Skippy the Swimmer

Devlog

• Week 11-12 (11.27 - 12.6)
  November 26, 2023 by gator-gaming

  We've been busy implementing all the feedback we received from the beta presentation and the online Ubisoft playtesting session. We've redesigned the UI to make it have a cute, paper noteback feel. We... Continue reading
• Week 10 (11.20 - 11.26)
  November 18, 2023 by gator-gaming

  We've been so busy incorporating feedback and fixing bugs that we sort of forgot to make better platforming and obstacle courses in the bedroom. We really want each pearl to feel like its own mini-adv... Continue reading
• Week 9 (11.13 - 11.19)
  November 13, 2023 by gator-gaming

  We decided to cut the final forest level we had planned to focus on polishing up the house level. We also made it so the relevant control icons appear depending on if you have a controller connected o... Continue reading
• Week 8 (11.6 - 11.12) (Reading Week)
  November 10, 2023 by gator-gaming

  We received a lot of feedback from the alpha presentation and we are working on implementing it, specifically making Skippy's colours change as he runs out of water. Another thing we want to do is use... Continue reading
• Week 7 (10.30 - 11.5)
  November 01, 2023 by gator-gaming

  The alpha is out for our alpha presentation! To address the issue of players collecting pearls before talking to the magpie, we decided to spawn them only after talking to the bird. Since many players... Continue reading
• Week 6 (10.23 - 10.29)
  November 01, 2023 by gator-gaming

  We had a playtesting session on the 27th and we got some good feedback on stuff to change. We found that many players didn't go through the house level as intended. Many of them tried to find all the... Continue reading
• Week 5 (10.16 - 10.22)
  October 24, 2023 by gator-gaming

  When using the placeholder Skippy model, there was a slight issue where it would stretch out a lot when moving. This was a side effect of Animation Rigging's damped transform constraints, and the effe... Continue reading
• Week 4 (10.9 - 10.15)
  October 18, 2023 by gator-gaming

  Until now, the tutorial was very rough looking, and didn't look much like a forest. We finally added a Terrain object to make low-poly hills and such, and added a bunch more trees and decorations to m... Continue reading
• Week 3 (10.2 - 10.8)
  October 09, 2023 by gator-gaming

  We've continued to experiment with procedural, lizard-like movement. The main challenge was getting it to feel smooth and natural, almost like how an actual axolotl would move. I think we're almost th... Continue reading
• Week 2 (9.25 - 10.1) - The Pitch Presentation
  October 03, 2023 by gator-gaming

  We were able to apply textures for our pitch presentation on Discord. We started to experiment with bipedal procedural walking and going on hills, next steps are to experiment with worm-like movement... Continue reading
• Week 1 (9.20 - 9.24) - The Game Jam
  September 25, 2023 by gator-gaming

  During our second game jam, we were able to prototype our game's core mechanic, which is getting from point A to B without running out of health (in our case, moistness). Health is replenished by stan... Continue reading