Hello again Footie Fanatics!

As the last week of the sprint has dawned upon us, we're coming to you with another devlog!

Programming

The main course: Abilities!

This week the main focus was put on finishing the abilities for both teams!

For the Aliens we've got our first meshes put into place, some particles and a fully working UFO!
The aliens can hold the B button to use up fuel to zoom at speeds unseen to earthian organisms. Holding the lob button while doing this also propulses them up to take to the skies!

Switching modes spawns a cute poof and makes the alien a much more menacing opponent, at the cost of fuel.
The main benefits of this are:
- Faster zoomies
- Can fly up, both useful for offense and defense!
- Bigger hitbox!
- Harder to be pushed back and shoves penguins more easily (although as of now there is a small bug with the aliens ufo hitbox and the penguins hitbox

This has been linked up to the artists first mockup of the UI so they can go rampant with their creative minds.

For the Penguin we now also have a ability, we got a simple wall that rises from the floor and block everyone and everything. For the lobbing modifier we got a pillar that launches everyone (yes EVERYONE!!).

ice wall:

ice pillar:

ice pillar being cool and all c:

Side dishes:

Player resetting: Players will now properly go back to their starting position when either team scores. Awesome! (and more balanced).

Ball Decal Height: The ball decal height has been increased significantly so it will still have its ground tracker following it, even if the ball flies much higher. Extra code support setup for 4 players: We've already made some nice code for the implementation of 4 players. Some examples being playerIDs, Linking it to its own UIs, and improved input linking.

Art:

This week we made as you can see above a whole UFO, some ramps (still WIP tho) and improved characters visibility during gameplay using a decal and a special shader that makes important stuff visible behind objects. 

We're excited to see you in sprint 2 to show off the future plans!