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Playtest result

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Itch.Io Page

ShellFall by DnDWizard

Here is the link to the itch.Io page for my project

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Submission day

Today is the final day of the project so I have to finish up and submit all the work i need to including my evaluation, Gameplay video and a blog link sheet with tags.

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Another Crabs Treasure

I was told to have a look at the game Another crabs treasure which is an souls-like game set in the ocean. In the game the player plays as a Hermit Crab trying to recover their original shell. The game feature some similarities to the one i made including the player character being able to hide in their shell to defend against attacks, though in another crabs treasure the player is able to change their shell (as hermit crabs do) with different shells a having different effects and armor. Now i can't exactly do that a turtle because a turtle can't casually swap their shells though turtles can't use guns either so it wouldn't be impossible to add a similar feature to my game, but i can't exactly do that due to time.

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7th of May reflection

In the end i managed to upload my game to ich.Io though i just need to make sure if i have to publish it or not, I did however manage to finish my evaluation so that is all done and submitted, as for playtesting i haven't quite done that yet due to other people trying to also finish their work, so I'm going to try and get that done when I'm next in

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Gameplay Video

(the finalized and better version)

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7th of may targets

Finish evaluation

Get people to playtest my game and then do the survey afterwards.

Upload game to itch.io

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6th of may reflection

I have managed to finish and build my game, I have also made a gameplay video of the game showing it off. I unfortunate couldn't get people to playtest but I made the survey so that is ready, and i still need to upload my game to stich.io.

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Gameplay video

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Issue?

Had an issue where the menu buttons for the controls and credits level would instead load the main menu again. The issue was eventually resolved by changing the open level by name to open level by object reference.

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Water collision issue

Did not have a certain bit of data/code that prevented my game build

I then eventually fixed this issue as i found on the error message i could just fix it with a click of a button which would add the right water collision.

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Making a feed back form and playtesting

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6th May Targets

Get gameplay video.

Potentially build game

Also get other people to play test my game

It also seems like I might have to upload my game to an itch.io page.

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Sound effects?

I had the idea to see if I can quickly try and implement some sound effect into my game. I will be using copyright free sound effects of Pixabay. After having a bit of a look on the site I struggled to find some sound effects that could fit into my game so I decided to give up on the idea and focus on polishing my game in other ways.

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New title

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Fixing shark animations

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Games including animals with a gimmick

As my game includes a turtle with a gun like turret on his back I thought it would be a good idea to research some other games that has an animal as the main character with some sort of gimmick.

Squirrel with a gun:

The first game is actually one of the games that inspired the game I'm making now, this game being squirrel with a gun. The game is about the player being a squirrel with a gun which is pretty obvious though this game has some unique mechanics using the recoil of the guns. Using this recoil the player can shoot while in the air top get an extra jump, which can lead to unique parkour challenges and levels. They can asl shoot while in a vehicle to get an extra boost whihc can make for some interesting challenges and puzzles like using the boost to drive up walls or dodge boss attacks. You can also now see where I got my inspiration from.

Party Animals:

The other game I wanted to look at is Party Animals which was inspired by the game gang beast. Party animals have their players fight each other as all sorts of different cartoony animals. The players main objective of the game is to be the last one standing and this is done by knocking their opponents off a variety of maps. There is also a variety of other game modes including a Mario kart like game mode and an among us like game mode. But what really makes this game work is the playable characters and having many costumes and animals as playable characters.