Hensen Hopper

I have two things to show off!!! Firstly, the hints system is now (in enough of a sense for the beta build-out at least) functional, and, secondly, I tweaked the honey-bullet sounds a bit to try to make attacking the enemies more satisfying.

I'm thinking of having the HP system in Hensen Hopper be Hensen's morale rather than health. I think that'd make more sense with the healing item being what it is; Hensen gets stung, he looses morale, but eating his favorite food restores it.

Is a fully-interactive tutorial necessary for the beta build-out or are the in-game hints enough for this stage in the games development? I plan to implement a fully interactive tutorial eventually but that may not be very important for now...

I added an animation and sound effect when the player collects the heal-up drop. In the lore, this flower is going to be Hensen's favorite food which is why the sound effect is a crunch like he's bitten into something.

The new heal-up drop in Hensen Hopper. May not be a cameo of something in one of my earlier games like I may or may not have directly stated I was going to make it in a post I made the other day.

I might make the visual art for the heal-up drop a rendition of the healing flowers from Deathly Descent rather than the healing-honey which instead looks like it should be a fire power-up of some kind. I think it makes a sort of sense for this universe.

Working on getting the itch page for Hensen Hopper set up which means creating a separate cover image for the game on itch (different aspect ratio there). I want to publish that with first beta build of the game so I DO need to get a move on with it.

What should the in-universe item for the player's score be? I want there to be lore where Hensen collects something from every Yellow Jacket criminal he defeats and your score is how many he's gotten. I have some ideas but I'm open to suggestions as well!

It's kinda incredible how much simply changing the text font(s) will, by itself, complete the aesthetic of a game, especially in the menus.

I love TextMesh Pro so much!

I don't know how well you can see it in this video, but I've coded a dashing mechanic for Hensen Hopper! I plan to have dashing consume a "dash charge," a kind of ammo you can get as you play in the form of enemy drops.