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[urukyra]

Clone - The Game

Big news! We started our next 4 week gamejam, so I am forced to stop tweaking and bid Goodest Boi a fond farewell (I migrated that devlog to itch after we launched). We’re making a new game! Well, not completely new.... 

Last year, Isaac, Jordan and I made two basic levels of a puzzle game, Clone involving strange cubes, buttons, doors, floating islands and a trombagun. We put it on itch here (free,  for Windows and MacOS). And that was the end of that...

Or was it? 

I enjoyed working with these guys so much (their humour carried us through many noob Gitkraken mistakes that cost us heaps of rework). They’re potentially lightning in a bottle. So I’m super excited to announce that we’re teaming up to level up Clone!  

We brainstormed, aka Jordan and Isaac cracking jokes, I mean, tossing around new art concepts, level and puzzle designs. I’m not sure what they decided, but I was really taken with their idea that wee gnomes run away with your cube at critical moments.  

@YoobeeSchool I greyboxed the level design in Probuilder to test out Isaac’s new puzzle concepts...but somehow Gitkraken didn’t push that and its not on Github either. 

So, at home (Easter break) I quickly greyboxed some probuilder rooms, with wee navmesh gnomes running around to random rooms. So far so cute. The gnomes are short so fit through holes the player can’t.

Next task: get a gnome to carry a  cube ...easy, I thought. Parent the cube to the gnome and away we go. And at first, that worked. 

But the cube has mass and physics; it got knocked on walls and buttons, and by other gnomes. The results were hilarious.

I have a few ideas to try and make it work. If I can, my next goals are to code the actions I want (stealing and delivering cubes to the player), and importing a rigged character instead of the little yellow minion capsules...

These wee characters may or may not make it into the game but if they do, Spoiler Alert! the player may or may not find out, that they take these cubes to an altar as offerings to their idol. 

Stay posted, loyal fans!