Again, you would think simple 2D games wouldn’t take as much time as 3D games, but alas I was fooled this week again. My rhythm for making games for this class has been this: figure out the theme/topic (less than a day and maybe an hour or so brainstorming) and then create it (taking how many hours/days later). This time, it took me 2 days thinking about how to go about this 2D abstract game, because of the abstract aspect. As a visual person, I like to create things as realistic as possible, and trying to convey some deeper, “universe” meaning with some squares and circles made me veerryy frustrated. And as always, I try not to steer to the most popular idea/way to go about the topic, so being a bit more original + meaning = exhausted, vvvveerrryyy frustated me .__. .
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Just Say Hey
We can all agree that coding can be frustrating sometimes, and when I say sometimes, I mean all the time. I am new to coding in general, and I cannot help myself screaming at the monitor while the red error keeps popping up on the scripts, saying unknown error this and unknown error that. After many attempts of debating if I should drop out of college, grow a mustache and go become a farmer, I have realized that it is only the simple mistakes that made the errors popping up such as the colons and brackets. Cool, now I can finally create a game.
The name of this game is called “Just Say Hey” This game is a pretty straight forward dating sim. You, a guy who is single and ready to mingle sees a beautiful girl standing in front of you at the line of Starbucks. Then you have four options: 1. do not do anything, 2.check her out, 3. Say a cheesy pick up line 4. Just say hey. Each of these options will tell you how bad you messed up. Except for one. This game is super short since I want it to be concise and get to the point. Of course, with more time, one shall create the ultimate dating sim. Additionally, I used the poetry gen script on the side of the game, which kept repeating words such as “Stop being a bitch” “Just talk to her” “Wow she is cute” “What should I do” which indicates the anxious self speaking aloud within.
