THE ROAD SO FAR

Hi! :)

I started working on this site a little late (over a year too late, in fact), so in this particular case I'll try to post condensed information about Skeli. Subsequent posts will be more detailed and focused on the ongoing work on the game.

Well, it started as a simple 2D platformer inspired by such titles as Montezuma's Revenge, Henry's House or Jet Set Willy from the 8bit era. If you don't know these titles, I strongly encourage you to familiarize yourself with them :). It was supposed to be a learning project (did I mention that I want to become a game developer?). However, from the very beginning it grew a lot. I quickly grasped how to make 2D platformer/jump & run games, but I wanted to learn more, so I kept incorporating new things into Skeli's game. So, very soon after this little skeleton learned to take his first steps, he made two new "friends".

THE BADDIES

Not everything is going to killing the player... at least not directly. There are also pipes that the player can slide down, ladders (this was an endless nightmare) and ropes that can be climbed (even some spider webs can be climbed). There are also doors that can only be opened if you have the right color key (a red key opens a red door)

Later I thought that I could add some kind of tutorial to my game... I had to introduce Skeli to his new friends.

THE NPCs

At this point it got quite overwhelming for an inexperienced developer. It all worked fine, but it made me so tired so I stopped working on the game and I left it for almost a year. But this year have returned to it with new knowledge and new strengths.

NOW

I refactored the code, well I had to because I wasn't sure what I was thinking back then and some things stopped working because of the Godot Engine updated version. Now I have everything working as it should... again.

This year (since may) I'm focusing on storytelling aspects of my game so I added new 'mobile' NPCs with some new quests, I also had to redesign levels because of that. I added new BADDIE to the game and in fact, I'm kind of proud off that. It's nothing fancy, it's a GHOST. This ghost is flying around minding its own business, but when it spots the Player... Well Player needs to run fast because when the ghost catches him it kicks him in a random direction (lava?sharp spikes? ;)). I'm proud of this because I'm using a state machine for the behaviour of this ghost. I was afraid of using a state machine before, but now I'm thinking about implementing it also in other game objects. The time will show.

Well... that was a long post, and yet I don't think I managed to tell about every aspect of my game. Anyway, from now on I'll be writing posts on a regular basis :) I also hope to get some feedback from You, so please write comments and e-mail me if You want to :)

See You soon :)