Scunthorpe Scavenger

Devlog

• Day 9: The final day - 4.5 hours
  August 23, 2020 by Gale

  Today is the final day of the jam, and as such the game should be completed! I have added the main menu, pause menu, music, SFX and music controls, and a game over screen with the score. We also spent... Continue reading
• Day 8 - 6.25 hours
  August 23, 2020 by Gale

  Today I decided it was about time to actually work on the core features of the game, namely the night cycle and the upgrade system. Each night, an increasing number of exploding wasps spawn in a radiu... Continue reading
• Day 7 - 7.5 hours
  August 21, 2020 by Gale

  It's crunch time. Today I created the minimap, shotgun, town and a game tutorial. The minimap is generated using the same seed as the world, by just sticking pixels on a map according to the noise val... Continue reading
• Day 6 - 4 hours
  August 21, 2020 by Gale

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  On the 6th day of development, I finished the chickens and cows so that they produce the appropriate produce. Cows can be milked once a day, and if you fail to milk them, they die. Chickens lay one eg... Continue reading
• Day 5 - 5.5 hours
  August 19, 2020 by Gale

  Today was a big day for the game as I added procedural world generation, as well as animals using the sprites made by Fire yesterday. The world generation uses Perlin noise (surprise surprise) to gene... Continue reading
• Day 4 - 3.5 hours
  August 19, 2020 by Gale

  Today I spent some time focusing on the farmland system and the windmill. The farming system now works on a global tick system, which I have temporarily set to run every 2 seconds. In the final game t... Continue reading
• Day 3 - 1 hour
  August 17, 2020 by Gale

  I didn't have much time to work on the game today, but managed to get a basic gardening system into place where a planted farmland ticks every 2 seconds and calculates logic based on whether it is gro... Continue reading
• Day 2 - 6.5 hours
  August 17, 2020 by Gale

  On day 2 of our project, Fire created sprites for the windmill, chicken coop, various buildings, and the farmland, while I focused on programming core aspects of the game, such as the farming system... Continue reading
• Day 1 - 8 hours
  August 16, 2020 by Gale#Developement Day

  Fire and I spent our first hour discussing what kind of game we should make, and we settled on a farming-based game after we saw some of the food sprites. I threw together a player while Fire worked o... Continue reading