Hello everyone!

We are two people in Minsk, that eager to participate in LD: me, as a programmer and my friend as game-designer.

Tools are ordinary: Unity 3D, Photoshop, sfxr and may be some online music generator

Good luck everybody!

Casually throwing buritos into zombies…

It is the first LD we participated in and second game jam. And we finally got finished jam game. And our first finished game overall 😉

Our game is Burrito Socorrista (or “Burrito Lifeguard” from google-translated Spanish). In this game you play as burrito-chef, who is fighting against zombies using his delicious cooked burrito. The game is rather challenging and even got online Scoreboard )

We carefully tried to implement all gameplay we came up with, draw wonderful textures and sprites, make attractive 3d-models… but failed in all except most part of gameplay (I guess we need a good artist)

You can check the game here.

And leave some feedback, please, even bad ones are accepted

P.S. Congrats to all people, who managed to finish their games in time.

Finally found time to fix interesting bug in my game – The Operator.

In some cases time froze before the day end. It was hard to reproduce, but I managed to find out the problem:
For each day I have random amount of calls and if generated amount was too small and player finished all the calls before the end of the day – time stopped.

So I just increased calls for each day, so it is safe to play now

The game can be played in browser here.

Original Jam Entry can be found here.

P.S.

Found out that I’m not the only one that came to the switchboard idea and found 4 more games:

The Switch – Worker by Ghen
One-Armed Operator by skele_blade
The Operator by ForeignGuyMike
Switchboard Operator by Jordan Campbell

Well, it was tougher than last time, but I managed to release in time – Cure4Life

Currently there are only MacOS and Win builds on Itch.io. Don’t know why, but I couldn’t build proper WebGL build, but will it add as soon as possible.

Cure4Life is available in WebGL!

I could not get mine build working, until I changed my music asset load type to Streaming:

It was on Decompress on Load and my WebGL game couldn’t change scene from menu to game level and just hang chrome tab.
Changing to Streaming fixed everything

After some heavy testing and code reviewing I finally fixed bug in my game where after some time players axe was not working.

So I uploaded new version of the game – check it out 
Also I tweaked some numbers to allow all players (that are skilled enough) to finish the game and open all items.

As always, Jam builds are available on itch.io too.

Hello darians,

I would like to share one neat trick with you from our game, Cure4Life.

Our artist didn’t have much experience in pixel art and in pixel art animation, unfortunately.

So we decided not to draw and animate player’s hands.
We thought that it would look OK as some pixel games look awesome without hands (Nuclear Throne, for example).

Well, we was wrong. This looks very bad in our art style:

So I tried to add some arms and it was way better:

As I’m a bit lazy to animate it frame-by-frame. It is also difficult as you can rotate weapons in any direction.
I tried to use Unity’s LineRenderer to create thick black lines as arms. And add two sprites as hands.
It took about 10 minutes to setup and voilà – nice convincing arms, that are animated with any weapon

P.S. If you’re interested in details about our game – feel free to ask in game comments 😉

Tags: postmortem, unity3d

Hello again,

I’m continuing postmortem posts about our game – Cure4Life.

And in this post I want to explain how we did axe attack animation.
Other weapons behave simpler as they don’t have any animation at all

Unity 5.5 project archive

First, let me show how weapons are connected to the Player and how each Weapon is organised:

Hero has Weapons game object that is positioned in the middle of his chest.
This way Weapons object can be rotated to aim weapon in some particular direction:

(red dot is the pivot position of Weapons object)

This position is independent of weapon animation and it is also useful to know our weapon aiming to decide which enemies we hit

Inside Weapons game object we have separate objects for each weapon.
Each weapon contains separate object for it’s sprite and other effects.

For example this is Cure4Life hierarchy:

Animation-wise axe is simple:

We have 3 animation:

1. Idle – just one frame
2. AxeSwing1 – axe swings from top to bottom
3. AxeSwing2 – axe swings from bottom to the top

The interesting part is Animation controller.

We added Fire trigger and set up Idle animation as default.
There are 3 transitions: Idle->AxeSwing2, AxeSwing2->AxeSwing1, AxeSwing1->AxeSwing2.
They all are configured the same:

No exit time, zero transition duration and they are activated on Fire trigger.
This way, each time Fire is triggered, animation will switch between AxeSwing1 and AxeSwing2:

Another crucial part of attack animation is swing particles:

This is done mostly with default particle system and particle texture, which consists of 4 frames.

