New build (0.1.1) released on itch.io!

Story intro is in. Revamped HUD, and more!

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02/07

• Changelog
• Graphics
• Redesigned game hud (probably not final yet)
• Changed donut healing icon (it’s now animated and shiny - probably not final yet!)
• Redesigned player’s bullets
• Redesigned enemy’s bullets
• Changed newborn larva’s opacity to 30%. It’ll change to 100% when they move (this makes it clearer wich ones are ready to fight)
• Story (new!)
  
• Added game intro with the first draft of the story (this is going somewhere!)
• Combat
• Increased enemy’s attack damage by 2 (Larvas deal 7dmg, Bulbs deal 9)
• While in combat, you can now only heal on your turn and, if you do, you skip the turn. (You can still heal outside of battle though)

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Build 0.1.0 is now playable on itch.io!!!

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I’ve reached build 0.1.0 and decided that, starting now, I’ll be releasing each build on itch.io so anyone can test it.

NOTE: Obviously, the game is in a very early stage of development and, as such, you can’t really do much, there’s tons of bugs and most things should be consider not final!

01/07

• Changelog
• Graphics
• Revamped most of the graphics (including the tileset and enemies)
• Changed game resolution to 384x216
• Implemented code to enable/disable particles (my older PC almost caught fire ‘cause of those damn particles)
• Created and animated new larva’s cocoon stage (noice!)
• Added new healing skill icon (just a placeholder)
• Blood stains are now properly drawn below the player, and not above (-.-’)
  
• Misc
• Fixed rare bug with enemies engaging in battle without line-of-sight (hopefully…)
• Added new healing skill: Pressing [G] (in or out of combat) will regenerate 20hp. (It costs money to use!)*
• Added mission prize indicator below the mission expenditures
• Fixed bug with larva eggs spawning larvas on occupied tiles
• Started coding the “Space ship” room wich will serve as a main screen between missions
• Combat
• Larvas spawned by an egg now go through a cocoon stage and then have to move to a new tile before engaging in battle
• Larva eggs now spawn up to 3 larvas per turn (they’re born from the same cocoon)

*Q: Why do bullets and skills cost money to use?

A: The game is about completing missions and earning money. So, to make things interesting, the disposables you use will have to be restocked at the end of each mission.

By disposables I’m referring to bullets and other items such as food (used to heal) and utilities (like grenades or med kits). Although right now i’m calling it a “skill”, healing is actually done by consuming a piece of food, and that costs money.

The idea behind this is to make you choose very carefully your course of actions: “What’s more cost effective right now: to shoot each of these larvas one by one or to throw this really expensive grenade at them?”

This also means that, if things don’t go as planned, you may actually come out of a mission with less money than you went in.

That’s why you’ll have a counter on the top right of the screen showing you how much you’re spending on the current mission. And below it’ll show you the prize you’ll get by completing the mission, so you can easily compare both values.

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What came first, the larvas or the larva eggs? o.O

(Bonus content: Find the rebel wall sprite.)

27/06

• Changelog
• Misc
• Fixed a rare bug with the cursor not switching states after finishing a battle
• Fixed cursor’s collision box
• Removed an old line of code that made bullets be destroyed when they hit pipes
• Fixed a rare bug that allowed the player to be in the same tile as an enemy (dooh!)
  
• Fixed a bug with the enemy “bullet” sprite where it wouldn’t face the right direction
• Added Mission Cost counter (so you know how much you’re spending on each mission - it’ll be needed for later…)
• Graphics
• Tweaked and finished walking animation (hopefuly)
• Added shooting animation (yay!)
• Aadded an outline and reduced player’s sprite opacity to 50% when hiding
  
• Changed wall sprite’s colors
• Changed room background color from black to dark gray (so that you actually see those black vignettes coming down)
  
• Added new wall types (will be revisiting these soon)
• Added new “larva infected” tile
• Added and animated larva eggs
• Gameplay
• Added new enemy type: larva eggs (they spawn larvas on adjacent tiles)
• Combat
• Added mechanics between larvas and their eggs: larvas drop eggs when their health is below 66% and they’re close to another larva… while eggs spawn new larvas
• Made battle indicator icons brighter (aka those red rectangles below the enemies - not sure what to call them…)

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25/06

• Changelog
• Graphics
• Added a walking animation (finally…)
  
• Changed battle UI elements (i.e. player’s & enemies name and health bar…)
  
• Changed battle UI texts position.
  
• Changed cursor icon
  
• Added player’s shooting stance. He now draws his weapon and turns to his target when shooting. (still have to animate that…)
• Added pipes. (need to redesign those)
  
• Changed bullet sprite.
• Gameplay
• Added new hiding mechanic: the player can now hide behind objects and won’t be spotted by enemies.

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Hiding behind objects is now a thing.

Walking is a thing too.

You’re a thing.

Thing.

Funny things happen when you write “sprite_index” instead of “image_index” :D

Back at it!

22/06

• Changelog:
• Misc
• Former terrible name “Omnimy” was replaced by a much better one (and temporary) “Space Game”! (Fancy…)
  
• Combat
• Enemies no longer enter combat if there’s not a clear line of sight to the player (i.e. they’re behind a wall -.-)
  
• Added better battle action indicators (aka those red icons below each enemy). They now change based on what’s happening.
• Fixed a rare bug where an enemy would enter battle even if out of range.
  
• GUI
• Fixed “continue” button when paused not reverting game state to normal (as in “not paused”).
  
• Fixed mouse pointer not being above other gui elements.
  

So there’s a new character sprite (just need to animate it), new enemy recolors and some camera movement + shake while battling.

And this wraps up version 0.0.7!

Now on to version 0.0.8!

Here’s a very basic combat system in place.

As you can see, when the player gets too close to an enemy, it triggers the battle mode. Other enemies may also join the battle at any time if they get close enough!

It’s not very interesting yet, since you can only point and shoot, but it’s working.