PostJam Edition is here!

Updated my (relatively incomplete) jam entry!

Changes include:

• Overhauled sound effects
• Wave-based high score chasing arcade loop is properly set up
• functional pause screen!
• Options menu to control sound and music
• oh yeah there's music now!
• Particle effects galore
• Added an indicator for which varmint the camera is following and the ability to shift its focus
• Improved the skeleman animation
• Added a hit animation and sound to all enemies, I can't decide if Morio's or the skeleman's is my favorite 
• Increased size of varmint's projectiles, and now they can shoot through walls and have a greater period of time where they won't kill other varmints
• Pailers now have a random number of bullets when they spawn
• Each model of enemy gets unique stat modifiers at random when they spawn
• rebalancing of all enemy types
• Spawning animation and sound make it very clear when new enemies are showing up - i hope...
• Fixed teleportation (should no longer be able to teleport into walls)
  
• probably a bunch of others as well, 

Immediate plans:

• Fix enemy weapons rotating in a ridiculous way
• finally add object pooling, a revamp i've been putting off since midway through the jam
• UI Polish (fix options screen background in game, add sounds, etc.)
• Visual indicator when teleport is available instead of it just being a sound cue
• visual indicator of the fail state
• some slight knockback to enemies - witch and beamer on hit animations need to be cleaned up also
• Revamped skeleman spawning - currently you have about a 50% chance of spawning one on death (down from 100% in the jam version). I plan to make it so enemies will sometimes drop a pickup, and each time a varmint dies if you have a bone it'll guarantee spawn a skeleman. This should encourage even more active movement around the map, though if no base % chance remains the difficulty will increase quite a bit
• pitchfork using enemy type (forker), more dynamic enemy spawning (current system doesn't offer enough control)

Future plans:

• pickups/powerups, potentially alternative weapons
• alternate varmint colors (unsure if just cosmetic or not)
• continue to revamp death animation
• several new farmer weapons
• revamp dude farmer animations 
• make and implement my own tileset
• design and implement my own witch sprite
• compose a main theme for the game
• a real tutorial to introduce the game properly

My plan is to iterate on this until I have a pretty satisfying arcade mode, then either start a new project or go ahead and start adding more levels, making it a roguelite, that kind of thing.