Level Design

Greg and I lay out the levels. There are currently three levels which are supposed to have a difficulty ramp but I think the core mechanics allow for beating all three easily.

Thanks to Bennie's awesome coast tiles, the first two maps have coast line and boats!

Since we didn't impolement title cards on the levels you don't get to enjoy what we actually called them. They are:

• Level 1: Grand Turistmo
• Level 2: BBQ4ME+U
• Level 3:Compound Fracture

Ideally, the next couple of level would get harder and harder through introduction of more guards, patrol patterns and the introduction of just enough random guys to mess with your carefully planned attack vectors.

The tileset allows for walls, but doors are currently broken. With the introduction of T and + style walls intersections, you could make arbitrarily complex buildings.

Technically functional!

We now have all the necessary gameplay elements in place! The game is now officially playable, and we can move to making it... enjoyable? pleasant? good? Take your pick. With four hours to go, we have more work than time (who doesn't?), but we will have a game to submit by the time the jam is over!

--Greg

Making...Artwork?

Artwork?

Bennie's beautiful artwork is suplemented by my horrible pastel monstrosities.

I am not a artist by any means of the word. However, my main contribution to the project has been to fill in holes in what assets we have. These include:

• Sand
• Water
• Wall Segments
• Wall
• Door
• Corner
• Bush
• A small bamboo Hut
• Wooden Flooring
• Rocks (3 types)

If you can figure out what these objects are, my job is done.

Status Update: 7 Hours Remain

Okay, so here's where we're at.

Programming

• Most basic functionalities are done!
• You can fire blow-darts and use your club to attack.
• Enemies have the most basic of AI implemented: stand in place, rotate randomly, walk around randomly, run away from you, run toward shelter.
• YOU CAN EAT PEOPLE
• Still need to work on capturing civilians, as well as win and lose conditions. Also, allow civilians to escape.
• A bit of preliminary level design has been done on paper, though that's yet unimplemented.
• Defffffinitely needs polish.

Audio

• Music is done! We have four songs, and they're dope.
• Some sound effects are done, some we're working on. The humans' sound effects are awesome.

Art

• Brendan has been helping Bennie with art. He does not consider himself an artiste.
• Humans have beautiful walking animations. And there are a few different kind of humans.
• Also, EATING ANIMATION
• Some background stuff exists, and it's pretty.
• Huts! Those exist.
• A bit of particle effects because Tai has fancy skills.

Overall, we're totally going to have something working in time... but some parts of it will definitely be more polished than others. Go team go!

All of the music!

With 8 hours to go, all of the music is complete! Feel free to give a listen. Links are below, but you might have to right-click and save in order to actually hear it.

Sneaky stealthy music
Panic/freakout music
Jungle theme
Resort-goers' hokey luau music

The first three tracks were made using Sibelius, for which I'm fortunate enough to have a license through my school. The fourth track is just me on my ukulele -- no fancy parlor tricks. Enjoy!

--Greg

Devlog from Saturday Night

CAPTAIN'S LOG

Saturday

12:00 -- Initial meetup for the day

14:30 -- island background music loop done (1 minute), player artwork underway, basic enemy line of sight code added (player can hide behind walls), enemy AI started

23:59 -- Enemy wander/chase/evade/wall collisions done, LOTS of graphics assets, player dart gun implemented, we now have about 3 different songs (stealth, panic, intro)

--Tai

Devlog from Friday Night

CAPTAIN'S LOG

Friday:

18:30 -- Team Formed (Tai Enrico, Brendan Ritter, Bennie Leo, Greg Edelston)

19:00 -- Brainstormed Ideas

20:00 -- General game premise formed, some specifics worked out (TBA, it's a surprise)

21:00 -- Food consumed

21:30 -- Github set up

22:00 -- Game Maker set up with Github

23:00 -- Basic movement of player completed, grass background and 2 plant props finished

23:59 -- Smooth, orthogonal wall collisions completed, background music draft


--Tai

Song: Panic!

One song down. When you're sneaking around and you get seen by the resort-goers, the Panic music activates. Click here to download the audio. Yeah!

The Game

The first thing we did (after finding a room to work in) was, of course, brainstorm. What would our game be about? The theme, "...And then it went horribly wrong," was pretty broad. We busted out a whiteboard and markers, and got a-thinkin'. We got a pretty broad range of ideas, from zombies to nuclear strikes to Clippy taking over the world to clone wars to everything else in between.

Finally, we landed on an idea that we liked: cannibalism. Think tribal island sort of stuff. But the more we talked about it, the more we liked one particular twist: you play as the cannibals. Nothing goes wrong for you; the island-goers' beach resort goes horribly wrong. Because they get eaten. By you, the cannibal.

A few minutes later, and we'd fleshed out a fuller premise. The cannibals' island was undiscovered until recently, when more civilized humans from the mainland discovered this tropical island with beautiful beaches. Fortunately for you, this means that delicious, unarmed humans are ripe for the picking! Your goal is to capture and eat the humans. But stealth is key -- if the humans notice that their island is inhabited by cannibals, then they'll stop sending ships your way!

Throughout the game you also pick up some curious items from the travelers you capture -- little bent pieces of metal. Paper clips, if you will. These are your currency. They are necessary for sacrificing at your temple: a laptop that your people found some years ago. The more paper clips you sacrifice to your god, the more your people are rewarded with various upgrades and abilities. The final upgrade allows you to summon your god, bringing him out of the etherspace of the laptop and onto the island to wreak havoc and exalt you forever more. Yes, your god, the great and marvelous Clippy, shall soon walk the earth.

Game on.
--Greg

Introduction

Hello, world! It's the summer of 2014, and the Seattle weather is beautiful. The Microsoft interns have decided that the best way to take advantage of the beautiful weather is by sitting inside and programming all day! To that end, we have created a Game Jam: we have 54 hours to create a standalone video game, using whatever tools we want. 6PM on Friday, June 27 to 11:59PM on Sunday, June 29. The theme is, "...And then it went horribly wrong." We also get bonus points for prominently including Clippy. The race is officially on.

Our team has four members: Tai Enrico, Bennie Leonard-Cannon, Brendan Ritter, and myself, Greg Edelston. Bennie is our artist, I'm in charge of music/sound, and Brendan and Tai are our principal programmers, although I suspect Bennie and I will get to help out with coding. We intend to use GameMaker as our engine. We'll generally be posting updates on the MSFT Intern Game Jam forum, but we'll try to push updates here as well. (I may wind up copy-pasting other people's updates.)

Signing off for the first time,
--Greg