Lich Skill Tree and Bugs

Anthony Palermo - 3/17/2023

Over the course of this week, I primarily worked on making the lich skill tree full functional and fixing some minor bugs related to it and the options menu. The options menu bug was that the sliders to indicate the volume and the brightness were not accurately showing. The major issues I had to deal with while making the lich skill tree was making the final decision on what the skills would do and where in the code those had to be implemented.

I had completed the UI for the Lich skill tree last week so that was something I did not have to do, but I made adjustments to the skills that I had roughed out last week. The lich abilities the player gets before any unlocked skill from the skill tree are the fireball basic attack and the fire tornado skill which cost the player 20 mana to use. Below will be a video showing off the lich skill tree and what each skill does in text, which I will be explaining in more detail what it means.

On  the left side of the skill tree is a series of skills that revolve around having the enemies be scorched from attacks, which requires the unlock of the Scorched skill from the tree. The scorched effect is simply a state the enemy is in and determines if the other two skills are able to do their effects. Explosive Infinitum doubles the damage of the fireball attack, which is done after the increase in damage by Intense Flames skill.

On the right side are more damage increasing skills along with the Greater Explosion skill, which increase the size of the fireball attack but not the damage. Infernal Winds is a small damage increase to the fire tornado skill due to the fact that attack does damage over time, a too large of an increase would be too powerful. The final skill on the right is the Power Overflowing which increase all damage based on how much mana is missing. The damage increase is a 10% damage increase when the mana bar is at 0 and goes to 0% increase when full. The final skill at the top unlocks the lich ultimate skill, the Arch-Lich, which allows the player to drain all their mana to have the fire tornado cost 0 mana for 10 seconds.