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Inspiration

  • Mr. Speaker's Indie game development talk
  • Games list
  • Learning JavaScript/Phaser
  • Asking myself why I play games and parallels to work
  • Theory of fun book
  • Growing game jam theme
  • Connection of player and juicy jumps, smb jumping
  • Super Mario Bros breakdown level design patterns

Mr. Speaker's Indie game development talk

  • Gamedev is like indie filmmaking
  • inbetween art and entertainment
  • there's no Citizen Cane for websites/apps, fun

Design

  • goals: sam, trees/nature/grow, JS
  • initial sketch
  • endless runner, terraria platform, smb

Theory of fun

Lessons learned

  • games are really hard
  • platformers are complicated for a first game

Coding

modular structure with Phaser game states player object and movement controls tree generation vs randomization and weighted leaf pickups and arrangements challenges enemies and