Almost done. Added sound effects—a ding when you hit walls (me flicking a glass, pitch-shifted) and a little chord when you hit a target (GarageBand’s grand piano). Also added something simple and dumb that I’m disproportionately pleased with: the end screen picks a random compliment for you.

Just about every game-jam game I’ve worked on has had title/menu stuff as the very last thing added to it. NOT TODAY.

Found solutions to both things I was having trouble with in the last post. First, the physics got really unpredictable and less fun when I had the line attached to Wanda’s mouth—you’d sort of wobble around the place, not unlike an actual fish on a line, which is less fun than this is trying to be. Kinda killed the freewheeling feel. Solution: bowl! Voilà: identical physics to the prototype.

Also: fire! I didn’t like the life-preserver rings I was using as targets earlier, and I don’t know why I didn’t go with flaming hoops in the first place—seems much more traditional. This is what they look like. Drew three separate fire images on the ring; would have done more, but I got tired of it, because, as you can see, I am not an artist.

It’s beginning to look a bit more like a thing. I’d like to make the rope attach at the mouth, but having the attachment off center-of-mass makes the physics wacky (and less fun), and drawing the line at a different position than the attachment makes it really confusing. Might be best just to move the center of mass to the mouth.

Also, the rings look dopey. I don’t know what to replace them with.