Aimless Needle
Aimless needle is a survival adventure game where the player travels from island to island searching for pieces of a compass that can lead them home. The player can gather materials on the islands by chopping trees and killing monsters, the materials can later be used to craft tools and make upgrades to their ship.
Milestone 1
UI Mocks
List of features:
- One island where the player can move around
- An axe: players can pick up the axe at the start of the game and they can chop trees and inflict damage on enemies when the axe is selected
- The player can pick up rocks and chopped trees around the island
- Inventory bar: picked up items are displayed in the inventory, items can be selected and dropped
- First enemy: the enemy has basic pathing and will approach the player character when they're close enough. The enemy inflicts damage over time
- Win and lose conditions: the player wins when all enemies have been defeated, the player loses when their life points have been reduced to 0
- Initial menus: main menu, win and death screen
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Milestone 2
List of features:
- Added a new island with a cave
- Added tool crafting: the player can now craft a pickaxe, axe, and shovel.
- Added digging functionality: when the shovel is selected, the player can dig around the island. Digging up an area has a chance of revealing a crafting item or a tool.
- Added mining functionality: when the pickaxe is selected, the player can break rocks around the island, bigger rocks will take more hits to break entirely.
- Added 2 new types of enemies
- Added the option to travel between islands
- Added sound effects to walking, chopping trees, digging, mining, and enemy attacks
- Added walking animation to player character
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Milestone 3
List of features:
- Added more islands, in total there are now 6 islands.
- Added more enemy caves, in total 4 caves with bosses who drop compass pieces.
- Added tutorial and story.
- More enemies.
- Sounds for every interaction.
- Multiple bug fixes.