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Yep the black lines are in the sand. The first one is just before the text line "it's hot...", the second one between the the word "obstacles" and the rock on the ground, the third one after the first platform, the fourth one after the text "some things in the desert.." between the two last cactus. The fifth is align with the end of the mini "moutain" of sand with a rock on it. The last one is before the three cactus section, but not like close, a little bit before. The last one is under the word "whew".
I did a screenshot for one of the line:
And that's it, everything else looks fine to me.
Eleventh day of the jam
Heatwave
It's so hot, like above 35 degrees. My pc didn't like it at all. He shut down twice. Trying to build level on game maker began to be a hard task. I barely make one level.
I have no choice but report the level design part for the moment.
So drawing time I guess.
I tried to make bubbles in a stream and put in the game with the tile animated system:
After a good start, I did a tire that pushback the player:
And also a bottle with straw in it:
The bottle will turn on itself.
Then I tried to draw a range of hubcaps for the moving platform. It's a failure for me. I'll make a better things if I can:
I'm thinking to change it for hazardous barrel maybe, I don't know yet.
I'll stop for today, time to cooldown my laptop.
Tenth day of the jam
Trouble in paradise:
Bad news, I woke up sick. I'm not feeling very well so I decide to change my schedule for the jam, I need to double my sleep time. I take that decision because I wasn't that efficient in my work.
Before talking about the new schedule and the new plan, I'm going to review the day.
Normally I was supposed to begin the visual section for the game, creating some tiles. I knew before the jam that this part was going to be the most difficult for me, I'm super bad at drawing. But I'm here to learn, so I tried.
It's simple but I like it. I need the triple of this for adding diversity in the background. That's gonna be my walls, my boundaries.
For the visual part, I need to finish:
- The fish
- the boundaries
- a sprite for bad block
- a better sprite for the turnstile
- a better sprite for the bumper (A tire would be great)
- a sprite for the stream
- some background
- (Optional) Fancy stuff like algae.
Sadly, as I say, I changed my schedule.
Now the priorities have been revalued:
First, create 20 levels minimum. The more important remains the final goal, a playable game. Without level, no play. And I also say goodbye to the possibilities to have many "worlds/biomes". Tomorrow I'm going to design all the 20 levels.
In a second time, music and sfx. It's gonna be quick, Only 4 tracks max and 6 sfx max. If tomorrow I'm satisfied by the levels and I have time, I'll do that, otherwise thursday morning.
Next, the visual. I have the list with the task's order, thursday or friday would be great.
For now, the real important thing is my health.
If you are interested by the project and want to give a feedback, here's a quick prototype.
https://jatsu.itch.io/new-continent-prototype-unfinished
See ya tomorrow!
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Seventh day of the jam
Halfway through:
The pression of finished the gameplay's core was heavy today. I wanna spend most of the weekend chill out, making sprites and animations while listening music.
So today I work harder than never.
First, the famous stream things, and all week long, I was thinking how to do it, but thanks to this week of experiment and learn, I found an idea really quick.
In the create space of the player's object, I added a stream variable set to false.
When the player collide with the stream, the variable turn true. It'll change the horizontal and vertical speed, and for the stream kind-a-like wind effect in platformer:
y += lengthdir_y(3, other.image_angle) for the vertical and x += lengthdir_x(3, other.image_angle);
I also checked that the decrease time effect apply in the stream zone when the player collide with a bad thing.
Here's a quick view:
After that, another big task awaited me: the one way wall.
I try many ways to add it to the game. The Shaun Spalding, a script found on reddit, a topic on the yoyogames forum etc.
Nothing worked out as I wanted.
Facing the fact that the problem isn't gonna be resolved, I decided to change the concept.
Maybe I can do a system that pass the wall to the background from the layer's player when I'm passing it. Using this way, I'll meet sooner or later the same kind of issues with my old idea.
Why not create automatic doors! Technically, I can go through one way and not open the door the other way.
After finding the idea, I did a door, an object bloc and a trigger zone. The principle is pretty easy, when the player hits the trigger zone, the door moves up (or another direction) to a bloc, the player moves toward, the door goes down.
Its feel like a cheap way to me but its work.
So, here's my main features for the game. I also did very quickly an object that add time to the level timer. Maybe it'll go in the final project.
I think we can all agree, we have prototype here, but not finish yet.
The good ol' next steps:
- Work on the sprite and animations of the environment, the bounderies etc.
- Sfx and music time !
- design some levels (with the plastic continent world, the tanker, the ancient cities etc)
- Better UI, rework the pause menu and main menu.
- A sprint ability? (Optional)
And that's all for today.
Wishing you all a sweet weekend!
Sixth day of the jam
I left the project yesterday with the decrease time system.
After my breakfast I added a sprite for the visual cue. With that the player are gonna see a minus one every time he collide with a bad thing.
I've been thinking about the one way wall and I don't know how to make it.
I have a scrappy way in mind. Let's say you're going to the right and in the background you're seeing a wall. You're passing through and after your move, the wall switch from the background to the player's layer. Like a switch thing.
