Ba-ho's animations are finished and the gameplay-related element to it's animation are done too. The controls (inputs) are all done and can use the mouse and/or keyboard or a controller. The ring system is done on a physical level, but I have yet to implement the souls and their behavior. I also got to create the rings' paths.
The ring shown above display the selection. The highlight 3 rings closer to Ba-Ho are the rings that rotates when left or right is pressed. Pressing up and down change the rings selected. There are 3 possible difficulties which, for this jam, will fix the number of rings controlled by the player. Easy controls 1 ring, Normal controls 2 rings and Hard controls 3 rings at a time, which makes it harder to set the souls' path properly. The souls system spawn a random number of souls on the outer ring which move following the path (not yet visible) on the rings' pieces. Each soul has limited life time before it has to reach the center-most ring.
When a soul reaches one of the piece on the ring next to Ba-ho, it stays in that position for a short while before being absorbed and send toward the sky. While it can't die once at that position, souls that collides to another soul fuses together and count only as 1 soul. Obviously, the goal is to save as many souls (out of an finite number of soul per match) as possible.
What's remaining to do are:
• Recording me doing Ba-ho vocals. It includes only 5 vocals, but it might requires a tiny bit of work to make them sound good.
• Create the pieces' possible paths of each rings.
• Create the souls & their behavior (a.k.a. Soul System).
The catch is that while most ring pieces doesn't allow a soul to move back on an outer ring from its current ring, some some rare ones does allow particular move back and forth. The outer rings have more "path" variations than the smaller rings.
• Add the UI for a better look and seeing the Soul Score as well as the few settings and option in the game.
• Making a main menu and a game's logo.
I'm trying to be done with the pieces and Soul System by the end of 27th. The UI and Main menu can be done in a few hours at most.
I did implement the basics to allow the player to change certain colors in the game in case some people can't see specific colors and, if I have some time to spare, I would like to also add an option for a visible effect on Ba-ho to represent its vocals so that people who can't hear or can't play with sound (or simple hate Ba-ho's voice, a.k.a my voice) can still play without any issues.
