Christmas Chaos: The Avocado Conspiracy

Devlog

• Moving on but not quite
  April 04, 2025 by zemane#music, #sound, #track

  Game is completed for the jam but I will keep doing small updates here and there. I am now working on the Pizza Jam game but since I decided that for most of my games, if not all, I will use the Merli... Continue reading
• How are the Avocados sabotaging the presents production?
  April 03, 2025 by zemane

  Basic Gameplay working. We have two different "puzzles" with the same simple collecting mechanics. Now to enemies, some level design and balancing and the camera movement after each puzzle. I am not s... Continue reading
• Adding the Scrolling part of the Side Scroller
  April 03, 2025 by zemane#deadline, #time, #refactor

  Next build we will focus on Loading the challenge dynamically so a level can have several present vines. The player saves one and goes to the next. Adjust the Camera to move every time one of the chal... Continue reading
• First Playable Out: Collect Runes to Produce Presents!
  April 02, 2025 by zemane#build, #prototype

  The first playable version is out! Very simple so far! Don't expect too much. The present vine was sabotaged and its magical runes were removed from it! Collect them all so the vine can produce the pr... Continue reading
• Presents Tree growing and runes appearing
  March 31, 2025 by zemane

  This is the first actual coding and gameplay post, took a while to figure things out. I started by creating the overall level. The basic scenario: with some vegetation The present vine that grows over... Continue reading
• Importing a 2013 package into Unity 6
  March 28, 2025 by zemane#level design, #game design, #spring, #jam, #game development

  Small Unity 6 "porting" issue with the shaders Luckly everything was unlit and easy to solve. They all came with a Legacy Shaders/Transparent/Cutout/VertexLit shader I changed most to the Unlit/Textur... Continue reading

  
• Designing a Side Scrolling Level with a non-combat Mechanics
  March 28, 2025 by zemane

  The first version of the gameplay session description will be focused on a potential puzzle. As described in the last post, the puzzle will have two parts: spotting the disguised avocado and revealing... Continue reading

  
• Golden Axe but without the combat
  March 26, 2025 by zemane#gameplay, #side scrolling, #action, #puzzle

  After some back and forth with Copilot, I decided to go with the game concept described below. It is still not the gameplay session description, sorry for that, but I tought it would be important to g... Continue reading
• Idea 01: Merlin saves the crops
  March 26, 2025 by zemane#flash, #action, #side scroller, #concept, #gameplay

  The Merlin Christmas Series of games has almost 20 years, it was a Flash game we created that was published by Miniclip in their website. One of the games, the second one if i am not mistaken, can sti... Continue reading

  
• Starting over in the Picnic Season Jam
  March 26, 2025 by zemane#jam, #spring, #art, #assets, #design, #brainstorm

  First of all, coming from a programming background and having done a lot of game design throughout my carreer, I am confortable creating games alone. However, I am not artist. I can't even do a simple... Continue reading