Thank you for trying the game. You didn't miss anything. I probably made the rocks too scarce. I probably should have implemented a system where a rock would appear in front of your current direction if you have been floating for too long.
Thank you for playing! I'm glad you and your son enjoyed it. The voice over, sounds, music, title and script were all by my daughter (age 9). We had a lot of fun making the game!
The look of this game reminds me a lot of the shows from the early days of Adult Swim. I like how you added more interesting challenges as you progress.
I liked the drawings and the beginning cinematic. I thought the atmosphere created by the music and the graphics were cool. For some reason, it kept crashing on my system when I was approaching the second parasite enemy. Maybe it's just something on my system (MacOS).
A few months ago I submitted a game to the Game Boy Jam called Neon Authority. I have decided it might be fun to try to expand on this and make a more complete title. Links to the game jam version of this game and the submission page can be found below:
Based on the feedback from the jam I think I can build on the following aspects of the game:
Art Style and graphics
Story and setting
Gameboy feeling
However, the aspects below were lacking:
Sound (I never got around to adding sound to the game)
Game Mechanics (there really wasn't much to this either)
My goals for this project are:
Add more depth and character to the story
More drawings and animations (make the world way more alive)
Add an inventory system
Add rudimentary turn base combat
Add sounds and music to the game
My plan is to add to this game using Gimp and GBstudio. I plan to work on this a few hours a week and will try to update this log once a week.
The first thing I did today was install GB Studio 2 Beta. I migrated the Neon Authoriy project into this version of GB Studio. When I tried to build and run the project, an error kept occurring. It turned out my OS (I use Linux Mint) was out of date. I upgraded the OS and that seems to have fixed the problem.
One thing I like about GB Studio 2, is by default, only the connections of the selected scene show in the world view. When you have all of the connections showing, the view looks like a confusing web.
That is it for me this week. Hopefully, I will have more soon.
