Meltdown Madness

Devlog

• 0.2 Patched
  March 29, 2019 by pixelcatdev

  0.2 has been patched, fixing a tiny issue: - Selecting 'Tricky' difficulty was setting the Timer to 10 minutes, rather than 15 minutes as indicated. Corrected to 15 mins... Continue reading
• Day 9
  March 24, 2019 by pixelcatdev#unity, #2d, #platformer, #9daygamejam

  Day 9 - it's here, submission day! Today saw some final fixes and tweaks to the game, include one rather last minute, but heartfelt addition; a secondary character in the form of my departed ginger ca... Continue reading

  
• Day 8
  March 24, 2019 by pixelcatdev#unity, #2d, #platformer, #9dayjam

  Day 8, the Penultimate Day A day of some heavy bugfixes this one; managed to kill all the heavily present bugs, including the character clipping into the walls due to some crazy physics collision dete... Continue reading
• Day 7
  March 22, 2019 by pixelcatdev#unity, #2d, #platformer, #9dayjam

  A very brief update today, absolutely shattered, no new screens today as it's mainly been code; Today's wins; - Rewritten the Gamestates and UI's (Title, Pause and Game Over menus) - Level Editing com... Continue reading
• Day 6
  March 21, 2019 by pixelcatdev#unity, #2d, #platformer, #9dayjam

  Day 6. As I was play testing a particularly complicated room this evening, I noticed that the rogue-like mechanism of healthkits and eventual death would be a real kick in the groin for the player af... Continue reading

  
• Day 5
  March 20, 2019 by pixelcatdev#unity, #2d, #roguelike, #metroidvania, #9dayjam

  Day 5 comes with a Health Warning! If like me, your 9 to 5 involves copious amounts of coding, it's probably best to not enter yourself into a GameJam. Whilst enjoyable, a constant cycle of sleep, cod... Continue reading

  
• Day 4
  March 19, 2019 by pixelcatdev#unity, #2d, #retro, #metroidvania, #9dayjam

  Day 4, back at my day job (developing reports in T-SQL and VB.Net), so I've had very limited time to work on Meltdown this evening (something that'll run throughout the rest of the week...). This even... Continue reading

  
• Day 3
  March 18, 2019 by pixelcatdev#unity, #2d, #platformer, #9dayJam, #dev, #roguelike

  Day 3, and another half-day. Some of today has been spent rectifying some of the bugs mentioned yesterday, and revising some minor elements, but most of it has been actually implementing levels. I'm... Continue reading

  
• Day 2
  March 18, 2019 by pixelcatdev#2d, #unity, #gamejam, #metroidvania, #platform, #9dayjam

  Day 2, and the core is complete; the toolkit in its full glory is ready for me to slap in moving platforms, controllable platforms, interactable objects, text and dialogue for exposition and hazardous... Continue reading

  
• Day 1
  March 17, 2019 by pixelcatdev#platform, #gamejam, #9dayjam, #metroidvania, #2d, #unity, #9DayJam

  Brief overview, initial sprites and sounds have been added with the overall finish feeling retro and smooth enough to warrant some challenging platforming elements. End to end functionality completed... Continue reading