Monthly Archive: February 2019

To sum up, the whole process was a great success for me and I managed to create a fully functional, extendable demo game in almost fourty days, while working only in the evenings. The good The art I managed to produce was quite consistent so the graphics didn’t hurt the eyes that much. Character sprite sheets I purchased were also fitting for my style and the end effect, while not very impressive or flashy, did its job well enough (at a total cost of 5$). The gameplay was smooth and interactions felt impactful. As many of my testers said, the...

When making my first game I encountered two major problems, which took me quite some time to figure out. Below you will find the detailed descriptions as well as solutions which I used to solve them: Cannot interact with objects (doors/chests) At certain, seemingly random times, interactable objects stopped responding. When I pressed the E key used for interaction in my game, they would activate or not. For a while I could not determine why and when it happened. Then I noticed that objects stopped responding when I was standing still with my character. This was new to me and...

Apart from randomly generated backgrounds the game needed to have some other mechanics to get it going. For me one of the most fun aspects of modern games is physics. This is why I decided to base the game systems on physics traps and simple puzzles, as well as basic combat. In the end two main ideas drove the development:– physical interactions (traps, combat),– relevance of game systems Design philosophy All game systems had to fulfill some role: Chests and gold. Apart from measuring “score”, gold is a currency for reviving. I do not like the idea of score without...