A Small Robot Story (DEMO AVAILABLE) | Dev Log

The progress is definitely top quality! I'm convinced the game will do great both during the campaign time and months to come after it's release.

Parallax test for lab level. Needs some tweaking (parallax layers need to be bumped up to a power of two) but it's a decent start.

Annnnndddd I'm Greenlit!

More parallax testing. Gotta tweak that middle layer so it doesn't look so much like building-tops :p

Test of all Level 3 (Helix's Laboratory) art and set pieces. GIF randomly speeds up; not sure why :\</p>

Been working on coding Level 3 enemies. Unfortunately this means nothing cool to show yet since I use placeholder art while coding

Good news is that, according to schedule, I am ahead by one week. However I'm sure that will change soon I just finished all 3 new enemies yesterday and will start on their art this week. Hopefully I'll have something cool to show off by the end of this weekend.

Two new enemies!

Up first is Headshot. Erratic robot head that shoots a spread shot.

Next is the Infected Robot. He staggers around and then will vomit in your direction. Still working on vomit art. Currently he vomits bullets

Finally wrapped my head around passing along parameters to a master object. Right here I have a function passing different bullet parameters (animation, gravity, speed) for different enemies to a single bullet object. Setting up the object UID as param(0) was my hangup.

All Level 3 enemies. Might add a re-skin of a non-projectile enemy. A lot of bullets flying around!

congrats on the greenlight mate!

Level 3 is nearly survival horror ºoº someones been doing very f+kkdup experiments with them robots! I love how each level has its own theme and palette (better with homogeneous black btw), yet everything look consistent as a whole too.

Keep on rocking!

— Thanks! Yeah this level is a bit creepy. It didn't start out that way but I'm running with it!

First pass on the Level 3 boss. Largest boss yet! All code is in; just figuring out the art.

Looking awesome! Great job.

Still cranking away! The end is almost in sight!

How's the game going, man?

• Pushed a new test build out to some playtesters that included new features and levels
• Brought a friend on board to do all cut scene art
• Built checkpoint system
• Squashed a ton of bugs
• Added analog stick support
• A ton of other small clean-ups

What's left, dude?

• Cut scenes and level design for Level 3
• Everything for Level 4 (art, enemies, boss, etc)
• A few main features (power-ups, controller schemes)
• Steam support (anxious about this!)
• That dreaded last 10%!

Still aiming for a Late Spring / Early Summer release. I still have a ton of work ahead of me but feels good to be somewhere around or past the 50% mark. Delegating out the cut scene art really took a bunch of weight off my shoulders.

Back on schedule!

Spent a chunk of time setting up a check point system. Was tricky getting it to reset between layouts.

I also set up double-jumping. This will be a power-up.