Note that this page is outdated as the Jelly Dew types are currently being reconsidered.

Jellies produce jelly dew when they are happy. Jelly dew can be picked up, and given to island hearts. This will, in turn, increase the building radius of the island hearts, and produce blocks according to the type of the island heart.

Feature Summary

Jellies produce jelly dew when they are happy. Jelly dew can be picked up, and given to island hearts. This will, in turn, increase the building radius of the island hearts, and produce blocks according to the type of the island heart.

Goals

• Make jellies integral to progression and resource gathering
• Feel natural, and not like an exchange between the player and the jelly
• The mechanic should be as simple and easy to understand as possible

Feature Components

Production of Jelly Dew

Jellies will at any time produce jelly dew passively at a rate according to the jelly’s happiness meter. Specifically, the interval between each time a jelly produces a piece of jelly dew should be seconds equal to some variable called “base production speed” (or something like that) divided by the happiness value of the jelly. base production speed could for example be 500. When a piece of jelly dew is produced, it is dropped on the ground, for the player to pick up.

Using Jelly Dew

Jelly dew can be given to island hearts. This increases the building radius of the island heart. When giving jelly dew to the island heart, the heart also produces blocks. The block type of the island heart determines what block is produced. The jelly dew, however, also has a type (according to the jelly that produced it). If the type of jelly dew and the island heart are matching, a larger amount of blocks will be produced.

Example Visual

Jelly Dew is inspired by honeydew, which some ants harvest from aphids.

Attribution: Dawidl at the English-language Wikipedia

What should be manipulable in the Unity editor

• The base production speed of each jelly
• The jelly dew type of each jelly

Considerations and Dependencies

External Documents List