Journal Entry 2

Date: 24. 2. 2023

Activity:
Downloaded and imported 2D Game Kit
Made my own level with the Game Kit assets

Notes:
It was very frustrating to me that the assets didn't always line up perfectly. The tile grid was offset a bit from the game grid and so it wasn't really possible to line everything up perfectly. Some assets didn't even have dimensions as multiples of single units (for example the doors).
I also had an issue with the background being too small to contain my level so I had to scale the background up about 2.5x  so the blue camera background wouldn't show. It doesn't look as nice as with the original scale but it's better than the backgound just suddenly ending.
There were some things that I wanted to do that weren't really possible without scripting so I decided to change a script to achieve what I wanted. I wanted a platform that would move up when the player is standing on top of it (or just on top of a pressure pad) and that would move back down when the player gets off.
I also changed some layers and physics settings because I wanted enemy projectiles to go through (some) walls. Maybe I broke something in the process but now the enemy projectiles go through all walls (maybe they were set up that way from the start, hard to say now...). At least I managed to make a platform that a box falls through but the player cannot.
I wanted the level to not be too easy so I decided I would make it mostly vertical so that if the player makes a mistake, they fall all the way down and have to essentially start over. It ended up not being such a big issue because its not too hard to just never fall down but it has happened to me at times and when it does happen, it feels exactly as I planned.

Invested hours:
All in all about 6 hours