#suika clone

[majesticaldiscomfort]

I'm learning Unreal Engine 5.

WIP on my practice game. It's a Suika clone, like the dozens of others across the internet, but it's 3D.

I made the models myself, in Blender. Painted the textures myself, in Rebelle 7. Arranged the code nodes in the UE5 blueprints myself, admittedly with some advice from users more experienced with UE5 than myself.

No precise release date, but it should be free and playable in-browser by mid-July.

In the current version, not much is established beyond player movement, fruit spawning, fruit merging, and score keeping.

My must-do list:

Add code to limit spawning region

Add after-watermelon-combination contingency

Add loss condition

Add visual representation of next fruit to be dropped

Improve player movement controls (a bit janky at the moment)

My might-do list:

Add new fruits

- Banana

- Lemon

- Lime

- Mango

- Durian

- Dragonfruit

- Pomegranate

Add random "knife" object that can drop instead of a fruit; will split a fruit into two fruits of one type smaller

Model a room for the box to exist in, for purely aesthetic purposes

Improve the lighting/aesthetic

Add "melon ranking" -- when you successfully merge to get a watermelon, your melon ranking is determined by your score. Lower scores will result in a higher melon ranking.

My want-to-do (but probably won't) list:

Add "unwise mode" -- adds new "fruits" that are technically fruits from a biology/botany standpoint, but culinarily aren't used as fruits.

- Tomato

- Bell Pepper

- Pumpkin*

- Pickle (cucumber)

- Eggplants/Aubergines (same plant, name depends on locale)

- Butternut Squash

- Avocado

- Olive

- Peapods

- Corn

- Lentils

- Peanuts

- Chili Pepper

- Peppercorns

Add different house decorations that the player can change around.

Allow the player to change the time of day or in-room lighting. (The fruits are slightly emissive, so this could be reasonable!)

*Holy shit, "Pumpkin's Revenge" by Louie Zong started playing on my Spotify playlist right after I typed "pumpkin" onto the list

[catpleademoji]

my suika clone is mostly done and you can play the beta version at https://catpleademoji.neocities.org/games/merge/!

i need to make everything look pretty now, maybe find some free background music, and make it more performant

[catpleademoji]

I made a little progress on my suika game clone! The cat emoji balls merge when they touch now. Merge them from pensive cat to pleading cat.

Next I want to add scoring, audio and visual effects, like little sparkles.

Once I have the gameplay finished, i still have a few issues to work out for the physics (they don't rotate anymore), then i want to work on reducing memory allocations.

[catpleademoji]

I don't think they're supposed to do that! 😭😭😭

[catpleademoji]

they collide and push each other around now!! they slide too much so next i need to add friction forces.

the video is at 2x speed. i'm mostly following a 2D physics tutorial for this.

Video description: Spawning a bunch of cat emoji marbles to test collisions. They are each different sizes and are spawned at the mouse cursor.

[catpleademoji]

i'm making a suika (merge watermelon game) clone!

look at the cats! they're trapped in little marbles

i'm making this in plain javascript. there's no collisions yet but they fall with gravity!!!