Making of VampireLove


Hello to my devlog to VampireLove,
It was my first GameJam and it was a lot of fun. 
So i decided to make the game with Gamemaker because i built a few games with it so i know everything, but if i decide to join a future GameJam i will try to use Unity.
So i started thinking about a Game Idea and hadn't any great Ideas, so i sleept the night and next day i got the little idea to play with the part of I Wanna be the boshy, were the courser chases the player. So first i created the platform settings, like walking collision and jumping, that was really easy, but if you need help i recomend the tutorial from Shaun Spalding:

 
After that i wanted to create the courser function and i had alot of problems with that to be honest. After a quick resarch i found a reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/gamemaker/comments/24l7ek/i_hate_people_who_leave_the_mouse_in_the_game/), where he showed a little script and it was exactly what i was trying to build so it helped me alot, and i could find out, why my wasn't working like it should be.

Courser_Function


So the main function worked. Then i wanted to implement the transform function, and that wasn't hard. I have two states, the campire State and the Bat state, and depending on what you are, the movement and the function change. 
I decided to make the whole screen black and you need to discover it with your Mouse, i really liked the idea, because it's fun and it matches the Game Jam Theme alot. 
So after implementing this, i wanted to start adding a little more life to the game with pixelart. I used aseprite to built the characters. To keep it simple and save time, the animation from the goblin and player are the same and the resolution are really small, its just 12x13. But I'm really happy with the outcome and the animation of the player and goblin, because i didn't do Pixel Art in a while. 




So after implementing all Pixel Art and the Game Function i needed to to make cool and fun level that hard but aren't to hard. So i really tried alot and I'm not really happy with the outcome. I like the most of the level but i think if i had more experience in this, it would give the game more depth. 




After everything worked, i implemented i little Story, that the Vampire did a mistake and now the magic torch doesn't remember his bat form and he waked up in a cave, so now he wants to escape and get back together with his girlfriend. 
I would love to add music, but i have no experience with that, so i hadn't the time to learn it in time and implement it, so I'm sorry for that. 
Finally i hope that you enjoyed playing the game and i would love to get feedback, because i really like the outcome and can imagine working on it in the future. 
Thanks for the first Game Jam i really enjoyed it and i learnd alot. 
Cheers,
Silas

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VampireLove.exe 14 MB
Mar 08, 2020

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