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Thank you for playing. I had stretch goals if I had time to add a minimap. I got part of it done. But the time just ticks by so fast when you are in the weeds! lol

Thank you for playing. I wanted it to be hard to shoot. The chaos part. Not saying it was a great feature, but it was a conscious decision. Thank you for giving it a try!

Thank you, yeah. I was planning to implement a story. Like I realized my upload still has my dialog debug turned on. So if you press f1 the dialog will pop up. I just never got it done. Thank you for trying it out though!

I had some sliders I was hoping to implement, never happened. One was for brightness. Only ended up getting Volume done. Thank you for giving it a shot though!

That was fun. Loved the colors. 

I will look at it. 

Thank you, first playable game for me and a jam.

Godot

Godot. 

yes

I don't know why that isn't just part of unity. 

Looking good buddy. Glad you got all the array stuff sorted. 

[DAY 4] - It's in the mail

I didn't have much time to do anything else yesterday, but what I have been doing is getting up three or so hours earlier then I normally do, so at the very least I have a few hours in the morning while drinking my coffee, and  getting ready for the day to do something, then hope I have some time in the evening to do some more work. If I don't then at least I gotten something done everyday. Now on to what I woke up too this morning. 

I'm no musician. Just one of those things I never focused on in my life. I can't play a guitar, I took like 2 drum lessons. I'm  a horrible singer, but no amount of whiskey has stopped me from crooning some karaoke. That being said, I'm still very active in the local music scene, always have been. I have always been the guy who did the flyer designs, took the band pictures, and I owned a DJ business for quite awhile in my life so heaven knows how often I have loaned out my PA system.  So over the weekend, planning ahead I called up a friend who has way more talent in these area's then I ever will, asked him if he could make me some music.  We discussed the feel I was wanting, and that was that. Got first piece of music in my email today, absolutely love it. 

Atmospheric Creepy - By Eric Garland

So, I think this morning I will add my audio system. Shouldn't take long. (famous last words, I know.)

6:57 am  - depreciated audio? 

Yeah, not so simple. The way I used to do it, is no longer supported. soooo...

Let's play the how many tabs can I open trying to figure something out game. 

Congrats on your first Unity crash. LMAO for real though. It's really a joy to see progress getting made everyday. I'm working on item pickup and inventory today. Hopefully I don't have the same issues. But because of your post, I will be sure to check my tags. Good luck, have a great day. 

Yeah, I think a lot of people landed on similar ideas. Looking forward to how everyone implements them. Should be fun.. They art style is a hard one for me. I draw and all that, but when I do. It's like a 10 hour piece. So, trying to keep all my art assets down to like 15 minutes. So far, the look is. Something. My main character was supposed to be just temp art. But I kind of fell in love with em' so if anything he will just get a proper art session if I have the time. 

Thank you, and good luck with your game! 

I like Porktail as well, but it's a different version of pathfinding. Don't  think I want to try to tackle that right now.  lol

Actually, you know, it sucked at the time. But working on the game is way more fun now. Completely worth it. 

[DAY 3] - The scrapening

Ok, so I used to be so confused when I watched devlogs on youtube, and  a creator would spend like a year on a game, then decide they where going to switch engines, or whatever. I was like why? You have a pretty nice looking working game. Then came adding health to my player. My code was so hacked together I was spending more time trying to figure out what script I needed to add code  to get whatever it was I wanted to get working that it was quickly becoming no fun. <- wow, run on sentence much? Anyways, I spent day 2, into day 3 with an entire new project, organizing  code. 

Another reason for all this, I didn't like the feel of my character, I wanted something that seemed faster, and more controlled. Just an overall better feel. 45 minutes or so on google, I decided to change my character controller from rigid body, to raycasting. Seemed like now was the time to do it. I wouldn't say I lost a day by any means, I had all the code written, just needed to optimize it. So I spent the day rewriting the character controller, and just overall cleaning this mess off a project up. I did get the AI finished, added health, and redid the UI. 

I have a ton of non game jam related stuff to do today,  so we shall see what  I manage to get done. 

Birb 2.0

Porktail (aka, I needed a break from code, so I sketched something I have zero intentions on using. 

