Days 2, 3, and 4 of turning my unfinished game jam demo into a fully polished game.

So I found out very quickly daily devlogs are annoying…
So I will be switching to whenever I feel like it :D
These past couple days I added a lot of things so I decided to post a video instead. I added two new microgames, new popups and sound effects, a new splash screen for Godot before mine, new statistics, a settings menu with saved settings between games, and a bunch of other miscellaneous things. The first microgame I added was a Flappy Bird inspired game called Dodge the Pipes. I originally went in making a full clone of Flappy Bird, but decided to tweak it to be more original and better suited for the microgame format, instead switching to going through the required amount of pipes without getting pushed off screen by them. The second microgame I made, which is still in progress and has bugs and potentially a rework in the cards, is a microgame called Close the Windows. In this microgame, windows spawn and you have to close them. This one still has some bugs, as for whatever reason, very few times the game will completely freeze when spawning the windows, but I aim to fix that by the next devlog. Thanks for reading all the way to the end and/or watching the video. If you have any feedback or suggestions for microgames and other things, PLEASE comment them below. Thank you and see you hopefully soon!

Day 1 of turning my unfinished game jam demo into a fully polished game.

Hello! Quick backstory. The GMTK Game Jam just happened. In case you somehow don’t know what it is, it’s where people from all across the world come together and get 4 days to make a game based off of a theme (which for this jam was count down) revealed on the first day. The game that I decided to make is a WarioWare inspired game called the World’s Easiest Game, where to win the game and go through with the narrator’s wishes, all you have to do is wait thirty seconds. However, you don’t want to do that, so instead you press the button to play a microgame, which if you win, will add time to the timer. The catch for me however, was that I only had one day, and ended up running out of time to add many things to the game, including some key elements. That takes us to today, where I will be finishing the game and making it even better! Today was the first day of me finishing this game, and I added MANY sound effects for various situations, and my autoload that saves and carries data between scenes and also carries my music system, which I also added today, which brings in and/or removes instruments based on the intensity of a current moment. I also added a main menu, a splash screen with my developer name at the beginning of the game, and a sarcastic “You Win” screen from the perspective of the narrator. Tomorrow, I want to add even more sound effects, add screen effects, add a pause menu, and start working on adding more microgames. Thanks for reading, and see you tomorrow!

It is finished.

After a lot of work and working on other things as well, I finally finished my Web OS! Since my last update, I added two apps, condensed a lot of code into functions, fixed bugs with the Mac bar and taskbar interfering with dragging windows, and many more things. From here, I’m going to send this guy off to review, work on another project for a while, and then add even more to this Web OS. Goodbye for now!

A proper looking (fake) operating system

I’ve finished the third part of the tutorial series and I’ve heavily leaned into this cartoony MacOS / GNOME Linux rice aesthetic. The window is now fully movable through the toolbar and can also be closed with the button in the corner. I also added a taskbar to the bottom of the screen with the app names which I plan to replace with proper designed app icons by me. Alongside that, I want to

1. Refactor the JavaScript code, as I believe that some of the repetition can be solved by making classes, and..
2. Add the ability to pin and unpin apps on the taskbar.

Other than that, suggestions are appreciated as always!

Nvm, I like the style now.

I have just now finished the second part of the tutorial for my web OS portfolio thingamajig, and I’m starting to like the style more. I decided to try and go off of MacOS and some Linux rices that I’ve seen recently, and that led me to the style below. More work needs to be done before it’s perfect, but it’s starting to get there. Up next, I’m making the window movable and adding more apps.

Is this on??

Um… hi! I am Divine and I’m new to this whole Hack Club thing so I thought I’d do something that gives me stardust to start with, so I can move into the hardware stuff later. I’ve started a website OS which I hopefully will be able to make my digital portfolio, as I do a lot of creative things online. This isn’t my first time in web development, but all my previous things have been basic websites with somewhat flashy animations so this might push me out of my comfort zone. I’ve decided to do one devlog per part of the tutorial and this is my website so far after the first part. I’m not totally in love with the style so far, mostly because there is a specific font that I can’t remember the name of that I want to use instead, but I think that this one will do for now. If there are any suggestions for what I can do next, please tell me!