So far, so good! I’m making another platformer this time around, and I’ve decided to introduce the theme as a game mechanic in it.
If it doesn’t demonstrate the main mechanic well enough, the idea is that what’s on the screen is what exists – once it’s not in sight, it gets deleted.
Made a lot of progress today. Only had bare-bones tiles in yesterday, which is why I didn’t make a post then, but here’s what’s done so far:
- Basic map generation – Every vertical line of tiles is generated separately, with a chance for an enemy and/or a chest to spawn on that line.
- Player half-done – You can attack, move around and jump. Gameplay-wise, all that’s left is more stats for your character.
- Fully-functional enemies – Spawned in randomly, they leap at you periodically dealing contact damage. Basic stuff so you have something to fight.
Tomorrow, I plan to add player stats to the game such as attack power, speed, etc. Opening chests will give a random permanent buff to a random attribute. I also intend to make the UI during then. If I have extra time, I’ll also be improving the player art (and animating the player), draw a background and make the map randomly adjust the height of a line.
As for the UI, I’d like to dedicate a paragraph to this: Unity’s new UI system in 4.6 is awesome. Seriously. It was a breeze to create the health bar shown, and I learned how to do it in less than half an hour. Incredible improvement. Expect a way better interface than absurdly basic one I had last time.
