Lawnmower FAIL

I attempted to add in an enemy - the lawnmower. However, this proved to be impossible as, despite giving it the same rules as the strawberries and the chicken, it very rarely appeared and, in later tests, failed to appear at all.

More hedgehogs

Title

 Some more art regarding the game (now titled Hedgie Havoc)

I also did the hedgehog burping for the victory screen. Hedgehog is full of food and so is happy. This will appear when the player has reached a certain amount of points in the level.

And have some more pictures of Thumbelina :)

GAMESALAAAAAD

 So, it's been a while but i've been able to fiddle with GameSalad for the first time - it's not that easy.

So, i've managed to assign "Rules" to my hedgehog in order for it to move - this is carried out by the arrow keys on the keyboard (as such, the game is no longer an iPod/iPad based game but rather an internet accessed game)

I also made "walls" that the character could not pass through. This keeps the player on the screen in sight and in game. I made these walls invisible by reducing their opacity to 0% and placing them on the very edges of the screen, giving maximum space to the player.

Also removed their ability to move. They're solid, like a wall should be, this way.

I was also able to make Strawberries spawn in the game by giving them the "rules" shown. I also made them rotate on the spot, spinning to catch the player's attention.

I found that if there were no strawberries at all then no more would spawn. I made it so that there was a strawberry on the other side of the invisible walls, out of sight and reach, to guarantee spawning strawberries continuously.

...Well then >:/

Had to make sure they spawned in a reasonable range. This first one had a small range so they only spawned in the corner.






Second one was better, also had spawning chicken

Aaand sometimes too many strawberries is a bad thing!

Concepting-ness

 I decided to go with concept 4 from the last post I did - the overhead game play. I feel this gives more options for game play and helps to see everything on screen.

Score: Collecting good foods will increase the current score while gathering Bad foods will lower it.
Strawberry/Chocolate: Will increase/decrease score respectively
Lives: Should the player run out of these the game is over. Collecting Teddy Bears will give one extra life. The mechanic to how you lose lives is yet to be figured out.
Teddy Bear: Gives an extra life.
Hedgehog: The player. Moving the Hedgehog over an object/item will pick it up automatically.

The game play would be to simply gain as much points as possible without losing all your lives (similar goal to games such as Temple Run)

Hey there mister grumpy gills

Mock up of Game Over screen - will have the score shown here too (didn't show up here for some reason)

Gameplay ideas

http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Super-mario-bros1-1.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MD_Sonic_the_Hedgehog.png

http://snakegames.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/snake.png

Here's a couple of rough doodles of possible gameplay.
1 - simple platform game inspired by several games including Mario, Sonic and several others.
2 - One screen styled play where the hedgehog would move right and left to catch falling items and avoid dangerous foods.
3 - Similar to 2 but food and items fly from the right to the left with the hedgehog moving up and down
4 - Overhead view similar to that of the Snake games with food and items randomly appearing on the screen (my personal favorite as of now)

 Some items in the game:
Foods
Good: Top row (Strawberry, Carrot, Banana, Chicken)
Bad: Bottom row (Rasins, Lemon, Chocolate, Fish)

The teddy would act as an extra life in the game

Hedgies

 Of course, being that my game is based on hedgehogs i'm going to need them in there. I started to draw a bunch of basic, simple poses to get a better idea of style.
The poses include curling up into a ball (their defence mechanism), running in a wheel (my sister's hedgehog Thumbelina does this to keep fit, only reasonable that others do too) as well as the simple standing around with doodles from most angles.




I chose the best three doodles and neatened them up a bit. From these three I chose the first one to colour in similar to Thumbelina (I have learned that she has a condition called Leucism, which is albinism without the giveaway red eyes and often creamier looking appearance rather than white)
(Information from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucism)

Hedgehogs with Leucism
(images from http://hedgehoggarden.victorinoskennel.com/ourgarden.htm)

Researchings

I am to create a concept for a 2D video game. I have chosen to work alone and to create it for the iPhone and iPad.

Pictures taken by my sister Hen

I want to base my game around little hedgehogs, as my sister received an African Pygmy Hedgehog for Christmas called Thumbelina.


 African Pygmy Hedgehogs do not go into hibernation, as doing so can cause them to die. My sister has her on a diet of Meal Worms and cat food.




My sisters Hedgehog, as we've been told, has a small hint of Albino. This is probably why she's so much more blonde than the average African Pygmy







I can learn more about the African Pygmy Hedgehog from several sites but for now I found this one to be helpful: http://www.hellohedgehog.com/

By learning more about these hedgehogs I can create a game that is accurate and fun

Image from www.hellohedgehog.com homepage

http://www.hellohedgehog.com/safe-hedgehog-food.html

http://www.hellohedgehog.com/dangerous-food-for-hedgehogs.html

Foods which are good and bad - these can help for a health or point system to be implemented into the game at a later stage
Now that I have a reasonable amount of research to start me off, I shall start concepting my little Hedgehog Character