2017/02/11 (Saturday, February 11, 2017) :: HeroQuest, Unreal Engine :: No Comments »

I implemented (search for traps).  It

mepem37 :: 2017/01/28 (Saturday, January 28, 2017) :: HeroQuest, Unreal Engine :: No Comments »

I made lots of progress in 2016, but there’s more work to be done for this to become a robust playable experience.  My goal for this project is to make a reasonably complete playable game

mepem37 :: 2017/01/21 (Saturday, January 21, 2017) :: HeroQuest, Unreal Engine :: No Comments »

Another post about design (rather than code).

I did more research on the expansion order.  Let

mepem37 :: 2017/01/15 (Sunday, January 15, 2017) :: HeroQuest, Unreal Engine :: No Comments »

I continued to work on the treasure card code and the related user interface (UMG) for items.  I also fixed some corner cases that I found during testing, and I implemented other details related treasure and items.  For UI, the Character (items) screen is revamped.

For treasure card code…  The original game has 24 treasure cards – 11 are unique.  I added Potion of Speed (from EU version), so it’s 25 treasure cards, 12 unique.  Each of the 12 unique treasure cards requires code to be implemented.  There’s 2 hazards and 4 gold cards, so there’s really only 8 unique cards (in terms code behavior).  Gold and hazards are simple.  I

mepem37 :: 2017/01/10 (Tuesday, January 10, 2017) :: HeroQuest, Unreal Engine :: No Comments »

Most of my HeroQuest Unreal Engine posts focus on code (and UE4), but this one focuses on game design.

I had a great holiday break and I was able to playtest HeroQuest (physical version) and review some of the game balancing.  I still plan to make the video game version focus on the authenticity of nostalgia.  However, there are some balance issues, design exploits, and other design improvements I plan to use for the video game version.  The tweaks (and interpretations) do not stray far from the original – even the original is open to interpretation because some of the rules are ambiguous and there

mepem37 :: 2017/01/10 (Tuesday, January 10, 2017) :: HeroQuest, Unreal Engine :: No Comments »

The American rulebook states a room may be searched by all 4 Heroes:

The European rulebook does not state this, but it

mepem37 :: 2016/11/18 (Friday, November 18, 2016) :: HeroQuest, Unreal Engine :: No Comments »

In HeroQuest, the Hero

mepem37 :: 2016/11/16 (Wednesday, November 16, 2016) :: HeroQuest, Unreal Engine :: No Comments »

I implemented gamepad controls which I tested on Windows desktop with an Xbox 360 Controller (USB).  Using this same control system, it

mepem37 :: 2016/10/23 (Sunday, October 23, 2016) :: HeroQuest, Unreal Engine :: No Comments »