Coding the Wrestlers story!

Hey everyone,

I hope you are all doing well!

So since last week I've been coding again, to turn turn all my art into an actual playable game. And I wanted to share  a bit of what I've been doing so far :)


Placing & Taking Posters

Now at some point in the game, Keen will be asked to place some 'Wrestle Posters' around the ship. And the goal is simply to place 5 posters, which will be enough to progress the storyline.

But adittionally, depending on where you place a poster, different people will show up at the wrestle match. And because of that, I thought it would be preferable that you could switch around the posters- to influence who would be there.  And so to make this happen, I wrote a small bit of code, that could be re-used in various rooms.

There are now 11 rooms where you can place a poster, and I will add more when the game expands again ;)  

This gif, shows the code & the effect it had in game:

The Match Intro

And in the second gif below, you can see the actual grandstand where the people who have seen the poster will appear -although it's empty now. But I added this gif, because it also shows a rather complex transition to kick off the start of the wrestle match.

Two years ago, I would have seriously struggeled a lot to make something like this...But thanks to all the practice I had, things go pretty easy now. It still takes quite a bit of time of course, but at least I know what I'm doing ;D  


The girls in action!

Now the next thing on my to-do list is putting together the actual wresting match -including  all the variable outcomes it can have. And as part of this, I will also add this small animation - where the girls are struggeling to make their move.

Well, so far the update!  
I hope you like where this is going :)


All the best!

-Robin


PS. ...

I've been experimenting with making gifs from the game-and either they become  big in filesize -or become super hacky in framerate.  So, right now I tried to find a middle ground and added gifs which are a bit hacky but not too big (max 10 mb). But, I'm actually not sure if a bigger filesize would be an issue for these patreon post? ...since I don't recieve my own posts :)  

So if you have any thoughts on that -or know how other creators deal with this,  please let me know!