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Still need to make some textures for the truck, and get it driving, but thought that I made pretty decent progress tonight, especially after being away from Blender and Unity for so long. Started working on this a bit later than I had hoped, so hopefully I can get the rest of it sorted out by next Saturday!
Being able to see your progress is one of the best things about programming or game dev. I just spent around an hour working on the inventory system. Something that took me a couple of weeks to get the hang of a few months ago.
(Also, please ignore my PAINFULLY,
Bad art. I can't make up my mind for what art style I want to go for so this is just........ placeholder 'art'.
Next up; actually being able to attack your enemies!
Hi! I've decided to take part in this jam to kickstart my learning-blender-and-unity journey, but mostly I've been watching very slow tutorials and not working on the jam. I've modeled a cup though! Not textured, and not especially pretty, but it is a cup.
Hopefully I will still be able to submit something more than a screenshot of an untextured model at the end of this, haha!
Alright... done for today,
I decided to go for a dark/ forest theme. I played around a bit with the UI and am quite happy with how it is presented here. (Note, the top tab is for crafting / mixing). Due to me losing my mind over trying to make an inventory system (rolling back to a previous version is never fun) where all the items are unique and don't all derive from the same class I decided to change up my key mechanic a bit. Instead of using Ingredients to improve your basic coffee you use the ingredients to make unique coffees (so a weird reversal thing).
Tomorrow. Ingredients and Mixing!
Here's what I've been working on during yesterday's and today's coffee breaks :
Don't let those sugar cubes spoil the taste of some good coffee, but mind your caffeine level, so that you can keep up with the pace.
All that's left is basically to add some sound effects, and more importantly to redraw those ugly coffee cups.
Just added a rough actions menu and scoring UI to the Coffee Coders office. Now the coders know they will need more coffees to reach their targets.
Numerous gameplay improvements and graphical updates needed before Saturday! Not to mention a good sfx hunt.
The background shapes look funky because I converted a small pixel art scene to svg to enlarge it. A foolish idea which I haven't yet reverted.
Looking good, everyone! Can't wait to play these games!
I've got my main sprites done, i think. Coffee bag, creamer machine, sugar dropper, and a "flavorator". Now I gotta try to get some gameplay going. Don't know if I'll finish, since I work 9 hours everyday, but maybe I can get a makeshift, no frills, demo to work.
Sorry it took me so long to reply. Life and stuff. The font is 5Mikropix --- https://www.dafont.com/search.php?q=5mikropix
Day.... 3? done. God, what a day.
This is my very first RPG-esque kind of game with this kind of battle system. Unfortunately I kind of underestimated how difficult it is to not only have 2 seperate inventories but also expect them to interact with each other in a way which is bug-free. Well, I had to spend a good 30 minutes battling a stupid bug (items not highlighting correctly) and... well... you know.
Gahhh. Biggest script I've ever written (and it's going to get even larger when I add sound, animations, particles AHHHH)
Tomorrow, I'll add status effects (for drinking coffee) and that should wrap up the battle system. After it should be polish, Polish POLISH, POLISH.
Then I'll have to find a way to make encounters - make sense.
Save me.
Thank you all for the nice comments on my previous post. Black, no sugar is now online.
Although I didn't spend much time on it, since I went for a game with such a small scope, I was actually able to add features over the course of the jam instead of removing some. That's right, I can hardly believe it either.
As a result, the buttons on the Game&Watch-like device ( the picture I used as a base was apparently from some sort of russian imitation ) are now fully functional. This means I will definitely upload an Android version. However, I have never deployed on Android from Unity, so I'll have to find some time for heavy testing on a couple of devices before I make the build public, which will probably have to wait for a couple of weeks.
Anyway, in the meanwhile, I hope you will enjoy the WebGL version !
Incidentally, question to Miss Myu : Will you make a video about the jam's games ? I found out about your channel thanks to the jam (clever advertising), and although I'm not much of a video-watcher, I'd love to see an overview of the games other participants made.
Base mechanics and features are all done.
I decided to give my game a massive visual overhaul (as you can see from the image). After some research into UI design I think I made a pretty swell looking one (don't you think?). Also in the GIF you would be able to see that Drinking - is - done! You can now drink your coffee for boosts. Status Effects in general are complete. Enemies now charge up a unique special ability that may aid themselves or harm you. Certain coffee may also apply a status effect on enemies.
Now it's all about the polish. This entire day (9:30 in Britland right now) I will spend polishing the battle system gettting all the nooks and crannies sorted out so for Saturday I can finish it off with basic encounters.
In the game me and my bf are working on for this gamejam, you play as a bottle of milk fighting against evil coffee :3 (The picture above shows the bottle along with a 'donut companion' powerup shooting out milk bullets, and the enemies are different variations on black coffee). So far I've coded most of the game by now (my bf is doing the modeling/art for it. Atm the game has only has 2 of the finished models, and none of the animations/textures). The level itself done, along with the shooting mechanics/powerups, some of the enemy types, and half of the boss. I think I'll be able to finish the rest by tonight ^_^ Looking at what we have so far I wish we aimed to add another level/make the current level bigger, but I don't think we would've been able to get it done in time :'3
I feel you, I have had similar issues >.<
Don't hesitate to downsize your project a bit. But if you reaaally want to put more time into your jam entry, there is always the possibility of submitting a v0.1 and adding to it after the official dates. It usually helps with polish/debug to come back after a good rest.
I think I'll end up doing that, yeah :3 Even if all the code will be done by the deadline (I fixed the game-breaking bugs, so I think it may be?) the art probably won't. I'll probably submit what we have completed, and then me and my bf may spend a couple of extra days just polishing the visuals or fixing any bugs that crop up :3
I've been working on a game similar to restaurant-management sims. I call it "Super Serve them Coffee" because I'm bad at naming stuff, aha. You gotta take the customers' orders and prepare the coffee the correct way. Got most of the gameplay loop and items done, time for a bit of polish before the deadline!
Right. Home Stretch. Due to the scale of my project (by the way I count, 426 lines of code in one Player Script), I've been killing myself this entire week. So I want this day to just be focused on quality of life improvements, bug fixes, add content, content, content and then finally just add some encounter "scenarios" (maybe having a small over world was a bit over scope).
Good Luck to everyone else!
I submitted my "game". It's more of a demo or proof of concept than a game. Oh well, I had fun making it this far. Perhaps I can finish it.
CoffeeMan
I had a glance at the other entries. 44 entries so far! They're all looking pretty swell and much more complete than my hot mess. Haha! Can't wait to give them a try!
Peace and Love, coffee folks! :)
