[Jam Prototype] Planet Headwound
Marcelle Marais and myself entered Butterscotch Shenanijam this weekend (Saturday and Sunday) and made a (very small and mostly unfinished) game called "Planet Headwound".
After using physics to drive animation almost exclusively for the last year, it was fun to get into Unity's Mecanim system (which I'd barely played with in the past). It was also awesome to jam with a person with a 3D animation skillset (although Marcelle has a broad array of art skills, it was the animation that was surprisingly fun for me to work with).
What I wanted was a combat system that forced players to pick their fights and struggle with their enemies. I feel like it's a start, but it's still a bit simple and straightforward (and very headbutt-focussed).
We wanted the game to be a lot more "Prison Pit" inspired than it ended up. Though I think a few more days of making content and maybe it'd start to evoke that (though when we have time to do that is an answered question). I think this part would be SUPER fun to do.
THIS IS PRISON PIT:
(We also borrowed some of Jason Sutherland's music that he'd composed for other games).
http://www.callofthevoid.com/HeadwoundPlanet/Video/Trailer.mp4
Here's the Itch.io page, if you've watched the video you've seen all the content (so far): https://callofthevoid.itch.io/planet-headwound
After using physics to drive animation almost exclusively for the last year, it was fun to get into Unity's Mecanim system (which I'd barely played with in the past). It was also awesome to jam with a person with a 3D animation skillset (although Marcelle has a broad array of art skills, it was the animation that was surprisingly fun for me to work with).
What I wanted was a combat system that forced players to pick their fights and struggle with their enemies. I feel like it's a start, but it's still a bit simple and straightforward (and very headbutt-focussed).
We wanted the game to be a lot more "Prison Pit" inspired than it ended up. Though I think a few more days of making content and maybe it'd start to evoke that (though when we have time to do that is an answered question). I think this part would be SUPER fun to do.
THIS IS PRISON PIT:
(We also borrowed some of Jason Sutherland's music that he'd composed for other games).
http://www.callofthevoid.com/HeadwoundPlanet/Video/Trailer.mp4
Here's the Itch.io page, if you've watched the video you've seen all the content (so far): https://callofthevoid.itch.io/planet-headwound
Comments
I definitely could have cut down the fidelity to get further game-design-wise with this (over the two days I worked on it), but working with rad artwork/animations was part of the point of this jam (for me personally). <--- I really hate that I have to make this trade in jams :(
Glad you like the visuals! Thanks for the comment!