I kept seeing the #petjam tag and asked what it was, and I found this: https://itch.io/jam/pet And thought up a river ui... I kind of just simply grinded all of thursday morning. It wasn't the best idea because of the way I'm scheduled and the lack of sleep as a result, but I suppose it ended up looking the way I wanted it to look and I'd call it time worth spending.

I still consider Delegation Hybrid Layer$ my best work just cuz I spent a relaxed chunk of time on it, just kinda chillin and drawing, and then scrounged up all the dvd extra features to try to tie it all in together, but it's a different flow entirely. I might some day brush up on the concept of the art gallery game.. I probably got the idea from listening to that mp3 talkie on the internet about your games. the section after your games.. Can't remember.. Art gallery, the game. but it's a different flow entirely.

But yeah, I kinda thought "what if this whole river could be the pet ui interface?" and I went with that Fun Fun Fun series style ui with actual buttons. I didn't expect to do the makeshift animation... where it introduces the concept of whatever it is, and then the following 2 frames loop, but in my sleep deprived state it seemed a good approach. I regret the button placement where start and end are in between the duo of action buttons, but I mean, it was an impulse game anyway and there wasn't too much harm. For the most part it just kind of fell into place and with a little bit more of time and dedication someone in the future might riff on it and do something even more theatrical.

A lot of the stuff, I did put some thought process into. Like the "thief" section, the character believed rod minus string = fish. Drink rhymes with thief. I thought it would be silly for the concept of giving a river drinks of inebriation, or that there is a brand of beer that just says EAR on it. The directions I thought would be zanier with magical arrows like those puzzle games have.. That's filler puzzle mechanic, following arrows.. And I'm sure there's more I could recollect. Oh! the lies.. I wanted to make it so instead of lying to the river, you'd just lie in it like a float or something. Cuz with all the other words you'd think it would be about lying to it. As far as dye, it's juut a throwback to an old game I spent years on. It's a blueprint to what I do now, but biggery projectey. I'll just include the screencap in attachments.

Thanks for the vote of support. I'll try to do my best. -b