Ludum Dare 29. Contributors:

• Arne Roomann-Kurrik
• Kalev Roomann-Kurrik
• Wes Goodman

Theme: "Beneath the surface"

• Come up with idea.
• Main game loop.
• Level loading.
• Vertical level switching.
• Music loading.
• Player movement.
• Collision detection.
• Water tracking / gauge.
• Items.
• Pump item type and pump events.
• Menus.
• Load player sprite sheet.
• Triggers for running over items and transition tiles.
• Destructable item framework.
• Health bar.
• Show picked up items.
• End state.
• Splash screen.
• Level tiles for dry, partial, drowned levels.
• Sound effects.
• Snorkel.
• Pickaxe and barrier tiles.
• Pump tile.
• Map work.

• Ground.

• Change over time.

• Digging holes, top down, holes have different depths, can only go adjacent levels.

• Submarine.

• Underground pathways.

• More depth than initially expected.

• Tremors the game.

• Character that has to duck out of the way.

• Revealing something about NPCs.

• Tremors from monster's point of view.

  • NPCs on rocks, running to some goal.
  • Can go around rocks, eat NPCs if you touch them.
  • Need to wait for them to expose themselves.
  • Pathfinding with preferences to stay on rock.

• Dungeon, go deeper.

• Motivations for going beneath the surface:

  • Escape from surface
  • Escape from below

• Well Idea:

  • Start at the top of a well.
  • Raining.
  • Climb down and levels strip away.
  • Need to find a way down.
  • Powerup items: Move faster, hold breath longer, etc.
  • Well starts to fill with water, so you need to be fast.
  • Can return to top of well to pump water out.
  • Need to get to bottom to get more loot.
  • Further down, better loot.
  • Levels fill with water slowly, eventually you hold your breath, take damage, etc.

Complete the setup steps for the twodee lib.

Also:

go get -u github.com/kurrik/tmxgo

Run:

git submodule init
git submodule update