GeoJam2022 - Chain Slide

I decided to join the GeoJam 2022 because I was in the mood to create and finish a game.

Day 1:

I got up about 2 hours after the theme was announced. I check it out, and it was "Pick a Side"! Game jam themes can be a mixed bag for me. I either instantly come up with an idea, or struggle to come up with one at all.

Thankfully, I instantly had an idea as soon as I read the theme. Remember that one Mario Party 9 minigame where you slide down a chain (Chain Event) and try to avoid spike balls by swinging the Wii-Mote to the other side? Basically, you "pick a side" in that game, so I thought it would be perfect to make something similar, but now an endless game instead of a 4-player race to the finish.

I started up a new Unity project, and it went well. While I was progressing slowly, it was steady. I started with making the cone swing left and right, then I modeled a background in Blender, then I made the background loop. Fun fact: The player actually never moves down in this game! The background and objects move up! I then added the mines that appear to the side, though they don't have collision yet.

Day 2:

I added some collision to the mines, finally. This day was mostly me composing the music using Aria Maestosa using the Xiaod bank soundfont, and adding sound effects. I also added some "//amongi ;)" because it makes your code run faster. Source: Bro just trust me. Wait hold on, why don't the mines work in build, but they do in the editor? And they work when you turn off vsync? Well, turns out I made a silly mistake. I gave the player a rigidbody, but I moved them by modifying "transform.position" on "Update()" instead of using "rigidbody.Move()" on "FixedUpdate()". I also redid the background as well. Awesome, the game is almost complete!

Day 3:

I added a score screen at the end, and it was simple enough to implement, too! The rest of the day was just adding the logo and  building the project.

Overall, this game was fun to make, because I scoped it pretty small, and it was never far from completion.