Arvutimängude loomine ja disain 2025/26 sügis

BEACHCOMB

Description

Go on an enjoyable summertime adventure with your dog and discover the mysteries a seemingly ordinary beach has to offer! Find exciting artifacts buried in the sand (or in other people’s beach bags) to make your journey even more fruitful - high risk, high reward!

Download

https://winterh.itch.io/beachcomb

Milestone 1

List of tasks completed for iteration 1

• Create playable character with
  • Dog companion
  • Inventory
  • Wallet
• Create a toolbar with
  • Metal detector
  • Pickaxe
  • Shovel
• NPCs
  • Create an interactable merchant NPC
• Merchant
  • Loot selling functionality
• Game currency
  • Player has a “Wallet” to hold money
• Basic sound design
• Pause panel
• Start scene with game name

Color Palette

UI Mockups

Milestone 2 plan

• Beachgoer NPCs
  • Digging through NPC belongings mechanics
• Deeper loot logic
  • Include item rarity into gameplay
  • Designated place of disposal for trash
  • Dangerous loot
• Merchant
  • Ability to buy loot from merchant
• Tools functionality

Milestone 2

List of tasks completed for iteration 2

• Corrected UI mockup from iteration 1
• Expanded level design
  • Visual objects have colliders
  • Proper transition to 2nd level
• Items
  • Implemented item rarities
  • MASSIVELY expanded item pool
  • Dangerous items
• Tools
  • Working metal detector (with sound)
  • Item interactions determined by selected tool
• Trash
  • Player can dispose of useless items (free up inventory)
• Stealing
  • Stealable loot
  • Stealing minigame
• Sound design
  • Sound effects
  • 3 original music themes: main, minigame and merchant

Current progress, UIs and level

New features

UIs

Level design

Milestone 3 optimistic plan

• Merchant
  • Buying loot from merchant
• Cosmetic improvements
  • Equipped tools animations
  • Animated NPCs
  • General refinements
• New level
  • Ability to buy loot from merchant
• Dog functionality
  • Dog finds extra loot
• Punishments
  • Punishment when digging up dangerous item
  • Punishment when caught stealing
• Sound design
  • More sound effects

Milestone 3

List of tasks completed for iteration 3

• Expanded level design
  • Whole new level to explore
• NPC's
  • Introduced quests and respective NPC's
  • Added a tutorial NPC to tell the story
• UI and Visuals
  • Optimised UI interactions
  • Item interactions determined by selected tool
  • Animated equipped tools
• Merchant
  • Added buying mechanic
  • Updated merchant model
• Sound design
  • Added more sound effects
    • UI sounds
    • NPC talking sounds
  • Added sound settings to adjust the volume
• Added punishments
  • E.g. on unsuccessful stealing

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See our itch.io page