"September" Devlog. Ideally this would go up nearer the end of September than the middle of October. SEPTOBER IT IS. I was supposed to buckle down and work on JARPUG's level editor. And I did!
But my game design and development workflow changed. My todo list got fat.
This month I worked on a lot of UI and stat storing stuff. So it was a kinda rough month!
JARPUG needs a sturdy foundation of numbers and stats to play well, and it needs plenty of UI, too! But I’ll try to share that schedule space with something that’s a bit more fun to work on in the future, because ouch.
I wanted a more hand-drawn style for the battle UI. That meant making a font out of my own handwriting, making hand-drawn nine-part button art, and implementing a wobbly line renderer!
This month I wanted to ensure that JARPUG’s battle mode worked well for multiple player characters. That required work on a few different things.
Like JARPUG / PUGJAR, this brave dog can shift between two different stances, wielding a car b...
Oh, first blog post! This is about my dev work on JARPUG. JARPUG is a JRPG starring a pug with a jar on its head, made for VR. Here’s some old footage from LVLUP Expo in early May:
That expo served as an excellent deadline for focusing on controls and gameplay after piddling ar...