This journal has been quiet lately, for a number of reasons. But before we get to that, here's the last video update (for now):

The enemies now fire back at the player. This also meant storing more information when firing a projectile, to prevent enemies from suiciding by shooting themselves.

Additionally, I made the enemies sometimes change direction instead o…

...and I'm all out of bubble gum.

Last time I said my plan was to fix a few things, then take stock and see where I'm at -- hence, this journal entry.

I fixed the visual issue I had on the button, where it would fade instead of starting directly at the correct graphic when opening the shop. The fix w…

Last time, I posted a quick video of various UI/HUD elements in action, and said that the Turtle Shopa"c was up next.

Well... here it is, in all its splendor!

Based on feedback, it seems like I should include some more visuals when it's appropriate, so here goes :)

This video shows a couple of different things:

[Questions at the end of post]

Last time, I had just introduced the concept of player & enemy health, as well as currency (and I showed off my amazing art skills in a breath-taking video). However, player health & currency was only ever displayed in Unity's console as debug output.

So, wIth t…

I got a chunk of stuff out of the way today, even with some unscheduled "fall asleep on couch with cat on chest" time.

A brief video (of the project, not the cat-on-chest sleeping) should be included below, if my journal entry skills are up to scratch.

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Like I mentioned in the previous update, I st…

Due to some unforeseen apartment maintenance, I didn't have as much time to invest today as I had hoped.

That said, I had made some progress anyway :)

I made a quad, slapped a tiling texture on it, and made it UV scroll from code. Presto, simple scrolling background. I might come back to this later a…

Let's try scoping some features and design, so I have something to compare & learn from come deadline. As mentioned, I will be using Unity for this, and the deadline is roughly 1 month from now (June 7th). What follows is a rough feature list and basic design of the game.

Game concept: As a flyi…

Right.

So, for a number of reasons, I'm going to be trying something new. I've dabbled with Unity before (notably the Week of Awesome gamejam here on GameDev.net), but I've been wanting to learn it better for a while now.

Thus, I'm setting myself a goal - try to create a small project in a single mon…