Game Off 2019 Day 25

Oh, man!  I've been so busy with work and stuff, that I forgot to make any progress on my game.  I'm going to have to abandon Godot and Blender for now, sorry.  I just don't have the time now to learn the tools and finish my game.  I'm moving back to HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript!

This new game will actually be a spin-off game titled "Un-Bee Leap-able: Bee Flat".  Can I even have a spin-off game before the actual game is finished?  Sure!  Why not?

Anyway, here's the GitHub repo for Bee Flat.  I'm hoping that I can take the platforming elements from Glide 4.0 and combine it with the upgrade system of Paper Plane !! to make an interesting game.

I had made some progress, I got the HTML page and CSS going, when I noticed that Jedulz had made some progress on the JavaScript.  I pushed the code that I had for it into my repo and then I performed a tricky merge request.  It was tricky since we both create HTML and CSS for the game.  After that, I had to make some small fixes the JavaScript to work with my two canvases: one to draw the whole "world" that the character will fly through, and another to act as the "camera" to only show us a small area around the Character.  I also started the game with a "Start Screen", so there had to be a way you could remove it before you could see the Character moving around.

I got it to a nice state where both of our contributions work!  You can play Bee Flat right now, if you want!  Hopefully, Jedulz and I can finish this game before the Game Off ends!

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