Wheeljammin'

A small prototype for Wheeljam! There's no gameplay to be found here (this ended up being more of a one-day jam for me, haha), but there is wheel.

Controls

Hit "R" to focus on the wheel, and select wedges with the left mouse button.

If you're not a fan of your head swinging around when you select wedges you can hold the R key down , and if you'd prefer to select wedges by walking, feel free to try out the arrow keys. I'm not going to stop you!

Jam Thoughts

I was originally planning on making a puzzle FPS/Fruit Ninja-y sort of thing, where each wedge corresponded to a different weapon characteristic (ammo capacity, range, rate of fire, and spread/area of effect), with the goal of having the right weapon at the right moment to tackle the incoming wave of targets as efficiently as possible. I'm imagining that you'd get a preview of what types/distances/numbers of targets would be spawning soon so that you could plan a bit ahead, with the timer pausing during reloads.

I could see myself doing a repeat of last year's 7DFPS and just doing another 7 days immediately after the jam deadline to actually make that, but no promises, haha.

Luckily, another jammer had similar ideas for the weapon mechanic, so if that sounds interesting you can check out her entry here. I'm looking forwards to playing it!

What I didn't do for this jam

The first person character controller used here was made in collaboration with Pneumana for a previous jam.