Alright well I think that's it from me for what I'll get done during the jam. Please check it out here and let me know if you encounter any issues!
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I did a decent amount today but don't have as much visuals. First of all I finished up the background for the eating section.
Then I spent some time getting more sound effects in place and finally found a song I like for the eating section.
Next I storyboarded an opening scene and transitions between each section. Then I figured out what the third stage will be and storyboarded that as well. Not telling that part now cause I want to show off when I have more done. :P
Finally I drew up a list of what backgrounds, sprites, sound effects, and music I will need for all the new parts. After all that I finally took some downtime for once, but tomorrow I'll be back at it again.
Day 3
Lots of tedious stuff today but I made it through!
First of all, I am super proud of this dirty shoe I finally made. Not the best shoe by any stretch, but it's mine and I finally conquered drawing one so there is that. Enjoy the shoe. Use it in your own game if it so pleases you, I hereby free this shoe to the world.
I finished making all the frosting and toppings and adding them in properly. Since the donut dance is a bit short and making it longer would be too hard, I decided to add a celebration mode. Once you have your donut summoned you keep dancing to raise your excitement levels. Then, in the eating mode, if you get hit by broccoli or the shoe, your excitement level takes a hit. The final excitement score gets added to your power level, which means if you get hit too often it will be subtracting from your score. I also made a new, improved cauldron scene for the donut summoning.
Then I got the donut for the eating part to properly display with the frosting and toppings on top. I also put a display for the multiplier you get from eating a donut, and of course have your excitement level displayed as well. I threw in an update to the background but as you can probably tell this one is only half done. Finally I quickly made a placeholder screen for displaying your power level at the end. I am probably not going to keep this but I didn't want the old cauldron scene hanging around any more.
Also, not pictured, I added some chill music to the menu and changed the dance music to a nice salsa. I also put a song for the eating section, but even though I tried a few different ones I'm having trouble finding something that feels right.
My upcoming tasks:
- Brainstorm what to do with power from donuts.
- Find a song for the eating section
- Finish new background for eating section
- Start figuring out how to make levels
- Draw some rowdy teens
I am pretty dang pleased with the amount of stuff I got done today!
First off I added a menu button to go back to the main menu when you are playing.
Then I dug into making a bunch of donut bases and setting up the system so when you do the little dance it generates a donut. This is the thing I was most worried about figuring out and it did take me a while but I got it in the end. I also added a thing to tell you what flavor you got. It's just the base donut for now, next I will have to add the frosting generation and topping generation. The good thing about those is that I just need to get the sprites right, the code will just be a slightly different version of what I've got for the donut generation. The donut base has a score value, but I haven't decided how to display it yet, since I think I just want to show the score for the whole donut not each component.
Then I got it so that the donut you summoned also drops during the eating section. I may need to change how I'm doing this later when I add the frosting and toppings.There is a multiplier and each donut eaten adds 1 to it, but I haven't decided how I want that to be displayed either.
Finally I added another section and put time limits on each of the previous sections. All this area does for now is display the power level you get.
The next stuff on my todo list:
- get the frosting and toppings drawn and coded
- draw that shoe
- getting better (shorter) music
- make new backgrounds for each game section
- brainstorm what happens once you have your sweet donuty powers.
DAY 1
I got a lot more done today than I thought! Here is what I have so far:
-A main menu:
When you start the game I have a main menu. There is a play button to start the game, an info button to go to an info page about the game, and an exit button to close the game. The info page has a back button. They get bigger when you mouse over them and bark when clicked, in addition to their assigned task. I need to make a menu button for easy access back here from the game.
I also got the dancing scene set up, though I need to make a better background. The witch dances when you press the arrow keys, but it doesn't create any value to be used for donut shenanigans yet. There is music here but I think I need to adjust the volume levels. There is also a whistle sound effect for whenever you do a move.
I also set up the eating scene, which also needs a better background. The witch can move left and right but is blocked from running off the screen. I have a donut object set up with a placeholder image, but it still needs to be set to add to the multiplier when eaten. For now it falls from the sky and can be eaten. Eating it displays an effect, makes a munching sound effect, and causes the item to disappear. It also poofs away if it hits the floor before you can catch it.
I also added a broccoli item, which knocks you on your butt for a second. I might change the sprite for falling over and also have it penalize you more, since right now if doesn't count for much. May also add an alternate sprite so that sometimes it is a shoe instead of broccoli, but we shall see.
That's about everything I did on day one! Hopefully day two will also be productive, but then I have to face the donut shenanigans....