Hello all! A note on game play.
Okay, so, I'm trying to make a puzzle game called firefly. In which, the player controlls a jar using the mouse to catch the bugs around a forest like environment. So, naturally, the bugs move around in a sinewave like movement.
I have a fairly good understanding of how that works (tinkered with an example a while back), but I want to make it to switch between x and y movements smoothly. Allow me to explain with a picture aid.
In this figure, the basic movment pattern for the bugs is number 1. This is very easy to pull off, and they can appear from anywhere on the sides, and go either left or right.
The second movent is when the bugs start climbing up and down the tree. Again, the up and down isn't hard. Its going from the horizontal movent to the vertical movent that I find difficult. Then, in movent number 3, they switch to horizontal again. And in movent number 4, back to vertical movent. Then, under certain conditions, the pattern is reversed and the bug continues along the screen, or finds a new tree.
It gets further complicated in movents 5 and 6. This is because two fireflies are present. In movent 5, they are swirling around one another. In movent 6, they go down the tree, and part ways. One of them however, bounces on the ground and leaves pockets of glow worms.
Heads Up Display
The icons are fairly simple to understand. To the right, is the large vial (will be smaller in actual game). This is a level progress bar. Once you have the bar filled, you move on to the next level. To the top right is the score tracker. I'm not certain yet as to the severity of discipline I want for doing poorly, but I don't want to be too harsh.
To the top left is the season bar. As far as I know, fireflies do not appear in the winter. And only in small numbers in the early fall. Yet seasons play a role in appearance, and number of fireflies as well. In the summer, it can rain, causing the bugs to scatter.
In the spring, they move quicker, and are more likely to form pairs. In the fall, fireflies will move slower, and tend to stay below the bar. They will also light up slower in the fall as well.
Hopefully, I'll be able to find a balance between the seasons. It doesn't have to be always randomness.
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