{"author_name":"kylemsguy","cat":"LD #36","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"August 28, 2016 1:06 am","epoch":1472364360,"text":"Heya! Hope you’re having fun with the Ludum Dare so far! And don’t worry about taking too long to figure out game mechanics, it’s all for fun anyway so if you end up finishing late that’s just how it is \":)\"","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1472363700,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"8680","p_author":"kylemsguy","p_authorkey":"50339","p_urlkey":"39552","p_title":"Status Update","p_cat":"LD #36","p_event":"LD36","p_time":"1472363700","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"50339","us_name":"kylemsguy","us_username":"kylemsguy","event_start":"1472169600","event_key":"35","event_name":"LD36"},"text":"

So zhuowei and I decided to work on a platformer, where the character can transform air into water (and vice versa) in order to avoid obstacles by swimming or otherwise. How this ties in with the theme, “Ancient Technology” is definitely something we’ll have to figure out.<\/p>\n

Throughout the day, we’ve been working on implementing the mechanics. We took\u00a0way\u00a0<\/em>too long to figure out that all we needed to do to simulate water physics was to set the Linear Drag to 1. I implemented a nice HUD complete with a breath meter (to limit the use of the air -> water power) that goes red once depleted, signalling the cooldown period. This gives the player an incentive to not completely drain their breath meter.<\/p>\n

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Showing the breath cooldown after depleting the character’s breath. Normally the bar is blue.<\/p><\/div>\n

I also took out my graphics tablet to draw some great <\/em>stick figure animations (I’ve never animated anything before)<\/p>\n