update #4 of 29 of september
Doing a quick one since i’m sick. Mainly coded in my free time. i coded the main gimmick bloc and made almost completed the bloodspawn, unfortunately i broke his Ai pathing so now i need to fix it. Hopefully i will complete the code of the game within 2 weeks and i will be able to show case a Demo. Also implemented animation switch for the characters, they are now animated! (at least for the animation done before)
Have a nice day 
update #5.1 of the 6 of october
Unfortunately i was unable to do any progress on my project this week due to it being very busy. But the following week has alot of free time and so any meaningfull ammount of progress will be written during the next week.
I do not wish to push the demo for november, so all core programming used in the longterm should be programmed before them at the cost of the graphics.
Have a pleasant night.
Update #5.2 of the 13 of october
I’m back and on the stretch line of having a fully playable Demo!
Here is a summary of what was done:
Section one: Magrinor, the greedy mimic king
Well even if he is not complete animation wise, I already had the base animations so he does stand in the forest with a basic iddle going. Interaction with him is possible
Section 2: fixing the bloodspawn
So by initialy programming in the recruit fonction, i accidentaly made it so he would have both code for movement act at once, including sinking trough the ground becose of a misplaced gravity line. The little buddy got his line of movement fixed and only require to have a few line of code related to movement to work 100% mechanicaly in the future. Although, he is a very usefull way to find bug, and animations seems to reset to quickly, so i will see if i can’t fix that in the future.
Section 3: the blood reaper animation set is crutial for a good first/final opponent.
Well i did not work alot on it, but i mainly tried to have at least some manner of animations for the diferent states of our very dangerous ennemy. And so i shall show at least one of the things i did.
The animation and its speed will be subject to change if i don’t feel it right enough.
Section 4. Building the first level’s visual
Well a white background and blue blocks are not what i aim for with the first level’s theme.
Welcome to the crimson forest. you can see it in the first screenshot (still have some coding issue.)
I made basic building block for now, even though i aim for having them animated in the future. But for now this it is not a priority.
These are good enough for now, until i have the time to refine the level in a future update of my game.
section 5 :Things remaining to do before the demo
High priority required before a demo
life and death state
Completing the blood reaper
Adding sound
medium priority making the demo cleaner
animation reset fix
fixing the passtrough platform code for their visuals
Level background
low priority can be done later
additionnal animations for existing background/foreground blocks
Thank you for you time and patience! See you all somewhere this october!
I should be able to transpose this into a playable demo this Saturday the 20th of october!
This Demo is more of a proof that i can go far, even if i don’t know how to code or even just draw well.
I hope to complete most of the game within a year, so mark my words! I will work on my little jewel of a project at least until september 2019!
Have a lovely evening 
I gotta say, this looks real promising! I say take your time on it, and everything will work out fine! Here’s hoping you have a good one!
update #6 of the 20 of october
Version 0.1 release!
Well hello everyone here is the link for the game .exe (have a folder ready for the game since it will install it where you told him to.)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KrSt5OjvS2hLzPsi30c1bY8Q8PimK242
The game is fairly short and some issue/work is still to be done
Feedback of the game or of any bug encountered is appreciated.
Have a great time!
Well if you meant the game to be horror as well as a platformer, you hit the nail on the head. a sole unkillable unstoppable enemy chasing you down, the droning low music, the trees that look vaguely like flesh and veins. I feel like this is weightgaming.exe. But if that’s what you’re going for, a great start
So, a few issues…
When running, the player’s feet do not contact the ground.
Jumping over the gray circle on the left side of the map or walking off the right side soft-locks the game as you fall forever.
Not actually bugs, but things I question about the design:
The lack of a “hold to jump higher” mechanic is contributing to the floaty feel of the physics. Here’s a link to a person talking about this exact problem: Better Jumping in Unity With Four Lines of Code - YouTube His code examples are given in C#, but you should be able to port it to GML fairly easily.
Hitting “E” on the little “Recruit” pickup at the top of the map ends the game as you only have the 3 hearts it costs, so we can’t test that.
The “You Collected” screen isn’t obviously a “You Died” screen. This was confusing to me as the first two times I triggered it were instant, running into the gray circle and then recruiting the thing.
