dibs Posted May 6, 2016 My game is to be: Rolling with the Pope RELEASE: https://itch.io/jam/wizard-jam-2016/rate/68393 Update: 18/05/16 So, my game is in the style of a sort of endless runner, but not endless. Can you survive 90 seconds of slowly escalating peril? Play as three randomly selected of history's greatest popes, leap over swiss guard and dash past (shudder) auditors, stop Benedict from snaffling all the prayers. It all happens in the swirling gyre that is the Vatican. Features will include 3 popes and an anti pope - Everyone's favourite super villain, Emperor Benedict 3 papal infal-abilities to activate, and 3 dastartly anti-papal abilities. For every pope mobile, there cometh a poopmobile. Other stuff Work to date: Basic game is up and running Pope movement in Generation and collection of cash and prayers Art created Coded in obstacles Coded in difficulty escalation The basic game is you are the pope trapped inside the circular vatican, you have to collect prayers to stay alive and collect cash to activate abilities. If the cash gets to benidict, he activates an ability to counter you. To do: Finish importing art Code in last two abilities Music Sound effects 07-05-16 Work to date: Tech demo. This is early. I now have the pope jumping, as well as customaisable obstacles which he can bounce off or get killed by. And some art i'm starting off. The idea is to have the outside of the level be multiple Vatican scenes spinning around one another. Here are some vatican buildings. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dibs Posted May 7, 2016 Update to try out moving backgrounds around. I have jumping and controls in there too. (Just imagine the art is a bit prettier) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xeneth Posted May 7, 2016 Digging the inverted Dyson Sphere layout of the thing already, nice! Something about your prototypes is reminding me of Ace Team games like Rock of Ages... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ke51n Posted May 7, 2016 This looks really good! Pope rolling sounds fun. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WilloughbyJackson Posted May 8, 2016 Looks lovely so far. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dibs Posted May 15, 2016 Updated. Didn't get much time during the week, but i've been blasting through it today! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ahr Ech Posted May 15, 2016 I love that you did concept art. Also, If I ever find out that the Vatican doesn't really operate this way I'll be devastated. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dibs Posted May 16, 2016 Also, If I ever find out that the Vatican doesn't really operate this way I'll be devastated. You will learn all there is to know about the vatican from my game, rest assured. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dibs Posted May 16, 2016 And some music i'm trying out to see what sticks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dibs Posted May 18, 2016 Starting to extract my art. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spenny Posted May 18, 2016 Very pretty. Watercolours are legit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dibs Posted May 19, 2016 Getting there. My flooring didn't work out at all, and the sky is obvs a placeholder. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xeneth Posted May 19, 2016 Getting these strong Messhof vibes... It's confusing and surreal and I love it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dibs Posted May 22, 2016 And we are released. GOod luck everyone:) I'm super tired, so there is probably a million bugs^^ https://itch.io/jam/wizard-jam-2016/rate/68393 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr Nick Posted May 22, 2016 I haven't survived through a whole game yet, but I think part of that is because I am just staring at how cool it looks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Henke Posted May 23, 2016 Dunno how many prayers I got but I managed to get the green pope hat 3 times. How about including the score in the game over screen? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dibs Posted May 23, 2016 I never even thought to do that! And thanks dr Nick! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theschap Posted May 24, 2016 The mechanics in this game are great though difficult. I'm liking it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dibs Posted May 25, 2016 I updated to make it a bit more difficult at the start and a lot easier right at the end. My last difficulty level was a bit brutal! I didn a mario maker test and passed it myself this time:P Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Synnah Posted May 25, 2016 That's a lot better! I failed my first attempt, but won the second and third times. I started to get the hang of the weird mechanics, too! Slowing down/speeding up so that you're in the right place to collect Euros is pretty much crucial. I enjoyed it! I'm curious about the Papal Infailabilities, JP2's is obviously the Popemobile, but the first pope's appears to be a huge fleshy PacMan, and Pious' is like... a bearded man? I don't know much about popes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dibs Posted May 25, 2016 Haha. Francis' is his cape billowing out to collect everything (Google will find that quick!). His anti Pope is Bouncless Bouncer, as he was a bouncer in a former life. Pius' is vlad the impailer, who used to work for him. Nice guy. His antipope is Vatican 5-0, a crossover with cancelled content John XXII who oversaw Vatican 2. Collecting euros is really important! I was going to mention it above, but I didn't want to lead you too much:P Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ben X Posted May 30, 2016 Really liked the audio on this, very funny! Also the watercolours look great (although some of the sprites are a bit small/fiddly). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dibs Posted May 30, 2016 Thanks Ben! I always enjoy making my sounds^^ I agree on some of the sprites. A few got a bit muddy in the last rush. They are better if drawn to scale (roughly) so the lines and strokes stay similar i think, but i didn't decide on my scalings until everything was in. My floor is a bit overpowering too! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites