"Final Exam" Game Devlog

Hi!

As a tradition, I'm publishing the new post to the devlog.

During this week I managed to redraw three enemy girls and re-create their behaviors. The enemy behaviors from the old version of the game were too difficult and confusing, so I decided not to fix the old code, but to write everything from zero. The new behaviors turned out to be much simpler, and their program code became much more compact.

As I said before, the enemy girls were to be based on the pixel-style models from the old version of the game. I created a set of new sprites for the three new enemies. One of the enemies is a flying witch, which was not present in the previous version of the game.

I have not, yet, placed all the enemies on the level map, but only placed one unit of each type to visually evaluate the work done. All characters in the new version of the game, as in the old version, are made in chibi style. More realistic, anime-style characters will be in the cutscenes, for which I generate concepts in between game development.

However, after evaluating the resulting sprites of enemy girls during the game, I wanted to edit their female forms a bit. I've already found some samples that I'll use as a base.

For the first level I need to make one more enemy girl. I will try to draw her in the new style. I will temporarily leave the already finished enemy girls as they are now. I will redesign their images after I release the demo with the new first level.

As for the game mechanics, this week I've been working a bit on the jump code for the main character. I decided to remove the double jump to simplify the controls a bit. And the jump height can now be adjusted by the length of time you press the jump button (like in many classic platformers). I had to adjust the gravity and jump strength parameters for a very long time to achieve more or less adequate results. I think it turned out pretty well, but it's possible that the parameters could be changed a bit in the future.

The working build has been updated and is available for paid subscribers.

P. S. On the pictures of attachment I intentionally drew the girls swimsuits, so as not to violate the rules of this site about public posts. In the game the girls are completely naked.