Development Update - Feb 2024

Frontline Fantasy is a real-time strategy role-playing game that has you building units, upgrading your battle prowess, using items, and more. Explore the 2D environment and make it around the map to open up different missions. Units and battles are the main focus of the game. Customize your builds with the units you like.

Build up your frontline and prepare for the epic boss fights.

Showcase

What We Accomplished This Month

1. Moved to a New Graphics Library

The download size of the original proof of concept was huge because the previous graphics library bundled a browser and a bunch of dependencies. Therefore, we stripped out the previous graphics library and implemented SDL2. SDL2 should cover everything we need for this game including graphics and sound.

2. Created Tutorial and First battle "Defend the Wall"

• Completed everything up to and including the boss fight for "Defending the Wall"

• Three different units

• Three different enemies

• 2 Different maps to fight on

• The World map for choosing battles and extended missions

• Start screen and Settings screen with music controls

3. Art style was decided

• not implemented yet so bought assets are still being used.

4. Submitted to Pixel Pitch!

• Big accomplishment and learning experience

What We Missed This Month

Though a lot for a vertical slice has been completed, there are still a few major systems that need to be added.

• Potion System

• Shop

• Loading Saved Game

• Remaining art for the vertical slice

Goals for March 2024

• Complete necessary systems for a vertical slice

• Estimate time necessary to implement art style:

• Complete "Teaser" trailer

• Launch Demo/Vertical Slice

• Complete mini-games

• Complete the Mountain zone

Why did we not accomplish everything we planned?

Making excuses is not useful, but it is useful to look at a situation to find improvements and reduce bottlenecks.

• Creating the necessary items to submit to Pixel Pitch took time. Submitting to a publisher in February was not planned

• Deciding to start creating a blog and (X) account. To come up with a process for posting and blogging was not planned and took more time than originally anticipated.

Resolutions

• Pixel Pitch has already been submitted, so unless there is a follow-up, this is complete

• Created workflows for blogs and X (Twitter) that will continue to be used for this month to focus on development

Conclusion

February was a great month and a lot of things were accomplished. Though we haven't completed the vertical slice, it should not take long to implement by the end of this month with even more polish. Having a demo/vertical slice for playtesting is a top priority. The systems we put in place should carry us until next month and next month we can reevaluate according to the results.

Check out Update Galaxy Games Monthly Memoirs for February 2024, for details on other accomplishments in February and plans for March.