Blogs - TheRogueLynx

The Island

After participating in the global game jam this year I have decided to take my project from game jam and turn it into a full on game.

About

'The Island' is a metroid-vania style plat-former with an emphasis on exploration and isolating the player. It is a 2D platformer where the player runs and jumps around on this mysterious island. The art style in this game is extremely 8-bit and has a distinct pixel art style, while I do not currently have any sound in the game, I plan to be add it in soon. Thank you for reading and you can see some screenshots of my game below.

Development has come to somewhat of a halt these last couple weeks due to finals and also soccer starting, but now that Christmas break has started I hope to keep working on the game. I have mostly just been working on it a little bit on the weekends, but no notable progress has been achieved so far. I have made a rough list of everything that needs to be completed before it actually feels like a game. I estimated it should take about a month but two months might be more accurate. Sorry for the lack of updates and I will keep all of you updated from now on!

This week I have worked on making the player animations look like an actual person, not a little stick figure. I have not been able to accomplish everything I wanted to this week, due to the fact I was out of town for a few days for thanksgiving. Anyways, I have drawn a new player sprite and also added a new running animation (which still definitely needs some work).

I plan to work on the animation to make it flow a lot nicer and also finish animating the 2 shooting animations. I will post a new devlog shortly with my progress. Thank you for reading, and stay tuned for the next update!

As of today, I have completed a simple prototype of my project. This prototype includes running, jumping, falling, shooting, and switching weapons. I have some crudely drawn place holder art and am borrowing the music, for now, from the Netflix original series 'Stranger Things'.

I have also added a nice raining effect which you can see in the background. I have gotten all of my sound effects from BFXR which is an excellent means for easy 8-bit sound effects. I hope to make a blog post every week keeping up to date on what I have been working on. I know that no one will most likely ever read this and am simply doing it for my own enjoyment. Stay tuned for next update!