Hey everyone, and welcome back to final instalment of the Juicy Development Blog! This is sadly the last week of these blog posts, since... well, I've basically finished development (besides the audio and some minor tweaks). Yes, yes, I know, it's a sad day indeed... But, don't fret! The closed beta is approaching quickly! If you are interested in joining a number of cool beta tester, and interested in trying out the game early, then hit me up! I'm happy to bring more testers on board for this. I'm hopefully looking at around mid January to start the pre-launch for the game, so keep an eye out for more details! In case you are wondering what I had done this week, then wonder no further! I FINALLY cleaned up the medal animations and positions as I promised. I had also started implementing sound effects to the game (still got a bit to go). I've still yet to implement the social media buttons, and I'm thinking of adding a "share now" button during the game over page... last minute? yes... bad idea? probably.... still going to do it? yes. Unfortunately, I've still yet to tweak the game-play a little bit more. This, I think, will take a while to flesh out, even during beta. Besides, that though, nothing much has changed. Again, if you do have some suggestions, definitely let me know, either send through a message below, message me on twitter, or Instagram, or even email me at JuicyBeetleGames@gmail.com. Now, you probably thought I didn't have a video this week right?.. Well, I do! Below is the finale video of Just Survive: Arena. I hope you enjoyed this as much as I have! Thank you to everyone who has been following me through this amazing journey! I hope for future game devs, you will be here as well! Until next we speak! Thank for reading!
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Hey everyone, and welcome to another exciting week of Juicy Development! It's been yet another full on week of engagement for not just the game, but for everything else that's been going on around me. I've picked up a bit more contract work over the Christmas break, so development has been a little slower than normal. But, nevertheless, I've still managed to work on a bit during the downtime. So the main focus this week was to refine the game play. Previously it seemed to exponentially get harder and harder, which didn't really give each mechanic enough time to impact the player (it felt like it went from 0 to extreme too soon). So, most of my time went into refining, and testing... And testing some more... And refining some more... Having some food of course, and then finally some more testing. The current build seems to be in a better place, but there is still a bit more refinement needed, so hopefully this next week I will be focusing purely on that. The 'pause' actions and menus are working correctly, which I'm happy about. I've also added my 'Juicy Beetle Games' pre-loader to the initial launch of the game, so I can also scratch that off my list of things to do. And I've also added a little 'hand' icon to help new players understand how to start playing the game. I've still yet to implement the social buttons to the main menu, as well as the controls for sound and music. And I still haven't tweaked the medal transitions which I said I would have done this week, so naughty me! But these implementations wont take too long to do though, so there's no problem there. I've still yet to find and implement music and sound effects, so I will probably start looking for a sound designers within the next few weeks to get that ball rolling as well.
Overall, there's really not much left to do for the game. Mainly polish, sound and music, and a few tweaks here and there, and then we're good to go! Next week will probably be my last week of Juicy Dev since there really isn't much else to show. I will probably have some final game play before Beta Testing, but that's about it. If you are interested in Beta Testing, then throw a message below! Until next week, Thanks for reading! Hey everyone, and welcome back to another exciting Juicy Dev week! This week I've been hard at work finishing off the Main Menu screen as well as the Credits screen. On top of that, I've also managed to implement a 'pre-loading' screen which helps each screen load and transition correctly. But, before I get into "nitty-gritty" of things, I would like to mention again about all of the helpful feedback I've received, particularly about my UI designs. Yes, I did say this last week, but since then, I have refined the UI EVEN further with the suggestions mentioned. At this stage, I am really happy with how it is looking, and I hope you do as well. Left is the first refined UI and Right is the Final UI Design The hardest part of this week was to balance this game's development with other personal commitments. It's been a pretty hectic week with both jobs wrapping up for the year, and with more work coming in over the Christmas break. On top of that, I really wanted to get the UI right, so coming up with designs which thematically made sense, fit the game style, fit the design goals, and had clear readability was a bit of a challenge. However, after all that, everything else seemed to have worked pretty well for me. The buttons implemented nicely, the animations came up better than I expected, the menu screens Illustrations came up nicely, and the 'pre-loading' screen worked quite well. On the topic of the 'Pre-loader', I wanted to show you what it basically looks like in and out of the game itself. I decided to add a simple animation rather than a loading bar, since, I feel makes it more personal and a little bit more 'thematic'. Another element I worked on this week was the main menu, although not much of it. I basically tweaked some of the elements in the foreground to obstruct less of the menu UI (Bomb shifted slightly more to the left). I really enjoyed coming up with a design for the credits screen, and i think it has turned out pretty well considering the time constraint. Besides these implementations, I don't think I have done much else this week. I know I've still yet to fix the in-game system (such as the reward placement, and the actual game-play), but all in all i'm happy with the progress. I'm hoping next week that I will be able to finish all of the Menu and UI implementations, and hopefully focus on the game itself. Then I need to think about sound.... fun. Until next week, Thanks for reading! |
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