Return to Divinity

Devlog

• Devlog: Overhauling Squad Movement and Formations - Keegen Love
  January 31, 2025 by UnmakerOfThoughts#AI, #Behavior Systems, #Squad Formations

  Part 1: The Problem During the recent overhaul of the squad movement system, I encountered multiple issues related to inefficient squad tracking and coordination. Originally, every member of the squad... Continue reading

  
• Devlog: Hero Classes and Special Abilities - Ivan Shyika
  January 30, 2025 by Good Faith Company

  Hi! Ivan is here, our Team Leader, Project Manager, and Senior Developer. In this devlog, I want to describe how I designed the Hero class and ability system for our game, creating clarity and gaining... Continue reading

  
• DevLog: Implementing Death (Animations) - Violet Weathersby
  January 30, 2025 by VioletJoy

  This week one of my responsibilities was getting the unit (both player characters and enemies) death working. We already had the code for knowing when a unit was dead thanks to the health component, b... Continue reading

  
• Devlog: Preserving squad data across levels - Ivan Shyika
  January 25, 2025 by Good Faith Company

  Hi! I am Ivan Shyika, our Team Leader, Project Manager, and Engine Developer. Today, I would like to share about the issue of transitioning data between maps in our game and my solution to it. PROBLEM... Continue reading

  
• DevLog: Squad Selection Crashes - Violet Weathersby
  January 25, 2025 by VioletJoy

  My fight with Unreal Engine’s designer tools for the User Widget continued this week with the creation of a main menu, addition of functionality to the HUD, and creation of our game’s squad select... Continue reading
• Devlog: Fixing Squad AI Freezing in Combat: A Deep Dive into Task Instancing and Delegate Binding - Keegen Love
  January 24, 2025 by UnmakerOfThoughts

  This week I ran into an interesting and frustrating problem with our squad-based AI. The issue was that, while the first unit in the squad was working fine in combat, some of the other units would fre... Continue reading

  
• DevLog: Camera Issues - Adam Denomme
  January 24, 2025 by Senia Icethief#Dev Fixes, #Camera Control

  Hello, On this dev blog, I wanted to talk about one of the Jira tasks I was assigned that took a bit longer than I anticipated and the way I ended up having to solve it. That task was the camera movem... Continue reading
• Devlog: Designing interaction between player and autonomous AI - Ivan Shyika
  January 18, 2025 by Good Faith Company

  Hi! I am Ivan "John Ivess" Shyika, the Team Leader, Project Manager, and one of the developers. In this post, I wanted to highlight one of the technical design problems I worked on last week. Problem... Continue reading

  
• DevLog: Creating the Player HUD - Violet Weathersby
  January 18, 2025 by VioletJoy

  One of my tasks for this week was getting a placeholder heads-up-display implemented into the game. This was just getting the layout for it set up and I already had a visual draft for it to replicate... Continue reading
• DevLog: Fixing Invalid Click Locations in Pathfinding - Keegen Love
  January 17, 2025 by UnmakerOfThoughts#Pathfinding, #Input Handling, #UX

  This week, I ran into a frustrating issue with handling invalid click locations in our game. The core problem was that the NavMesh system was struggling to properly handle pathfinding requests to loca... Continue reading

  
• DevLog: Level Scale and Blockout Drafts - Adam Denomme
  January 17, 2025 by Senia Icethief#Level Blockout

  For this week of development, I was assigned and tasked with creating some rough drafts of the chamber blockouts. Coming into this task, the team had not yet grasped what the design of our game was me... Continue reading

  
• Development Start
  January 15, 2025 by Good Faith Company#RPG, #Rogue-lite, #Dungeon Crawler, #Strategy, #RTS, #Singleplayer, #Fantasy, #Medieval, #Tactical Combat, #Party-based, #Real-time, #Isometric, #Action, #Combat, #Permadeath, #Indie, #Early Access

  Set in a medieval fantasy world, Return to Divinity challenges players to lead a squad of four adventurers through a perilous dungeon filled with randomized encounters and formidable enemies. Before e... Continue reading