We are now at the midpoint of the jam and I have forgot to update the DevLog. Sorry for that! Will be updating every 2-3 days from now on until the end.
Over the last two weeks I've been silently doing a lot of work. My friend comes over my place to help sometimes, but he has been kind of busy with life stuff.
First of all, the game is now defined as a roguelike space shooter: start with a ship, kill pseudo-random generated enemies while the background scrolls, get power ups and new awesome weapons, kill more enemies, and if you got hit you die and start over again: just one life here.
Roguelikes have always been my favourite genre: gameplay dictates the story and when you die (usually hard and fast) the story is complete.
So, what's the state of the game now? I have been programming the functional engine and all kind of animation and effects.
Here's a Screenshot:
http://imgur.com/iqt6qZv
First of all, there is the ship. It can freely fly around the screen.
It has two Attacks:
- Main attack: No ammo, bread and butter. To be shooted constantly. At first just one bullet. Can be improved to get more fire range, fire rate and more bullets at a time.
- Secondary attack: Different kind of weapon/utilities, like mines, shield, beams etc. This weapons are dropped by enemies when they are killed. There are also orbs, also dropped by enemies when dying. There is three colours for orbs, representing different kind of ammo. Every weapon can use one or more colour of orbs as ammo.
I have also designed two kind of Enemy at the moment:
- The "Snake": They are the first enemy you encounter. They do no attack, but they come in packs. They move in a sinusoidal snake-like fashion. Loot is dropped if you manage to kill all the entire "snake". This guy is designed to have the player learning about moving and shooting.
- The "Invader": Aggressive enemy. Harder to kill and they attack with their own bullets. Designed to let the player learn about evading enemy attacks.
There is also a Level System:
- You get exp when you kill a single enemy.
- When you get enough exp, you level up.
- When you level up, you can choose between two random skills.
- Skills are passive bonuses that improve the gameplay: they can be things like more speed, more fire rate/range, more orbs/weapond dropped, better basic weapon, etc
In the reamining time the are some Things To Do:
- Finish designing the level up skills.
- Implement the dropped secondary weapons.
- Balance the random generated enemies through the level.
- Polish the sprites.
- Add sound and music.
- Double balance all of that!
That's all for today! See you soon