Candy Cannival

Videos can be played with the downloadable version: 

https://lyzzm.itch.io/candy-cannival-downloadable

*ENEMIES CAN ONLY BE GRABBED IF THEY WERE KILLED BY PUNCHES, NOT PROJECTILES*

WASD to move.

Left click to attack

Right click to block

F to grab enemy corpses

Left click to throw

Different corpses have different effects when grabbed:

Peppermint-Acts as a shield against projectiles, standard projectile

M&M- Grenade that stuns enemies once it detonates or hits an object

Lollipop- Spear that kills enemies instead of just stunning them

Butterscotch- A mine that can be placed that stuns enemies that walk over them

Game development logs:

Week 1

• Player movement/actions added
  • moving, punching, block, highblock
• Preliminary 4 levels made
• Made one enemy that could path find
• LSHIFT ability that lets you look around the map
• Basic health bar added
• Added background Music and basic audio effects 

Week 2 

• Added a health bar with armor system to the player
• Added scoring system
• Added an enemy that shoots bullets (those do no bounce)
• Added shatter effects
• Added projectiles/corpses that can be picked up after you kill someone or use it as a shield 
• Added power-up
• Enemies can patrol and have a Field Of Vision

Week 3

• Added a minimap to keep track of the player and enemies
• Decided the theme and made prefabs correlated to it
• Fleshed and cleaned out the enemy pre-fabs 
• User Feedback Testing
• Various play testers left feedback

• Interview questions asked:
  • How good was the difficulty progression?
  • Were the objectives/controls easy to figure out or were clear?
  • What are things you enjoyed?
  • What are things you disliked?
  • What are suggestions that you have in improving this game?
  • Any additional feedback (or maybe bugs that you found)?
• There were positive reactions for the sprites, and the general gameplay.
• A lot of the issues players had with the game was a lack of clarity in control and lacking feedback (audio, visual)

Week 4

• Added two new enemies (an enemy that shoots bouncing bullets and a bull-like enemy)
• Made a separate Tutorial portion with video clips and texts
• Player now only has one block type/key
• Added UI changes that will be used for the final game
• Temporary background changed for a more appropriate background 
• Enemies are all grabbable to make a projectile 
• Added a rolling/tumbling mechanic 
• Sound fixes 

Week 5

• Fleshed out final UI 
• Made 2 more intermediate levels
• Projectiles can only be picked up if you do not kill an enemy using a projectile (or using the power-up)
• Projectiles have special effects depending on which enemy you killed. 
• Minor changes to enemy pathing and attack speeds, etc. 
• Final tilemap/background and walls