Here are axe’s swing particle system setting with some explanation:

Activating animation and particle system is pretty simple:

Animator.SetTrigger ("Fire");
 Particles.Emit (Random.Range (1, 3));
 

Add some timeouts and input logic and we get this:

I hope this post is somewhat useful
Here full Unity 5.5 project archive – Download Sample Project.

P.S. Don’t forget to play, rate and comment our game – Cure4Life 😉

Tags: LD37, postmortem, unity

Hello again, fellow darians

I guess this is my final postmortem post for Cure4Life.
Mostly because I can’t come up with anything new to write about this game

Firstly, my two older postmortem posts about this game:

Running out of Hands
Swinging the Axe

In this post I want to show you how our game changed from beginning to the end.

Quick tip: Using some sort of CVS (Git, for example) is very useful for this kind of posts.
It is difficult to find some time and capture game while jam is in progress (and if you’re not making timelapse).
But it is pretty simple to make commits to CVS and then, after the jam, go back in time and make some gifs

Day 1

After discussing core gameplay I started making prototype without proper sprites.
Managed to make physics-based shotgun

Removed some boxes as they block bunch of bullets.
Added some sort of room. Now our game fits the theme

Added enemies, some basic enemy pathfinding and some loot
First pathfinding just tried to go in the direction of player, without any obstacle detection.

Replaced pathfinding with proper one

Finally got some sprites from Chimera. Looks ok, but hands…
Also axe looks like tail if it is behind player 😀

…from here gifs are smaller due to file size limitation… 

Added some blood, and gibs, and blood stains. Made axe faster, just for fun 😀

Added loot and popup labels when picking loot.

Day 2

Added more labels 😀
Chimera gave me some weapon sprites too

By the way, incrementing numbers in label is not very difficult to do, just needed to add more data to labels to determine its type.

Added hands! They look awesome

Also added label color coding.

Random clip with overpowered shotgun.

I know that now it is very bad, we’re making proper post-jam version now with many balancing updates

Day 3

Didn’t had much time on Monday due to work, so almost everything was finished in about 5 hours and I managed to make build when it was 7 minuts in countdown (It’s about 5 am my local time)

Added UI and Main menu.

Found some good music on Kevin MacLeod’s Site. Used it many times when I didn’t had any composers around.
Tried to make some SFX with BFXR. It sounds not very good, but it was fast to do:)

Conclusion

It was fun LD this time. I was going to make some small game and submit it to Compo…
But when I entered my local real-world gathering I was immediately asked by Vitali (Chimera) “Are you a programmer?” and we started working 😀

P.S. Judging and commenting are still going – Cure4Life 

Tags: postmortem, progress, unity3d

Play it now!

P.S. You might be interested in this posts, too:

Running out of Hands
Swinging the Axe
Cure4Life Postmortem

Hooray, we reached 100 views on itch.io!

If you somehow missed this game – Play and Rate!

P.S. If you’re interested in postmortem – other posts about this game:

Running out of Hands
Swinging the Axe
Cure4Life Postmortem

Tags: LD37

Hello friends,

We decided to continue game development and target mobile platforms

Also, we need more feedback: what do you think should be removed from this version, what features should be implemented etc.
Any feedback is appreciated, bad feedback is better

If you want to help or just to play – Play and Comment!

P.S. If you’re interested in postmortem – other posts about this game:

Running out of Hands
Swinging the Axe
Cure4Life Postmortem

Thanks everybody who rated our game – Cure4Life.

I guess pretty fun game overall 😀

We will be back working on game after holidays. I will try to make posts about progress.

P.S. Also we need to change game title to something more fitting 😀

Hooray! We've done it!

This time we tried to make cool strategy game with deep economic system...
Finished with throwing gold at travelers mechanic :grin:

What went right?

Well, we had two artists, which is nice :smile:
Also I improved my skills at particle systems :fireworks:

What went wrong?

Started making game without proper planning... again.
We had a lot of ideas and wanted to do everything, which lead to implementing nothing :confused:

So we have to scrap a lot if ideas on end of second day, so we have some gameplay.
Unfortunately, we've already lost a lot of time so we skipped audio step, which we wanted to do ourselves - using only our voices :unamused:

What is the result?

In the end we have this: LD Entry, itch.io

Any feedback is welcome! :nerd:

Hello there,

I just want to say that I made a game.

A game that is combination of boring match-3 and top-down shooter.

And I think it's fun and awesome.

Your can Play it on itch.io or view Match Shooter Entry if you want to.

Thank you for your time that was wasted reading this and not playing my game 😃