House of Usher concepts

We have been given a selection of passages from different old books and novels for us to base our next project on. I have decided mine will be based on a text from the work "The House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe, something about the "encrimsoned light" he mentions in the passage has given me a few ideas, so I started sketching some possible period designs for characters.

I doubt I'll be taking these designs further than this, as the character designs are not the focus of this project, it did however help me think of a possible direction to take this project.

First 2D platformer blog post

I haven't been doing too much over Christmas, but something I was working on during the first week after new years, was a small side scroller game where the player must collect pickups and get to the final large powerup.

It was a simple game with not much content, there were a few problems I encountered along the way but all in all nothing I couldn't fix. Mainly just bugs with collision, jumping or just general movement.

I finished it all off pretty early, at least everything I needed to include, so I decided to add a few pickups to the game, giving an objective for the player to complete. This then allowed me to be a bit creative with adding a mechanic into the game, letting the player jump higher with each powerup they collect, whilst balancing this mechanic by slowing down the player's horizontal velocity causing the player to need to think outside the box with how they reach certain areas.