As expected we got absolutely tons done over this last weekend! Sadly not to the point where we could take part in playtesting weekend, but we're feeling good about progress.
First we'd identified a pretty serious bug with our player collider setup, so we spent a lot of time on Saturday making sure that was squashed. No pretty pictures to show for it, but it was satisfying. Then we went our separate ways task-wise.
While he focused on getting stuck into the enemy AI code, I worked on feedback for the player as they turn off the lamps. First, the global light goes down bit by bit as each lamp is turned off.
Until eventually the room is completely dark, and an unnnecessarily dramatic sequence begins where various things happen including the player's torch turning on (torch not yet actually included in the sprite, but shhh.)
Then it was time to start mocking up some proper graphics for the start / end screens, and on a whim (because we're here to learn new things, right?) I also added a localization package and set up an Esperanto option. We've been learning Esperanto for a while so since this entire project is an in-joke it seemed fitting.
Once that was done I ran a build just to make sure everything was working...and everything broke. Cue an hour and a half of changing random things and rebuilding to see what would happen (if anyone has any advice on debugging a build version that would be great).
A friend of ours offered to compose real music for the game, so thankfully we're no longer making do with random beeps as a soundtrack. It sounds really great!
For the rest of this week we'll be working on building out multiple levels, getting friends to playtest, and I still need to redo most of the art assets. Should have plenty of time, in theory at least!
We haven't done nearly as much as a lot of people in this jam, but given our beginner status and our competing responsibilities I'm honestly really proud of us. It's not over yet, but at least so far I can say we've had zero serious arguments so that's a win :D