Improve My Game Jam 40: Changes


As written on the project page I started this project for moth jam but I couldn't progress as much as I wanted to so I just continued during the "Improve my Game Jam". 

The state before the Jam:

  • Game play started but wasn't finished
  • Didn't test with higher numbers.
  • Couldn't change between upgrade and main gameplay
  • No story yet 
  • No tutorial
  • No sound effects
  • no music
  • no custom gui (beside textbox)
  • Almost no transitions

Improvements:

As for now the game still doesn't really have a goal and the only reason to raise moths is to get all the upgrades which... doesn't really sound like a real goal. But there's a version now that allows for the player to use all the basic functionality of the minigame.

  • Separate Upgrade Window, that can be opened and closed. It's also slightly styled.
  • There's a few sound effects now:
    • Placing the Egg
    • Egg hatches
    • Changing Pupa to Moth and releasing Moth
  • The Wand is now behaving in the desired way. It floats to the spaces where the player can do something at the moment. Before when the button was hovered it just appeared where the last mouse position was tracked (so no consistent positions).
  • The flowers are now clickable wherever. For the future I would want them to have a hover effect but for now it's okay.
  • The flowers now have a custom energy bar.
  • Some small bugs with the upgrades where fixed (upgrades having wrong upgrade costs, as well as repeat upgrades being marked as unlocked, etc.)
  • Small transitions between the moth states (egg hatching image between, etc.)

Next Steps:

  • Write the Introduction Part of the Story
  • Create a Custom Gui for the Standard Screens (Save, Load and the Like)
  • Tweaking the Upgrade Numbers
  • Making the Minigame userfriendlier (some of the moths overlap with the flowers and when you have no energy the wand constantly changes between the flower and the moth which is... annoying as heck)
  • Add Background Music
  • Add an ingame tutorial

Thanks for reading!

Tell me in the comments what you think about the game and what features you'd like to see :). 

CrazyBugLady

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