Desertopia - Post Jam Update v0.2

After discussing the game's initial state with many reviewers during the jam, I decided to continue development on the game. At very least, I wanted to bring the project up to my initial vision for it. While doing that, I'm also doing some general refactoring and rework as necessary (jam code is never as nice as it could be). Here are some updates:

Enhancements/Fixes:

• Added Desert Onions to the game. This allows you to recover some of your health.
• Added Water to the game. Bodies of water can be drank at (only once). This allows you to recover a large amount of health.
• Reduced max health from 4 minutes to 1 minute to increase difficulty.
• Changed Exit to Menu buttons to be Shift + Q, updated dialog messages to reflect this change.
• Added a pause menu which can be entered/exited by pressing Esc.
• Added Desertopia! You can now visit Desertopia and relax in peace!

Refactors:

• Modified my code to do initializing in the Awake function so it doesn't conflict with state-setting code in the Start function. I had never heard of this before, but its a great way to make sure you are able to initialize all variables and get rid of any null objects before you start trying to use them in the Start function.
• Separated a Canvas Controller script out from the rest of the code which handles most UI updating. This separates responsibility away from all my Dialog scripts which was a pain point during the jam.

Challenges:

• My tile set up became pretty messy. Part of my issue was attempting to get rid of black lines that would sometimes appear between the tiles as you moved around. I think the primary fix for this, in my case, was having a sprite atlas and making sure the tiles were placed correctly. I also made sure all my graphics were point rendered, ect, but trying to mess with the tile gap I think contributed to a lot of the issues I was seeing.

Please try the game again if you get a chance, I think the added features bring this game closer to my original vision for it. With that said, enjoy, and I'll see ya next time!