It’s time for another update and this time I haven’t managed to work as much as I wanted, actually, I worked way way less than I wish I had.

What I have done:

Being short: The tutorial level for the Ghost Game is now playable, you can see it on the video below.

It is indeed really simple, it is the tutorial level anyways, the only purpose is to make the player learn that they lose if they are on enemy’s sight and also that they can/have to use the ghost projection mechanic.

The next step is working on its aesthetic and actually have some intro and some text explaining the player what to do.

Besides that, I started working on how the aesthetics and level design should be, I’m fairly new and unexperienced in designing levels and aesthetics so I didn’t exactly know what to do and I didn’t know well how to do what I think I should do. This is the perfect recipe for procrastination.

I do have some thoughts and rough levels on paper, but I was just too insecure if they were really good.

What I learned here is that if I overthink like I did, the game will never move forward, so the best thing is to just draw the art and create the levels with my current ideas and then improve them over time, hopefully with some feedback to guide me to the correct path.

As a final thought, I realized that this game resembles Super Mario but with the ghost mechanic thing, and maybe simpler. When I realized this I thought of doing the level transition similar to Super Mario or Donkey Kong Country where you have that World Map and move through it to go to each level. See the pictures below.

What I want to do:

As I haven’t had a lot of progress, I will keep the same goals as previous month:

• Focusing on Working on this game whenever possible, try to work on it everyday.
• Finish the tutorial level and have two more playable levels.
• Draw the Art for at least the Tutorial Level.

As I said, for the levels, I will briefly think about them, create them on Unity and improve them over time. The same for the art.

And that’s it for this month! I will work harder on September to have more progress to show here!