{"id":20,"date":"2009-09-21T23:18:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T06:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2009-09-21T23:44:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T06:44:32","slug":"jumping-bean-gets-promoted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Jumping Bean Gets Promoted!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21\" title=\"jumpingbean_tmj1\" src=\"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/jumpingbean_tmj1-222x300.png\" alt=\"\u00a1Hola, amigos!\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/jumpingbean_tmj1-222x300.png 222w, https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/jumpingbean_tmj1.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by Tom Martinez Jr.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My team and I have decided to promote the <a href=\"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/?p=12\">Jumping Bean prototype<\/a> to full-on game status! \u00a0We&#8217;ve started an eight week production to create a full iPhone game based on the constant jumping theme of Jumping Bean.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re starting with the simple concept of Super Mario Bros. with the jump button on auto-rapid fire. \u00a0The game will feature designed (i.e. not procedural like the original prototype) levels with playful graphics and a classic platformer feel with the auto-jumping twist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iteration #1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketqase.com\/bean\/Bean1-1.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-22\" title=\"Jumping Bean SMB1-1\" src=\"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Picture4-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Jumping Bean SMB1-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Picture4-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Picture4.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first iteration of this concept exists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketqase.com\/bean\/Bean1-1.html\">here<\/a> and includes a level based directly on Super Mario Bros. level 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>The comments for this iteration included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Need some enemies<\/li>\n<li>The jumping feels floaty under ceilings<\/li>\n<li>The control feels a little too precise, giving the player little to master in regards to the platforming<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ll need more complex levels, including moving platforms<\/li>\n<li>Could get a sense of depth by adding parallaxing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of this feedback was implemented in iteration #2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iteration #2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketqase.com\/bean\/Bean1-1b.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23\" title=\"Jumping Bean SMB1-1b\" src=\"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/JumpingBean2-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Jumping Bean SMB1-1b\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/JumpingBean2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/JumpingBean2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second iteration (found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketqase.com\/bean\/Bean1-1b.html\">here<\/a>) is actually starting to feel like a game and is almost as good in quality of many of the free games on the iPhone, which means anything we add from here on we can charge for ; ). \u00a0We added some simple enemies, adjusted the feeling of the jumps, and added to the game\u00a0a concept <a href=\"http:\/\/tommartinezjr.blogspot.com\/\">Tom<\/a> drew up for our lovable amigo.<\/p>\n<p>Some of our feedback at this point:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s time to start thinking about the game&#8217;s color palette<\/li>\n<li>Should think about having a way to get rid of enemies<\/li>\n<li>More variety in the enemies would be good<\/li>\n<li>Restarting the whole level every time the player makes a mistake is probably a little harsh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling really good about the progress on this one (of course we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unity3d.com\">Unity3D<\/a> to thank for that) and the type of game we are shaping up to make. \u00a0It will be exciting to see how it progresses over the next eight weeks!<\/p>\n<p>~R<\/p>\n<p><em>Currently playing: Super Mario Bros., Jumping Bean<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My team and I have decided to promote the Jumping Bean prototype to full-on game status! 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We&#8217;re starting with the simple concept of Super Mario Bros. with the jump button on auto-rapid fire. \u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3,42,180,39,57,70,54,30,69,56,41],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-development","tag-beginnings","tag-game-design","tag-game-development","tag-indie-game-development","tag-iphone-games","tag-iterative-design","tag-jumping-bean","tag-rapid-prototyping","tag-super-mario-bros","tag-tom-martinez-jr","tag-unity3d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketqase.com\/roblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}