V.4 - Custom Outfits & Moving Goals

This update was focused on two main goals - to add rewards for collecting the coins and to keep adding more new content to the game. For the first that would mean the ability to unlock outfits and customise the player's appearance. And for the second, that was creating more levels with different obstacles. 

Unlocking Outfits and Changing Player Appearance

Adding this functionality plus all the game UI accompanied was a fun but large undertaking. The first step was designing 15 new pixel art outfits for the player sprite, adding to them to game, and checking their coin price against the player's collected number of coins.

Then this progress needed to be trackable throughout the game, so that the player had an idea how many coins they had and knew when they unlocked an outfit.  Animations with the collected number were added when a goal with a coin was scored. And when they reached the amount needed to unlock a new outfit, an outfit menu pop-up would appear displaying the outfit and giving the option to equip or go to the customise screen.  

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Speaking of customisation, the player wasn't just limited to the appearance of the set outfits. They could use all pieces of the outfit - the hat, the shirt, the pants, and the shoes - to create different combinations. As well as change the skin tone appearance. This was all to give more options to the player and allow them to create their own look. Style in football is important.

New Levels and Moving Goals 

To keep adding more content, 15 new levels were added to finish the second world and give a total of 60 levels. To keep things varied and challenging for the player, a new obstacle was created - a sideways moving goal net. There are already moving obstacles that block the goal but now the goal itself is moving, requiring a different sense of timing and accuracy. 

New Home Screen

Bringing it all together was a new home screen created to help navigate between these features and keep track of all the player's total progress. Additionally players can now immediately jump to the last level they were playing with the CONTINUE button.