SImple 2d Game - Part 2

Week 8. No video this week, no need, since it was stripping the levels to be only 2 parts. This was done along with the hammer. I didn’t catch up as I played the new warhammer game, it’s not bad but very short, little buggy (Crash and lockups).

looking at plan and what got done.

1. Week 1 stuff all done
2. Week 2 - done, the layer stuff was the editor part.
3. Week 3 - hidden tiles got added and stars too.
4. Week 4 - easy levels - not there yet, fireball got turned into a wall hugging enemy

So most got done, except the level making,(Though I have a few they were done by hand and not an editor) the next stage of the project will involve making an editor that saves to text files and bug fixing, timing and tweaking of enemies to be closer to the final game. This will involve altering the level select and adding in something to the options menu or main menu.

Week 7. https://youtu.be/kv1Bc1_oD3Q So this week was spent doing some bug fixing, and adding in a few enemies.

Decided this week that the current 8 layers of tilemap are overkill. I’ll be reducing to 2 and just string parsing the levels themselves in the same way the enemies work. It will mean things could become a little slower, but it’s not that hard to add them back in, if required.

Next week. Finish up the hammer, strip the layers to 2 and make it work off the tile entry. Work on catching up to Jason Weimann’s new course.

https://youtu.be/ApkkiMjrc4E Week 2 / (6) Special hidden tiles, added. Score Added. Level selection changed to be based on difficulty selection, 30,100,50. Various cakes and treats added with scores.

This week will be bug hunting, adding 3 maybe 4 enemies and if time creating a level for easy,medium and hard mode.

Week 1 : Actually week 5. https://youtu.be/7iLhvBEmUt0

Got a few things done this week other than a few bugs. A level editor within unity using the tilemaps that handles pretty much all I need for the project. Some stuff I put off, like the mouse sprite cursor and level selection, I figured no point in having a level select without working levels.

I also added a little spawner (Not quite done, there’s no flip for initial direction) but it does spawn stuff from a pool and is based on a spawner and most notably a prefab(So I can basically put anything in it) in the level tilemap and animates and looks after itself, also kills the player and fades out (Replace later with something better).

I refactored a lot and made both a tilemanager and levelmanager, adjusted the player and enemy to remove those elements and call functions within the managers rather than direct editing.

A concern is the strings for the tilemap levels, could be with all the parsing and stuff could prove problematic later, but for now, I’m still in make it work mode. Other than that ummm yeah not a bad week. So week 2 goal got done in week 1, along with some stuff from week 1 goal.

Plan for this week. Week 2 aka 6 Special hidden tiles - The annoying things that get in the way but are also worth score and stars :) Simple Score system. Level select stuff from week 1.

There are some sounds to grab this week with direct links they are from freesound and require attribution, cartoony but they are neat.