I decided to revamp the parachute graphics a bit so that all PowerUps have an active sprite that shows the change at all times (for example the spikes on the player or the belt for the rope). Our current version had the entire graphic appearing and disappearing so I decided to rectify that.

Now the backpack and the parachute are independent, with the backpack appearing at all times and the chute itself only when used as expected.

I also decided to modify the height of the parachute, now being a head taller  as the previous version was too close to the player in my opinion (chutes are often a distance away, after all).

I also replaced the red placeholder killbox with spiked variants. Spikes are a typical hazard seen in many platformers so why change it? Even though spikes are easily identifiable without the colour I opted to keep with the “red = bad” aesthetic like before as it’s something thats really ingrained for both gamers and casual players.

There’s two current variants, the top thin spikes and the standard ones below.

I also implemented some base sounds to the game by creating an Audio Manager in the _GM from the Brackeys tutorial here. The Brackeys tutorial was very helpful as the Audio Manager allowed me to have a more organized sound system, simply using functions to play sounds from across all scripts.
Linking with the Audio Manager was done in the same way as I linked other scripts to each other which I had recently learned during this project.

Sounds done:

• Jumping
• Landing
• Throwing Rope
• Getting Damaged
• PowerUp Collection
• Respawning
• Deploying Parachute

The sounds I chose were simplistic and mostly from an 8-bit format which fits the overall art style, each sound was chosen to be noticable so that the player will subconsciously attach certain sounds to certain actions, hopefully making them feel more immersed and in-tune with player movement (which is key for platformers).

All sounds below were sourced sounds and will be referenced in the appropriate documentation.

I also discovered an issue that due to the modular platforms some issues can occur at the intersect where the two platforms meet:

• Spikes sound will play every time it touches a new platform making it seem like it plays the sound twice
• If the player is attached to the wall and continues moving against it they some sometimes stop completely and not drag down

There’s not much to do to solve this other than to replace long wall sections made up of multiple objects into a singular one.