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Devlog: BOO!

A topic by HamadSayed created Jan 20, 2022 Views: 296 Replies: 9
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Hello. This is my first time joining a game jam and my second time making a game so I'm really excited!



The game I'm working on is a sort of tower defense game where you play as a ghost defending his well from the humans, who are trying to steal all the water in it. Why the ghost cares about the water in this well is unknown.

I created a Trello board to keep track of my game's progress and here it is:

https://trello.com/b/LyGdUSWE/my-first-game-jam-boo

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1/20/2022

Thus far, room has been set up, ghost has animations and can move around with boundary collisions and most sprites and sprite placeholders have been done. Ideas for the environment keep changing constantly but the main concept remains.

Nice concept! What really concerns me is you joined really late, what if you don't have enough time to finish?

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I feel confident that I'll have it finished by the end of the submission period, I'm working double time on this!

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January 21st

Trello board here if you'd like to see that: https://trello.com/b/LyGdUSWE/my-first-game-jam-boo


For today I have made a lot of progress. There's a lot more going on in my head than the what the first idea was.. Updates on that later.

Today's logs:

- Player and enemy objects are final.

- Flash shaders for damage indication are ready.

- Created an enemy spawner that works really well!

- Score system is in place, just needs GUI elements.

- Art is almost complete, just working on power up sprites for now.

That's it for today! I really hope once the game is ready everyone can enjoy it :3

I love your ghost, it is friend-shaped 馃懟

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Aw thank you :3

Although it's gonna cause a lot of agony for all these people in the game, but I hope we can all be friends with him once the game jam is over

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Looking good! You had me at "why the ghost cares about the water in this well is unknown." Somehow that makes me want to play it even more.

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Then I hope you'll get to enjoy it :3

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January 24th

I got a bit of a bad flu so it's been hard working on the game the last 2 days. I managed to do a few things, though. Let's get to the progress report:

Trello board is there as well: https://trello.com/b/LyGdUSWE/my-first-game-jam-boo

  •  Created a new tileset and it doesn't look bad imo

  • Added a few sound effects
  • Optimized the enemy spawner
  • Created a powerup spawner
  • Optimized player object hitbox

Next steps for me will be:

  • Work on the main menu
  • Fix a few bugs
  • Work on the enemy hitboxes a bit
  • Powerup spawn messages maybe

Hopefully once I fully recover I'll get back to speed :3

Good luck to everyone participating in the jam!