Chamoisee-Canvasback(V-0.0.09)Art&Test

This week I made some pretty good progress both in coding and I have started cracking away at the art, in terms of programming I have been adding a lot of the little things like popup text and health bars I got a bit distracted because I started messing with trying to figure out how to make the camera zoom though it was a mistake as having zoom work won't improve the game. For the art I think I have decided on 32x32 pixel art with a pallet of between 7 and 11 colors I think this still keeps the nice chunky look of my last game but where my last games art had between 3 and 6 colors this art allows me to get a little more creative. 

I'm thinking for the week ahead im going to add a few more thing and then clean all my code things have gotten a little messy and disorganized over the past week so its time to tighten everything up, also there's a few things like pop up text that should not change no matter how big this project gets so I think I'm going to polish them to the best of my ability.

I put Chamoisee-Canvasback in to a game jam for work in progress games and despite how early in development it is I have already gotten more positive comments and feedback than Ferulorum got during its development. The reaction from other devs who played Ferulorum during the jams were mostly confusion and if the said anything positive it was about the little portraits I made (still proud of those will reuse them one day). This project on the other hand has already had people leave positive comments on it, not very many comments (like 2) but its enough where I think I'm going to go all in on this project and make the demo as good as possible and not just try another one.

I have included the sprites for the player characters I have made and the little mockups I did to test the art style

This week has been pretty good as always, I am tired and feel like I'm constantly under pressure  but at this point I feel like the whole could implode and I could just keep griding away at life and programming. So hopefully you all had a good week too and hopefully next week is even better.

this week I fixed the evap system on my truck last guy who worked on it connected some pipes wrong, also looking at property's so I can hopefully buy a house, I'm studying to get my pesticide application license so I could make more money, and I gave in to one of my obsessions and bought 6 baby koi fish ill post pics when there more friendly, I might buy more baby chickens.

Change Log

Dev notes- will need to clean code soon magic numbers everywhere, things constantly doing checks that only need one, general disorganization

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-tripled the length of the level

-made heath and item chest show cost

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-started making lookup tables 

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-made boss a little bigger also enemy size changes are rendered

-made a simple enemy spawner every 10 seconds it drops an enemy in

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-zoom is not working spent way to much time messing with it

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-camera zoom working on tiles!!

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-got a simple boss health bar working

Dev note- going to try to push forward a bunch then go back and clean and fix code

-added simple pop up text

-split text into game text and ui text 

-health bar seems to be working

-made a rect that will be the player health and placed it