This week I was inspired by Don’t Starve by Klei. So I made a survival game about not starving and not freezing. I had wanted to play with palette switching, so I came up with the idea of changing seasons to switch the map tiles’ palette around. I only created spring and winter, but I had also planned to make a day and night cycle as well. I was trying to make something extra hard this week, but I ran out of time (technically this post is late as is…), so I didn’t really take much time to balance the game. I’m not really sure if it turned out super hard, or really easy.
Things I would have liked to do include:
- day/night cycle
- Hunting with a bow and managing arrows
- selling wood and meat in villages
- animations and sound
I had fun this week, with palette swapping and graphics.
Here’s the game: http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2869
and the source: https://github.com/DavidPD/Pico8Games/blob/master/w4_survive.p8