Starting a simple 2d game

Week 4 : So I got most of my stuff done, my video description includes a rant as I’m pissed off at collaborate! https://youtu.be/3zf2wqW8XbY

Didn’t get done the more levels bit, but that’s because I spend a day backing everything up. and trying to see if collaborate would do what I told it to.

This week will be the setting up a new DK30 which is essentially just extending this one. So it’ll still count up the weeks, but it’ll be a different DK30 :P

Looking at the orignal week 4 goals, level transistions and saving levels to jstor and the editor didn’t get done. But interactions and particle effects, level selection did, also the polish on some of the menus is in a better state than I orginally planned maybe even good enough for release, just needs to be swapped over to master audio and the credits filled in a bit.

End of week 3 https://youtu.be/K_y3siwOm50

A bit backwards and a bit forwards too. Lost the player animations since I removed corgi engine. Added all of planned week 3 stuff from week 2 plans, except a little noddy for exit level.

So week 4 plan, now.

1. Add in SFX for most things.
2. Particle FX for some stuff.(store bought)
3. re-Add in the player animation controller and animations
4. Kill the player by enemies/Restart level.
5. Add in a level select/unlocked screen.
6. Take a look at what happens if you more levels to the game. I may have to do something other than sceneload to get the levels in, perhaps one level and internal control, no loading but bit of memory hog since all stuff in memory, maybe look at addressables as solution.

So the offline editor is probably not going to be a thing for now, I’ll wait till I have a few little levels done and have a think on it.

End of week 2.

Corgi engine - going to use in spite of some little issues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgOntWrr5qs

Player - basic animations done - movement needs tweaked for problems.

Destructable bricks - added but not completed, it looks like if I use tiles I’ll have to use names which is not good, but still ok as it’s kinda a one off.

Timer function and GFX was completed, not interfaced though with music yet. I may just overlay the clock music with a sliding volume.

Week 3 - Not doing what was originally planned on. Week 3 Plan now…

1. Tidy up destructable brick code by head bashing.
2. Implement key with alternate level choice(Hidden level) - Exit level code.
3. Add basic enemy horizontal, vertical ping pong.
4. Make generic spawn for bricks on a tilemap. (Plan integration for editor)
5. Make the player able to spawn bricks and destroy with keypress.
6. Enemy collide with destructible bricks and destroy them.

Completed the keyboard and gamepad configuration screen.

I bought the corgi engine - as it was 50% off. It seems to do a lot of the stuff I want to actually do with the benefit that I will no longer have to do them. I mean my game isn’t complicated and I 'almost’™ have it hooked up, so I’m just not sure at this point it’s worth the hassle of changing it, I think I’ll see how far I can get with the corgi ‘engine’ till this Sunday if it’s good progress then I’ll keep using it, if not welp I’ll have some scripts I can look at to see if there’s anything worth re-using. It has things like timers, keys, detestuctable bricks, platforms, teleports, fancy fades, lots of player stuff, it’s not that this stuff is hard to do, just takes time, time I could be doing important thumb twiddling! I already have an input manager so that might be an issue as well as a game state manager and scene loader… I’m kinda hoping I can just use it in the main game and perhaps level select and the rest be my fully working stuff. Here’s crossing my fingers and hopping for the best. (Hop springs eternal!)

So the end of week 1. https://youtu.be/mh08xm3cLt0

A couple of things still to do, like video options, the character select took a little bit since I had to refactor it a bit. Also mouse sprite position proved more tricky than I thought. (All menus put on back burner this week, after the video options is done.)

Thoughts on this weeks tasks.

1. The player may not be fully animated, I don’t have all the anims I need, not going to create them at the moment.
2. bricks and backgrounds should be ok, I have some already imported.
3. Timer I have the gfx, and timers are fairly easy to do, need to hook into a timer that warns the player by altering the music once it reaches a certain point though. Also picking up a timer boost resets the music back to normal.
4. Key, Simple, just need to be able to flip it around to get to hidden rooms.
5. Door, can use code I have already done in different project.
6. Level transition, Pretty simple BUT gamestatemachine may get in the way.

Welp that’s this weeks big update :D