Blackmoth Entertainment

Currently working on one of the more dreaded parts of Legacy of the Worms’ gameplay. The map screen.

The map screen will (and currently does for all of the rooms shown above) track where you’ve left any items. So if you drop a key in the library to make room for something, and forget where you left it, you will be able to check the map screen and easily see where all the items you’ve left lying around are located. Very convenient!

So the next complicated step I have to do is make the game map work in a similar way to Silent Hill maps – it will track which doors you’ve checked, which are locked, which are open, and if you find anything odd (such as puzzle devices). I have been putting this off due to how hard I think it will be, but now that every room in the game is coded and put in the game, it’s probably time to get this done

Still working on The Legacy of the Worms

Game isn’t just about dark caves! Mostly I’ve been working on the artwork for this part of the game, and the final area of the game… the middle part being pretty complete. Maybe that’s an odd way of doing things, I don’t know… anyway, a picture:

*update*
I just realised the end of the demo says ‘Coming 2009′ – that’s obviously not happening
However, the demo also says “over 160 screens” and we have more than doubled that – so the game is taking longer, but it’s much larger than expected too. So, good news and bad news, I guess…

A few people who played the Legacy of the Worms demo experienced a bug similar to the image above. I’m not really sure what the cause of this was, but it affected all the sprites in the game, but only happened to some people. Anyway, happy happy news, as I redid how the game handles graphics so the bug is no longer present. Huzzah!

I think it was Halloween 2007 that I was playing horror games at Jay Is Games and thought I should try one of those horror game doodahs. Didn’t actually start the game till a year later (was still working on PPZ3). Can’t really post much screenshots without spoiling things, the problem of a horror/exploration game I suppose… here’s a sketch from the level design of the area used in the demo anyway

Just want anyone visiting to know the game is making good progress, even if I can’t prove it