2014

Prototype: Murakami Progress #04 (November 2014 #OneGameAMonth)

| Taro Omiya

Yesterday, I finished the navigation, and had a working menu system to navigate from one path to another. Today, I added in camera animations to provide better view on the paths the character can take. I’m still working on update the buttons to indicate direction, but as you can see in the screenshot below, I’ve made some progress on that as well.

PrototypeMurakami04

Once I fix the buttons (you can tell the text leaking out of the screen), the plan is to start on the Point & Click puzzles. For a week-long effort, it’s exciting to see the navigation working, but I still have a long way to go!

Prototype: Murakami Progress #03 (November 2014 #OneGameAMonth)

| Taro Omiya

Last time, I was in the middle of the rail system, particularly on setting up a menu that shows up when approaching a fork. Today, I have a prototype of the menu letting you know of the branching paths. Clicking on the buttons in the screenshot below will put Unity-chan down that path. Escaping from the menu is as easy as just turning around with a key-press (currently assigned to shift).

PrototypeMurakami03

Next up will be the camera animation. In the screenshot above, it’s hard to tell that our heroine reached a fork. Thus it’ll be necessary to visually show that the path does indeed split. That’s a little hard to do with the current suspenseful camera angle, so triggers will be implemented to pan the camera out.

Registered for Bacon Game Jam October 2014

| Taro Omiya

I forgot to mention that yes, I’ll be attending the Bacon Game Jam this weekend. Bacon Game Jam was originally created at Reddit to help game developers learn to develop and finish their project. The game I create for this game jam will cover the #OneGameAMonth for October.

Due to shoddy internet connection at my current location, I won’t be live-streaming my development progress. I will, however, attempt to create a time lapse of my progress. Assuming I don’t make the same mistake I did last Ludum Dare…

Prototype: Murakami Progress #02 (November 2014 #OneGameAMonth)

| Taro Omiya

Last time, I was working on making Unity-chan move in a pre-defined, on-rails fashion from point-to-point. Today, I implemented a button to turn the character around 180 degrees at any point in the game. Additionally, I cleaned up the running and turning animation so that the character moves very smoothly. Lastly, I updated the physics so that the player can climb and descend hills pretty easily.

PrototypeMurakami02

The screenshot above shows my work-in-progress with the rail system. Like Killer7, the intent is to have several branching paths. As of now, the connections between each points are working, but the ability to choose which direction to go when approaching a fork in the road is not. Hopefully that can be implemented tomorrow, making the prototype of a navigation system complete.