Batteries Included Dev Blog

Teleportation Play Here's a quick and fun update from the developer perspective... The most exciting changes are the addition of trolls, teleportation, and combat polish. In the video below you can see the flow of gameplay starting to manifest.

Hunter Bobeck | Gameplay Programmer Hello imaginative players! Today I'm bringing an update on scaling in Imaginarium (our new working title!)... While playtesting, we have received two complaints related to scale in the game. The first was that the curves being used for shrinking and unshrinking the player during the tower interaction were a bit off. The second was that the proportions of toys on the table felt wrong when the player shrunk themselves down. We already mentioned the shrinking complaint in the previous update for 1-17-2018 , but I'd like to begin by explaining it further. To handle this issue, I first updated my Virtuality Controls plugin ( available for anyone to use here on Git Hub ) to provide built-in interpolation curve options when performing interpolations. As you may remember from the previous post on Context Changing , interpolation values must be calculated over the course of the shrinking and unshrinking interactions to both reposition the ...

What we are working on... Design: Toy unit designs and environment sketches continue! We are playing with a name change to 'Imaginarium' to highlight the unique magic of your toys coming to life, and not just inert towers, but toys of all imaginations (towers, goblins, bricks, action figures, spacemen, etc.). Development: Chapter Switching and the Room setup preliminary tilesets and units for the 3 Greedy Goblins chapters and the first Abducting Aliens and Plundering Pirates chapters bedtime announcement audio when chapter ends sky changes to darker evening sky when chapter ends fixed holes in the windows added window screens implemented Greedy Goblin Goons and Greedy Goblin Thieves boxes as whirligigs added die whirligig

Hi all! We made it through the shark tank as you may have heard from Hunter. Today (on the blog) a long overdue post, we are welcoming our new members that have been absorbed into Towerscape. They all worked very hard on their respective game so we are ecstatic to have them work along side us. Griffin Park:  Team Manager / Designer Bryce Burdue: 2D Artist / Character Designer Sebastian Ruvalcaba: Designer In addition to these staff additions, we had some small shifting around of existing positions. I have moved structural modeling for our game and retained my role as project owner. Hunter and Alex continue to be our dynamic duo of everything programming wise. And finally our star character modeler Julian is focusing on bringing designs to life. -Devin

What we are working on... Programming and Art: Unidentified Flying Features Improved window material to be less invisible Put a King Exposition (good king character) model in as a placeholder for the enemy kingpin figure, sitting on the windowsill looking over the table opposite the player's perspective Added a clock (above the desk) with the Chaotic Good symbol and hands of the Towerscape color theme – this should be able to be animated later Added a Pin Art Display with the Chaotic Good symbol on the desk to add more neat things to look at Added plastic bricks on the desk, which may be snappable together later Implemented UFO toy model with a metallic material – not functional as a unit yet but one is present flying around and another present hovering above the desk, both for visual demonstration Design: Decided on the enemy kingpin figure being an old rejected toy of the player's who wants to use your other toys to make himself better, so that he can...

What we are working on... Programming: Towers Box to dispense towers Tower cost restrictions and refund (by throwing off the table) is functional Temporary-solution labels displayed for these interactions with towers, to indicate the values involved for purchasing, repositioning, and refunding A calculator on the windowsill displays the current amount of gold coins in piggybank Lamps can be toggled on and off Greedy Goblins dodge grab attempts and incoming arrow shots Enemies are destroyed upon being thrown off the table (not killed – they are not supposed to drop any items when dispatched this way) Quadratic curve implemented for shrinking (unshrinking is still using smootherstep). This makes it less jarring, even smoother than smootherstep; it was found that the acceleration of smootherstep going in was more uncomfortable than a steady speed that is achieved by quadratic – this is due to the quadratic curve better imitating the relativity between larger 3D space an...

Towerscape made it through the Shark Tank! This means we have the opportunity to continue development. Here's a look at our plans: We also have our first trailer, check it out! Stay tuned for more updates as we head into the the Workshop stage of the Game Design program. We may pick up a few more team members!