Hey again!

This week we focused on balancing the game and making the player feedback better!

ART

A bunch of particle effects were added to give the player more insight to when something hit him, and if he is affected by the thing that hits him.

Poison bubbles for when you pick up the rotten meat!

Bubbles for the drunk effect!

Rotating stars for when you get hit by a barrel and you just have to recollect yourself for a bit!

Dust particles for when you are SO fast in running, you leave a trail behind you! 

These are the current VFX textures we will be using for our particles

We designed our leaderboard for those that want to get high up in those ranks!

We created materials to show the Buff/Debuff effects on the player and on the boss

We also tried a completely different light setup. We haven't made the choice which set up we are going to use in our final game but these are our options at the moment:

These are the icons that will be used in the menus/UI later

TECH

It's nice to have made particules, UI updates or a new UI for the leaderboard but someone has to plug that in the game. A lot of our weekly time was spent doing so.

The leaderboard is now almost finished and can be accessed/viewed throught the main menu. We added controller support for the menu button as well.

On the particle side, the walking dust trail as been plugged in and the items also got their share for player and ground collision. A lot is still to be done as we need more FX for our buffs and debuffs; it is still a miss part of our player feedback. 

Finally, one of our main task was to improve the game balancing and difficulty increase. In the past the game was really slow and the attack throw were always linear. Turns out the game wasn't increasing in difficulty due to the fact it was not properly applied, so, sorry about that. With that fixed we added circular throwing patterns to make the game more interesting and it forces the player to use more of the play area.

It still not perfect but it is coming along nicely, hopefully we will have time to wrap this up.


Thanks for reading and stay tuned for the upcoming last polish week!