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✨SWAPSTER ✨ / "My first game!!!" ☻☻☻

A topic by playrth created Jun 02, 2021 Views: 456 Replies: 2

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#DEVLOG 1 - 2/06/2021

⚡SCREENSHOTS⚡

⚡ABOUT MYSELF⚡

My name is "Santosh Ekka" aka PLAYRTH , I recently learned unity and decided to make my first game as well as my first devlog . I was lucky enough to make it as my final year college project as well. I'm really enjoying making this game. Though I know that it won't be the best game I'm still going to give it my best. Well let me tell you about my game and its current progress.

⚡About Game ("How I came up with an idea for this game") ⚡

So I really like puzzle-platforming FPP games like portal, Ghostrunner, The Talos Principle and many more , so I decided to make a FPP puzzle-platforming game. I made FPP controls and few movements and made a level (more or less blocks to jump across). I knew my game character lacked abilities like in other games that would become the core mechanics of my game. To come up with an idea I watched anime, movies, played games and a lots of browsing. Finally I found something I felt I could work on. Presenting (DRUMBS ROLL) my inspiration :

"Trafalgar D. Water Law" from ONE PIECE. He has the ability to create a space within which he can swap two objects as well as himself and this stuck with me. I thought its really a nice ability and started working to make a prototype. Finally I came up with 4 abilities based on his ability which are basically all about" SWAPPING" .

POWER 1:

POWER 2:

POWER 3:

POWER 4:

So my game revolves around these 4 core mechanics. A player has to solve puzzles and complete platforming challenges using this 4 abilities .

⚡Progress till now⚡

✯ Done with the core game mechanics.

✯ Done with UI which includes menu, level selector etc.

✯ Done with tutorial levels.

✯ Made 3 levels till now.

⚡Now Working on⚡

Currently I'm working on new levels, fixing bugs and balancing and tuning the controls so the it feels smooth.

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playrth3 years ago

#DEVLOG 2 - 10/06/2021

⚡WHAT I HAVE BEEN UP TO?⚡

After my first devlog I started working on level design and creating new levels . At first I thought it would be a easy task instead I just stared at the blank screen for 2 days straight with no idea😥😥😥. Fortunately I had a revelations 😇😇😇, I don't know shit about level design 😢😢😢. So the next day and next 3 days as well I started watching videos on youtube about level design and started collecting reference . Yet still I could not come up with any idea😢😢. I just thought of giving up, but on the 4th day a thought emerged "TILL NOW I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR IDEA TO MAKE LEVELS INSTEAD OF MAKEING THEM!!!" . Sometimes its best to start climbing then to spend eternity finding the right spot to start your ascend to the top. So I took a paper and started scribbling whatever came to mind.

☑️MY SCRIBBLING WHERE I MADE A LEVEL WITH BUNCH OF IDEAS☑️

While doing so I was able to come up with new Ideas like jump-pads , traps, puzzles , etc.

⚡CONCLUSION (WHAT DID I LEARN??)⚡

Level design for me should have challenges and layout which would complement the core mechanics of my game . It should not be too long nor too difficult. I have decided to make the new levels as platforming challenges which suits the core mechanics and also cause I really like platforming game and it was also my intention to do so from the beginning. Also from now on when I want to create a new game or design a level I would collect some reference and start scribbling right away instead to looking on a blank screen. Its best to put whatever comes to mind out your head into a physical form.

So I finally came up with 13 new level ideas and have started to block out levels and also started making and collecting assets . Some people on discord also helped me , so thanks to them too. Here are some screenshots of my work till now: