The last week of Beta has been interrupted by NZGDC. With most of our planned assets for Beta done, Corne worked on the important ingame UI elements which we have neglected for a little while since Vertical slice. The main elements we needed to address were the in-game icons to represent the medals for times, the icons for the secret token and the icon for the floppy drives that the player has to collect. The floppys that the player collects in the levels are meant to represent the data that he is collecting in his simulations in order to be a better thief. The speed running/ time trial gameplay mechanic became apparent to us after playtesters seemed to enjoy speed running through levels. We decided to capitalise on this and make it a feature of our levels. And to reward the player with Gold silver and bronze times. The secret token in each level is there to give players the impetus to explore and not rush through the level. Similar to the bread crumb style floppy drives that the player collects, the secret tokens unlock mini games back in the space van.
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