#endofyearproject

More progress on Silva, the grappling hook platformer our group of 6 are creating for our end of year game design project are building. This time one of the game's artists has been working hard getting the animations done for our protagonist.

Starting with a run cycle:

And then easing into something a little bit more idle:

Backyard Snowdown is well underway, our programmers have not stopped to get as much in the game as possible before we hit Beta. Which is great! We now have a fully playable and (dare I say) fun game to work on. 

Main Mechanics:

The most important aspect to Backyard Snowdown is the snowballs. They can be thrown directly at the other players to inflict damage, or (and don’t ask for the logic) they can ricochet off anything except other players to hit their mark.

Been spending some time improving the grappling hook in Silva and adding some new functionality in the hopes that it will make the environment more easy to traverse.

Starting off simply with a reel in and reel out:

Improving the clarity with the targeting by adding an arrow displaying the direction that the player is aiming:

And bringing in some more life to the rope by having it stick to surfaces:

The groups artists are going in a replacing the silhouettes of objects throughout the game with some final art pieces. Starting with some of the trees in the game.

And also because I haven’t gone this in a while here is an obligatory bug gif of an animated Silva that is not quite there:

So the due date for Silva has come and gone. The game has come a long way over the last three months from the original concept art:

Then to the grey box with the very bare bones of the mechanics:

Then the art started to come in!

The second, and final, presentation for this module has come and gone. This time we were up pitching our game to people currently working in the games industry.

This was the major feeling that was running through the group as we ran through practising our presentation those few last times.