Summer is here! And so is an update on Pocket Adventure.
May was pretty so-so, spending all of it chapter 6 level design, and there’s still a few rooms left to complete. I'd say I’m around 85% done? The lower area there is new; a sewer segment before Poppin and Jupa enter the factory proper.
I did draw up more enemy designs.
Top row: Launzard, Lizword, Galvanari, Clean Shot
Bottom row: Hoppinstop, Lead Head, Squeedge
And making base sprites for some of them, too.
Something about chapter 6 as a whole is that it limits save points to only a couple. It’s still pretty accessible, but you have to go out of your way for it, to make you weigh the risk of taking on the next segment versus taking time to heal up. It’s the best compromise I can think of while maintaining the convenience of the save point as both a health restore and place to save, but stressing more on keeping track of health.
My thought process is having longer/tougher segments gives value to having more health, which gives value to buying foods, which gives value to money, which gives value to finding chests, which gives value to exploration, which is where all the gameplay happens.
It also helps prep the challenge for the next chapter, which I’ll get into maybe next month.
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My main goal for June is to finish off chapter 6 level design. That involves about 4 main rooms and 2 bonus ones. I’m also contemplating other design work for 6, like designing and base spriting out specialized enemies, a mid boss, a minigame, and coding an obstacle/enemy hybrid, “Zombie Rickity”. I kinda want to jump to cutscenes for chapter 6 now too… so it’ll either be that, or planning out chapter 7’s obstacles and finalizing the design plan.
Sorry this month was sparse in fun stuff to look at. It probably won't improve until Fall, when I expect to be done with level design for a bit and can focus on enemies/cutscenes/event scripting.
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