The First Flame

This is a prototype for My First Game Jam, Winter 2020. The feature I aimed to prototype is a temperature-based GUI element in the form of two circles centered on the player: A red circle that indicates overheating (see by pressing F and then spacebar a few times) and a circle that is "cut out" of a frosty-looking overlay. This circle will shrink into view as the player stands around without the flame active.

Controls:

• WASD/Arrow keys to move
• F to activate your flame
• Space while flame is active to create a flame whirl.
• Flame whirl "melts" snow, revealing rock underneath.

Known bugs:

1. The GUI lags behind the player a bit.
2. Pretty sure the cold overlay elements freak out on resizing.

Aims for the rest of the jam

1. A short quest to find a shrine buried under snow.
2. Player will fall unconscious and restart at the beginning if temperature reaches -1 (Cold overlay touches the player) or +1 (Heat overlay covers the screen)
3. Make the fire-whirl appear to pass behind the player

Player stand-in: Animated Orcs by Calciumtrice, usable under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. (https://opengameart.org/content/animated-orcs)

Fire effects: Free Pixel Effects Pack by CodeManu, public domain (https://codemanu.itch.io/pixelart-effect-pack)

Tileset: RPG Nature Tileset - Seasons by Stealthix, usable under Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal license. (https://stealthix.itch.io/rpg-nature-tileset)