Devlog #8

Alerts and Sounds! 🔔🎵

Hey hey!! First of all thank you all for the support on my last devlog!!

So, today I worked on making the gameplay feel more alive and engaging. To do so I added some alerts/notifications that appear in some situations:

• Exclamation mark, this means that there is a bug on your vase! Click on the bug to eliminate it
• Harvest tool, this means the plant is ready to be harvested
• Watering can, this means the plant doesn’t have enough water and will die in 3 days if not taken care of

Also, I added the sounds! Here is a list of all the current ones:

• New day, a bell will be heard to indicate the new day
• Unlocking a vase
• Removing a bug, a squish will indicate that the bug is been removed
• Planting, sound of dirt being moved around
• Harvesting, a noise that to me sounded like a scythe cutting some grass
• Selling, sound of a coin
• Watering, sound of water dropping from a can/tool
• Background music, two tracks looping in the background

All the sounds were taken from Pixabay.

Oh! And one more thing I did was reworking the information panel, so now you will be able to see the water range for each plant and the plant’s status. The status are:

• Healthy, everything is okay!
• Dead, :( the plant is now dead… nothing can be done
• Withering, the plant is out of water!! Act fast!
• Drowning, bro… you put too much water, if it’s not that much, it will fix itself in the upcoming day, but if not, the plant is doomed :(
• Infested, A BUG! KILL IT NOW

Tomorrow I will probably add UI sounds and fully playtest the game to see what stuff needs balancing. If anyone wants to test the game, this is the link, the README is empty but will be done in the upcoming days with a full description of all the events and plants.

Thank you for reading this!!
Byeee! :) :)