The… bacon basket(?)… doesn’t really read as food visually to me. This could probably be helped somewhat with an eating sound on pickup. The enemy does read as malicious quite nicely, but you could use a sound and visual cue to indicate player health loss.
It would be nice if triggering the store would pause the game while you shop.
On the recruitable creature, after spending coins at the shop to level my stats up fairly evenly, the recruit option only cost 1 heart instead of 3. I don’t know which stat lowered the heart cost, but you can get it. Not sure what it actually does, though.
I have figured out through 2 playthroughs of the demo that wisdom is tied to recruitment costs, since I put one point of wisdom on the first playthrough reduced the cost to 2 hearts, so I deduced that it must be tied to wisdom, which was confirmed when I put 2 points into wisdom on the second playthrough and saw the cost reduced to 1 heart.
FEEDBACK FROM V.0.1
Hello everyone! I hope you had fun! The few pieces of feedback helped a lot!
Following it the following points were the ones everyone were the most vocal about
1: the controls are too floaty
The current system for gravity uses the weight has a variable (greater weight = faster fall) But i won’t mind adding a stomp, has a disabling technique and a way to fall faster for the next update. that way people won’t have to wait to reach the floor when they weight very little.
2: the Bloodreaper is too hard
This one i was happy to hear. Since usually he isn’t active until some conditions are met, I still wanted to check early if the current unfinished version of it could keep up and be a nuisance even when the player is at peak performance. In the following updates he will actually start disabled and will be enabled by going back trough the crimson forest
3: fall from the side of the world softlock 
This one was just an oversight from my part. It is a necessity to fix that on any current and future map.
4: Quality of life and general ambiance
minor comment were given about sounds and UI. The voice tutorial alone is somewhat confusing t hear, so an additionnal room with subtitles would be perfect. That way people would know what the heck magrinor is saying and could properly learn the moves and controls if they haven’t already.
Also having missing sound for the player (no footstep), food bubbles(any fitting sound from a bubble,munching or generic ding) and the blood reaper (make him extra creepy). Well these will be added in a near future hopefully
Magrinor’s haggling shop 
The stat system had pretty much no explanations. It is however possible for me to make short description of the stat to be shown whenever you hover over them while buying stats from magrinor. This would also prevent
people from dying repeatedly if they don’t know how to reduce recruit cost. (at least for the one or 2 that ask for HP.
Those are the main part of feedback received for the V.0.1 release. Thank you and see you all next week for a preview of the second level!
Early update since i may be little bit busy tomorrow!
Update #7 of the 2 of november
This week was more about planing additionnal npc that were planned for the game, next week will be all about fixes and coding The second level’s AIs
so here’s Gruk, chief of the guard of the second level, The Watch tower
wanted to make a large orc, towering over players and npc alike. Like the blood reaper from the first level, you don’t want to mess with him, but the dynamic should be different. I went for a big pig like aestetic for the face, while using volkenfox has an inspiration for the general body shape.
He was the first to get a concept, but his alternate take on clothing came after the regular guards.
Those are concepts for the female version of the guards. Curently its very little, being given rather basic leather/ chainmail armor for the first two and trying for a medieval take. Then i tried for a more military design with somewhat of a camo similar to the crimson forest with a more vibrant pink. Those orc have a smaller snout and tusk then Gruk, but still visible while playing.
Say hello to Nepo!
A trapped kind soul, forced to stay chained to a centipede, only by selling all his wares may he be freed from his mobile prison! Nepo will have hopefully a very dynamic shop with various item that could interest the player during their journey, but beware has this mean that you wont be spending the coins into stats!
tiles have been made to help with the decors so we wont be seeing much white in the following weeks 
These have a simple enough design to allow quick variation, like cracks and webs to be added!
Thanks you very much for following the developpement of my game!
The developpement will however be halted during the game jam so expect no updates the 17 and 24 of november. Have a great day 
Update #8 of the 10 of november!
Going to be short and sweet since the free time i got on my game project got put into fixing the elevators (they are teleporters now that works for anyone registered in it!
But also the first draft at a dynamic objective guard AI is underway! Thanks to Heavy heretic for helping me with fixing a dumb mistake on my part. So we got guards that knows how to go about the levels! But i still have to fix a little bit of code since they don’t try to stop at the objective and reset it… but i may know what to fix, and if it works we will have dynamic floor visits.
