Hey there, my name is Solas (they/them) and this is the first game I'm creating....well, ever! Not a lot to say about me, except I really have a passion for learning, which I hope shows in my finished project! Apologies if my Devlog is a bit messy, as I've never kept one before. I'm hoping to make a simple platforming game with a suspenseful atmosphere. The latter is secondary, however, as I simply want to make a finished project from all of this.

PLOT: "2014. Pacific Coast of Russia. You're a gay teenager who's about to be outed to your family through an intercepted letter from your boyfriend in Norway. Fortunately, a friend of yours has a boat and is willing to take you to South Korea, where you can seek asylum. But even getting to the docks won't be easy...."

GOALS:

- Figure out how to use Stencyl

- Make at least one finished level

- Figure out what next steps are once these two goals are complete :P

Day 1: Created concept, storyline, and sketched out level plan for the first level (House). Figured out how to import images into Stencyl and have finished the Idle, Jump (not included, pic too big and i'm too lazy to resize simply for the log), and Walk animations for the main character. Also created a block for the tileset (will polish later, as I consider it a victory to simply figure out how to upload it, as I didn't realize I had my default scale set to x4)-- I still need to figure out how to make my character not fall through the tiles, however. Going to be watching some tutorials.  Also encountered a rather funny bug when I was still figuring out scaling in animation frames, as you can see in the video below!

haha honestly i think one of my favorite parts of devlogs are the really good bugs that you encounter during dev. btw if you don't have a gif capturing program i definitely recommend checking one out from here > https://itch.io/jam/my-first-game-jam-summer-2019/topic/492148/-mfgjs-getting-started-guide you'll be able to embed the gif directly in the post!