It's my birthday! Woot!! :D
So for my birthday I decided to make my old game "Roopit and Boopit" free for a week!
https://thesneak.itch.io/roopit-n-boopit
Give it a go and tell me what you think! :)
It's a 2 player Co-Op game.
PS : HAPPY BURSTDAY (copyright), one day closer to more good games ?
i hope <3
Thanks!
I hope you convince your bro to play it! :)
also I like the idea of burst day, as in, the day you burst forth into the world!
New version is out now!
You can now save and continue your progress later on! :D
I'd love if I could get some play testers to see how if there any bugs with all the new features.
If you'd like to, follow the link below. Don't forget to give feedback!
https://thesneak.itch.io/cat-powered-ufo
If you'd like a detailed description of the changes since last version, follow this linkk!
https://itch.io/t/1004572/change-log
Thanks to all of you who have been following along with the progress and tested the game for me so far!
I couldn't do it without you! :)
Hello friends! :)
It's been a while since I've updated you on Cat-Powered UFO, so I thought I should make a post to show I'm not dead! xD
Graphic update! With the help of my wife, I have improved the buildings a lot
Notice the back of the buildings now has a fire escape.
The shop has a sign now, and there is some space devil graffiti on the back of a random building.
The mediocre bomb shop looks more decrepit now, which makes sense given the name.
And here is the front of the police station... Yeah, it's just better, not much else to say about that.
Here are some of the old building just to give you some comparison
The perspective was wrong compared to the other sprites in the game, that and the shading was a little whack.
There have been a bunch of other improvements as well!
But I think I will put them into future posts as to not make this one huger than it is already.
I plan to update this devlog more often, I have been pretty slack in recent days and it's about time i got back on top of it!
To everyone who follows along with cat-Powered UFO, thank you so much! I hope the finished product lives up to your expectations!! :)
The new version is out! :D
There are A LOT of changes, I won't get into them all here.
But I will go through the changes to the early game and why I think they are necessary.
First up, the way the game allows you to progress is significantly changed.
In previous versions, you could unlock the roll ability and the lift ability, and you would basically have free reign over the world from there.
The problem is, there are some situations later on that require the purple plasma attack, a player could do all the work of getting up to such a part, only to not be able to finish that section due to not having an ability they had no idea they could even unlock.
These smoking flowers make clear that they can only be killed by a purple plasma attack. They block the way to several key areas and items that would usually allow the player to collect cats and travel to different dimensions. Now the player needs to unlock the attack to make this possible.
Another problem was players not understanding that they can travel to different dimensions at all.
Now the player is forced to explore the slime dimension in order to unlock the ability to lift things. This new Slime creature NPC is key in explaining this.
To make more obvious the importance of the Riddle master NPC he now has his own tent
TLDR:
So basically now the player is made to unlock the roll, lift, and attack abilities before they can get themselves in a dead-end situation due to not having said abilities.
If you want to check out all the new changes follow this link
https://itch.io/t/1004572/change-log
Want to try Cat-Powered UFO for yourself?
Check it out here, don't forget to give me your feedback!
https://thesneak.itch.io/cat-powered-ufo
I hope you all have a wonderful day!
Have fun! :)
I've been working on a problem that has annoyed me since the start of the project
Shadows stack up and make sections with a heavy amount of trees or rocks look stupid, I've even had players think the ground was burnt.
But now I have finally done away with this problem!
Have a look!
I decided to keep the tiniest bit of shadow stacking, since that is the way it works in real life after all.
Maybe this seems like no big deal, and I guess It isn't as far as gameplay goes, but I have been perplexed by how to fix this problem since the very beginning of Cat-Powered UFO.
I feel like I should give credit to the one youtube channel that spoke about this topic
Here's a link to the video I used
If you're using gamemaker and creating a game with a similar perspective to mine, I'd suggest giving it a watch.
Another thing I have been working on is making the player have some visual indicator that an object is interactable.
Here is how I have done this
When you are facing an object and are close enough to interact with it, the object flashes slightly white.
It's a little hard to tell from the still frame image, but you get what I mean.
There is ANOTHER new version of Cat-Powered UFO out with these new features and some bug fixes!
Check it out
https://thesneak.itch.io/cat-powered-ufo
Have Fun! :)
The new one because the contrast is better. In the original, the orange color of the text is too similar to the orange used in the spaceship.
Also the jittery motion of the text draws more attention to it.
That being said, I would get rid of the "Welcome to CAT-POWERED UFO" at the bottom because it's redundant and conflicting. Is the user's eye supposed to be drawn to the jittery motion of the large title or the small title? Just put "Press 'Enter' or A button to Start"
