Darumaman and Totemman in Not a Clone

We return to our regular program of Not a Clone updates with two animations: Darumaman and Totemman minigames!

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These will take place of Fungusman and Slapperman from the old Not a Clone build. Thanks again to Astra Wijaya for the graphical improvements.


A while ago, we mentioned we were adding difficulty levels to each minigame. Here are a few more changes that can occur on each minigame.

The minigames 2 and 10 now increases the number of tiles the game starts with as the difficulty increases. It was a bit difficult for our programmer, Taro Omiya to put together, but we’ve managed to make all the puzzles the minigame generates to be solvable:

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Likewise, Colors! and Neons! got a similar treatment.

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We’ll provide more updates as we go along on how other minigames changes as the difficulty increases.

Greatly Improved Not a Clone label UIs

We were stuck with Ludum Dare 32 last weekend (have you tried Star Driller Ultra or Unconventional Stick Swinging Simulator yet?), but we did make some major improvements to the user interface (UI) on Not a Clone. The instructions, success, fail, time’s up, and speed up labels has been greatly improved.

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Additionally, the Game Over screen has been revamped as well.

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There’s a bit more work left that can be seen in the screenshots and animations above, but we’re definitely making major progress.

Not a Clone Progress: Menu Animations

There’s not much to report this week, largely because a huge amount of time has been spent stripping out the previous menus, and implementing a new one to better reflect last week’s mockup. For example, to change the old start screen…

Initial conversion to iPad screen resolution
Initial conversion to iPad screen resolution

…to the new one Astra Wijaya made…

Mockup of the Start Menu
Mockup of the Start Menu

…GameObjects (this project is made in Unity) has to be moved around to make it easier to animate and script the UI.

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This is actually a lot of invisible work. As weird as it sounds, there’s quite a lot that goes behind the scenes to update old stuff to look like something new.

Still, things are progressing smoothly. In other places, a few minigames now support multi-touch, making them a bit easier.