Journal Entry 1

Date: 10.4.2024

Activity:

- Implemented the design from my Project A

Notes:

Most of what I was doing is already said or can be seen from the design document so I'll try to point out only the interesting things/problems that happened during the implementation.

First I experimented with Ellens light distance because it was too short for me. This gave me an idea - I put this light to the teleporters which made a cool glowing effect when they are in the dark.

I tried to design a spiky platform which served as an obstacle for the player (for example in Acid Bath) so that it doesn't look like a generic moving platform with spikes. Here I ran into an issue where all my sprites in the new platform were on the same layer and so they overlapped randomly. I also found out that playtesting the game takes a fair bit of time.

Lastly was managing animations of the doors/teleporters in Crossroads based on which keys are picked up. The problem was that key pickups are in different scenes than the doors/teleporters. I resolved this by creating TeleporterManager and DoorManager classes which had static variables that I could write to in the different scenes. I also tried doing this with PlayerPrefs but it seemed to me like this is really only meant for player options and not the thing I tried to achieve.

Invested hours:

10.5h - Implementing the design

Outcome:

Build (uploaded to the itch.io page)