Hi everyone,
This is my second blog post! Hopefully, you enjoyed reading my first one! 😛
Here’s a screenshot of my text-based game. At first, my game set you in an empty dark room where you can only see a trace of light in front of you. I like this setting because it creates a mysterious feeling to the story. And you only have 3 options to choose in the beginning. They are “Stand up and walk around.”, “Go check the light to see where it’s from.”, and “Utter a loud call to see if anyone is in the room”. I like the beginning very much because it’s mysterious and the color theme matches the overall atmosphere created in the game.
However, I really need to work on the options for this game a lot more. Because I realized I have a great start of the story, I didn’t make more options to continue to tell the story. It seems an interesting start but has a bad ending.
For the Coding Part:
I had encountered a lot of bugs and syntax errors in the process of making this game. At the end, I had to ask the professor for help to debug my code. It’s an interesting process to see how we have a great idea in mind about the way we want our game to look like versus to think about how we actually need to code it, like turning it into the reality. We can have a great idea about the overall flow of the questions to the answers in the game. However, the game might be limited by our poor coding skill or technical skills (especially me :P) so it’s harder to perform well.
Here’s the screenshot of my code in the void update section…
Also, I was amazed by how other people made their games. I think it’s really creative and has a range of diversity. I think it’s really cool. I had a great time test playing their games. 🙂
Elle