Introduction

Welcome to our 9th devlog!

We’ve been creating a local couch co-op game where the goal is to cook together. The catch however is that you’re an octopus and every player controls one tentacle. For various cooking tasks you’ll have to work together while the orders keep coming in. 

This week is the third and last week of production 2! That means next week we start on polishing! 

Programming

This week we added a strainer to pick up the noodles to allow further interacting with the environment. We also tried improving our physics, mostly with the pan and integrated more sound effects.

We finally fixed the last few rendering bugs related to slicing ingredients, meaning this feature is fully functional! Slicing was a very important feature to us, as we just couldn't imagine serving a real dish with an ENTIRE CHICKEN BREAST for the poor customer to somehow try to eat with chopsticks. So we're really happy to finally have this working well!

We got a start screen going, which allows us to hide the players spawning in with a nice "Ready!" animation on each player. Once both players have joined the game, you can then start by pressing, well Start!

The end screen also looks a lot nicer, and shows a star rating for how well you did. We added a loading screen when restarting the game from the endscreen, which nicely covers up the otherwise awkward pause of Unity loading reloading the scene.

Art

This week the artists have finished all the effects to make the scene feel more lively. Like stove fires and oil sizzles. Furthermore a UI has been added to the game to enter and leave the game in style. A new lighting pass optimized the lighting and made the game more beautiful at the same time.

The future

We've now entered the famed feature freeze, where nothing more will get added to the game. Now, we're fully focused on bug fixes and some extra polishing before our game is finished!

Onto the polishing week!