This week we overall focused on polishing up the entire game and making our mechanics more understandable and cohesive. We also addressed common bugs that came up.
First, we focused on expanding and polishing the main-level puzzles by making them longer and more challenging. We did this so that players would be forced to make more interesting decisions and would be unable to brute force their way through puzzles.
Additionally, we added a checkpoint system that saves the player’s position once they complete a puzzle. We added this functionality because we wanted to make our game more difficult, but not require the player to lose all their progress if they died.
Finally, we developed the dialogue and story of our game further. We reduced the amount of dialogue so that players could discover mechanics more organically. We also changed some of the dialogue, particularly in the opening scene, to be more cohesive with our overall story.
Next week we will continue to expand upon the puzzles in the main level and create more exciting and complex situations for the player. We will also work towards concluding our story with an exciting ending!
Thank you for reading! Please check out our demo and give us feedback!
