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Cafe Dot Birthday Jam - Devlog 3

So... Where have I been recently? SO! I ended up immediately joining the GMTK Jam right after this birthday jam, so I've been very busy slaving away from that buuuut

The game is done! (And also has a name!)

Cannon Catering is now available on itch.io, and I've been able to get some feedback on my game, so what else was done before the submission?

Music!

lesson learned... Never leave music and sfx to the last 24 hours of the jam, this killed me, though with my minimal experience, I found that using the main melody as a motif for the rest of the songs, really helped! That, as well as keeping the loops to like less than a minute really helped xD

Sprites!

I made up all of the sprites, those being of the player as well as the enemies, I also overhauled the player's cannon, but decided to keep the rest of the sprites as they worked good enough! I do regret resizing a lot of them however, as it led to a lot of mixels, which is not good...

Upgrade menu!

this gave me so many problems whilst implementing, UI in Godot is still something I'm yet to understand, but we will get there at some point! However we ended up with a sufficient menu that mostly worked, and upgrades to the gun that worked! And upgrades to the bullets that... did not work! (we don't talk about it)

The final result?

That's for you to see (wink), visit the link to see the game, and feel free to give it a rating if possible!

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Cafe Dot - Birthday Gamejam: Devlog #2

So... It's been a few days. I'll be honest and say not too much has happened since last time apart from some refactoring as well as creating waves, so instead of doing these by days (since I kind of forgot this time around, I'll cover the updates, or try to summarise them at the very least!

Wave Management

The most biggest update so far, we now have an enemy spawning system that randomly spawns in enemies around the player based on the players location and rotating them around said centre point (shown here)

With that an intervals set between each spawn, it's now beginning to feel the slightest bit like the survivor's like that I wanted to create!

Enemy Code Fixing

It was... To say the least a little buggy with how it decided to work, with a bunch of bugs popping out of thin air after the implementation of the wave manager, as well as many options that I had not learned about yet in Godot (such as materials having to be local to scene, curse thee). At least for right now, the enemies are working a lot better, though I do wish that I can make it so that the enemies aren't doing damage to the player every single frame, and maybe put it on a timer instead of a really short time.

Functional gun!

This one is super neat, I now have a gun similar to that of how enter the gungeon or any other shoot em' up would work, with this I can now implement cooler upgrades like more bullets, and increased fire rate! The bullets are also cake yes.

(Example of the Gun, the enemies, and the wave manager)

Experience and Experience Bar

Don't even get me started on those... For no reason AT ALL, these have been giving me the biggest struggle recently, they are currently sitting in my scenes folder waiting to be implemented, yet I have not found a 'neat' or even functional way to implement them, and so far Godot UI has been super confusing to me, so call that a double whammy.

What's to come?

Hopefully soon I'll finally get started on making actual art for this game instead of just using programmer art, and add more juice to keep my motivation up, if anyone has any resources to help getting used to Godot's User interface nodes while I smash my head into my keyboard, it will be greatly appreciated, until next time!

Also I still don't have a name for this game yet, sigh.

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Cafe Dot - Birthday Gamejam: Devlog #1

Waow, Art and Game jam stuff, crazy! So I've never written a devlog before so I apologise if this is a weird one.

The game jam has been on for about 2 days now and I'm on a mission to create a survivors-like game in which you need to feed as many Matcha's as possible, and survive for as long as possible before they all pounce on you!

So what have I been up to so far?

So far I have been working up on my game design doc, as well as making a prototype towards creating a survivors like!

On day one, I made sure I had a basic prototype for moving, but only worked on it for about an hour or so, so nothing insane was made. The main things that were done were:

Basic Player Movement

Player Health

An enemy that moves towards and injures the player

A camera that followers the player and collides with the level boundaries!

Day Two!!

For day two, I spent most of the day working on my game design document, and fleshing out what I really wanted this game to be while having some cozy drinks at a board game cafe, though after I was done, I went back home to program a little more, with these changes being:

The player now flashes white whenever they are damaged (Tinkering around with shaders)

A health item that can heal the player!

Making a more robust system for healing and taking damage

I was especially proud of the Healing Item especially because it uses Godot's tweening properties in code to set the sprites position as well as size!!

Aside from that, that is all for now! I'll probably update these every couple of days or when something substantial happens!

To all the other participants, good luck!!