Well, my entry in yoyogames competition is called Skipper.
The title will be a bit edited, but the character is called Skipper.

I am still working on the plot,
but it is something easier, the player is probably some alien guy,
who travels through worlds to discover his family/planet/home by collecting
spaceship parts/magical objects/information from people who live in these worlds...
It's a very open idea, the plot needs to be worked on allot.

The basic idea is to make a funny game, with incredible 'smooth' gameplay.
This means that it is easy to control, no bugs, and smooth looking sprites and features.



Anyway, it's a simple platformer, which doesn't include fighting, probably
there does exist some simple "beating an enemy", but not in a violent way.

The game should be quite "fun" and "funny" to look at.
I am not planning any blood or something, so it's almost like a childish game, but then just extremely fun.

Right now I made very smooth movement,
wall jumping, variable jumping.
Next to that, I've made my first "obstacle", a simple spear coming
out of the ground, seen in the screen below.



I've also just made some basic dying effect.
So, if you get hit, you got this dying animation, and a small
pause menu shows up, which says: "Restart" and "Menu". You can choose what you want.
Soon, there will come checkpoints, but you can only use the checkpoint for X amount of times.
(probably 2)

The game won't be too hard,
most people don't like "too" hard games.
Though, ending levels will have some challenge.
I am planning detail in the game, and cool effects.
At the moment I got:
- Screen Effects (like in the screens, night overlay)
- View Shake Effect (incredible easy to activate)
- Lightning Effects



I keep you updated!

Note: This blog was originally posted on 22/06/10