Menus and Character Sprites

So, for those of you who have stumbled across this game and don't know its history (thank you, by the way), Scroll Scramble is the winner of Pirate Software's Jan 2023 Game Jam. Essentially, the game is built and ready to go (you can find and play it in its game jam state here), it just needs cleaning up and some more content adding to it before I feel comfortable releasing it.

With that in mind, progress has been pretty swift, and I thought I'd share a couple of little update gifs!

The main thing that needed work from a visual standpoint was the UI. As anyone who has entered a game jam will know, UIs and menus often get the short end of the stick in these situations. So, it was particularly important to me to fix that before the game comes out. So far, I'm happy with how it's turning out.

Next up is the player character. Considering the time constraints, I was happy with the character I created for the jam, but he doesn't really fit the theme of the game. So now we have a little wizard who may or may not be inspired by a certain cowardly wizard from a certain disc-based magical world.

So that's all I'm sharing for now. A lot of the rest of the work that's been done since the end of the jam has been refactoring and cleaning up the mass of spaghetti code I created in a hurry. There will be more updates as there are more things to show!