Arial Society

And the game is submitted! I'm pretty tired now. I'll get some footage of the game tomorrow. 

That was fun. I forgot how fun game jamming can be. After doing a post mortem on this and catching up on work I'll see if I can squeeze in some time for the procedural death jam.

Here's my entry

Whew got a bit burned out after going for 3 days straight. Was really glad to hear there was a slight extension to the gamejam deadline. I used that time to do some non-computer things and sleep. I'm now back to working on the game. I'm hoping to have maybe 2 missions done. 

I'd like to go back and some more missions after the jam since there's a decent framework here. That kind of violates the rule in Rami's blog about doing a game a week. Maybe I can lawyer my away around it by considering the continuation to be episode 2 :) Either way I'll give it a rest right after and come back with some fresh ideas and ways to improve the game. 

The article I was referring to can be read here 

Erandi Huipe was kind enough to help out with the games soundtrack. 

This mix has the first 2 songs in the game. The first one is when you are in your groups hideout and things are subdued. The second is the city area where most of the gameplay takes place. 

Big thanks to Erandi! the music really helped me stay motivated for the jam

Got a really good  chunk of art done. Just enough to ensure a good chunk of coding without needing to stop for art. Yay!.. :|

I've been up since 5am working in graphics gale on the art for the game. If there's anything I do consistently in my life it's misjudging the time it takes to do art. 

I'm doing my best to not allow myself a second pass at any art in order to be able to get this done by the deadline. 

Development is going overall the best it has for a game jam. I'm not too stressed... yet. 

So I spent most of the rest of the day getting exercise, taking a quick nap but mostly working on the jam. 

Basic weapons are in and I have a katana weapon I've done a basic implemetnation. I'm partway through implementing enemies. They show up in the level but spawning and AI aren't done, so there's still a lot of work to do there. 

I've also got some awesome music from Erandi Huipe (twitter @erandihuipe ) for the group hideout area. I'll make a post about the music as soon as I get the ok.

I think tonight I'll be working on the hideout art, the music I got gave me some inspiration on the overall look. I want to strike while the iron is hot.