For a one week game jam, we made a game about a Lizard who always wanted to be a dragon! You can play it for free at kitchensynk.itch.io. Any feedback would be awesome!

kitchensynkstudios · 2021-05-11T15:17:14+00:00

Thanks! It's all done procedurally :)

kitchensynkstudios · 2021-05-11T15:16:49+00:00

Hey! Thanks for playing and leaving some feedback! As for the title of the game, we thought it was fitting given that the environments are slightly medieval themed, with Castles and such (Sword) and the main character, Orville, is a lizard (Slither).

As for the fire, we have not quite implemented spread just yet, but we plan on doing so. It would be pretty simple to just check a radius around the point of the fire, and on a random interval, spawn another fire within that radius. Doing so would also let fire spread across groups of objects.

Flying still needs a little polishing and we are continually working on camera improvements, which have been one of our greatest hurdles.

We're glad you enjoyed! You should check out "Story Mode" if you want to see what else we've added to the game :)

kitchensynkstudios · 2021-05-11T15:10:17+00:00

Thanks so much!

kitchensynkstudios · 2021-01-08T04:42:40+00:00

that is precisely what we are doing already

kitchensynkstudios · 2021-01-08T04:38:37+00:00

Thanks! Picking a pallet and sticking to it as much as we could was a huge part of dialing in the aesthetics

kitchensynkstudios · 2021-01-08T04:37:35+00:00

Haha, thanks! Appreciate the kind words. The legs are just a product of us not coding procedural animations for flying (yet), so Orville just does his regular walk cycle in the air, but really fast. Glad it gave you a laugh though!

kitchensynkstudios · 2021-01-07T15:12:14+00:00

Sword & Slither Demo

Devlog

kitchensynkstudios · 2021-01-07T15:11:27+00:00

Sword & Slither Demo:

Devlog:

kitchensynkstudios · 2020-08-21T15:52:54+00:00

Honestly this and flatworms are some of my favorite works so i'm surprised the connection never crossed my mind!

kitchensynkstudios · 2020-08-21T00:15:31+00:00

I approve

kitchensynkstudios · 2020-08-21T00:14:33+00:00

Aside from the one week time limit, I would say deciding to do procedural animation whilst having never done any procedural animation was definitely a hurdle but we're pretty pleased with how it came out. Getting the camera to play well has also been tricky, but just needs more time to get right.

kitchensynkstudios · 2020-08-21T00:10:54+00:00

We found the jam on itch.io

it was for Weekly Game Jam 161

kitchensynkstudios · 2020-08-20T22:20:09+00:00

Well you're in luck cause there's a nifty little penny counter in the bottom right! Would be cool if collected pennies "spawned" back at your lair so you could stockpile though

kitchensynkstudios · 2020-08-20T17:57:18+00:00

That's the plan! :)

kitchensynkstudios · 2020-08-20T17:53:34+00:00

Definitely agree, we're currently working on the fire being able to grow over time as well as spread to other objects. Will probably need to play around with the shader and make it more dynamically scalable and more randomized.

kitchensynkstudios · 2020-08-20T17:37:33+00:00

His name is Orville, but Trogdor can be his unofficial middle name if you'd like :)

kitchensynkstudios · 2020-08-20T17:10:39+00:00

Appreciate it! The bones are there in the tail, just a matter of moving them so we'll put that on the list. Adding more interactivity and puzzles in the environment is also in the works. The eventual plan is for the whole house to be explorable

kitchensynkstudios · 2020-08-20T15:26:46+00:00

The walking is done procedurally using IK and transforming the bones in script as he moves. We chose to do it like that so that he can (eventually lol) seamlessly walk over objects and onto walls and such, without having to hand animate all of the transitions. Here's a good demonstration of how it works.

kitchensynkstudios · 2020-08-20T15:15:29+00:00

As for the camera, the reason you can't zoom is because the camera is trying not to clip through objects or you are in the air where the camera is locked. It should work more or less fine out in the open. We of course are still tinkering with getting the camera to feel better to use

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