Introduction

Hello there and welcome back at the next devlog for our Magnet Game Project! For those who are new here, or those we need a recap ;) let me reintroduce our game! We are creating a local multiplayer sumo game where you and your adversary are magnets! The goal of the game? Push your opponent out of the arena! (or make a bullet or a bomb launch them out of the arena)

The time has come! Productions is coming to an end! This also means we are going in to a feature freeze, which means that no new features can be added anymore! The only thing left for us to do in the coming 2 weeks is to polish everything we have and make it shine!

PLAYTESTING!

Many people have played our game the last week and given us many valueable feedback! All this feedback will get applied in the coming 2 weeks as we finish our game.

The biggest feedback we received is that the HUD in our game should be more easily readable! So that is what we will be focussing on!

Pausing the game

You never know when you need to pause the game for a second! Snack break? Bathroom break? Someone walks in your room and interrupts your epic sumo game?

Whatever your reason is, you can now pause the game by pressing the start button on the controller! Take a look at it!

The whole game stops moving when you open this screen, so your nemesis cannot cheat while you're away!

The scene is now PRETTY!

We have been busy set dressing our scene! It all started with the crowd last week, and now we have also added some additional light sources, pedestals for the cannons and some stools around the arena for our little sumo magnets!

Look at the difference!

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NEW:

THE LEGS ARE MOVING!

Player animations have finally been added to the game! Look at those legs!

We currently have the animations for the first and second player! The animations for player three and four are also on their way!

SOUNDS AND MUSIC

A second music track has been added which plays during the battle itself! The main theme stills plays on the main menu and on the end screen!

We have also added a ton of sound effects! Nearly every action do in the game (such as hitting a player or wall, getting stunned, bombs, etc.) now have their own sound effects!

Do you want to hear the music or these sounds? Why don't you play the game and listen to them! ;)

the FUTURE

These are the biggest headlines from the last week!

Production is now over so new features will not be added anymore! The game will now stay the same, but it will only get better and more beautiful!

Next two weeks we will be re-doing our HUD. A lot of players think the HUD is not visible enough so people don't look at their polarization switch timer or their score! This will be fixed!

Next to that we will keep improving our player feedback. That means in sounds, particles, animations and more!

You might also have seen that our main itch page isn't looking that sexy yet! But look out for the coming weeks since we will be making our itch page into a beauty!

Anyways that's it for this week! 

As always, we have a stable build included with the devlog that you can have fun breaking. Feel free to leave feedback, comments or profess your love for all things magnetic. Whatever floats your boat.

Gooooby!