Thanks for all your feedback chaps. Here’s the progress since last post.
I wanted to have a mostly 2d maze in the main field where the game starts but I have tried many different ways and found that nothing quite looks right. The shot below shows what it currently looks like but I’m not sure about it still.
I am really looking for honest opinions here so be as critical as you like.
The snakeyness is starting to come together now as you can see in the shot below. The rogletts will follow you everywhere.
If you jump they will each jump at the point that you jumped at and what have you. I am quite enjoying that element now as I used to get a lot of fun out of just moving around with a huge tail in original snake and now I can do figure of eight and such like.
When you get about 12 or 13 rogletts it gets very tricky to do anything as they are constantly under your feet
but you have the rog charmer at your disposal if you feel the need to get away from them. The charge in the rog charmer
will run out in one minute, causing the rogletts to desert and causing your alien employers to put a black mark against
your name. Three black marks and your out on your ear, they will probably hire a cyberfrog or some such thing to pick
up the quest where you failed.
This shot shows what is currently my favourite area in the game. It is known as The Void but as the draw distance is so close
to make it run on my work machine, the void itself is not terribly visible.
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The maze here is much too big to negotiate in one minute so you must take your rogletts with you at least part of the
way.
This shot shows me in the maze above the void. The only thing that damages rogletts is when you walk on them and then they will draw energy from you to recover. As you can see, two of the rogletts have received a mild trampling, the two with the little halo's. The little yellow balls are the energy being sucked out of Mr. Silverfish.
By the way the creature hovering in the top right of the screen is known as a poegon (Pronounced Poe As In edger alan and gon as in gone home). They are big virtually weightless bags and are to air what fish are to water. He has no intelligence yet so he just hovers there mooing continuously.
This final shot was supposed to show some rogletts hanging in the air awaiting my next move but The great Nosebeast killed me while i was trying to hit print screen.
I had gravity on the rogletts but it was not as much fun as having them hovering around when your trying to jump between slippery platforms.
That’s about it for now chaps, sorry if this post is a bit muddled as I am trying to do this in work without the boss man catching me. Do please let me know what you think of the fire field thing at the top as I am still undecided about it.
Cheers chaps.
In the future we will not spank the monkey, the monkey will spank us.
