Posted March 07, 2025 by elcano
#GoedWare Game Jam 13 #Devlog #Breaking The Loop
I started the day by creating the game's ending screen 🎉, which congratulates the player and includes a small reminder about Axe & Bow Land 🏹⚔️. Using the same system as the intro, the message is displayed in the signature phosphorescent font ✨.
However, when I finished, I realized something crucial: there were no sound effects 😱. Luckily, the ElevenLabs website offers free credits for generating AI-powered sounds. After tweaking the descriptions, I managed to get sounds for 🚀 engines, 💥 ship explosions, 🛑 laser barriers, 🔫 laser projectiles, 🔄 meteor bounces, and 📢 the beeping sound of the text appearing in the intro. That should be enough since there will also be music 🎶.
After lunch 🍽️, Pol showed me a new version of one of his compositions 🎼, with improved instruments and a much better arrangement in a section we both thought needed work. It sounds fantastic now! He's also motivated to compose at least one more track in the same style 🎵.
Once the sound effects were implemented (they only play if the object is on screen to avoid an unbearable mess of noises 🎧😵), it was time for a hidden Easter egg 🥚👀… but I won’t spoil it, because that would ruin the fun.
Then, I spent some time designing the itch.io page 🌐, adding a tiled background and the game’s title font, but without the gloom effect or scanlines 🎨.
Finally, although Game Maker Studio allows HTML5 export, I'm not used to working with it 🖥️. The game has many issues in this format:
❌ Supersampling doesn't work, making the pixels look oversized.
❌ The game window is too small.
❌ Performance is unstable and sluggish.
Due to these problems, it's very likely that BREAKING THE LOOP will only be available for Windows 🖥️.