Suki Game March Update (3/13)

Update time! This week I went back to work on a Suki game again to add in just a few more important features that had been missing. Specifically, a brand new losing sequence that plays when you overflow, a temporary game over screen, sound effects that happen during normal gameplay, and a few work-in-progress animations courtesy of Mabo. All of this is available to patrons right now with this link.

Here you can see what the new losing sequence looks like for yourself. Once you overflow, all the characters start to inflate out of control and fill the container, until the pressure becomes too much and they all burst out of the container and float away.

The idea for this is pretty simple, but it took a surprising amount of work to make it look right (as well as making it not break the game when you decide to play again). The game actually uses a pooling system to help improve performance, which means that all of the characters are reused after a game over rather than deleted outright to spawn in new ones. This lead to a few weird issues after a reset, but I'm thinking after testing it a bunch that I got all of them.

And with that update done, I'll be getting back to the Maya platformer again for the next two weeks. I didn't do a whole lot with it since the last post (mostly just planning and figuring out what I want to do with it next), but two weeks from now I'm thinking I should at least have the first enemy functional in the game. I already started working on some placeholder sprites for him:
 
Got a good amount of things in mind that I want to do next, but I'll save that for the next update. Also, it's my birthday tomorrow! Or well, I guess today now. Should've been tomorrow but I got caught up with stuff and took longer than expected to write my post. I'm wondering if maybe I should write these in advance and let the posts be scheduled, still new to this whole Patreon thing. Let me know if you guys would like to see that, or if you have any other suggestions for how I should be handling things. That'll be all for this update though, until next time!