Hi, I'm Ace. This is technically my second time participating in this jam, but hopefully my first time finishing a game!

Game Engine: Game Maker Studio. I have used game maker before (a long time ago), but I've never made a sidescroller or used code so we'll see how it goes!

Concept: Basically I just wanna make a chill sidescroller game about being a dog that does things such as Sniffing Things, Getting Pet, and Peeing On Things. I may include more features later if I can get the base stuff done quickly.

Progress/to-do list:

Priority:

• Movement
• People - basic AI/movement
• Scrolling
• Interactivity
• Petting
• Peeing
• Sprites
• Animation

Non-priority:

• Backgrounds
• Parallax
• Heart effects
• Other Animals/Humans
• Music
• Score
• Sound Effects
• Menu
• Other Dog Actions (Sniffing, Chasing? Fetch? we'll see)

"Sniffing Things, Getting Pet, and Peeing On Things"

im SOLD on these features tbqh

Alright it's day 4 and I haven't done much yet due to life but here's a progress/to-do list:

Priority:

• Movement
• People - basic AI/movement
• Scrolling
• Interactivity
• Petting
• Peeing
• Sprites
• Animation

Non-priority:

• Parallax
• Particle effects
• Other Animals/Humans
• Music
• Score
• Sound Effects
• Menu
• Other Dog Actions (Sniffing, Chasing? Fetch? we'll see)

aaand here is the small progress i made today

aaaa the color pallete is so cute

omgggg i love this already. your color palette is so nice and this is an extremely adorable lil pup *u*

here's a tad more progress!

not sure if this is heading towards what the final game/prototype will look like...i kinda like the hearts in the sky

I love the art - it feels very warm and comfortable.

aw all this looks super cute :D I love the colors and the hearts in the sky too.

Thanks for the kind comments everyone! I'm not used to participating in things or sharing my work, so it means a lot to me.

In regards to progress, I haven't made too much. A few days ago I spent almost all day trying to get the NPCs to animate while walking but the animation seems to cancel the movement for some reason? I've tried using a few different methods for both the movement and animation but I still have this problem, so today I think I'm going to move on to something else.

Other than that whole Incident™ I did do some small things like menu, sound effects, fixing the score to move with the camera, and player "animations". Below you can see some things I've added, as well as the animation issue.

They kinda look like they're doing some sick moves?????

Today I finally implemented interaction! You can pee on fire hydrants and get pet!

I find it's hard to see the dog over the hydrant so maybe I'll add an outline to the sprites? I'm worried it will look weird but we'll see. I still haven't figured out walking animations for the human. I'll figure it out someday.

Super glad to see that authentic dog peeing on fire hydrant content! :)

I haven't really done much over the past couple of days. Yesterday I accidentally deleted the entire step event/movement code for my player (which was very scary) but I managed to recover it from one of the backups Game Maker saved *phew*. Other than that, I didn't do much. I changed the location of the score counter and made it work again, and I added some text and inputs for the menu. I also started working on the game page for when I upload it.

Today I've been trying to work on getting the sprite to change direction when the player is facing a certain direction (for example if the player is facing right while peeing on the hydrant the sprite will face right, and if the player is facing left, the sprite will face left) but I just can't wrap my head around it. Nobody online seems to have a simple way to do it that also works for a side-scroller. Even when I try the "complicated" methods it doesn't seem to work. This issue is included in the two constant issues I can't seem to get around. The other being the human walking sprite cancelling out the movement. These are also the two things I need to consider this game a completed prototype.

DUDE I figured it out. The animation sprite for the human is bigger by 1 pixel which was pushing them into the ground they got stuck in the ground! It was so simple...

Also changed the love points to happy points because I feel like it's weird to earn love from peeing on a fire hydrant?

I wasn't sure what else to add to the game as the jam is almost over so I just decided to upload it. Play it here!