Features I wish I had had time for


Fighting through so much work. I am fortunate to be working but I swear I work more now than I did at the job.  That's not a bad thing but it is very time consuming.

I tried to find time to work on the jam but it didn't happen until last night with the dead line today.

So while I was thinking about it, things I wish I had been able to add to the game.

Online high scores. I tried implementing this but it wasn't working and I realized very early (thank god for experience) that this was not going to be worth it and that there were too many other things at the time that needed my attention.  Controls for one and I'm glad I did because the controls are way better now than they were before.  I would love, next week, to sit down and hammer out the online high score thing.  If nothing else to really understand how that works and why it isn't working.

Particle effects.  I wanted to add various particle effects.  For one, I want to add little red crosses that come off of the character when you're healed, little confusion spirals coming off the character when you're controls are inverted and then stop when you take the blue vial.  I also wanted to add some particle effects in conjunction with other features, I'll list those below.

I wanted to put together clusters to take up space in the background and make it look like a more flushed out office.  In addition, I originally had a stamina system implemented.  My idea was that the re would be soda and chips that you could collect to increase your stamina and you could use the crouch button to run, aka it would speed up the movement of the things in front and push the advancing zombies back more at the expense of stamina

Also the blue wires were intended originally to slow you down like an ice shock effect.

I would love to put in two levels of random platforms as well.

I would love to clean up the horde and give them a little more... danger as it were.  A cut scene at the beginning would go a long way.  I would also love to put in a setting file to track if you've seen the intro information or not so you can skip it.  

Finally I would love to add tablet controls as I think this game SCREAMS tablet/phone game.  Hell, I wouldn't even need buttons, tap to jump, hold to crouch/run. SHRUG
We'll see if I do any of those things.
Over all , the game it self fell together smoothly and I think that if I had taken the whole week, this would have been a commercially viable game.

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Apr 17, 2020

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