Continued Work Devlog #2

We decided to have a weekly post about the progress of our game. Not every week will we have a major update or change for the game but we wanted to keep everyone informed about our progress throughout the week. So let's jump right in.

First we want to thank everyone who has checked out our page and downloaded the game. We are grateful for that and it feels incredibly rewarding  and we intend to reward you back as we keep working on the game and releasing improvements and eventually the various systems we have planned for the project. As it is the game stands as the beginning of our ideas. Eventually this project will grow into our full vision and we hope you stick around and watch as the game improves.

My brother has been working hard on improving the controls and making it easier for keyboard gameplay as  well as making it easier to switch between gamepad and keyboard if the player wishes. We are going to move away from single board control and allow for the second player to join in with a gamepad. He is also working on another major gameplay component which is the upgrade system. Killing bugs will allow the player to gain progress and eventually unlock new abilities which will improve their bug killing power. Who doesn't want that?

This is still a development process and will be added as soon as it is ready to show off.

This past week I have been working on the Player 2 sprite sheet who has been just a copy of player 1 but we always intended on the 2nd player to be their own character. The image of this post should be a little teaser of that character. I have also been working on the integration of SoLoud ,sdl2, and emscripten to allow this project to be played in the browser so you wont have to download the latest versions and just hop on to itch and play the game directly in your browser.

This too will be added soon hopefully before the end of the week. 

Well I suppose that is all for now. Follow us here on itch for continued updates and I hope to see you again next week!