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RatAttack - lame jam

RatAttack
A browser game made in HTML5

day 1 :



day 2 :

  • day of BIG prolems with github/plastic SCM. Lost a lot of time.
  • Finished the city spritesheet and made the tile grids/palettes and all the environment in the engine. Had to go ack and forth between unity and procreate a couple of time (mainly for the streets and pavements, wich are tricky).
  • Collision with the buildings + collision limits
  • Made an AI for the baby rats (first considered pathfinding, but in the end I settled on a patrol-type behaviour between waypoints).  Had an issue with arrays: rats got stuck on the first waypoint.
  • ccholin continued working on the rat tail/trail with better success, but the tail still retracts every couple seconds.
  • Added ambiant sound.


day 3 :

  • Added a timer and a game over UI (after 3 minutes it's game over wether the babies are still there or not).
  • Tried to find a solution for the antialiasing with ccholin but failed :(   Maybe it's not the anti aliasing the problem?



day 4 :

  • Added slots UI for the baby rats they disappear from the game and the slots when they collide with poison
  • Uploaded the game to the gamejam late, but got a late entry (thankfully it was a chill game jam). Problems were : 1/the compression (project settings/player/publishing settings/disable compression format) and 2/ the compression of the file (.zip, not .rar)
  • Got this comment:
  • debugged various stuff (collider prolems, baby slots UI, timer UI etc... ccholin came to the rescue for the debug, because I couldn't find the solution 
  • Filled the game description with explanations and pictures.


TO DO :

  1. make the babies face forward when they move
  2. make the babies go back to the KFC bucket when nudged
  3. debug anti aliasing
  4. add vfx when picking up objects
  5. work on the tail (constant length)
  6. add pills sprites
  7. document pill sprites (add UI?)
  8. always teleport to a different manhole cover
  9. The food points should not reset when colliding with the nest
  10. ...

Files

  • buildRatAttack.zip 16 MB
    Sep 25, 2023
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