Welcome to Fish Combat Arcade's First Dev Log!!
Fish Combat is a New Movement based Combat game built around speed! Our design has it set be a speed running arcade game with RPG progression elements. Thus far we've got the first part in, got quite a bit of RPG elements left to code though haha.
We're winging it on this game marketing adventure so please please nag our ears off when we write something boring so we can get better :)
Some of you might be coming from our Fish Combat: Accelerated page and wondering why there's now two Fish Combats. That is due to budget/timeline constraints. Accelerated has a more complex environment, character art, story, and boss battle system and thus will be releasing after Arcade. Arcade gives us a chance to not only finish a game before we starve but also hone in on the core of Fish Combat to make focused improvements that we wouldn't have been able to achieve if we'd stuck to our original release schedule. Rest assured, we will be throwing everything we have into making FC Arcade into an full scale epic experience!
And Thus, our humble humble dev log:
Updates from the days when we actually did work:
- Improved the first part of the tutorial! (it reaaally needed it) Got us some better lighting and colors, better environment design, more straightforward level design, and cut off some extra bits at the end that were just slowing people down. It's much faster now... still got some work to do though. We've currently got a few text pop-up that explain the controls and they're incredibly annoying when they stop you in the middle of dashing around.
- Experimented with a new environment shader. The idea was that there'd be dots on the ground and when you move quickly they'd stretch, similar to going light speed in Star Wars. It didn't work out as planned so I'll be polishing the grid shader instead. (It was very disorienting when turning and made the environment too hard to read)
Thank you for reading all that! (Maybe future dev logs should be less wordy?)
Please go Wishlist Fish Combat: Arcade so you don't miss this epic adventure!