Haha, well I don’t know about sequel, but…spiritual successor maybe? Probably gonna be another short joke game, but probably not a shmup this time.
I’ve been trying to figure out what the original title was. Google Translate says “Vent Your Daisakusen.” I’m guessing “Vent Your” is phonetic and is supposed to be “Bento,” and then “Daisakusen” I guess is like “Plan” or “Strategy” or “Operation,” so maybe…”Operation Bento”? That sounds good to me. :P
So I’ve had a basic no-frills Bejeweled clone working for like a week or two, and after briefly considering canceling the game, I finally got back into AMBITION MODE tonight and did some more work. It’s still a ways from shippable, but it’s something.
Super late response: Yup, it’s 3D. Barely. But it is.
Progress update: Very close to being done. I need to redraw all the tile art, and I’d like to add some particles and maybe some postprocessing just to pretty it up a little bit since it still looks a little flat, but otherwise yeah. I spent most of today getting audio hooked up, and I’m pretty happy with how it sounds.
It mostly plays like an endless game of Bejeweled. If you run of the moves, the board resets as long as the timer is still running. Once the timer expires, you can keep playing until you run out of moves. You can increase the timer by completing full bento boxes, which is to say making one match of each type of tile.
