Saturday, March 7, 2020

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.

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