Game design and everything else

And an army 

It’s been a little while, but I’ve been hard work on several different projects: one being organising the end of year project. 

This is how it’s looking so far :) 

Avoidastroid 
The newest game come from the latest game jam at AIE.

Designers: 
Jesse Whitestar-McColl,
Simon Long

Coders:
Trent Aaron Ohrwalder,
Heath Sargent

New run cycle 

A brand new vaulting animation and updated jumping animations

Roll and Dash - our recent AIE game jam game. 

It’s kinda a puzzle platformer, the puzzles being how you choose to spend your movement charges. 

Plowing

All the veggies are now in the game 

..And they all grow 

What’s new? 

- Phone aspect ratio; better to change now, I already had to change some things around quite a bit due to this shift. 

- new phone focused UI: make everything simpler and easier to use.

- A stamina meter (the green meter top right): At the moment it just constantly drains and when it runs out none of the crops watered will will grow - just delaying the player’s progress slightly. Better go to bed! 

I do want to change it so the meter only ticks down from doing strenuous activities such as planting and watering. 

Selling

Buying. 

The farming game laid out in UI/button form. 

The carrots only grow when you water them and sleep the night. 

Still in the spirit of economy and player psychology, I thought it’d be great to make a random loot crate opening... with a cardboard box. 

In class today we really started to look over economies in games.

I decided to take the opportunity to start prototyping a basic game about growing wealth. It’s the same set up to what I showed before but I decided to to keep it simple and only use UI for now. 

Later I will be adding elements to make this loop more exciting.