Chosen piece of text

 As mentioned in the prior post, I am to base my game world off of an excerpt from a novel. I had several excerpts to choose from, but I ended up choosing this piece from "The Tower of Flints" by Titus Groan.

"Over their irregular roofs would fall throughout the seasons, the shadows of time-eaten buttresses, of broken and lofty turrets, and, most enormous of all, the shadow of the Tower of Flints. This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow."

I will be making a game world to explore based off of this description.

New Project

 I have been tasked at creating a 10~ minute long exploration game based on a chunk of text from a novel.

It will be a 3D, First person exploration game, no complex gameplay mechanics, just simply walking about and maybe climbing (should I need it). My game will also focus more on the visual side of things. Graphics and world detailing.

 The deadline is somewhere in March. The 20th, if I remember correctly.

Start to Finish video.

 This is a video showing the game being played from start to finish. The game loops after the third level, all the way back to the beginning.

All Level Layouts 1 to 3, updated with Coins

 Now that I have finally resolved all issues with movement and coins, I can now put all coins within all three of my levels. Below are the updated versions, including level three, which I did not show originally as it was made after I fixed the previously mentioned issues.

Jump bug

 After fixing the coin bug (by changing the code I was using), I ended up creating a new problem for myself. I could pick up a coin and then jump, but I could only jump once. Regardless of if I had picked up a coin or not.

Current Level 2 Layout

 Below I have included a screenshot of my second level within the game. Currently there is still an issue with collecting coins, and once it is fixed I will add coins throughout the level.

The green outline represents the end trigger for the level.

Coin Bug

 

 

This is a video showcasing the bug I mentioned in a previous post, where collecting a coin would not allow the player to jump after collecting it. As of writing, this bug has yet to be fixed.To fix this, I will have to change the code I have used for player movement.

Current Level 1 Layout.

 I am hoping to create up to 3 levels for my sidescroller project.

This project isn't about making a game, rather figuring out what skills I need to work on and how to do so, hence the small number of levels I am aiming to include.

For starters, this is my current layout for level 1.

There are a scarce amount of coins at the moment due to a bug that disables my jumping, for some reason, I will showcase this in a future post.

Sprites

 For my 2D sidescroller, I have created a sprite sheet to use as textures in my game.

Included is a floor texture, a "?" block similar to Mario, a metal block, a broken block, an alternate dirt texture, an "empty" block, the playable character and a coin.

These were created in Illustrator. Perhaps in a future iteration I could have different types of coin, with varying sizes, colour and value.

I also have an enemy sprite as shown below.

 

This enemy will move back and forth and will kill the player upon contact.