Posted April 19, 2021 by BirdmaskStudio
#Development Notes
That title isn't rhetorical, it's a genuine question I am asking myself.
Me walking around the rough maps starting area, getting a sense of scale.
All the small AI behaviors have been cleaned up and are ready, now it's time to start just getting into making the starting area. I've taken the placeholder map and trees to try to judge the scale and dumped the player character into it for testing. Making a natural environment, of this scale especially, is new to me, but I'm going to try and just treat it like a game jam and get on with it.
Give myself a week, look up some images of tropical island beaches and shores then make a few boulder, bush and tree variants I can toss around the place to make the map seem more lively. Once I'm happy with the look of that, make new Mob spawners to populate areas before the player reaches them.
If I can pace myself and get that done by next week, I should be able to put up a new demo, here's hoping.
19th April 2021 Development Notes:
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