Advance Play Design Week 2
Theme: Play and Time
Context:
A simple 2D single-player Platform game. The aim is to survive as long as possible. I firstly thinking about a game that player can change the speed or direction of time and make use of it, but I realize it is too hard to design levels that is fun and have to use the skill of control time, also there is already many games used this idea, not cool enough. So I changed my mind. I started to tinkering a little bit, time - clock - jump on the clock - avoid the hands, many ideas came into my mind. I thought jump on the numbers on a digital clock is a cool idea, so I tried to think about a game use this idea. I thought about a game jumping on many digital clocks but I realised it is just jumpind, doesn't link with the theme time much. After that, I thought live long is a good goal that is relevent to the theme. Finally, I combined it with the idea avoid the hands and lead to my final game.
Method:
Unity 2020.1.0b1
Response:
I felt to make the operation sence better is so hard but fun, I learned a lot during developed this game because this is a game only about jumping, so the feeling of jumping is important. I also tried a recently released beta version of Unity that I never used. It is slightly different with old versions, especially the user interface, which I didn't be used to. I think it is useful to be used to a new version of a familiar tool when I want to learn a different tool.
Reflection:
I thought a made a boring game this time that I didn't want. I spend too much time on thinking about cool ideas but didn't make the game fun enough. I'll spend more time to make good balance between cool idea and fun game next time.
Game Introduction:
The Goal is to survive as long as possible, everything that is in red color will kill you.
Key Binding:
Press A and D to move
Press W to jump and double jump
Press E to be unbeatable for 1.5 second (You will be in yellow color when you are unbeatable), the speed of second hand will increase in the meanwhile.(maximum 15 times of normal speed)
Press Esc to quit the game.
By Deno Zhang
Email Deno Zhang
Published On: 18/03/2020