DAY 2:
Today we spent a good portion of our time on the game working on the story, improving the feel of the game and creating some assets. I started off by adding more to the story. This takes a long time due to the large quantities of formatting I have added to give the game a nice feel and make it less static.
Today is also the day where I can share a bit of the story we have so far! As stated yesterday, you play as the protagonist trying to save the planet Earth from an evil corporation. I can now explain that this corporation is trying to turn the entire Earth into a gigantic power source. Why Earth? The Universal Looker Army (the Overlooker's personal army) have identified the sun to be the most efficient power source in range and Earth is the only planet left remaining in the solar system. Hence the name, "Earth Renovation Program". You need to stop this from happening but the shear size of the ULA doesn't make it easy.
First off, I have improved the dialogue by adding more formatting and giving it a character. It is now really easy to see who is speaking now, which is important for later. Here you can see that in a screenshot.
Next up, I worked on the question system. For now I don't have the final buttons but I think it looks fine as a placeholder. Choices are a really important aspect of this game and other similar games as it will directly impact the story and ultimately, the ending you will have.
We also worked on a wide range of assets. Most of them being the different variations of the Earth throughout the playthrough you have. They turned out really good but, like most other things, are not final as of yet. Below you can the the different stages.
Another asset we worked on was the "Galaxy-wide phone". This will be very important to the story as it marks the point where it starts to fully branch off and depends on your input directly. We are also discussing possible gameplay ideas that include this phone, I doubt it will make it in so I won't explain anything we have on it so far but you can probably make your guesses. Here is the early design for this sprite.
I also managed to add one of these assets into the game, here is what that looks like.
Finally I added some background music and did a few other background related things that will not be seen until the game comes out.
Thank you for reading day 2 of the devlogs for "Earth Renovation Program", I really hope you guys enjoy this idea as much as me and the teammate do! Again, don't be afraid to give feedback, I would love to read it.
Blockmaster100