It is nice to have company when you're creating something!
So if you want to share your progress, feel free to do it here, or on Twitter (#CoffeeJam)
Still need to make some textures for the truck, and get it driving, but thought that I made pretty decent progress tonight, especially after being away from Blender and Unity for so long. Started working on this a bit later than I had hoped, so hopefully I can get the rest of it sorted out by next Saturday!
Being able to see your progress is one of the best things about programming or game dev. I just spent around an hour working on the inventory system. Something that took me a couple of weeks to get the hang of a few months ago.
(Also, please ignore my PAINFULLY,
Bad art. I can't make up my mind for what art style I want to go for so this is just........ placeholder 'art'.
Next up; actually being able to attack your enemies!
Got my idea on Sunday evening. I'm going to be working on a Twine game, I did the coding part last night and it all seems to work.
Now I have to write the damn thing. I gave myself today, tomorrow and wednesday to write the three chunks of text that are going to be the full game. And then I'll use the rest of the time to make it look prettier and to translate it to English if I can. I'm confident it's a reasonable schedule.
Only I didn't write a line today. Might be the heat, or the washing I did that left me knackered. Anyway, I know I work best during the night, so here's to hoping I get that first third of the writing done before bedtime.
Hi! I've decided to take part in this jam to kickstart my learning-blender-and-unity journey, but mostly I've been watching very slow tutorials and not working on the jam. I've modeled a cup though! Not textured, and not especially pretty, but it is a cup.
Hopefully I will still be able to submit something more than a screenshot of an untextured model at the end of this, haha!
Alright... done for today,
I decided to go for a dark/ forest theme. I played around a bit with the UI and am quite happy with how it is presented here. (Note, the top tab is for crafting / mixing). Due to me losing my mind over trying to make an inventory system (rolling back to a previous version is never fun) where all the items are unique and don't all derive from the same class I decided to change up my key mechanic a bit. Instead of using Ingredients to improve your basic coffee you use the ingredients to make unique coffees (so a weird reversal thing).
Tomorrow. Ingredients and Mixing!
Here's what I've been working on during yesterday's and today's coffee breaks :
Don't let those sugar cubes spoil the taste of some good coffee, but mind your caffeine level, so that you can keep up with the pace.
All that's left is basically to add some sound effects, and more importantly to redraw those ugly coffee cups.
Just added a rough actions menu and scoring UI to the Coffee Coders office. Now the coders know they will need more coffees to reach their targets.
Numerous gameplay improvements and graphical updates needed before Saturday! Not to mention a good sfx hunt.
The background shapes look funky because I converted a small pixel art scene to svg to enlarge it. A foolish idea which I haven't yet reverted.
Looking good, everyone! Can't wait to play these games!
I've got my main sprites done, i think. Coffee bag, creamer machine, sugar dropper, and a "flavorator". Now I gotta try to get some gameplay going. Don't know if I'll finish, since I work 9 hours everyday, but maybe I can get a makeshift, no frills, demo to work.
Sorry it took me so long to reply. Life and stuff. The font is 5Mikropix --- https://www.dafont.com/search.php?q=5mikropix
Day.... 3? done. God, what a day.
This is my very first RPG-esque kind of game with this kind of battle system. Unfortunately I kind of underestimated how difficult it is to not only have 2 seperate inventories but also expect them to interact with each other in a way which is bug-free. Well, I had to spend a good 30 minutes battling a stupid bug (items not highlighting correctly) and... well... you know.
Gahhh. Biggest script I've ever written (and it's going to get even larger when I add sound, animations, particles AHHHH)
Tomorrow, I'll add status effects (for drinking coffee) and that should wrap up the battle system. After it should be polish, Polish POLISH, POLISH.
Then I'll have to find a way to make encounters - make sense.
Save me.
Thank you all for the nice comments on my previous post. Black, no sugar is now online.
Although I didn't spend much time on it, since I went for a game with such a small scope, I was actually able to add features over the course of the jam instead of removing some. That's right, I can hardly believe it either.
As a result, the buttons on the Game&Watch-like device ( the picture I used as a base was apparently from some sort of russian imitation ) are now fully functional. This means I will definitely upload an Android version. However, I have never deployed on Android from Unity, so I'll have to find some time for heavy testing on a couple of devices before I make the build public, which will probably have to wait for a couple of weeks.
Anyway, in the meanwhile, I hope you will enjoy the WebGL version !
Incidentally, question to Miss Myu : Will you make a video about the jam's games ? I found out about your channel thanks to the jam (clever advertising), and although I'm not much of a video-watcher, I'd love to see an overview of the games other participants made.