Day 5 Game Jam progress

The Discord, Figma, and Github have all been absolutely ablaze with activity. It's been truly amazing to see the team come together and build out a ton of content over the past couple of days. We've built out a large and secret filled map that we're waiting to unleash on the world, some of which you can preview if you make it to the end of today's build. There's been a lot of performance testing already on the larger map and it was nearly ready to go for today but our map maker eventually succumbed to sleep.

Tons of new content today but one of the most exciting adds is new companions that can accompany our hero and attack the evil foes that beset her. With this we've implemented our combat cooldown system so you can no longer instantly kill enemies by smashing the button really quickly. I'm excited to unveil all of our new enemies and enemy animations as we've been keeping them super secret so far. Part of the overall feel that I want for the game is a very polished combat system that is fun to move around and interact with, so I knew we needed to have solid animations and feedback for the player to be able to easily tell what is happening on screen and to increase immersion as much as possible. Item drops are working great though I paused the functionality on this build as what they actually do and add to the game is still being completed. We also have yet to unveil one of our main and most important mechanics as we want to make sure that it is as polished as it can be before we release it.

We've done a lot of optimization already. Our goal is to have the most polished game the team can put together and to that end I've slashed any feature that I didn't feel like we were 100% likely to be able to complete before the time. Hopefully some of those additional pages of features can be added in time but I'd rather have everything work and feel great than have half finished things still in the game. At the end of the event we plan on having a complete experience from the start to finish involving several different areas to explore and a whole slew of beasties to defeat.

The next 2 days are going to be very exciting.