DAY14:
Did what I should have done already yesterday, took pen in my hand and drew the robots myself. I had forgot how much time it actually takes coloring those stuff. Also, took me a long time to figure out how to do thins the way i wanted in gimp. First robot basically failed a bit since i didnt know how to get the antialiasing off when scaling down, even worse, i had already colored that thing when i scaled it down, hence the effect is even more. However, i doubt players will notice much, perhaps they even think it looks better than the ones i made the way i wanted afterwards.
I now have two enemy robots done, one more to go, and that third one is drawn already, just not colored yet.
Then there is the players own robot, which i did some sketches but wasnt happy enough with any of them to actually use them. Tomorrow I hopefully get own robot right and all these regular graphics done so i can continue forward, this have already took me more time than i anticipated. Good thing i didnt continue writing features, or I would be in panic already from time running out. Now I dont need to panic, as I can simply scale my expectations down and try to make enjoyable game from what i already have.
Right now it looks like I wont be getting far enough that player would get to do actual AI vs AI fights, but instead, this will become more of a puzzle game.
Also, I was planning threre to be several of this tuners to be bought during game, but might be that i have to scale things down so that there might be only one tuner to be bought, but if things go smooth, perhaps i can still get to 2 tuners at least, that would be much more satisfying.
Basically progress is anyway good. It looks like this will become a game regardless, just might be smaller and having less than i was hoping. But most important is there anyway, which was to be able to test my educational game idea. Even it doesnt get to the full power at any point, it should be enough to see if people enjoy it or not.
On top of that, for long time i wasnt sure if this was going to be getting to be much of a game at all, but right now it looks like i should be able to scrap something out of this already that makes sense as a game, instead of something that was only half way done.