It's been a month

For some reason, we forgot to update our blog! It has been a hot month here in Finland so we have all enjoyed a little time in the sun while it's possible. We also had a vacation week during midsummer. But we are back and we have been busy!

We decided to ditch the swipe movement with physics. It just didn't work for our concept. We instead went for grid based movement without physics. The character cannot jump anymore, but he can climb! This will make it less frustrating for the player to go back up to the base. Venla is in charge of the character movement and while it's still not completely finished, she is working hard to make it perfect.

While on the subject of base, we have added door animation and a pop-up menu, where you can upgrade your character. The menu is still work in progress and will be the biggest challenge for us for the remaining time. The base also fills the players food bar and empties the inventory bag.

Oh that's right! We have an inventory bag! On the lower right-hand corner of the screen, there is a backpack icon which fills up gradually while collecting resources. Once full, the player cannot collect anymore resources and will have to go to base to empty the bag.

Oskari has finished the self-generating sectors in the gamefield. It works perfectly and will generate new sectors when the player reaches a certain depth. Also, the game deactivates sectors if the player moves far enough from them. This way, our game should not overload your mobile devices. Some parts of resource spawning code is still unfinished so Oskari will keep on working with that.

We will keep on posting both in our instagram and on this blog so stay tuned!