Hello, hello! How’s it going?

Welcome back. This week we’ve made a bit of progress in the making of the game. Let me tell you about it.

Playability

Because this is multiplayer, one of the party members will have to host the game, and the rest will join the lobby. When all of the members of the party mark that they are ready, the game will start.

For now, the players are able to connect to a game, with one hosting and the others as a members of the party.

Characters

After some discussions, we finally have the names of the main characters that you’ll use while playing with your friends. Here they are:

Giovanni

Giuseppe

Vito

Salvatore

Giovanni is the main character of the story. So he will be assigned to the host of the game. The other rats will be assigned randomly. So as you can imagine, this game allows max 4 players in each lobby.

We added one more animation since last week, the jump, wich is one of the most basic movements that the characters will have.

Test level

To test the animations, the movement, and the variables of the game, we have created a base level, that is very simple and will allow us to see how the players can interact with each other.

As you can see, it only has a couple of platforms and an end goal. None of the interaction puzzles that we thought have been implemented. We are working on them…

Executable

Now we have an executable so that you can try using the characters. It’s not fully functional, so don’t expect much 😅

If you want to play with someone, you will need to follow these steps:

• Everyone has to be on the same wifi
• One person has to host, with the IP that the game gives you
• The person that hosts, hast to get their computer IP. How?
  • Open the Comand Promt. (Press Windows + R and write cmd)
  • Paste in the cmd the command ipconfig
  • The number “IP Adress Number” is what your friends have to write in the IP that the game is asking for
• Once you see all of your friends in the lobby, all of you have to mark the option “Ready” and the game will start.

It will help us a lot if you try it and tell us any comments that you have.

SEE YOU ON THE NEXT DEVLOG!!!