{"id":72,"date":"2025-02-07T21:34:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T21:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/onion-future\/?p=72"},"modified":"2025-02-07T21:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T21:40:19","slug":"week-3-jan-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/onion-future\/week-3-jan-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3 – Jan. 31"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week our goal was to start assembling all the pieces we’ve been working on into a complete prototype, that connects the various parts together!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For art this week, we’ve done two main things. First, we’ve started creating the more detailed portraits of characters that appear when you enter dialogue with them. We’ve also created an overworld sprite for The Mayor, so we can test NPCs in the overworld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our Fox. He’s a bit of a weird guy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Mayor, who will be our test NPC for a while.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And of course, since we’re putting together all the pieces, the fox now has animations for walking up and down the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And such a handsome fellow needs a place to live, so we’ve also created a tileset and set of props for his house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’d like to live here!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Also, we’ve started on some drafts for our project poster!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So many options!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Programming<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Let’s take a look at how all this art is going into the game! This week we wanted to create some more interactions that use the Playdate’s crank, and we wanted to assemble them all together. Here’s some of our source code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of our programmers did a sprint over the weekend, attempting to implement one crank-based mechanic a day, just to see how well our systems accommodate developing new things quickly. On the first day it was digging, and the second was the mortar and pestle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walking around the room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For some fun mechanics, we’ve got fishing again, grinding things in a mortar and pestle, and digging a hole. The mortar and pestle action currently incorporates both sound and art to enhance the satisfaction of the crank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n