Next update in 3 weeks due to the game jam! I got an idea called twisted ways! so look foward to it in 2 weeks. Have fun!
I don’t know at all if its the right place to do so… or if its just something passing by in my head, i feel like feast of the greedy is just to big for me alone. I got a ton of asset to do, code that react to it… i just suddenly feel dumped. In 2 weeks i almost did all that i wanted for another game, but again… programming AI is above what i can do for now.
I really wish i could just have somebody else coding along side me. I see some code in my head… it looks like it works… but then some unknown error or oversight just make the whole thing come down then i go to the forum/discord for help. But for once, a small project succeeded with twisted ways so i’m asking myself if i should just slowdown the production of feast of the greedy for now and focus on smaller games in order to get the attentions of someone to help me complete my project.
I hope you will all have a great time.
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Thanks alot to those who voted on where i should put my time. I’m quite happy to see the opinion of the demographic here.I have been working on the game and a side project this week so here is all the info.
update #9 of the 1th of december
So I went and fixe a few things people found displeasing during the demo.
First, pressing the down key while in the air cause you to suddently fall at a medium pace.
Initially the code made you all floaty if you kept pressing the key (an actual concept for an item i wished to put into Nepo’s shop) so i’m quite happy. This should make the game a whole lot less floatier in the first few weight states.
second, added invisible walls to the first level to make sure you don’t softlock the game.
Other than that the second level broke when i returned from twisted ways. Several teleporter stoped bringing you to their assigned waypoint, forcing me to change their code to something similar to Twisted ways doors.
This also forces me to redo the whole code for the guards, but since they are broken, there is no need to worry about that.
Finaly…Music! Thanks to huckleberry bleu for making the first piece of music for my game! A spur of the moment 's melody was turned into quite the retro soundtrack. Unfortunately you won’t be able to hear it
until the second demo, but i hope this will be enough to put the initial tone to my Two faced host
regarding the poll from earlier this week, i took the time to plan correctly all the ideas i had for the feast of the greedy and also start to work on planing stuff for a more visual novel style type of game. Since cakehoarder’s (Junie’s appetite), Hunger from EHCB/Urgurgurg and Penelope’s chrismas of Cozylad were all emotionnal hits. They touched parts of me I inately cherished. So making a living game but more restricted on code would be perfect. Maybe with an approach similar to Monster prom in term of visual and choice, with potential concequences on future events depending on what happened previously.
I hope you all Have a great day.
Update #10 of the 9th of december
Hello all! Things went smoother than expected, although not has much time was invested into the game has i would have wanted.
I have started to code the guards back up again and went further than their previous defunct code.
The guards are now similar to the one’s in ocarina of time. They will go to where they need to go, wait for a bit and go to a new spot. They work in term of how they manouver the level, unfortunately for me this is nowhere near my vision of the guards yet since multiple interaction needs to be added to their code.
their style is now confirmed, so i also worked on a few things to help me animate.
(still need to find a way to make clean looking previews -_-)
Next objective will be to make the base version of gruk and some interactible within the level.
Hopefully, there will be a version of him ready down the line, but i won’t be able to sink a lot of time into him until pass wednesday.
Have a great time!
update #11 of the 15th of december
Free time is upon me! This means that, even if i did not get to do much, i should be able to a lot more in the following 3 weeks
I was able to make a few asset to make the level more alive! Hopefully, most of these should be able to be used in due time.
some of them have a little bit of code, but nothing in working condition yet.
And tried to work on gruk with a new position, i’m not used to drawing sitting fatties. Well hopefully this should not pose much of a problem.
Following week, has for goal to at least:
code a basic version of gruk
potentially make more sprites for him and other npcs from the guard tower
Have a pleasant day
update #12 of the 22 of december
Hello everyone! The current progress is nearing a state equal to the v.01 demo , But i still wish to have more than last demo, mainly a few basic interactions between npc and the environnement.
The main and only thing really done this week is a more thorough implementation of Gruk, the chief of the guards.
