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So, the game is going swimmingly, I think. I’m planning for 5 stages (each with two phases), I have two of those done so far, as well as most of the mechanics. Once I iron out the mechanics of the ending (gameplay influences the ending), I’m going to finish the level design (so there’s a game), then probably move on to making the tileset look less like crap.<\/p>\n
It’s interesting to think about how to make the game design progressively more difficult. At the moment, the character really only jumps. I feel like the timer (anxiety-relieving pills) add a sense of urgency, which is a nice effect, well, maybe. I think added difficulty can come from different types of platforms (Shouldn’t be that hard to implement?), some small other interacting objects that affect the anxiety meter, etc…<\/p>\n
I’m going to try to stretch out the difficulty as much as possible without implementing those things, first…I want to get at least a rough thing finished soon. Plus, I need to figure out how to make this work on windows. It works fine in chromium on ubuntu. Not sure why not windows – I thought the compilation process was cross-platform, but maybe not. I think I’m going to look into that now, actually…<\/p>\n
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Anyways, the plot of the game. Still more or less just absurd, but that’s okay – it’s more fun that way. I’m not really in the mood to, well, make a moody game of any sort.<\/p>\n
Pretty excited to do the music for this. Since this game is slightly related to pavement, I might do some short mockup of one of their songs. I’m assuming I won’t be sued or anything, but hey. I’ve had some ideas for ways to incorporate music into the game other than the usual, but I’m leaving that for if time allows.<\/p>\n
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