0.0.2: A Dumb Smartwatch

Just a small update that makes the game slightly more comprehensible.

What's new:

• A smartwatch for displaying stats
• Controller support!
• Pressing ESC twice on non-web platforms will quit the game

The main addition here is the smartwatch. Seeing some of the stats in the game should help players understand what's even going on. I don't like just adding bars to the screen to display stats, and a smartwatch can track your health in real life, so I had the idea of seeing stats through a smartwatch that you can pull up. Plus, relying on an electronic device to tell you how hungry you are seemed appropriately absurd.

The main stats are:

• Energy  (white)
  • This is how tired the player is, and if they need to sleep
• Health (green)
  • Health is a little more complicated. It's a combination of two stats I call "nutrition" and "activity".
  • The unlabeled blue stat factors into this.
  • I'll let players try to figure this one out, but that should be much easier to do now that you can see the stats
• Food (red)
  • The inverse to how hungry the player is. You can go for a bit without eating, but there are consequences eventually :)

The smartwatch will also display notifications for various things happening in the game. I probably spent way too long programming that, but it's a convenient, effective, and diegetic way to communicate information to the player, so I'm pretty happy with it for now.

As for what's next, I'm a little torn between working more on the overall game systems, or on Plumber Racers Planet specifically, since they both seem equally important to the overall experience. So who knows what I'll add next ;)