Project name: Combat Mini Golf

Current Team: 

Brian Pangburn - Programer/Artist

Chris Pangburn - Artist

Concept:: The Dark Overlord (need a name) has taken over your hometown. He issues a challenge to the townsfolk "Defeat me in a game of your choosing, and I shall forever leave." Many try, many fail.

You play as an old wizard. You come out of retirement to challenge him in every senior citizens favorite sport, mini golf.

While you get to choose the game. he creates the course.

Play a round of mini golf while fighting off the Dark Overlord's minions and avoiding deadly traps. Spells can be cast upon the ball to instill it with abilities. The lower your par, the stronger your wizard!

Defeat the Dark Overlord and complete the course to win.

Days 1-3:

To be honest, I had no idea what I was going to do. For me the idea is always the hardest part. Originally I was going to do this alone. I bounced a few ideas off some friends, finally settling on this idea.

Day 4:

Got together some reference and started planning. My brother went and bought a new computer, so I will have a partner, doubling the size of my normal game jam team! Started putting together a prototype using Kenney Asset Characters. Final Art will be added later. but it's not looking half bad!!

to do: Add some sort of indicator so you know when you are within range of the ball. Perhaps an outline shader as well

I LOVE mini golf! Oh, I will be keeping up with this for sure <3

Day 6: 

Didn't do a WHOLE lot over the last few days. I have the mini golf portion working. You aim by holding down right click, move the mouse left and right, then release. The arrow indicates direction and it's size indicates power. I added an indicator so you can tell where the ball is and the radius in which you must stand to aim.  I also got some simple traps made from primitives till my brother gets me some artwork. I might post the prototype hole so people can start testing it out. Here's a little video for ya: Combat Mini Golf Dev Log Video

And sometimes I find just what I need.  Here's the cast of characters! Say cheese

Haha what a nice idea! 
Good luck, mate!

19 days and counting:

Got the look nailed down. Just gotta animate the wizard. Chris is busy making more props and traps. After that it's just crunching code and sound. It's gonna be super close on getting it done!! 

18 Days and Counting:

Getting the wizard moving around took a bit longer than anticipated but got that part working today!! Chris formed his own club!!

17 days remaining:

Thinkin we may have to cut down the scope a little bit., but it should still be fun I hope. The core parts of the wizards is pretty much done. I have to start focusing on the A.I

Now for the good news. Our wizard isn't just ballin, he's FIRE BALLIN' 

15 days Remaining:

Made some HUGE progress in the last two days. I managed to get an AI framework that I can use on any of the enemies of my game. Now I don't have two write out each one, just plug new variables for the enemy type, and away we go!! Best part is it's so generic that I should be able to use the same framework in other games, saving me huge headaches. Chris managed to get more of the models unwrapped. Pretty much all that is left is UI stuff and tracking your score, then I'll be able to take the first hole, modify it a bit, and bam, new hole. Super stoked. Looks like it might get done after all....

10 days remaing: 

As it is coming down to the wire, we decided to pick up a subscription to Substance Painter. WOW!!! Why didn't we do this years ago. What we thought we were going to be lucky to finish texture-wise took a matter of hours. What a powerful tool

9 Days Remaining:

What makes the grass grow? Why bood of course!!! All the traps are now working. As I am coding the spells you can place on the ball, I put a shout out to all my punk rock friends in the code for my Combat Mini Golf game by giving the ball a NOFX state. Here's a little video of the blood effects 

Mini Golf just got BRUTAL!!!

4 days:

The holes are coming along rather quickly :)

It was a rush to get it done because my OTHER thought is there is no way you can have a mini golf course and not have at least 9 holes lol

I'm such a tweaker. I couldn't stand looking at the UI any longer so I made some last minute improvements