Ghostware: Presentation and graphics Devlog

1 year ago by egurney

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Ghostware: Presentation and graphics Devlog

This Devlog for Ghostware will focus on the following topics:

-Presentation updates
-Menus

Presentation updates

Since Ghostware relies heavily on its Presentation, most of the art and animations have already been finished however there were a couple of updates that were implemented:

-The sprite for the wraith was updated to change depending on the difficulty.
- Added a mouse-click sprite in the Tutorial area

New Ghost sprites - so small!

Mouse Clicking sprite - also small!

Menus

The main menu consists of a start, options, help, and quit button, with the start button starting the game, the help button sending the user to the help scene, the options button taking the user to the options menu to adjust sound and the quit button quits the game.

Title Scene showing off the options and help screens

The pause menu can now be accessed by pressing the ESC key and will pause the game. Players can either press ESC again to un-pause the game or quit to return to the main menu.

Pause menu in action

The end screen menu shows a summary of the player's stats and allows the player to restart the game, quit the game or return to the main menu.

Final results screen, Ooo look it scrolls!

The game-over menu allows players to either quit to the main menu or restart from that area with the same health to retry the encounter.

Game over screen

Feedback

Players noted that the end screen didn’t reset the game properly so I fixed this by removing any persistent objects so that they would reset to default on a game restart.