Sunday, June 28, 2009

Harvest Earth Pictures


The computer is back and I'm back to work.
I still have a lot to do, and I haven't improved on anything in particular.  So I thought I might share some photos.

 
Plant and grow crops!  Water them every day and they will grow!  Also, do you see that floating letter above the mailbox?  That means you have new mail!

Opening the menu looks cool.  A ring of options appears around your character that spins as you make your selection.

You can choose to be a boy or a girl!  And don't worry, both genders can go fishing.  I had to create fishing animations for boys and girls.

You can rent books from the Library for free, then read 'em at home!  Eventually, I'll organize dialogue for every character, so they'll all say interesting things.  You'll be able to talk to them multiple times on the same day and you'll always get a different response.

I created many secrets in this game.  I could tell you, but I would rather just tease you with hints.  I hope you guys are still excited!  :)

Currently, fishing and watering your plants uses stamina, and when you're out, you can't do anything else until you go to bed.  But there's no easy way to see how much Stamina you have.  I'm working on a stamina bar that slowly empties as you do things.  It's going to look awesome.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Setbacks...

Yahsolait's computer had some trouble recently...

I was in the middle of Harvest Earth and it up and restarted on me.  Then when it was rebooting, it wanted me to install Windows again.  Why?  Who knows.

Whatever the reason, it means I can't work on the game right now, and I can't put pictures up because I can't access the game.  This is probably a good thing though.  I'm supposed to be memorizing my lines anyway.  To those of you excited to play my game, sorry for the extra wait.  I'll fix that computer as soon as I figure out how :)



Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Update #4

Good news!
I have been working on Harvest Earth and have made a ton of improvements!
(A reassuring thing to hear for those of you awaiting completion)

I've made a cool new menu.  Before, when you open the menu, it was a generic RPG Menu, with "Equip" and "Items" and "Skill" and "Stats" etc.  Rather boring and ill suited for a game where you don't battle monsters.  The result of only a few minutes of scripting: A sweet "ring menu" that spins around your character!  Maybe I'll put up some pictures.  Yes, I think I will, when I figure out how to do that.

I also implemented some cool fishing graphics.  Before it was kind of lame.  You would look at the water and and text window would pop up: ".......you caught a Bass!"   But now your character casts a rod and an exclamation bubble pops up (similar to pokemon).  I'm proud of it.

Pictures sound like a good idea.  I'll post some, then tell me what you guys think!   :)