Very happy with my day 1 progress. I've implemented everything I wanted to at a basic level. Tomorrow I plan to make actual graphics, add sound, and polish up the various gameplay features.

My game is nearly finished. There's a bug in the stage generation that can create inaccessible pockets still, so I need to make a fix for that. Otherwise the only changes I still have to make are for polish, like changing the look of sprites and aligning the menu items correctly.

At the start of the jam my level generator wasn't working the way I expected, creating levels that just had individual wall blocks sprinkled in the arena. I felt it worked fine for the game so I didn't try to fix it due to the time investment needed to make what I had already done. While working on code to fill in disconnected holes, I found out that the levels weren't generating right due to a tiny off-by-one error when deciding whether to set tiles to wall or floor. The levels are now much more cave-like and as I originally intended.

Had lots of obligations before this but I'm ready to start making my game.

I plan to use Godot, GIMP, BeepBox, and SFXR.

I've been having issues with the godot tilemap but I'm learning ways to do what I want. It turns out you can't find which exact tiles are overlapping an Area2D.

Right now I have nearly all of the core gameplay done. I expect I'll have it finished by the end of the day and I'll be able to spend tomorrow on presentation.

The gameplay is finished, which I wanted done by the end of today (very cool.) Lots of presentation related stuff left to do. Graphics, sounds, hud etc. It's gonna be good!

I have to work tomorrow so I had to finish it today. And I did! I'm pretty happy with the outcome, and I think I learned a lot more about working with Godot from this project.

Play it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/$314221