In short, this build is intended to stand as my entry if I don't produce another.
It's not quite complete: it has sound, a menu, three enemy types, an introduction, and a few rooms, but not all rooms are complete, the boss has yet to be implemented, and I have a handful of other changes that I yet want to make.
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My Twitter Account: @EbornIan
Well. I haven't posted in a while, but here is my post. It was a rough day today...
http://aletheiagamestudio.com/day-4-5-6-where-did-the-time-go/
Day6: Created a 4, 5, and 6 day post. Honestly was just too damn busy and had no time to write anything up. Luckily I had mandatory 7 hour break today so I got some time to type some stuff up. We are doing lots and even on day 7 we have a boat list of things to do. I hope to have a video for you guys before the competition but I cant promise anything. With the schedule I have in place... ill be working righ till the last hour.
Day4,5,6 - Boatload of Updates
Quicklink video guide:
If you test/play it, please let me know what you think.
I would love to have a run/sprint action, maybe with a stamina bar or the oil spilling while I do this :D . Also, was not very obvious that I have to press SPACE for going on with the dialogue and starting the action, but I think this would be fixed in the final version, good work ! :) .
Day 6 is over for me:
http://www.gamedev.net/blog/2219-the-week-of-awesome-iv/
I also have a tentative build: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1nSU4JSGSWic3R6WXJwZTc5X0k/view?usp=sharing
If anyone can have a look and report any major issue, that'd be awesome!
(As per usual, I don't intend to work during the final day, albeit that I've pulled an all-nighter and am somewhat running into Sunday.)
This version is largely done, all the way through to a boss-fight and a brief concluding text. It is however rough around the edges, and there are a few features that I failed to get into this build.
However, it improves on the fallback build in a few ways; if I'm not much mistaken:
- There is now a boss-fight!
- On a related note, the presence of the boss means that the boss can be beaten, which triggers the concluding text
- The player's attack has been tweaked a little; I felt that it was a bit too slow, previously
- There is now an options menu, allowing one to toggle anti-aliasing, set the window-size, adjust the FOV, and set the mouse sensitivity. These settings should be saved when the options menu is closed.
- Enemies now fade out when killed, rather than abruptly vanishing
- Some broken or dodgy level-elements have been improved
- Buttons now play a sound when clicked
Conversely, the known issues are:
- The level could use some polish
- There is no indicator of the player taking damage aside from one's health bar decreasing (or the character dying, of course)
- The final boss is somewhat hastily implemented
- I forgot to remove the frame-rate meter. ^^;
A few features that were planned, but that didn't make it into the final version:
- "Signposts"--essentially triggers that would produce a bit of text or sound to make the world feel more "animate".
- Cheating. I had wanted to allow the judges the ability to skip ahead, and indeed attempted to implement the feature (for the boss-room, at least), but alas it didn't work, and time was short, so I abandoned it.
- Music for the main menu
- A "pain indicator" that would flash over the screen when the player was hit
All said, I'm not entirely unhappy with my entry, I believe. It's not quite what I had in mind when I started, but I'm reasonably content with what I managed in the time.
Congratulations to all my fellow entrants who manage to complete their entries (to one degree or another) by the end of the competition! ^_^
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My Twitter Account: @EbornIan
