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OUYA CREATE Game Jam, Day 2:

I set out to get jumping, looking, and shooting working today. They work! The animations I made last night look pretty nice in game. I also spent a lot of time fixing my movement code from yesterday. It turns out testing planetoid gravity without jumping or multiple planets’ gravity turned on wasn’t the best test :P.

Enemies and weapons aren’t done at all now, but I’m liking the feel of the basic movement I’ve got now and am thinking my current pace is pretty promising.

OUYA CREATE Game Jam, Day 1:

Last night I realized the jam had been running since January 7th (oops…) and got to work doodling some things. This morning I got a pretty decent art test done. Tonight I started work on the planetoid gravity logic and player movement. I haven’t implemented jumping yet so I can’t be sure, but I think it’s working pretty well! The controls work in absolute coordinates, so your lil’ fella will do his best to move toward whatever direction you point, regardless of which way is up for him at the moment.

I’m writing everything in C#, both to ensure I satisfy the “newness” requirements for CREATE (my last projects are all mostly written in Unity JavaScript) and to try it out.

Here’s a video of the OUYA version of Subatomic Kangaroo in its current state! It took me a few days to figure out, but I’m feeling like I’ll be able to successfully make a thing for the CREATE competition :).

Here’s a gameplay video of Hell Bear 2000.

I posted the with-audio version of the game to Reddit and things went pretty damn well! I was on /r/all at the same time as the president, so we basically met. A post was written about Hell Bear 2000 on the official Unity blog.

The attention generated several hundred dollars for Daniel. Hopefully that’ll keep rolling.