Spooky Forest Screenshot

Just a quick screenshot of the spooky Zygotes forest.

Note the new character sprite & placeholder forest tileset (with climbable vines!). Most of the recent work is hard to show in a screenshot but the health/damage/lives systems are in place, though not quite finished. There's a lot of work left to do on the combat system & movement in general, just getting the feel right. Oh yeah, & then I guess we have to make it a game. Hmm. All in good time?

Zygotes Update: Platforming Engine

Just a few quick screenshots to show that the platforming engine for the new Zygotes minigame is more or less complete. Well, not more, definitely less. Pretty much done, I guess, is what I meant.

Jack Ham Zero & The Return of The Zygotes

The next game I'd like to tackle is Jack Ham Zero, the riveting prequel to the second game I ever made. It's pretty much finished except for the soundtrack, & here's where that stands:

1. Title Theme: Written & recorded, just need to nail down the final mix.
2. Untitled Grass Level Jam: Complete! Er, except for the title.
3. Untitled Space Level Jam: Also complete!
4. 40s With George: This was a hidden song in the first game but I want to rework it a little.
5. Untitled Boss Jam: Does not exist yet.
6. Untitled Cave Level Jam: Does not exist yet.
7. Untitled Mine Level Jam: Does not exist yet.

Really hard to say how long this will take, maybe a couple of weeks? I expect to find some bugs & gameplay things I want to change so probably tack another couple of weeks on to that. I'll set the goal of finishing this in one month. But we'll see.

I've also got another project on my plate; Benny Lantz & I have resurrected the Zygote Intrafallopian Transfers video game. This was a project we started a quite a few years ago & was actually the reason I got into game making at all. The idea was to make a minigame for every song on our album, Sex & The Scientific Method. We only ended up making one game (Aliensexist, available at the website) before running out of steam but WE'RE BACK, BABY, making a little Castelvania-like game. I've been working on programming a respectable platforming engine while Benny's been getting his sprite on. Screenshots soon! Probably!