Devlog 07: On the seventh devlog, we created Menus and Animations!

HELLOOOOOO!
We're back again with another devlog and lets jump right into it!

Programming:

For the programming side, a big focus was put on the menus,
The main challenge was learning the different interactions between the different components and creating a solid system that works easily for the artists, but is implemented intuitively from the programming side.

We needed UI for:
- Main Menu
- Pause Menu
- Win screen (alien & penguin)

The main and win screens use a base class to implement a restart and quit button. On top of this the main menu can show a controls screen, which can also be shown in the pause menu.

As you can see it's a bit of a triangle of sharing widgets for what needs to be implemented in the different menus.
An extra difficulty was making it work with controller aswell. Right now the only bug is the controls menu not demanding controller focus, but we've got some ideas to tackle this in either the next week or in polish!

Behold one of our awesome programming placeholders:

Of course we have more like:

Look at him move :D now for the next steps are MORE animations and finally some sounds!

On a side note we also updated the penguin ability, now you can use the all mighty offensive penguin attack! 

what this means is that now YOU can deploy your pillar right in the face of the enemy, by just holding the ability button and before you let go hold the lob button and viola boom pillar in the face!

Art:

The artist have been very busy and we are finally getting some results! The texturing and animation process of the characters are begun. This week we could only finish the penguin, but alien will come soon!

We are making different color versions of the characters, to visualize the different players!

Lastly we are slowly improving the environment! We are making ground textures and implementing some ground variation for the different slices. This is still a WIP but improvements are being made!

Lastly we updated the penguin ability meshes to their final form. Textures will follow soon!

Next week there are going to be many changes and we are looking forward to it. We hope you do too!

See you in a week, Adios!