Added text and sound to the Achievements boxes. Modifed the "tweak" Achievements (like escaping a closing Flytrap) to require a mere two seconds of not getting caught, rather than requiring you to reach a checkpoint. This feels reasonably natural without having to explain the checkpoint condition.

Achievements now have display boxes. When you accomplish one, a box with an image slides out, waits a few seconds, and slides back. Half of the achievements require three actions, and each time you successfully complete one, the box slides out with a new check mark in one of the three checkboxes ( Read more... )

We have achievements. Almost. You can achieve them, anyway. There's not a lot of actual feedback yet, just a note at the end of the level. So that needs some more work.

Difficulty settings are fully functional. All maps are updating, all enemies are slower or faster on easy/hard respectively. The Venus Flytrap turned out to be the most difficult, because the sound for it is a set amount of time ( Read more... )

Spent today updating sections 1&2 for the new difficulty and randomization scheme. This was grueling, thankless work. And I still need to do section 3...

Added "Breezy" and "Iron" sub-difficulty settings. No in-game explanation yet - I'm not sure how much I want to put into that, given that I'm determined to completely redo the map scene at some point ( Read more... )

Trying to get back into this habit ( Read more... )

Been remiss in posting. Updating architecture is productive but not very exciting to talk about. It's going to be a lot easier to add new levels now, though ( Read more... )

Level 1: Section 2 has its five challenges and 25 fireflies. Now there are flexible branches. You can bend them by landing on them, push them up by flying under them, and leaping frogs can really get them moving, potentially launching you into snakes or flytraps.

Still need to add the mid-section dialog and invulnerability pickup.

Added new hanging fern art, and made adjustments to existing stump arts ( Read more... )