Post-Jam Assessment (and plans for the inevitable update...!)

Things that are going to need fixing:

• Can you tell the opening cutscene was thrown together within the last hour of the jam? I had ideas for some extra visuals, but obviously prioritised putting the core game together first. This version still looks pretty good all the same, if I say so myself. Less forgivable on the other hand is...
• The botched loop in the opening theme. I'm not even sure what happened there: I had the patterns all set up; one opening pass without the drone bass, then two with. Then somehow that second pass ended up with a pattern of silence interrupting it. Ah well. Fixed it in the project, so that Underlier: D;D DX Edition is already off to a fine start... 👍

Moving forward:

• The very first thing I made for U:D;D was a version of the deep-sea suited protag which used the full three shades of Game Boy Sprite Green - executive decisions were then made as to which areas of mid-tone were going to get highlighted and which were to become shadow. As much of an enjoyable exercise this Black & White jam has been, I can't help but look at the assets I've made and imagine how much better they'll get with mid-tones, not to mention Color Mode... 🎨 Also my eyes have gone funny from all the extreme contrast... 😵
• I had ideas for other spooky scenes which got cut for time. Those will be added to DX Edition.
• Fun fact: I've been carrying the name Underlier around for a couple of years or so, when it was going to be the name of an entry into the HPS1 Summer of Shivers Jam; I never finished that one. I envisaged an underwater horror-themed six-degrees-of-freedom FPS in which the player pilots a small-yet-nimble sub around sunken wreckage and fighting off... things. It wasn't so much scrapped as indefinitely postponed, mostly until I learn how to make 6DoF FPSs. I'm very much on a GB Studio kick right now, but I've dabbled with Godot before, and as soon as I get back to it, 6DoF tests are absolutely on the cards.

Right, I need a lie down... 🥴