My “forever” game
I’m going to add whatever I want to learn to one game. If I want to learn how to make a papa’s pizzeria “clone”, I will add it to this game. If I want to learn particle systems I’ll try to add it to this game. It will be far from perfect but that is kind of the point. It is a place I can load up and try building whatever I want to learn in #GameDev. I am just starting to learn even the barest bones of Game Development so it is nothing exciting now and I don’t know if it will ever be something exciting. It will, however, be a learning space with random ideas that I try to implement, how well is the question.
The Beginning!
Since most games have these, I started by adding player movement and a camera that follows. It has a moving raft to cross from the fall biome to the winter biome. I have a death loop, so if you fall off the platform you will re-spawn at camp! Some things that are coming very soon, a chicken, to be your best friend, provide food through eggs, to breed chickens together and grow a big family to have infinite eggs, and to kill for meat. A cooking system so you can cook the chicken, maybe with some vegetables to make stew? Most assets come from Itch.io assets or https://kenney.nl/ I’ll eventually drop a list of all the assets I used but right now its just the beginning and nobody is probably going to read this anyway. This is how it looks right now… follow me on twitter for updates more often!
Why?
I have always wanted to make a game but deciding what exactly to make and trying to make everything perfect and delayed me from starting for years. I would start but try to perfect something for too long and “burnout”. So this is a place I can throw something together without worrying if its perfect and a place to test things and features for my “dream” game. The scope is endless so nothing is off the table. I hope to add some fun unique things to this game and maybe one day I’ll upload it to itch.io or something. The main purpose is to finally learn game dev by just making a darn game. No more thinking of the perfect game idea, no more trying to decide on what art style, 3d or 2d, what engine, pc console mobile or a simple browser game along with many more decisions there are to overthink when it comes to game development. It will also be cool to document my progress and hopefully one day look back at these posts and the current states of the game and compare it to what it is then.
That’s all folks!
That sums it up pretty well and hopefully you will see many more updates of this game. I am trying to think of what to call it still but i named the project “Huh-uh” because I didn’t know what to call but I wanted to get started. So if you have any game name ideas for this game dev playground for me let me know either on twitter, itch, comment here, youtube, or discord all links are on the home page either in the top right or at the bottom of the page. Thanks for reading! hershfam signing off…
***UPDATE*** one hour later…
Controller Support and CHICKENS! They don’t do anything but sit and stand up to stretch their legs every now on then currently. Chicken update coming SOON!
