Cool! It looks like my entry will be more abstract and exploratory than goal-oriented so I’ll be following your entry closely to see what I need to live up to!

I’m in love with the interface! Awesome!!! <3 

@gold_ninja I had not played that until now; it’s pretty neat. It’s amazing what people create in these competitions. My plans are for something a bit different. I’d change the title, but it’s the only word on the inspiration art. So perhaps a subtitle is in order. I’m trying to focus on mass compatibility, random map generation and hopefully decent spritework. We’ll see how it turns out. ^_^

@Drexegar Thank youuu, that’s really encouraging. Imaging isn’t really my strong suit, so I think I’ll have to budget a lot of time to get it all looking good enough.

story: 80%

engine: 50%

graphics: 7%

Mid-term Report

[ 3wks 5days 18hrs 16mins 26secs until AGBIC deadline ]
If you say !agbic in the IRC channel, or @tr67 !agbic on Twitter (no follow required), I’ll reply with a good old-fashioned timer response such as this. (Yes, that was made in the midst of a soul-wrenching debug. ;-) )


story: 95%

engine: 80%

graphics: 15%



Firstly this font, which I forgot to mention previously. “CHIP” by gabrielfigueiredo

It popped up on my Twitter feed while I was doing some sprite work, and has since served me very well.


So I clearly need a diver. She is female simply because I am female and prefer to play my own gender.

Her tank is a flexible bubble that trails her like a cape.


large scale “blanks”



Here are her final animated blank sprites.
Details are added on top of these. The suit and tank will differ slightly in appearance on each map.




I played with some WebGL and HTML5, but I decided to stick with Javascript on XHTML1’1. Browsers seem to differ less in their behavior (for my purposes) of this combo. It also generally runs lighter in memory, which is a priority because I’ll have a lot of sprites.

So I guess you could call what I’ve done so far a miniature Framework or Library with the start of an Engine, but they’re all melded together for this project. So for the purposes of tracking progress I’m just calling it all engine. I might adapt it into other games in the future, but that’s the future. I got sick of using alert() trying to keep track of all it, so I wrote a debugger which you can see above.

If you would like to poke around with that build, it is playable here. If you are playing it on a small screen with no keyboard, note that I will be overlaying 6 large touchable/clickable areas on the “tv screen” with which you can also control the game.

The debugger for said build is on and set at level 3. If you would like to change the verbosity level, you can use these bookmarklets. (Fixed for forum safety.) Thanks for any feedback.
default (currently 3) _ [ javascript:debugOn=1;debug(); ]
0 comment _____________ [ javascript:debugLevel=0;debugOn=1;debug(); ]
1 error _______________ [ javascript:debugLevel=1;debugOn=1;debug(); ] red
2 halt, uncommon ______ [ javascript:debugLevel=2;debugOn=1;debug(); ] orange
3 do, uncommon ________ [ javascript:debugLevel=3;debugOn=1;debug(); ] yellow
4 set var/resource ____ [ javascript:debugLevel=4;debugOn=1;debug(); ] green
5 do, common __________ [ javascript:debugLevel=5;debugOn=1;debug(); ] blue
6 halt, common ________ [ javascript:debugLevel=6;debugOn=1;debug(); ] purple

Onward

Collision detection is done. Now I’m in the middle of map generation. It’s going well, and I theoretically have it all figured out in my head, but you’re all programmers, you know how that goes. %) Then I’ll be onto the pause/start menu system, upwards of 50 sprites, a few sound effects, full implementation and debug. Must finish. :)

@matt I put that into the latest animation, thnx.

In stranger news, I just burned the $#!7 out of my right hand, so hopefully it’s not swollen like a baseball tomorrow. Sore typing is no fun.

graphics: 70%

sound: 100%

game: 100%


play here
play w/o sound (any loading issues)
release build zipped here (You can play it locally from your hard drive, but settings will not save w/o a cookie.)

Illuminate the bubbles. Find creatures. Get to the bottom. Enjoy.

I learned so much doing this project; it was a long road. I plan on completing a more detailed entry page and manual in the future. Thanks for playing.