Lots of progress!

Spears Dracona on 2025/03/26 05:49 of Meep!

I'm really happy with the progress I've made. I went for a pretty simple concept since what little programming skills I have are very rusty, and I've pretty much got all the mechanics I planned for in the game now. I got to a point on Monday where I was finally spending more time coding than looking up how to do things, and things have come together really fast since then.

Today I made my title screen nicer. I already figured out how to do scrolling clouds for the level, so it wasn't hard to stick some scrolling clouds on the title screen and make a giant bobbing ducky. I also added some music to the game and made it keep track of the player's high score. It's feeling like an actual game!

I'm also having fun adding little things in the background. I'm trying to lean into weird and surreal. I know my game mechanics aren't too innovative (but I do think they're fun!), so I'm trying to make up for that by piling on loads of personality. I'm mostly here to learn, but I want to make people smile in the process.

From here on out, it's mostly polish. Unless I think of a feature I need to add in the shower tomorrow. :D