I already got rid of the ice pick, getting ready to do a day 3 devlog. I basically did something I always got confused by when watching like devlogs on youtube. They will of worked on a game for  like a year, then be like. I decided I was going to switch engines and scrap everything. Well, I kind of did that. Everything was so hacked together. I could never find what I was looking for. Like I had a couple of my timer bars in one script, but health bar in another, and then enemy health in one. It was a mess, made more sense to just scrap it, and start from scratch. In the long run, it will save me WAY more time then it took to clean it all up. 

With that being said, I did get everything redone,  and  I will record some the  AI  working with  my  redesigned birb. 

Yeah, that would be what it's called. When I saved it out of photoshop, I couldn't think of it so it's called sickle in the game right now,. LMAO

"There’s something satisfying about throwing the cube off the edge of the world and watching it plummet."

I just finally got my AI working this morning, and spent like a half an hour just making scenarios where a little yellow triangle pushed me off the edge.  Nothing to do with my game, I was just having to much fun. Even added a snapchat story with something to do with skynet? I don't know. But yeah, I totally feel this statement.  Good luck with everything!

[DAY 2] - 5:56 am

Just woke up, while waiting for coffee I made this. 

It's my bird enemy. Obviously it's a temp image. (Unless I don't get to  making new stuff.)  First things first this morning, I want to get  AI working. I'm just not sure how I want to do it.  Hopefully after a cup of coffee, and some breakfast I will figure out how I want AI to work. That's pretty much my only goal for today, making AI and getting it working, as well as adding health, and attack. Anything I do after that is just icing on the proverbial cake. 

9:28 am - From bug to mechanic

I forgot to add a physics material to my character in unity. It's a basic thing that I just didn't think about until I was sticking to platforms. As I was  fixing the player, I came up with an idea. So, I have my character setup so anything equipped is a separate entity. Currently it's just a flashlight, but I have intentions of adding weapons and whatever else I can think of. My player controller is setup so that you move, jump with WASD keys, and you use your mouse to control item.  So I made this thing it photoshop:

Now, if I don't add a physics material to this umm I don't know what it's called. You can use it to  climb walls, and grab platforms. It needs it basically works. I for sure need to work on it to make it feel right, and good. But the concept is working. Still haven't tackled AI. It's next, I swear. 

Such a simple concept, yet so hard to do. lol Good luck. 

"I'm intentionally holding off on bells and whistles (improving graphics, sound) until the end if I have time, as I have a history of getting fustrated with such matters and abandoning projects as a result."

Though this is my first game jam, I have a plan for this. When I get super frustrated. That's when I will stop for a bit and work on music and sfx. As a breather. Just an idea, no idea if it will bare any fruit. But.... it might?

I imagine you have a reason for all this. I'm not gonna google mores code. I have other things going on.  But, this mashed with video game could make for an interesting alternative reality game. Just an idea. Have a super day!

[Coldsnap - DAY ONE]

This is my first game jam, I have never even tried to finish a game. I have years of experience in unity, gamemaker, and coding. I just have never attempted a game. I would be like, hmmm, wonder how Diablo Movement would work, then I would figure it out and do nothing with it. 

My Idea: 

I thought maybe a survival like platformer could be fun, and something I thought I would be able to do. So, I was thinking, I needed to build a system for hunger, heat, thirst and health.  It would be a one way platformer. (haven't started the one way yet,.) So you need to fill your hunger, thirst and warmth. I have built the warmth mechanic. So when you get to a fire,  your warmth goes back to 30 seconds. I also turned a bug into a feature. I forgot to shut off gravity for the particles. Because of this, you can now jump over a fire and get a big jump boost. 

Next on my todo list, is to add animals, and ai. Killing them is how you will get food for your hunger meter. I haven't decided how I want to handle thirst yet. But that is a way down the list. I can kill it, and it shouldn't effect the gameplay much. But yeah, this is where I'm at on the first full day of work. 

Sidenote: It's going way better then I could imagine, I'm two days ahead of my schedule of how long I thought things would take me to do, and I'm having a blast! But it's Saturday. Lets see if some beers help or hinder this process. FOR SCIENCE! 

EDIT: Just wanted to add link to Trello Board in case you wanted to see where I am at.  Link To Trello Board

EDIT2:  The .gif ,,,,, I done sped it up. That's not actual gameplay.