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[AD1337]

I just wrote an article called "Making Games Like a Samurai", which is mostly based on the experience of creating Eastward Quest. You can read it here:


http://ad1337.tumblr.com/post/52264373454/making-games-like-a-samurai

[CasePortman]

Love the article man! Very informative and witty at the same time.

[AD1337]

Thanks!

Implementing upgrades screen. Finished the yellow bar that shows the current level of each upgrade. The costs are working, I just might have to balance them later. Will work on buying upgrades now.

[AD1337]

Buying upgrades!



I need to make it more juicy and balance the prices.

[AD1337]

Added a limit to upgrades (lvl 5 is max) and border to text.

[siskavard]

Looking sweet! Looks like it's coming together really nicely

[AD1337]

Thanks!

Trying to make the background juicier:

[siskavard]

That looks great. I hope you don't mind me suggesting this, but the idea just hit me, seeing the moving clouds:

Consider having the clouds moving vertically, downwards, to give you a sense that you're sailing upwards to the sky, since this is the level up screen. Upwards/positive/advancing. It might help convey that feeling of accomplishment! It might help this lvl up screen to stand apart from all the horizontal movement in the game.

Just a thought.

[Pixelulsar]

The upgrade screen is looking better every time, especially the last one with the moving clouds.  Siskavard's vertically moving clouds idea sound like it could work well.

I love this whole devlog because there's new stuff all the time and there is always a picture of gif to look at. 

[Mattline1]

Very nice, perfect example of a simple idea that's been well executed. I'm looking forward to seeing more!

[AD1337]

Thanks guys.

I'd add the vertical scrolling if it was easy enough, but it's too much effort for a small feature. The background has a gradient, the clouds parallax... just too much to tweak. The idea is that this background will be the same for the victory screen, main title and level selection, so it has to loop infinitely.

Added tooltips:

[gimymblert]

I just wrote an article called "Making Games Like a Samurai", which is mostly based on the experience of creating Eastward Quest. You can read it here:


http://ad1337.tumblr.com/post/52264373454/making-games-like-a-samurai

It's a good article but (as a counter point) you will never made the sims or sim city that way, if you know what I mean

[AD1337]

Thanks, although I don't know what you mean.

Eastward Quest is almost finished. Only the bonus level, some animations, menus and sounds left.

If I have energy left, there's also highscores and achievements.

Today I fixed the tutorial and some bugs. Someone playtested and finished the game in 30 minutes, only having trouble in the final boss. Will make the final levels harder and change some stuff based on feedback, this should make the game a bit longer. The infinite level will too, once it's added.

[Whiteclaws]

I want to be a playtester too

[AD1337]

Only physical playtesters so far! No internet people allowed! Get out! 

(joking, everyone will be able to play the game soon )

Juice and heavy .gif color loss.

[AD1337]

Bonus level is done.

[AD1337]

Working on level selection. I don't know if I should call them "Quests" instead of "Levels".

[Whiteclaws]

don't use numbers , use icons !

like Cave story !

[AD1337]

I was thinking of a preview like this:

[AD1337]

Should I allow the player to preview locked levels?