I am NOT a quitter, but I do like to over achieve, so I've therefore clearly pushed myself too hard. I'm proud of what I've made in such a short space of time, but it's not enough to finish a playable game before the deadline.

Here's some gameplay:

https://youtu.be/9vWrp0O1v8E

And some of the features I managed to implement in this time:

• Smooth camera with Point of Interests (gently moves camera towards something important as you approach it) and of course, screen shake.
• Remappable controller and keyboard support
• Split-screen potential (everything was carefully set up in a way to support it later on)
• Inventory management - Pick up items and weapons, swap them around, and drop them.
• Animated NPCs and Dialogue system, with choice options (eg. the level selector guy you saw)
• Reusable menus - Works as title menu, options, pause menu, and dialogue options. Add transitions if you want.
• Fully persistent levels
• Nearly everything is inherited, so everything is super fast to implement (I just spent too long actually implementing that... :stuckouttongue:)
• Interactivity - If you want to make literally any object interactive, just make sure it inherits the "interactable" object - This applies to NPCs, item pickups, and doors so far.
• Slow-motion - You didn't see it in this video but you can slow the whole game down without lowering the frame rate, for buttery smooth action sequences :wink:

Basically what happened is I abused GameMaker Studio to make future game development easier for myself - Which isn't a game!!! :angry:

GitHub source code: https://github.com/TomboFry/TheMissingLink