Contrast

Today I am giving myself a challenge. I am going to make a game in only 9 hours and see how it finishes. I will be posting pretty much everything on my game, and so that every one can see the things I am doing.

July 31st:
19:58 - I will start by getting a basic idea, and drawing my sprites.
20:21 - Have an idea, finished some sprites, and have started coding.
20:34 - Went to take a shower, and eat dinner. Stopped timer.
21:07 - Came back, started timer again.
21:30 - Have the engine working. Going to work on the menu now.
22:38 - Finished the menu but got a bit distracted. Haven't done anything since 21:50.
22:54 - Made one more level and tried fixing the level display, but it isn't really working. I'm going to sleep and continue tomorrow. I still have 7:15:36 to work on this.
August 2:
21:30 - I have been EXTREMELY busy the last 2 days, and therefore haven't had time to work on the game. I'll try to work on it a bit now.
21:53 - I have now 5 out of 21 planned levels, fixed the level display, and have fixed a collision error as well. Everything going fine.
22:02 - Made one more level. I have other things to do so I am going to stop. Still have 6:46:42 to finish this game.
August 4:
11:03 - Once again I was very busy yesterday, but I have a lot of time to work on this today!
11:24 - I have now made horizontal and vertical platforms, however there is one kind of vertical platform that isn't working.
12:17 - Finally got the moving platform to work, however I have wasted a full hour on that.
13:05 - Made a credits page (with a link to this devlog) and found the music for my game. I'm going to stop for today and finish this tomorrow. Still have 4:52:58 to finish this game.
August 7:
18:55 - If you're wondering why I haven't been working on this for a while, it is because I have been looking for fitting music for my game. Luckily I have found it, and will be able to continue working on my game.
19:30 - Added the music, and put in an effect for when the player dies. However I have a new problem with those same vertical platforms!
19:40 - I'm going off the computer for a bit. I'll come back in a while. I've only got 3:50:03 to finish this game, and I'm still missing 13 levels. I must fix those moving platforms or I'm screwed!
20:22 - I'm back, and ready to continue development. I have been thinking, and I think I will only make 16 levels, instead of 21.
20:31 - Finally fixed that buggy platform! Just in time for dinner! I am so thankful for the instance_deactivate function! I have 3:40:53 left, and I am pretty sure I can make 7 levels by then.
August 13:
11:26 - I have been taking a break from this. I needed some time to think about everything that I would do now. I have 3:40:53 to work on this today, so I'm hoping I'll finish this today.
12:22 - It has been about an hour since I started working, and I have only made one more level, and put the title of the game in the menu. Yes you heard me correctly, this game now has a name! It is called Contrast,because the game is mainly black, white, and grey, excluding the goal which is yellow, the credits page which has a blue button that takes you to this devlog, and the menu, because the option selected is red. And once more, I am making a change of plans. The game is only going to have 10 levels (not counting level 0), which means I only have one more level to make, however this level will be really cool, because it will be a boss.
13:05 - Started working on the final level, and got a neat camera shake at the start of the level. I'm going to eat lunch now. Have about 2 hours left to work on this.
13:59 - Finished eating lunch, and I am now ready to finish this game!
15:28 - Finished the game! With still 36 minutes and 7 seconds on the clock. I now only need to move this topic to the Finished Games forum, change the link in the game, upload the game to mediafire, shorten it with AdFly, and I have finished everything!
15:59 - Now I have completely finished everything. I hope you like this game as much as I enjoyed making it!