#oceay

This week was midterms for school, which took a lot of my time studying and doing essays. I spent free time working on bug fixes, and added in this!

Boating between coasts has the risk of sharks swimming by, and if you’re too active they’ll attack! They’ll leave if you whack their snout enough, but miss and they’ll take a bite off your health!

Some of them can be very dangerous, so you’ll have to be careful if you boat across the ocean for too long. You can recover health by eating and staying full.

Important Stuff Now!

I don’t think Oceay has that much to go, but I’m going to return to Carrie’s Order Up and finish getting that on Steam. I feel really bad for delaying it and working on other stuff. I only intended to make a present for Inky with Poppy’s Burger Birthday Blast, and the timing to the low-rez jam, plus my interest in doing Oceay, felt too convenient not to try. I intended to complete it within 2 weeks, but this being an RPG I was less sure about how long things would take for me to be comfortable with them. I like this idea and I really want people to get a decent experience from it, so I’ve been taking my time.

However! With school and Spring coming to an end, I should postpone this for Summer and set my free time aside for Carrie. Once she’s up on Steam I’ll return to this. I’ll keep updating to keep you guys informed.

In other news, I do need to make another prototype game for School, as part of my thesis class. Depending how that goes I might share it’s progress here, and ask people for help. If you’re curious, I’m  researching Community-Controlled Games (think Twitch Plays Pokemon), and am making a project utilizing that set up.

All islands and dialogue/npcs are in, intro and ending still left. Much of the main quest flow is in there. Saving and loading is working.

The Monday 3AM deadline is too early for me right now, despite a lot of scaling back and working all weekend. I need to get back to school work, so I’ll be delaying it for this Friday if that’s ok.

I feel bad about not making the jam but there’s a ton of entries for it and I wasn’t expecting to stand out or anything, this has mostly been a learning experience. This is the first “RPG” I’ve made and it’s been a lot of fun so far. I spent all day writing a ton of dialogue and setting up some kind of adventure, which is something fun I don’t usually do for games.

Special thanks to @nannercoco for a lot of the background arts here!

Here’s what’s left:

Deadline for #lowrezjam2016 is drawing close, monday at 3 AM I think. I have a ton of stuff to do, and I’ve been rescoping things as best I can to make something feasible. Most of the system I want is in, recently I added in a hunger and health system, and currently I’m working out the content itself, npcs, dialogues, items, and island stuff.

I’ll be posting when and how the results turn out by the start of next week, so look forward to it!

Here’s a preview of my entry for #LOWREZJAM 2016, Oceay. Oceay is a game where you go on islands, talk to people, buy bait, catch fish, sell fish, upgrade your boat, travel further, rinse and repeat. Trying to aim for the April 18th submission deadline!

It’s still unpolished and there’s a bit to do, but you can catch progress on twitter here.

The areas being worked on right now are selling fish, having a bait system, adding more to fishing encounters, and adding more fish.

Hey everyone! I think I’ve had a busy week but I wanted to make a post today anyway about what’s up.

Poppy’s Burger Birthday Blast is all done and nothing else is planned for it, though Inky does want to make music for it at some point. If he does, I’d add it in, and would be uploading that to Itch.io with a donation setting for money to go to him. If you were wondering why I uploaded it to Game Jolt before Itch.io, that’s why.

Carrie’s Order Up! has a small story script written, it’s nothing big but I think it’s cute, something short and making sense out of all the restaurant changes. I’ll be setting to sketch and pixel it out in the future.

My current project right now however, is another short 2 week project... my entry for LowRezJam 2016. The timing was really just perfect for me, having just finished Poppy and thinking about ideas for something like that in the future. I came across Low Rez Jam and, once I stopped dismissing the billionth undertale fanart, I thought it seemed up my alley, and picked a concept I was thinking about.

The game is Oceay, and is based on an idea I had several years ago involving my friend Shawn’s character Pully. I’m not using that character and using an original one eventually, but I never set off on that idea for various reasons. There was another project similar to that idea that was... well, cancelled, And was overall incredibly disappointing. I was motivated to pursue my own concept, and I’m making a small prototype/proof-of thingy as my entry.

I’m making updates for it on my Twitter, which you can view here.