Well, game play is nearly finished :)

You can now select different types of plants to grow,
zap the enemy, and he zaps you too...
Removed encase button/cursor, and removed idea from game,
Narianim made some more wonderful plants, and some new wizards, you can actually tell who you are ;), I have yet to implement them though...
Fixed the renderer so that draws sprite in the proper order, that took some thought, but now works great :D


TODO: make menus
make in-between level graphics
make sfx/music(my offer still stand sfor sfx/music ppl, as I have no experience whatsoever in music, and little in sfx)
Add locusts
make levels advance, instead of quit :/
Make game keep track of last finished level
implement new graphics
add new tiles
and fix any errors that crop up!

If we finish that with time to spare, we'll work on packaging, art, levels, whatever

While chrysn and nex are hacking away on the game logic, I'm busy redoing our graphics.

Yay for pixel ninjas... but which one to use?

pingimbert is doing a great job with arts... here a preview:

The evolution of player character is now visible.

I have almost completed my game. It's playable and has every thing that a game needs (menus, different levels, camera effects, sounds). Planning to add more misc stuff. Till then this would be it :) Here are the current screens:

New demo!

And yeah, the first jump at level 3 is a bit tricky... might fix that

Well, I have the interface done (kinda - still a few issues to tackle), but I can't get the gameplay right, and at this rate I'm definitely not confident I'm going to finish the gameplay in time.

At this point I guess I should reveal what my game is. I was waiting until I had a prototype ready, but by now it's just too late.

The name of the game is 'Welcome to WC' (WC stands for World Corporation). You start off as a lowly trainee and it's your job to take over the company. Working isn't enough, so you get to spy for others' secrets and blackmail them, sabotage people so they get fired, and other stuff like that. You even get to meet a janitor (named 'The Janitor') who trades secrets with you. Your goal is to make people like you (or pretend to like you, depending on your means) so you get promoted to the top. Or at least that was the original plan.

In paper, this idea sounded good, but my execution was horrible. But at least I learned a lot.

Still, what do you think, should I submit the game even without the gameplay? Most people would probably disclassify me, but maybe I get some score for pity. :P Should I add an "unfinished" to the filename if I do so?

By the way, there are so many awesome entries this time. I wouldn't get a good score even if I had a perfect execution.

At work today I made a prioritized list of things I need to do. I'm listing it here for reference:

1. Keyboard buttons activate on-screen buttons, rather than just the mouse
2. Random dungeon generation
3. Non-monster sprites
4. Stairs up
5. Activity log (i.e. hits, misses, etc)
6. Spawning monsters
7. More variety of items
8. PC can drop inventory items
9. PC can pick things up
10. More than 10 items in inventory should be accessible
11. Filling rooms with random treasure
12. Monsters drop loot
13. Game over screen
14. Save game
15. Load Game
16. Character Creation Screen

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17. Character viewing screen
18. Skill Cooldown, consumable items
19. Character skills
20. Choices of skills to gain on level up
21. Better-looking dungeons
22. Combat animations/effects
23. Other classes

Everything above the line are things I consider critical to even play the game. I've already worked on some of them, but none are complete. I've got two options at this point: Give up in the face of overwhelming adversity, or

GO FOR IT!

You can probably guess which one I'm trying :)

Well, I have to go off to the other end of the country tomorrow, and it's not likely I'll get near a computer to apply any further spit and polish to my entry, so I've uploaded it as-is. 'Tis a shame, as this is sooo close to being finished; one day to implement the final boss and add finishing touches would really be wonderful. *Sigh*

I finally got a couple of straight, uninterrupted hours where I could pull a few ideas together and ended up with:

• a level made up of several rooms
• a room with stairs in
• doors between rooms
• progressively larger levels
• oh, and a bug in my robots' movement which my wife caught

Now it is time to pull a late night and turn it into a real game!