Day 5

Day 5 comes with a Health Warning!

If like me, your 9 to 5 involves copious amounts of coding, it's probably best to not enter yourself into a GameJam. Whilst enjoyable, a constant cycle of sleep, code, eat, code, sleep gradually leads to mild insanity. I feel like I'm wired into my code right now.

So onto the topic; another short evening of dev, some more level editing, added some new hazards (spikes - ah, the old staple of platforming) and finished off the penultimate "zone" in the game.

Whilst trying to implement a new platforming puzzle though, I did come across a problem with my player controller code, which I'll need to rectify tomorrow to get the sequence working. It's not an unexpected setback, I was planning on rewriting the controller code anyway.

I did also have an epiphany today; my UI is shit. It's truly blurgh. I'm aiming for something blocky that stands out; so, with that in mind, I re-worked it and I'm happy with the results.

I'm aware that I have tomorrow, Friday, Sat and some of Sunday (the EST/GMT timings confuse me on the deadline), and still have a mammoth amount of debugging, spritework, narrative content, music editing AND playtesting to do.

It's fine though.

It's all fine.

Todays Wins;

- Implemented new UI
- Completed penultimate area of game
- and finally added Healthkits (after several playtests proved a challenging amount of difficulty)

Todays Losses;

- Very little dev time
- Player controller script rewrite is now a priority and imperative

More tomorrow