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[breakfastbat]

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[breakfastbat]

I'm just now taking the first programming steps for my game.

I spent the last couple days perfecting the top-down movement system. It's perfect, and bug-free!

All I need to do now is actually plop the final art into the test sprites I've been using.



Now I'm planning my game to have both top-down and sidescrolling sections, so I think today I'm going to work on the sidescrolling controls and movement systems, set up two test rooms, and create the room transition script.

[breakfastbat]

Made a cute little "quitting" animation

[breakfastbat]

Quitting is working. You have to hold it for about a second and a half, and then it executes the save and exit script.

[Pixel Noise]

Well, on the plus side, you've got the characters pretty well fleshed out! Sorry the previous iteration didn't work out - but glad you're still at it and looking forward to seeing how it develops

[breakfastbat]

Well, on the plus side, you've got the characters pretty well fleshed out! Sorry the previous iteration didn't work out - but glad you're still at it and looking forward to seeing how it develops

Welcome back

I'm staying positive. If I hadn't done all the previous work, I wouldn't have arrived to where I am today. Now I am just focusing on getting gameplay working, and forgetting about art for a bit. I probably won't impress anyone until my art is in but that's okay. It's better than impressing people but not having any gameplay yet.

Staying motivated:

[Ishi]

I liked your art improvements in your other thread (the sprite in your avatar)! Keeping an eye on this, good luck

[breakfastbat]

I liked your art improvements in your other thread (the sprite in your avatar)! Keeping an eye on this, good luck

Thank you!! I love keeping an eye on what you're doing with Leilani's Island too :3c I just followed you on Twitter, didn't realize that I wasn't!

I'm setting art aside for now so I can define the gameplay, but I'll get back to it soon!

Speaking of gameplay, I just finished implementing state changing.

I can now switch from top-down movement and controls to sidescrolling movement and controls. Normally in the game this will happen between certain major areas / gameplay sections.

[defrobo]

I think you're going about it the right way by getting the gameplay down first. I've lost count of the number of devs who announce their game dev with screenshots full of flashy sprites, only to get bogged down in the grind and then disappear.

My advice is you keep your scope small, because shipping your first game (I'm assuming it's your first!) is going to teach you so much more, and will build your confidence.

Good luck, I'll be keeping an eye on this!

[breakfastbat]

I think you're going about it the right way by getting the gameplay down first. I've lost count of the number of devs who announce their game dev with screenshots full of flashy sprites, only to get bogged down in the grind and then disappear.

My advice is you keep your scope small, because shipping your first game (I'm assuming it's your first!) is going to teach you so much more, and will build your confidence.

Good luck, I'll be keeping an eye on this!

Thank you so much!

I'm only going about it the right way because I went about it the wrong way for half a year first lmao.

I've learned a ton and I'm just now putting everything into practice.

Hoping by next month it starts to look like a game. It's coming along faster than I imagined to be honest. I really like coding :3c

My scope is pretty big, but not monumentally big. The plan is a roughly 5-10 hour game with replayability. I'm aiming to finish it in 2 years (expecting to finish it in 3). The game will take place in roughly 5 major areas, with the first being the demo for the Kickstarter which will be coming Sep-Oct 2017.

[breakfastbat]

Got basic room types and transitions working. Also implemented parallaxing. Just a bunch of dev sprites for now.

Was annoyed at how the background looked in motion so I doubled the game's frame rate and halved all of my movement code accordingly.

This GIF is only 25 FPS but it already feels way better than before.

[breakfastbat]

I successfully implemented slopes for top-down movement, it feels really good. I'm still considering a solution for sidescrolling slopes. I think if I have a slope in sidescrolling I will hide the slope itself with a foreground object like grass or a railing, so the character doesn't look like it's floating even though it is. That and/or shift the collision mask. I'm not planning on doing sprite rotation for standing on a slope (like in Freedom Planet for example). I also made another GIF of the basic sidescrolling system.





EDIT: I've thought about it and I think I'll probably end up showing the ground like in Heart Forth Alicia, that way I can have slopes without it looking all weird or having to do complex animation for little payoff.

[breakfastbat]

Got the basic jump-through platform code in at a whopping 0 lines of code. I just added an additional check into an existing conditional statement

[breakfastbat]

Jump-through platforms are now bug-free and fully functional!

[Pixel Noise]

I really like the alternation between top-down/side-scrolling modes. Nice progress with mechanics - I hate to say it....but I'm looking forward to seeing what it looks like once the art is back in 

[breakfastbat]

It's much easier for me to just think about programming as programming, and art as art, so I'm liking this work process a lot. I'm excited to get the art back in, too, as well as sounds and music!

[breakfastbat]

Experimenting with top-down December. I think it's looking pretty cute already!



EDIT: Here's the "final" (until I decide to change a pixel)

[breakfastbat]

I'm ready to start doing the idle animations for these!

[HoffmanIV]

I dig the sprite art a lot! I'm trying to understand the need for a platforming engine though. Are you going for a classic Zelda-like approach where there are top-down and sidescrolling sections?

[breakfastbat]

I dig the sprite art a lot! I'm trying to understand the need for a platforming engine though. Are you going for a classic Zelda-like approach where there are top-down and sidescrolling sections?

Until the prototype is ready, this is the best explanation I can offer:

Right now the plan is to make an RPG/Platforming hybrid in the way that Undertale was an RPG/Bullethell hybrid.

And Zelda 2 is /very/ different from what I have in mind.