With the final week upon me, I’ve been working on completing any remaining tasks I have left. All I really have left on my to-do list is to create a main menu screen for the game, so that during the shows my game levels aren’t playing immediately. This shouldn’t take too long to complete, unless …
In the penultimate week to hand-in, there isn’t a lot of time to make any changes to the game. However, I’ve made some minor tweaks, such as fixing an issue with unlocking the Dash ability, as well as modifying some of the levels so that branches dropped by Moss Sticks wouldn’t hang around on the …
In preparation for this week, last week I had created a script to follow for my “Making of” documentary. There were a lot of key points that I wanted to cover, such as the origin of the game as “Tidal Force”, showing off key gameplay, and being able to talk about my struggles and successes …
Following the issue I had with the first batch of player sprites I made last week, I’ve had to create some new sprites to use for the player character. As an extra precaution, because the quality of the first sprites wasn’t amazing, I’ve increased the file size of these sprites to about 4x what they …
Following the designs I created during the John Hansard Gallery event we held last week, I’ve started creating concept art/sprite work for the enemies of my game. I feel that these have come out quite nicely, and fit the environment that I have created for my game. I currently have just the 1 sprite for …
As mentioned in my previous post, I believe it best for me to forego anymore coding tasks, as I’m both unequipped to deal with these issues on a continuous basis, and feel them weighing me down both emotionally and artistically. Given more time, I would continue trying to solve these issues, but since I do …
For the majority of this week, I’ve been continuing trying to implement player respawn and discussing with Maddi what the potential issue could be, and it’s unfortunate that I’ve been unable to implement this functionality. With a little over a month of development left, I’m definitely starting to feel the pressure and my lack of …
After my break, I’m ready to continue working on my project. I mentioned previously that I’d work on redesigning my level layouts, which I feel I have done successfully. I’ve looked into the what makes a compelling level layout, as well as revisiting what makes a good Metroidvania, namely rewarding exploration, utility-gated (i.e. abilities) progression …
This week has seen lots of progress being made with my project. With the help of Maddi, we’ve completed various different tasks that have been on my to-do list. The first thing of note was the issue with health being reset when entering a room. To fix this, I created a new script called “LevelLoad”, …
To begin this week, I’ve had a thought about what else I’m going to need to program for the base part of my game. There’s been some debate in recent weeks about the use of AI in our work, but we’ve been told that it’s ok to use text-based AI services like ChatGPT to consult …