Today was a good day, we got a lot done that we can be proud of. Being new to Unity, it took a while for some things to ‘click,’ and this night a lot of things did.
Starting with a working mock-up I (Alex) created, Anthony was able to jump off from that point and get the engine going. It did take some re-writing, and a lot of adjustments in Unity to get the ‘2.5d that looks like 2d’ working right.
The main focus of this night was getting collisions and jumping working, and we got somewhere. I would by no means call it perfect, but we have a goo starting point for collisions and jumping. and also some weird errors..
Overall a good night and I can see the momentum building now, so we can get going on level design once the engine is basically figured out.
So you may or may not have seen on the rbmlb twitter that rbmlb is now 2 people! Anthony @datGamerDood has joined forces and we plan to release our first game by the year 20XX!
Last-night was our first game jam night, and it lasted about 8 hours, during that time whiteboards were doodled upon, graphics were drawn, and I believe even several(approx.) lines of code were written!
We are excited to start our first game which will be titled “Balloon Chase Vehicle” which as of now will run on Win/Mac.
Here are some relevant photos:
… I have been reading up on the Indie Games industry, and It seems that the only way to get by making browser-besed games is ads.
I hate ads!
So I looked into making games that would work on Mac or Windows, and found Unity. Unity is a 3d engine, but there are a few good resources I have foudn that will allow me to create a 2d game using Unity.
I am following a video tutorial now and leanring a lot, it seems like Unity has a lot of flexibility and the Unityscript/Javacript language looks fammiliar to me so that’s a big plus.
I am working on rebuilding the engine for squid game, and trying to get it to look as flat as possible to create a 2d look. I really like the cameras and other things you can use in Unity, really cool stuff!
Heres a snapshot:
(above) This is when the character takes damage in the game.
(below) The whole point of the game, avoid letting the squid fall asleep!
I will post some of the animated sprites soon, but they arent refined and smooth yet so I will wait.
Click on the images to view the Deviantart page, and comment, or leave a comment below.
I am replacing all the pixel art with hand drawn colored pencil art!
Heres a sample:
Sprites coming soon! And also edible things in the game.
This was fun, I also got these working in game:
(game is in super mega hyper alpha alpha)
Game Progress: squid.alexbezuska.com