Asteroid Game - Postmortem
GDevelop Experience: Once again I found GDevelop easy to use to create a basic game prototype. I found that creating an asteroid game required more of a focus on movement and less on animation. Where the platformer required multiple animations with multiple frames to show movement, the asteroid game needed the object to actually move (force, angle, speed) correctly, rather than appearing to move through animation.
Elevator Pitch: I am quite happy with my pitch for the asteroid game. I feel that it suits the style of the game, as it allows for more complexity (if levels were added or difficulty increased), but isn’t too complex for the style of game. It may, however, result in a low number of levels as there only so much a player can do and how difficult it can get when blasting baby turtles into the ocean.
Feedback: I didn’t receive too much feedback for this game, as there was limited play testing done. The players liked the concept of the game, especially the aspect of saving baby turtles by blasting them. I got the advice to make it a little more graphic; one suggestion was to add effects (splash) when the baby turtles are blasted into the ocean. Another suggestion, which was added into the prototype, was to have the baby turtles move towards the ocean in a straight line (x point remains the same), rather than having them all move towards the ocean’s center point.
Improvement: There is definitely a lot of room for improvement. I would have liked to add a timer to the game, as it is currently continuous, so that players can build their score within a certain time limit. I would also like to work on collision, either to make it so that the blasts can only affect one turtle or so that turtles can push each other. It could also be much more challenging; either have the turtles appear faster or have them move quicker. There could also be improvement on the spawn areas/starting angles, as some turtles were able to spawn at the edge of the screen and move straight off it, which causes the player to lose points without given the proper (fair) chance of earning the point instead.
Choices/Decisions: There isn’t much room for player options/choices with this style of game, as there is only one objective. Also, they only have obvious decisions to make (choose to save the turtle).
Emotion: I believe the concept of the game may evoke emotion, through the narrative/characters and game play. As the focus is on saving baby turtles, players may feel happiness when saving them, sadness when they don’t, or fear if they are worried that they won’t save them. It may also evoke a sense of achievement when they save more baby turtles.
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