In this post, I am explaining the improvement phase of the game that I developed for Experimental Project, and I reflect on the issues that arose during development. Circular web-like design: Choosing to have a circular web-like design for the rails that the characters follow added a unique appearance to the game, but at the same the design caused me to spend so much time and energy on connecting the nodes manually to each other. Since it looked like a flower blossom, I want

In this second post Experimental Project, I am telling about how I started developing the chasing game, and how I decided on the mechanics. I also included notes on winnability, balancing the game Tag, Pac-Man and determinism. Based on my concept drawings, which you can see in Experimental Project W1 post, I started the development process. Tutors helped me build a system with nodes for point to point movement that I was aiming for instead of a grid structure. The player char

Project: I would like to simulate the childish joy of chasing a friend or running away from a friend in a playground. In order to achieve this feeling, I will be making a dexterity based game with chasing as its core mechanic. My goal is recreating the situation of the player assuming the chase role vs. the player assuming the escape role in a video game. Since the player character and non-player character will be playing tag, hereby I will need to develop a non-player charac

For thousands of years, people have studied celestial bodies and generated stories about them. Long before home-entertainment and modern life existed, I think of early people lying on their backs, watching the sky during the night and day, imagining and exchanging stories. I have had the chance to listen to many myths about the sun and the moon in different geographies. I have realised that most of them are actually very similar to each other; the Sun and the Moon are in love