This evening I took the game rule simulation and rewrote it so                     
it can be operated from within the app. Also put in the web                        
framework.                                                                         

Everything is very much more solid now. But I can't say I feel                     
like I've made enough progress yet.                                                

I need to allow two clear days to create music and content. Not                    
sure I'm going to get that at this rate.                      

Its a start. I got plenty of more stuff to implement in the coming days. Hard parts are over for now.

It was third day of the challenge. I will try to make more features and gameplay mechanics in remain four days. May be, development of this game will be continued after challenge end. If you want it ;)

Added:

• Elevator - the main transport between floors of the tower. Now it's infinite. Really. You will can confirm it.
• New sounds (elevator sounds, character steps for elevator).
• Transition between game maps.
• You can open doors.
• Camera quake effect.
• Fade-in / fade-out effects.
• Everything sounded.

I don't have a lot of time this pyweek and I also want to use some physics this time. My game will be about jumping out of a tower. It should be simple enough for me to make in a couple of days I hope...

Functionality check

Title screen: check

Story screen: check

Level info screen: check

Gameplay: IN PROGRESS

Credits: IN PROGRESS

game over screen: IN PROGRESS

The last 3 (Especially game play) will take up a majority of the time needed to complete the project. I will throw in a screenshot on the next diary Entry.

About three hours in. The basic idea came quickly, and
then my brain immediately complicated it with all sorts of
pointless embellishments.

I tried to draw it out on paper. Decided on a world with
8 separate locations, and then soon realised you'd have
to jump back and forth between them pretty quickly.

I need to be sure that the game is viable from the outset.
There'll be no time to build it and fix it later. All my
code so far is an attempt to simulate the thing to see if
a satisfying end state can be reached in a reasonable
amount of time.

After tweaking some rules it seems there should be a final
Gold/Silver/Bronze outcome. And you'll have to take a risk
to get the top prize.

Next steps are:

• build out the game rules from my simulation
• put in the framework for web interaction
  

Switched to PyOpenGL. It is not as convenient as ModernGL but there is documentation... On StackOverflow and Reddit... 

I know it is possible to waste a lot of time creating worlds. I decided to not make a planet spherical at least.

I'm drawing primarily with glDrawArrays. Checked its limits. After 100 calls per frame FPS drops below 60. And after 1000 my computer starts making strange sounds.

My code is 700 lines of mess.

It was difficult day. Most time i worked on sound. (Sound is very important part of horror genre). Done only small part of the game.

I trying to do not show any spoilers for you.

New:

• First non-player character (monster) with special behaviour.
• Flashlight energy now is not infinite.
• More decorations on game map.
• Flashlight blinking on energy out.
• Death screen.
• Screamer
• Step sounds, flashlight click sounds, some more sounds...
• Panic effect (fades in when flashlight doesn't work), that will kill character after some time.

 

Today was a very productive day. I did one big thing mainly, and that was build a system for defeating enemies in the tower.

My way of doing it is quite a bit different, I built 3 mini games for different battles. I wanted to experiment with some different and yet still engaging way to do attacking, since I knew anything that any complex battle sequence that came to my mind would be weird, over complicated, and a little bit boring. So I decided to make a mini game for each battle, each one fast-paced, mostly simple, quick, and engaging (hopefully, only one other person than me has played them).

I'll go through each one briefly:

One of the minigames makes you rapidly hit your keys for a certain marker to either attack an enemy or block theirs before it disappears.

Another minigame has a rapidly moving "crosshair", where you have to click certain blocks when they come in contact with the crosshair, and either attack or defend based on their color. (It's much easier than it sounds I just am in a hurry to finish this post.)

The last one requires you to hit the spacebar a bunch of times to help increase your attack/defenses power level, and you have to outpower the enemies attack/block.

That's all of them in a nutshell. I also got some minimal graphics done for each tower level. Here's another screenshot (and the last for today, thankfully):