Initial post

Hi! This is my first game I've put online. At the moment it's not much, or even finished, but I wanted to upload it anyways to share what I managed to do during the time of the game jam. I'm very new to game development so managing to do this much in a week was a big deal for me! I plan on finishing this afterwards, not to make it into a big game or anything, but to clean up the mechanics (a lot), replace the visuals with much better sprites, and actually have an end to the game... At the moment you just kind of. Get there. And then nothing happens. There isn't really an indicator beyond the tree cutting off, either. So, that'll be in the next upload! For now though, here it is.

List of things to change/fix:

• Jumping/movement: I'll be reprogramming the jump action and general movement to be much smoother and more natural
• Pinecones: I need to add more, at the moment they're only on the lower part of the tree. I also plan to make them so once they fall, touching them again won't cost another life
• Birds: Mainly I want to fix it so some of the birds don't start facing the wrong way
• Bird nests: I'll add an animation to show when the player lands on one.  I want to have it more that the player is forced off the nest and can't jump immediately, rather than the general implication that the eggs just get crushed.
• Checkpoints: Adding a visual indicator that they've been hit
• Extra lives: Allows player to gain extra lives
• Sprites: All sprites will be redone and replaced. Current ones are placeholders, I also will be designing and animating in a character for the player to play as.
• General game: I need to tie up loose ends- have the game actually end when you run out of lives, have the distinct end game when you reach the top, have it so the camera doesn't move until you start, have the camera move faster as you go higher
• Level design; once I have the mechanics fixed and new sprites I plan on overhauling the actual level. As it is now I just needed to have something in place to test mechanics and code out on.