Game Journal #94 - Overworld Improvements, Music, Game Over Screen

Hey all! Welcome back to my game journal series. I did quite a bit this week, so let's get into it!

Life update first; I got a new job this week. It's at Rocky's Corner, which is a pizza place. Amazingly, it's not the first pizza place that I was talking about before. That place said they'd call me, but a month went by and nothing. I wasn't happy, so I applied elsewhere. Let me tell you, Rocky's hired me literally the day that I had my interview. So, you know, I really appreciated that! I don't know WHY people think it's okay to let weeks and months go by before contacting an applicant again for a job. It's absolutely ridiculous. Anyway, I also 100% recommend their pizza. I haven't tasted it yet, but BRO. All the ingredients are made from scratch. The dough, the sauce, pretty much anything that goes in it. And the pricing is pretty good, too. I like it a lot more than Cracker Barrel. There, speed was prioritized over everything and I always felt rushed. At Rocky's, it's much more relaxed. It helps that pizza takes a bit to cook, so the customer isn't unhappy with a 20 minute ticket (whereas at Cracker Barrel, that would get your head bitten off.) So yeah.

Game-wise, I applied to put my game on Steam! I'm still waiting to be approved, but the application is in. Yeah... that's 100$ straight to Valve. But it's really not so bad. If I sell just 20 copies of my early-access version of the game, I make it back! Yay... I've never been good at marketing, though. Anyway, as soon as it's available I'll put a link on the front page so you can see it. Even if you don't buy it, wishlisting it will help out a ton. If you didn't know, the more wishlists a game has on Steam, the higher chance that it'll been shown to other people. It's free, and it helps me out!

Here's the changelog from this week.

• Made two new songs, a game over theme and an Alchemist theme.

• Added sounds for Joe and Dan's weapons in a dungeon.

• Added sounds for when a monster attacks, gets hit, dies, and is alerted.

• When a monster sees you, he'll stop first and then chase.

• Attacking a monster in the overworld decreases their health.

• You can make a monster dizzy (will be confused their first turn.)

• First strike and ambushes affect battle.

• Improved the game over screen.

Yeah, your eyes aren't deceiving you. I actually made music for the first time in about a quintillion years. What can I say? I needed it, so I made it. Nothing more than that.

Here's the game video:

And here are the videos for the two songs that I made.