DEVLOG #003 - TILESETS, ARCADE CONSOLES & INTERACTIONS

Hi everyone! Hope y’all alright.
I worked on my first tileset and my first interactive objects.

Tilesets

As I said, this was my first tileset. I wanted my game to be seen from a 40~45 degree angle. I wanted it to be look like a bit 3D although it is clearly 2D. I tried to do my best and I think it turned out pretty great.

You can find the tileset in the end of this devlog.

Arcade Consoles

I first tried to make the sprites of these arcade consoles as a tileset to store it as one file. It turned out not so great. I rather use Godots Sprite2D node rather than using the TileMapLayer node. That way tweaking each sprite is a bit easier. But I can still change my mind cause I have an idea that I’ll be working on few days later.

I first designed these sprites as a -I am not sure how to say it- directly front view. I already said that I wanted my art to be at a ~45 degree angle. So adjust the looks of the sprites. That made it a bit better but I am not really satisfied with them yet. I will probably redesign them.

Interactions

When I first started this project I didn’t had any ideas on how to make an interactable object in Godot. After watching some videos on youtube and a lot of trial and errors I manage to make an interactions system that works really good.

The interactions is this:

When you get close to any of the arcade consoles there is a text shown “[E] TO PLAY”, when you click “E” there will be a split second of the black screen on the console lighting up and shownig a screen accordingly to the game you are going to play after that split second you get sent into a new scene where the minigame will be. I didn’t yet coded nor drew the required thing for the screen lighting up but I will make them later.

I think that these kinds of small things will be an important aspect of the gameplay feel.

These are all of the things I have done until today. After these done I will start on making the first 2 minigames and finishing the menus.
Hope you had a good time reading this,
Görüşmek üzere! See ya later!