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Brain storming for ludum dare 41

Working on the weekly game jam with the theme: Balance. I’m taking inspiration from Danganronpa school and island mode where you have to balance everyone’s time and energy to complete tasks.

For this weekend’s game jam (The Heart Jam on itch.io hosted by uheartbeast), the theme is “scarcity”.

I’ve really been slacking on gamedev, and I think it has a lot to do with attempting to tackle a large scope game without really doing smaller games independent from the help of tutorials.

So, that’s what I’m doing for the Heart Jam. No tutorials; only documentation. It’s a small game about sharing your scarce resources (bed space, milk, etc) with your needy cat. For this mini game, you have to fight to keep your side of the bed from a small cat that can somehow take over all of it, leaving you with nothing but a corner of the mattress and scrap of blanket.

Kimajo! Who gives one of my favorite effects. For the tree, I used the db-32 palette and followed twitch streamer LumpyTouch’s pixel art tutorial. I didn’t quite finish today (no water and no branch movement :c), but it’s almost midnight, so I’m about to call it a night.