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I – Game Improvements<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Over the last few weeks, my focus has been on polishing Zefyr<\/em> and improving its overall functionality, especially for the demo and the upcoming full release:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n In early August, I took a little time off to work on a fun side project with my kids: a simple platformer game. It was a holiday project, and they had so much fun designing characters and biomes. It took just a week to develop, but it was a refreshing creative break from my main project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The game is about searching for animals in a forest. Along the way, I coded mechanics like coyote jumps, buffered inputs (basic platformer stuff), and even a grapple mechanic! We used LDtk<\/strong> for level design, and the kids created the graphics for the biomes, designed the game rules, and built the levels. I also added a multiplayer mode\u2014because, let\u2019s face it, a family game needs to be played together! It was a really fun project to work on, and you can try it out here: Animal Chase<\/strong><\/a>. It\u2019s a cozy, cooperative game, perfect for kids and families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are a few screens:<\/p>\n\n\n\n And here’s a look at the level in LDtk (just simple pixels with an associated value (wall\/tree\/bush)) and the original graphics on a sketchbook:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now my kids want to keep adding more things\u2014new items, biomes, and levels. Let\u2019s see if I can keep up with their enthusiasm!<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n As you might know, the demo will be featured in the Steam Next Fest<\/strong> in October. So, I\u2019ve been pouring a lot of energy into marketing and promotion to get the word out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s it for now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n As always, thank you so much for your continued support\u2014it truly means the world to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Take care, peace! 😊<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello everyone! I hope you\u2019re all doing well! July and August have flown by, and I\u2019ve been working on Zefyr of course, but not exclusively. Here\u2019s a recap of what\u2019s been happening: I – Game Improvements Over the last few weeks, my focus has been on polishing Zefyr and improving its overall functionality, especially for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[52,26,69,48,58],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game","category-news","tag-devlog","tag-game","tag-marketing","tag-news","tag-polish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneiricworlds.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneiricworlds.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneiricworlds.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneiricworlds.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneiricworlds.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oneiricworlds.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/oneiricworlds.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneiricworlds.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneiricworlds.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneiricworlds.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneiricworlds.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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