Game 2 Development Begins!
Game Idea
I enjoy sticking with the quirky animal theme, so I will be making tennis game where you play as a dog and you must try and defeat your opponents in games of tennis. The game name will be Terrier Tennis where you play as the titular terrier and will play against an assortment of other breeds.
Focus Areas
I am planning to focus this game on really nailing down the sound effects as that has been a feature that has really lacked in my previous builds. Additionally I would really like to try and build out a new feature that I have never tried to tackle before, couch co-op! This will undoubtedly be difficult, but I feel there are a good number of tutorials on the world wide web that I can follow to help implement co-op and single player functionality into the game. Building out a dumb -> smart AI for the opponent on single player will be tricky too, but I am excited to work on this!
Timeline
Work is pretty busy at the moment so I imagine this one will take me a while, but I will try and reuse a lot of the scripts from Free Range in this game to help on development time. Additionally, I have found a few asset packs within the Unity Asset Store that will help on my modeling efforts. However, I do really want to try and model a few assets to help flex those muscles. I will attempt to finish this game by September 5th. This will give me a full month and some extra time to help focus on really making a polished game. I will also try and post some frequent WIP updates here to show my progress as the weeks go by.
Other Projects?
I am a big fan of Brackeys as that channel helped get me into game development and I saw they are having their game jam take place in the middle of my Game 2 timeline. I may end up taking a week break from this game in the middle to work on a submission for the Brackeys game jam as those are always fun experiences! I highly encourage anyone else to join once the jam is open. Happy to collaborate with anyone as well on this game jam!