Now it’s time for the shortest post-mortem you’ve ever seen.

I’m Done. You can play it here

THE END.

First level, easy.

Nah, jokes aside. This was one crazy experience that happened so fast, I didn’t really realize.

My game was made in 6 hours. Yesterday I worked from 6:30 – 11 pm and today from 11:30 – 1 pm.

What I created was greatly different from what I originally had in mind, but it turned out to be simple and fun to do. The basic concept was that you are being shot by soldiers and you can stop their bullets by pushing crates in front of them, this would make a very simple puzzle game. I started coding the player, with normal controls, but those felt to fluid for this kind of game, so I changed it into a movement working on a 32×32 px grid. This felt way better. Then I started working on the enemies, on which shot right and one which shot left. They worked out very fast and I implemented the possibility of death. Then came the crates. Rage. I tried to do my best, but they wouldn’t work out how I wanted, I only managed to make them pushable in one direction, I chose down for that. So the basic mechanics worked out. It was kinda fun already, but I still needed walls, and some kind of background. So I quickly drew a brick wall, which turned out to be a bit ugly, but I was kinda stressed out, because I didn’t know we would get extra time. The walls were solid, bullets worked like a charm with them. Then came the tileset, which I drew today. I was already late and when I asked Legacy I only had 1h 35min left to do stuff. So I quickly drew the tileset, designed cheap-skate levels and drew a game over, main menu and win screen with paint. I hacked everything together in the last few minutes and finally was able to submit.

And that’s the story of my 6-hour-fast-crazy-game-development-thingy-stuff-experience!

Also, if you REALLY need it, here’s a walkthrough!

Dodge! – Walkthrough