During the 'Game Over' sequence, the player is then reminded what they had done during the game, and reward them if they completed all three missions.
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If the player had completed all missions, then old missions will be replaced by new ones. I eventually want to add more missions to the game, but for now, there should be enough to satisfy the player.

Here is the final game-play of the missions system. Hope you like it! If you have any suggestions, let me know.

So now that all the mechanics have been implemented into the game, and the game-play is well on it's way to being refined, it is now time to implement the sounds and music. I may or may not do another Dev Blog about this, so I'll see how we go. Otherwise, I want to thank you again for following me through this journey. It's been wild! A whole lot of ups and downs, twists and turns, highs, and lows, and I hope that you will join me in the release of Just Survive: Arena. Keep a close eye out for my Twitter, Instagram and Facebook pages about this. More information will be coming soon!

On a side note, if you wish to be a part of the testing phase, please don't hesitate to contact me through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, or even email! I would really love to get your input on this and refine whatever I can to satisfy the target market.

Besides that, stay tuned for more info about JSA in the coming weeks!

Until then, Thank you all for keeping up with these posts. I really appreciate it!

Cheers!

Welcome back to this week's Juicy Beetle Blog! I know, I know, It's been a while since my last post, and I promised that I would be doing them a lot more frequently, and I apologise. In all honesty though, its been a brutal few weeks since last I posted. So, I recently got engaged, and planning a wedding is a lot of work. Since my partner is an intense compulsive planner, things had moved tenfold in the planning department, meaning I had little time working on the game, and more time focusing on venues... On top of that, I, somewhat had... digressed from this weeks plan-BUT, in all fairness, I think it will be worth it. 

So the last Dev Blog I posted, I mentioned that I would be working on the game-play and fleshing that out. Well I did that for majority of the time, but then I realised that something still was missing. At this point, you're probably thinking that I'm suffering hard from 'feature creep', and you're probably right, but games these days are progressing quite rapidly. Audiences have  a certain expectation  and I wish to deliver! With that, I decided to add 'missions' to my game (they are called missions for now, but later, I would probably call them something else). "What are missions?" you ask. Well, allow me to elaborate.

The missions I intend to include in my game are going to be relatively easy at the start, and progressively get harder the more you complete. Each mission may vary between collecting a certain amount of coins in a single game, to 'avoiding' certain obstacles. Once three missions have been completed, the player will advance to the next level (not stages or anything, but player levels). The player will also receive rewards for completing these missions which can go towards buying new items. I'm actually quite happy- and a little relieved- at the system I've implemented for these missions to function correctly.

Hey all! Welcome to this weeks long awaited Juicy Dev Blog! For the past few weeks, I've been working hard on implementing the shop system. After tirelessly trying to decide on color schemes, backgrounds, UI designs, placements, where and how I would add the inventory AND the functioning shop assets, I had FINALLY manage to complete it! And, from what I've got, I'm quite happy with the final result if I do say so myself. Without further delay, let's jump into it!

The first hurdle I had when deciding on a shop screen was how it should look. I really loved how the PC game 'Cup Head' represented their shop screen, with the old-style shop counter and the shop keeper ever so patiently waiting for you to purchase an item. I really wanted to incorporate that design into my game but with my own flair and style. I also needed to consider what could be purchased, and where it displays. Rather than having an ever scrolling item page, I wanted to incorporate a more practical design. So, I decided to implement 'tabs' instead. This allowed me to keep everything on the one screen and allow the player to see only what they needed to see at specific times. 

Once the Inventory slider was functioning correctly, it was now time to implement the functionality of the purchase events, and how to display them. This part was a little easier since I had done this previously with my last game (Slidey Feet). All I needed to really do was the design elements for this purchase system.
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Then finally, I managed to fix all the minor bugs which I found along the way, and ended up with this! Hopefully you like it as much as I do! Again, if you have any suggestions, please let me know! Would love to hear them!