I had the chance to make some basic work on a few sprites for gruk in order to more easily program the few important lines of codes. This week, i was able to make it so Gruk became on par with the unfinished gards, then after that, on par with the currently unfinished Bloodreaper. The slumbering giant is as dangerous as the Bloody parkouring bug within is own domain, so make sure to use the few hiding spots if you ever see him about to change floors
Now only 3 npc remains to be coded in order to for the game to reach a quality similar to the 1st level across the board. But having a lot of animations missing or unfinished makes it so my 2 weeks of free time are blessed.
Have a nice day!
update #13 of the 29th of december
Well hello! I hope your Christmas was enjoyable In my case it was both fun and productive. A lot of progress has been made and it is time to share it all.
All the basic Ai coding was made, so this means that The second level is mechanicaly completed, but not on par with my idea of how the game should be. The guards works correctly individually, Nepo has a working shop and the helper still has to be tested, but should work fine.
Also made a font for my game.
I also did a little bit of research for how i should handle the art style of the backgrounds and the walking animations i could inspire myself from. 100 Ways to Walk - YouTube (100 walks)
It is weird, because i feel like i’m almost there, at the same time i know that i may not be finished if i add everything from this list.
Things left to do out of my mind (to have a base demo)
Make level transitions doors and make sure nothing breaks in between
update the end screen/ refine the transitions
Finish all the base animations
Implement additionnal sound and musics
update magrinor’s menu
Things i want before posting the demo
some interactions between the npcs
Make some NECTAR interractions
(optionnal stuff)
Updating further the first level graphics
Wisdom event
Alternate Mara skins/dress
Proposing/showing idea for the future
Since the next update maybe a lot more heavely focussed on animations and graphics… but also because i’m quite shy… i don’t know what i should pair it with. I got ideas, i got plans, but i also want to not get to ahead of myself. So i will leave this poll for next year’s first update.
What would you like to know about feast of the greedy?
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Have a happy new year!
Update #14 of the 5th of january
Well i hope most of you had a great week, mine was mixed and productive.
So many animation in progress, all stemming from a few key animations.
All the base sprites for the 2 next sizes of mara are done, but i still feel like i need to make the main body move a little to make it on part with the first runing animation.
A final character is revealed for the second level, and no additionnal ones will be added (for now, who knows)
He is still missing a unique animation, but the base running animation could be recycled from mara’s.
The guards are almost done, although, the hostile run is a lot more difficult to transpose than expected.
Crude teleportations animation were also done. Each last over 1/3rd of a second so this should look fine. My gift making site is unable to make an animation this quick.
A bunch of animations are kept secret from you eyes for now.
I had the chance to work a little bit on Magrinor in order to make him more lively, but i am still runing into some issues. I got to work on transitions, and they work very good, even if the skip one instance of transitions that i need to fix.
Major topic: plans for the 1st level
Many of view must be remembering the bland apperance of the 1st level. At least the main features were present to give a little bit of context. This level is more for the visual, the ambiance than anything. It sets the mood to tell the player that they aren’t home. The whole idea of this forest were concieved in its first iteration during a role playing game a few year back. and i wish to transpose what i had in mind to this very project in some form or another.
I want around a few games to inspire myself and see how i could do the following vision i had in mind.
minor subjects: alternative skins and plans for later versions
Alternates dress are mainly ways to play dress up to a certain point with mara.
Currently only 1 dress is confirmed but won’t be implemented until v.03
In contrast, skins would be complete reskin of mara or allow to play has another characters with potentially their own growth. (time consumming to do for now) Both would be aquired with the standard achievements for the game, ways i force the players to act before allowing them to get the skin or dress they want.
For the plans for later versions, when i made my plans for how i wanted the game to be, turned out i shaved of 1 level that i had no idea what to insert, and in short my game is a little bit smaller. ater levels would need to have a reason to be there, what does X zone job’s have has an impact on the rest of the citadel. It is no use to make a level just for the sake of being a filler. The third level will be more atmospheric and much less treatening. But i would love for it to still make the players react in meaningfull ways.
This is all for now, and my free time is dwindling, has such, i set myself to make the demo ready for the month of march. I have been to much spread out in my normal life in 2018, and has such, more time will be invested into my day to day life then the project itself.
This necessary change will assure a better growth of my skills without having major setbacks.
Have a wonderfull day.
