Jiggin'

[rogueNoodle]

@AndrewJamesAdams - Not at all! Glad you like him

So here's a bit of a playable - pretty happy with the progress so far, although just a bit overwhelmed by what's left to do

Up and down arrows move the hook up and down. Pressing the space bar when the hook is near a fishes mouth will "jig" the hook (no animation yet), and hopefully, catch a fish. You can get multiple fish on the hook at one time - reel the line all the way back up to successfully "catch" the fish. No score or anything yet, just the basic controls...

http://roguenoodle.com/jiggin/build-02/Web.html

[rogueNoodle]

Only a small update today, unfortunately - day job eating up too much time

Started on the scoring system, and have a clock in there as well that doesn't actually do much yet...

Also wrote a bad banjo tune (as opposed to a good banjo tune?) that may or may not act as the base for the final music. Right now, it's really just a couple of parts that loop pretty poorly

Still to come:
Powerups
Line-breaking mechanic
title screen
game over screen
sound fx (lots of them)
polish (lots of it)

And a playable build: http://roguenoodle.com/jiggin/build-03/Web.html
Up and down arrows move the hook, and space bar will jig any fish currently colliding with the hook (the collision check is only near the fish's mouth)...

[Jerombd]

Awesome!
Maybe add some foes to spice up the gameplay, like a sawfish cutting the line, but you can knock him out with the hook, etc.

[rogueNoodle]

Sawfish is a great idea. I actually had a similar idea for a shark that would try to eat the fish off of the hook, making it so you had to dodge him. But I really like the idea of cutting through the line. Depending on the time left when I implement my current to do list, I'll definitely be looking at something like this. Thanks for the feedback

[rogueNoodle]

Soooo... obviously didn't make it in 7 days. Unity's been sort of kicking my ass the last couple of days, but I feel like I'm getting back on track. I do plan on having it completely done by Friday, so here's hoping...

No new build ready, but here's a boring WIP screenshot from Blender of the shark I will be adding in...



Also just want to say that everyone has done a really incredible job, and I really enjoyed watching everyone's progress

[AnomalousUnderdog]

Honestly not a lot of fun for me, but obviously we've yet to see the final product.

But damn, those are some really really nice graphics and polish for 7 days.

You working on this alone? Impressive work, man!

[rogueNoodle]

Ha, yeah - it's not a lot of fun for me either I've got a couple of things I'm going to try in the next day or two, but if it doesn't improve by the weekend, I'm moving on. Lesson learned - make it fun with boxes before making any art

Whatever the outcome, I'm happy with what I've learned - unfortunately things like how to organize my scripts in Unity didn't start to click until I had a huge mess of code already, so trying to jam new gameplay ideas in there is sort of rough. My next game will go smoother (I hope!).

Thanks for the feedback!

[@mr_ianthompson]

Keep it up buddy! I love this and what to see it finished!

[rogueNoodle]

@mr_ianthompson - Thanks for the encouragement. Decided I would see it through to the end afterall:

Finally finished, and while it's not perfect (or even very good ), I'm just happy to see it through to the end:

Jiggin' (Unity Webplayer)

For some reason, there's some weird bugs in the Mac version that I wasn't able to figure out...

Looking forward to checking out some of the submissions (finally!)