Journal Entry 4

Date: 09.05.2023

Activity: 

- Started working on the One Page Design Document on Microsoft Paint at 15:50. I worked on the final room at the top of the level, as well as writing some text. This took 40 minutes.

- Done at around 16:30. Writing this journal entry.

Notes:

Finally I'm done with this document thing. I would have finished making the game by now, but oh no, we have to draw pictures with our crayons first!

Since the "weapon upgrades" were an afterthought due to the revelation mentioned in the 2nd journal entry, I essentially had to come up with an excuse to let the player use the shotgun (or whichever gun is picked last, but it'll most likely be the shotgun). This excuse is the big chomper at the end. Hopefully, the shotgun's bullet spread will help the player kill the big chomper, as well as the mini chompers, killing two birds with one stone (more or less).

I wanted to design a good level at the end, but I didn't know if the chomper would get stuck on the moving platforms and small tiles, so I had to ditch most ideas in the end. Instead, I added some spitters. The player will probably jump and kill them with the machinegun, or something.

At the end, I added one last thing in the "Additional Guidelines" section. It was about checkpoints. I uploaded the final version again, but you won't see the interim version of the document, because it's just one sentence. Anyway...

Yes, finally I'm done. Now I can finally make the game, hopefully.

I really really really (really) hope I won't forget about making a trailer video. Something tells me I'll forget, but I hope I won't.

Invested Hours:

- 40 working on the document.

- 5 minutes on final touches.

- 5-10 minutes on the journal.

Outcome: 

1) Finished OPDD.

2) Obsolete journal entry #4.