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New #youtubeshorts [Musically afraid for my life!] (Reposts appreciated!)

Step 2! With basic movement and lights set up I went ahead and created a more suitable environment to test other things in. These hallways were designed in no particular order yet, because I haven’t entirely laid the plan out for that as of now. 

I coded in a set of drawers that you can open to loot for an object. This comes with its own little animation already too! I also started creating some wall decorations and improving my tileset for walls and floors. 

Hellooo, followers who remain, and anyone new that might come across this revived blog. I have been working tirelessly at a game project that has been on my wish-list for a long time, and now that I’m making a big of progress I wanted to document it for my future self.

Until I’ve got a lot more, I’m not going to give away too much about the premise, but I hope the screenshots look a little intriguing!

Full transparency, I’m going to stagger my posts a bit although I’m already much further than this. That way I’ll be able to see the stages I went through, until it’s all up to date again. 

------------------------------------  THE BASICS -----------------------------------------

The very basic premise is a puzzle adventure game in which a thief is going to have to find his way out of a very haunted mansion. 

I’m creating this game in Game Maker Studio 2, using a mixture of PiskelApp, Photoshop and Asesprite for the art.

FIRST STEPS: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The first steps were to drag a lot of existing code over from my previous project into this one. This meant I was already mostly set up for:

- Player movement

- A simple dialogue system

- Depth sorting

- an Inventory that was intended for an RPG more than an adventure game

- a basic item notification system

- a camera that follows the player

-collision detection

- a running mode for the player, as well as a slow mode

In my first session of this project I created a basic test room with some old assets and got the player linked up to basic movement. Then I created a layer that draws the surface black, and used feathered png glows to cut a hole into that surface where the light should be. 

The player can toggle between a circular light and a cone light to either illuminate his immediate surroundings or check further ahead of him.