Close to the end of this section, I got an idea for a game and with 1 week in the GameDev.tv Community Jam left I turned it into a game with the support of a friend of mine.
We made a tower defense game, keeping the tower moving mechanic and making it into our core mechanic.
We added 4 different tower types with different effects, ranges, and cooldowns, etc…
Our enemies have a ‘temperature’ variable which slows them down if it gets low and speeds them up as they get hotter, ultimately making them explode when it reaches a threshold.
We ended up not really needing the BFS, we only had I level and the path never changed, so manually selecting each Waypoint as a patch block would have been alright as well. It did make creating the level a bit easier.
You can check out the game here: https://barsen.itch.io/hot-skulls
And the source code here: https://github.com/BorisBarsen/GameDev-tv-Community-Jam-2020
(Although I was on a deadline so there is some yummy spaghetti code there)
This was once again a great section, looking forward to the next!