bleep bloop I'm excited for this LD, my weapons of choice: - Aseprite - Unity - 1BitDragon - SFXR - Trello
Restricting myself to pixel art, so no blender fun unless the theme requires some kind of 3D gameplay gimmick. Also must be playable in the browser.
I was all prepared to make a folklore game as well haha. Anyway, I'm awake, so my design document in full:
B-Game
You are a B.
Summer is here.
Winter is there.
Do B stuff to prepare.
No guns, just cosy gameplay. Let's a go!
The Queen has some bling and a rod for poking the workers.
I've done more than I thought I would since starting 6 hours ago, implemented some simple flocking for the Bs and made a little art.
The goal will be to locate flowers to harvest, which will be a limited resource. Once the timer runs out, Winter arrives and your honey is divided amongst the workers. Run out of honey during a winter and it's the end of your reign Queenie.
Got the sun and an angry cloud in, the mechanic will be that wet bees can't gather resources, so you need to go back to the sun to dry off.
9 hrs in, getting sleepy lol
Cat woke me up so might as well get back to it
Today will mostly consist of attempting to make music.
Good luck everyone!
And Mr Fox too.
Not sure what to do next, maybe a nap.
The simple core gameplay loop I've gone with in screenshot style.
Pretty much feature complete, doing second passes of all the art :)
Well it's been a few hours since I submitted and got a few hours sleep. Reviewing my code, there doesn't appear to be much there. With the biggest class, the primary controller coming in at just 433 lines. So what was the biggest time sink for me? Here's a rough breakdown:
Design: 1- 2 hr
Code (Scripting and Unity Prefab Setup): 10 - 14 hr
Making GIFs for the Internet: 1- 2 hr
Sleep: 12- 14 hr
Audio: 1 hr
Art: 7- 10 hr
Idle: 5 hr
I'd rate this jam 5 out of 6 happy purple stars.
Thanks to everyone that has given me feedback on my game so far, much appreciated, I've already started implementing some of the changes from the feedback ready for a post-compo build, they include:
Changes available in a post-compo branch: https://github.com/squax/ld50-b-game/tree/post-compo
Would love more feedback: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/b-game
I've been putting this off for a while, as I suck at reflective writing, but anyway I'll give it a bash.
What went well - Art: using a consistent colour palette across all the sprites, helped the game visuals stay coherent, and from feedback the bright colour scheme seemed to go down well. Definitely the strongest category for me I'd say. - Sound: bleep bloop, functional sound, crammed in at the last hours. - Presentation: I thought the presentation was not bad for the time scale.
What went not-so-well - Gameplay: a bit lacking in the old gameplay, but I wanted something super casual, so I think I achieved that goal. - No tutorial: the game can be a bit confusing for new players. - No flower radar: even though the owl will point to the nearest flower patch it would have been nice to have a mini-map. - Screen resolution: too zoomed in, needed to be further away for the player to get a feel of being able to actually see what they were travelling towards and make it easier to avoid angry clouds.
What next? - Jam revision: I'll take the feedback and make a new build, already one in a github branch if anyone cares to nosy. - Asset Flip into another game: already started this :) using the existing visuals and making it more into a casual game, Match Bee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO6vbt95lw8
Thanks for reading and if you care to play my compo entry it is here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/b-game
Thank you to everyone who played and reviewed my bee game :bee:
Some additional art that was made during the compo but I didn't have time to implement:
Cya next time!