Either I do that or I deactive the object and when you're passing through, it active it. I don't really know, it'll be my task for tomorrow.
Otherwise, I create some moving blocs.
The platform move to an invisble object that set the speed in an opposite direction.
I cheat a little bit with the collision. I spent a good amount of hours trying to make a good collision system between the player and the moving platform and it's failed.
When the fish doesn't move, the platform goes through it instead of pushing it. So I'll apply the knockback effect.
But this knockback effect doesn't decrease the time.
And that's it for today.
Next steps:
- Add somekind of stream things. If the player are in an horizontal one, he can move up or down, and for the vertical one, left or right.
- One way wall
Optional : add more features (moving blocs)- Work on the sprite and animations of the environment, the bounderies etc.
- Sfx and music time !
- A sprint ability?
- design some levels (with the plastic continent world, the tanker, the ancient cities etc)
Fifth day of the jam
Little progress is still progress:
Today was a hard to work, my back hurts real bad so I decide to take it easy.
But it doesn't mean I do nothing.
I continue to clean my code, it's not perfect but much readable and fancy to the eye. Add state system also and finally work on this knockback thing.
With that, I will make things that just push you and other that pushs you and decrease the timer.
By the way, here's a look at the decrease. I'm not satisfied with the time that the "-1" stays on the screen. I'll fix it tomorrow.
Overall, it was good to do simple things and rest a little bit today, I don't want take the risk to burn out in the middle of the jam and quit.
But hey, it's the time to check the next steps:
Work on this parent object that knockback the player.Add a penality of -x time when the player hits an object that knockback.- Add somekind of stream things. If the player are in an horizontal one, he can move up or down, and for the vertical one, left or right.
- One way wall
- Optional : add more features (moving blocs)
- Work on the sprite and animations of the environment, the bounderies etc.
- Sfx and music time !
- A sprint ability?
- design some levels (with the plastic continent world, the tanker, the ancient cities etc)
Fourth day of the jam
Sometimes, you want to create a little thing, and this thing sends away all the logic of your work, showing off all the weaknesses that can contain some scripts.
That time was today.
Normally, I was supposed to create this knockback effect but I decided to do a one way platform/wall.
I used a simple way of deactive/reactive the mask collision like this:
And I don't know why, but I wasn't really happy with this system.
The more I searched a better way, the more I realized that I have to rewrite all my work in a better shape.
Took me all day and night (currently 10 am) but hey, for the first time I have a good movement and collision script.
It does basically the same things that I show previously but I use velocity and maths, allow me to have better and deeper control on my project. I can't say it's an early engine's prototype because it's too rudimentary but after the jam, I'm gonna improve it again.
Otherwise, I'm not adding the one way wall for the moment. It's a secondary feature and the important stuff for the moment is the gameplay's core/primary feature.
So the next steps:
- Work on this parent object that knockback the player.
- Add a penality of -x time when the player hits an object that knockback.
- Add somekind of stream things. If the player are in an horizontal one, he can move up or down, and for the vertical one, left or right.
- One way wall
- Optional : add more features (moving blocs)
- Work on the sprite of the environment, the bounderies etc.
- Sfx and music time !
- A sprint ability?
- design some levels (with the plastic continent world, the tanker, the ancient cities etc)
Third of the jam
Day of progress:
A lot of progress had been made today!
First off, a prototype for the menu.
I've created a menu object and used button[] to put the text of each line.
For the moment, the cursor only go down but I made a loop so I don't know if I'm gonna change that or not.
I've made a little change in the "controls" menu.
Now you have Fishy (the fish's name) in the controls menu for testing the controls.
After that, I've decided to put a timer to the game.
Like a mario bros game, the timer gonna decreased and when the time is up, the player restart the level. In the next days, I will make a feature that make take off a second when the player touch specifics things.
So, here's my timer:
As you can see, you have a time's up and when you reload the level pressing "R".
I've checked that the timer reset also when you are in another level.
Important things, the player can only restart the level when the time is up. (I deactivated the movements).
Finally, integrate a pause menu.
I chose a soft pause, a pause that let the background visible. It will let also some animations.
Here's a look at the pause:
Tomorrow, I will add a possibility of restart the level through the pause menu.
Can't find sleep so here I come.
I've made a rework of the pause system:
So let's see the list again:
Create more sprites for the fishs (left, right, oil, idle?) and maybe some animations.Create a prototype of menu.A pause menu.Reset the level.Add a timer.Add a respawn for the level when the timer hits 0.- Work on this parent object that knockback the player.
- Add a penality of -x time when the player hits an object that knockback.
- Add somekind of stream things. If the player are in an horizontal one, he can move up or down, and for the vertical one, left or right.
- Work on the sprite of the environment, the bounderies etc.
- Sfx and music time !
- A sprint ability?
- design some levels (with the plastic continent world, the tanker, the ancient cities etc)
- don't forget to sleep and eat.
Wow, it's only now that I realize all the work I've made today. It's 7:30 am, let's call it a day!
Ps: I will add some images of the code on the devlog in the future days.