Launch, First Update, and a Bug Fix


Not too much to say for now, this is just a project that was worked on over a couple of hours and will be continued to be added to and improved. 

V0 was extremely bare bones. 

  • Had a main character with up/down and left/right animations, and a sock trailing effect.
  • Had a looping music track on menu and on gameplay. 
  • Had sound effects for start, quit, and death. 
  • Had start and quit buttons. 
  • Had score. 

V1 still is. But there have been some improvements. 

  • Resized the game to make the playing field and character larger. 
  • Added an options screen with 5 looped music tracks, volume slider.
  • Added basic instructions to this screen as well. 
  • Added outlines to the flying socks to make them easier to distinguish. 
  • Added outline to main character for same reason. 
  • Added a local high score option, which will update through the session.
  • Added 5 additional ending dialogues, which are chosen at random.
  • Removed main character's sock particle effect for now.
  • Added bubbles, their sound effects. and the ability to gain ten points for their collection.
  • Reworked the sock spawner slightly for more variable speeds. You might not like the results. 
  • Added a mouse over sound effect to all buttons. I love this sort of thing. 
  • Added an idle animation to the main character for when there is no input. 
  • Removed the swimming animation when main character moved downwards. Some people did not like that. 

V1.1 (Bug fix)

  • Quit was disabled in the browser version. 

Plans for future updates, in no order and not totally inclusive;

  • Credits
  • Difficulty adjustments
  • Some visual bug fixes/improvements.
  • Better Instructions with their own dedicated button
  • Possible change or vary the loot
  • Add a bit of story to give the situation some context
  • Save function, which will come with the downloadable version returning
  • Difficultly modifiers, such as lives and more socks
  • Score multiplying events
  • More dialogue, opening and ending at very least.
  • More socks?
  • Additional levels? 
  • Change death sound, something fluffier. 

Of course, I'll take player feedback into account. So let me know. Thanks!

Files

SockDodge.zip Play in browser
May 20, 2022

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