Final Demo Build

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This is the final develog for the demo build and for the course material involving the development of The Fat Fight!

During the past week we continued to implement suggested changes and a few small new features. The most major addition was that a proper tutorial was added to the game displaying the mechanics far more clearly than just jumping into it. We also fixed a number of bugs in the game, so that the player could no longer block the cat or hide food simply by pressing it up against a wall while facing away from the cat, experience both by us developers and playtesters. New animations were added to the game, and a number of sound placeholder files were updated. The vacuum now makes proper sounds and some of the skyboxes were replaced with more thematic ones. Many other minor fixes and changes were made, these were just some of the more notable parts.

Based on past suggestions and player experiences in playtests we made it so that there was only one drop/pickup button, and that cardboard boxed could now be placed over food to protect it from the cat. The game now fully supports a controller in every menu, and there is now a pause menu in the main levels allowing for one to return to the main menu if desire without winning or losing the game. There are a few glitches like the cat disappearing from the level and then falling from the sky (due to the cat's large size), but we decided to keep it for now since it was well-received during the beta presentation. Worst comes to worst, we now have the pause menu which can be used to restart the game.  Despite feedback to combine all buttons into one, we did not do so because it was problematic for our current game systems, and could cause issues when, for instance dropping an object but the game decides you want to use it which could cause player frustrations.

After this the game will take a break from development. Next steps beyond this would be to polish it further and present it at level up in 2023. Have a great new year!