Hello Folks,

In today’s dev log, I have a very special announcement. The One Who Struggles will be featured in SIX! It’ll be streamed online along with 23 other games. While I haven’t played any of the other games, many of them seem really cool. I highly recommend looking through the list. Which you can find here. https://six.seattleindies.org/ 

Last week I mentioned there were two things that I wanted to get into the game, a tutorial and a score mechanic. I am happy to say that I was able to implement both. I think the tutorial could use some work still as I feel some of the text is too long, but hopefully it teaches the concepts well enough. The scoring system is pretty simple. I’m not too sure how balanced it actually is, all things considered, but I think it’s good enough to have fun with. Something I didn’t do was implement a way to put a name associated with a score. Partly because this would be a pretty significant thing to add so late in the project and because this is intended to be just a local feature. I don’t think there’s going to be a major high score scene for this game. 

To that point, I made the choice to not explain the scoring system in the game at all. This is intentional and something I want players to figure out on their own. I will say, it is similar to Void Wisp in that it values placing yourself in a risky position while avoiding damage.

With the score system I needed a result screen. This screen displays the player’s score and time, but it also displays something else. In Void Wisp, I had a little “hints” section that would provide players with a random hint about the game and sometimes something that hinted at a greater story. This result screen is no different. I really want to make this into a series of some sort and so I refer to a lot of games that maybe one day I’ll make. There’s 40-ish messages in total. Around half are hints and the rest are things related to possible future games and greater lore. 

With this release I am calling it the official 1.0 launch! There’s a few more QOL things I want to get in, but then this game is fully done. I’m excited to have it showcased at SIX and excited to move on to something else. Please check out the most recent version and let me know what you think. 

That’s all for now.