First godot game published

I haven't published anything in google play for a very long time. I'm very happy to finally introduce my latest project to the public. It is a casual game called..... Add Block. Yeah.. The best original game name award coming right up. But seriously, try it out. Find in at the play store here.

I love playing casual games on my phone. It's great to pass the time. But it doesn't really do anything for your skills. Or at least not anything for real life important skills (yes, I don't consider being able to identify the consecutive shapes or color as really important). So I decided to create one.

So in this game, you practice your math skills. Find the adjacent blocks that add up to the total you need. So it's math, math is important right? Right?....

The levels are unlimited, the idea is that you keep on playing until you can't anymore. You'll die if you finally can't get the number of wins required to pass the level in time. You only have 100 seconds to finish each level.

This is the initial release. The game mechanics work, and the high score board works. But apart from that, it's quite plain. If the game really does pick up steam, I might add in additional features like bonus blocks, unique level layout or things like that. Maybe even a universal high score board so you can compare with your friends, but for now that's it.

I created this game using the great open source game engine godot. It's a great open source project. I've never dabbled too seriously with unity but godot feels like the open source version of unity. It's quite easy to get into. And the performance seems to be good enough for casual games. I'm not a digital artist by any stretch of the imagination, but I think if you've got talent, you could probably create really good beautiful games with it. And one of the main point for me when comparing godot with unity is that godot runs in linux. So yeah, I developed the whole thing on my manjaro linux laptop, no need to switch over to windows at all. Awesome...

For the music, I got them from bensound. And for the sounds, I got them from zapsplat. Both awesome sites with great quality music and sound which are royalty free.

So do test it out, and give feedback if you like it or you've got some suggestions for it. Thank you.

New day, new year, new me...

Welcome to the future...

At least that's what we've been told since I was just a small boy. I remember at school we were given assignments to write about what we think Malaysia would be like in the year 2020 because back then we had a "Vision". We'd write things like flying cars (eh.. we're working on that now... no wonder...), robots, computers and things like that... And so here we are.. in the future.. watch out for that flying skateboarder...

But in a very real sense, we are way more advanced than 20 years before. I remember in school, me and my friend would wait till everyone is asleep before we'd play warcraft together because we'd have to connect using modems and in the daytime someone always pick up the phone. And also I think the charges were cheaper at night. I remember having 4 megabytes of RAM was a huge deal. And downloading mp3 took days. I remember riding the bus to KL and the only way to cool down was to sit beside the open window. I remember sitting awkwardly together with friends or family because we haven't got anything to say but don't have any smartphone to whip out and ignore them. I remember we'd always have the same prime minister.. oh wait.. we still do.. never mind.

So it's 2020. We made it. We are here now... So what are we going to make of it?

Well, I've learned some powerful and painful lessons in the year 2019. I hope to be able to continue learning from it and improve myself with regards to my health and finances. To contribute more to my family, community and the world. To be a better person in each and every way and it begins today...