I’ve started work on the map. Two rooms are outlined, and 16 baddies are placed at random coordinates. The baddies move randomly, as if milling about.
At this point, I’m not concerned about them staying inside rooms, walking through walls, wandering off the map, etc. Right now, I just need activity on the map, and I have achieved this.
The map has been laid out and wall detection is in place. Also, the passive baddies have been divided into random groups that move on different heartbeats. This prevents them from all moving at once and creates the illusion of random activity.
Drinking coffee and cleaning code.
Sloppy code? Binary saves the day!
The map has been updated with doors and consoles. The doors have four states (on/off, open/closed). A circuit allows the consoles to remotely open and close powered doors. This does add complexity. Hopefully, I can find simple solutions for all of this.
The map could be bigger. It’s starting to get cluttered.
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I’ve set all the doors’ initial state to off/closed, and removed the far console. Some doors can be opened remotely, others will require a character present.
In this video, I’m testing the click-events that power-up and open and close the doors.
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Crew member characters have been added to the map. Their movement is now working. In order to test this, I had to ignore walls. Now the challenge is to get them through the doors.
With only two hours left, there is still a lot to do. Obviously, I won’t make the Compo. I still might try for a Jam entry, though.
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Got it in, just as the timer was running out.
The game is incomplete, but in the spirit of the jam, I went ahead and entered what I had done.
The game is titled, Calamity Station.
See you next time!
Platformers aren't really my genre. But I do like jumping around rooftops in virtual worlds. Whatever the case, I'm having fun. Hope to finish soon.
Got off to a late start, didn't really commit. But now i'm jamming!
Still not totally sure what I'm going to do, or how I'm going to do it, but I'm in.
I'm jamming. Hope you are too.
GLHF!
I like the ideas of others that I'm seeing.
Some ppl have little plant/bonsai simulators. Others are making farming sims. All good ideas.
Some ideas that I'm kicking around are:
Need to think this through.