Weekly Devlog #5

The final additions and modifications were made to the game prototype Planet 404: Platforms Not Found.

These included adding far more detail and interest to both the tutorial and first levels. This was by adding in more robots so the player is under constant threat and by adding in the newly created sentry tower which shoots at the player when the robots are not active, meaning the player is never able to relax and coast through the level. 

A new grappling gun model was also made:

Balance changes were also made to the robots to improve their effectiveness, and to the speed of all projectiles fired to make them faster and more dangerous. These were made so the player would gain more interest and enjoyment from playing each level.  

An aspirational goal of the game which would be implemented if the game development continued is to make the player viewed in third person rather than first person. This would mean the user would be far more invested in the game as they would be able to design their avatar, leading to them caring for their welfare in a far greater way, and therefore becoming invested in the game far more. Another aspirational goal is to implement multiplayer so the user could complete each level in a cooperative way as many users prefer this way of playing games. This would then lead to different leaderboards depending on how many people were playing at once. This could then also lead to different game modes being implemented such as PvP and team battles, further increasing the depth and number of interesting features of the game.