First game jam? How about, first game.
Making a top down shooter thing with a garden theme. At least, that's the plan. Let's see how it goes!

Using Pico-8 to make this and I'm having a lot of fun putting in some work when I can.

I have a circle that moves and shoots, how cool is that?

I'll try and post gifs and stuff. Looking forward to seeing everyone else's projects and finding out just how far along I'm gonna get.

Tonight, I did some refactoring, cleaning up from the slapped-together job that was the shooty code. 
Took a page out of the books of some of the demo programs and reduced all of my game objects to 'actors' of varying specificity. This let me build draw and update callback functions into the tables of each actor, and majorly simplified the process of calling them. Additionally, things are now nice and generic for when I move on to adding more

Next up will be adding an enemy type that just tries to chase the player around. Look out!

UPDATE: BEEEEE

Woohoo, a bee!

Pico-8 is awesome. Although I never finished anything on it, I learned a lot just by trying things. I use App Game Kit, and a lot of what I code on it I learned by coding on Pico-8. (I also tend to use its color palette too).

Your game is looking good. I want to try it when its finished. I really enjoyed the bee sprite XD

Good luck!

CATERPILLAR HOP

WHAT NEXT

Things we have:
- A player that moves and shoots
- Two bugs that do things
- Collision detection between actors

Things we want:
- Build maps for a couple levels. It'll just be shoot bees for now
- Make a thing to load up the rooms. Probably use what I can see in the celeste game as a guide.
- progress to next room when a condition is met
- Walls you can't pass thru. For interesting shaped levels

'Walls' are flowerbeds, and each tile's flowers are randomized colors so it doesn't look too samey!

Here's an update! I have map loading working. It also reads the positions of bees and the player, and turns them into actors from map tiles.

Well. We're in the final stretch. Gonna get this finished up for the deadline. 


Despite the lack of actually-fun-game-ness present in my little project, I'm real happy with what I learned and I think I'll be way more able to tackle the next project I start.