Next "week", I'm hoping to really refine the game play to the point where it's deemed playable (to a beta testing standard) so that I can start to organize Beta testers! Yay!
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If you are interested in beta testing 'Just Survive: Arena', please don't hesitate to contact me either through twitter, instagram, or facebook. Even throw an email my way at [email protected]!

That's it for now,

Until next time!

Thanks for reading

Welcome back to this weeks Juicy Development! Apologies for the lack of blog posts lately. I've been super busy at work. Luckily enough, I'll be coming up to my next lot of holidays in the next few weeks, so hopefully I'll be able to get back into the swing of things while on my break.

​This time around, I have managed to finish off the two extra levels; Icy Tundra, and Desolate Desert. These two new levels introduce exciting new mechanics which will bring a new spin to the game play. 

The Desert level will have a torrent of sand blowing in front of the scene, making it harder to see the landscape before them. I will probably need to make the sandstorm a little more fierce, since at the moment, it doesn't really seem to hinder the vision all that well.

For the Tundra level, in terms of the mechanics, it adds a new 'trap' to the game play which acts as a massive Ice block, pushing the player before it crashes into the wall. This, although doesn't really do much in terms of damage, it can really hinder them when trying to circumnavigate around the environment. Later, I may implement a new mechanic (slippery) which makes it harder for the player to run on the ice. This would free up the ability to use this particular ice block trap in other levels later, but we will see.
The Tundra environment was really fun to draw. Playing around with different ice styles really pushed my creativity further. 

With these biomes ready to go, I'll be focusing my attention on the game shop. I've already created a few assets for the shop, but there is still a lot to code in order for the shop to function correctly. I can't wait to show you all what I have done so far with it, and to get your opinion about it! 

Besides that though, that basically concludes this weeks Dev Blog. Again, sorry for it being so short. I'm hoping to include a lot more in the future. What did you like, or dislike about these levels so far? Would you like to see more of these? If so, which ones? I would love to hear your comments either at my Twitter, Instagram, and even Facebook, or the comments below!

Until next time,

Thanks for reading!

Welcome everyone to this weeks Dev Blog! It has been a while since I've kept you up to date, and there is a good reason for that. For these last few weeks I've been working away with implementing new character customization. Introducing;  Sporadicus the Gladiator, Hop the bunny, Hook the pirate, the Ninja, and the Barbarian! 
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I'm thinking maybe I'll change up the names a little later, probably even a competition for the community to name these character, but we will see how we go. I plan to implement more later down the track, but I feel as if five is a good number to start with!

I've been working away at implementing a system allowing me to integrate each character with ease. Since redoing the original character, It was quite easy to implement new characters into the game using the same method. Since Spine2D is based on individual assets, I could easily replace the assets of the original character with the newer character assets by redirect the image folder location to the new asset folder, which then Spine2D would automatically update the character with the new assets. Simple!
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From creating new characters, to implementing them into the engine, I found it very easy to update. All I needed to do was change the folder location of the player character to the new asset folder within the game engine and it simply replaced it with the new character. It was very important to make sure that the animations did not change names since Spine and Stencyl looks for particular animation name spaces.

Here is the end result of each of the characters. I don't want to show off too much, otherwise I would spoil some of the surprises. Enjoy!

On top of these, I've also managed to design one of the two backgrounds I wish to implement into the game. Each environment will have a specific design mechanic based on the environment chosen. I plan to have two new environments; Desert and a Tundra. The desert will have a sandstorm like effect which can hinder the character vision, making the game-play slightly harder. The tundra will make the character slide around more than usual.

You might be thinking "why have a harder level, when I can just get a higher score using the default level?" Good question! What I'm planning to have are multiple high-score boards so that players at different difficulty levels can compete to challenge each other. Something I'm testing, so this is definitely going to be one for the Beta testers!

Besides these updates, that's basically it! Next Dev Blog I'm hoping to have all backgrounds implemented and showcased as well as the shop system set up. Then it's the final stages! Woooh! I can see the end!

Until next time,
Thanks for reading!
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