Game1, Day 34 – Misc art I just remembered, whoops!

I was going through the Game Design Doc looking for something and passed by the word “tutorial” and realized I didn’t even think about a tutorial or loading screen haha Whoops! No biggie, I figure there’s not much to the game so it won’t be hard to figure out… Any information needed should be able to go on a loading screen. I’m guessing because there’s so much art in the game there will be a bit of load-time going on… might as well fill that with something useful!

I’m a fan of in-game tutorials, but man is it frustrating when you can’t skip them. It drives me nuts when I have to play through the first 5 levels or so of a game closing pop-up boxes when the game’s controls are pretty obvious as it is. My game isn’t going to be complex enough to need much instruction, but if I did something like a Strategy RPG I would put a lot more planning into the tutorials so they could be integrated into the main game engine instead of tacked on as an afterthought. Stuff to consider for future games!

Nothing exciting to report today, just workin’ on the art. The explosion was the last major gameplay thing… so now I’m doing all the animation files for everything. It’s not a difficult process, it’s just slow boring grunt-work!

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