I finally completed my version of the Glitch Garden course - would absolutely love for you guys to try it out!
You can play it in your browser or download and play on your pc
6 Likes
I love the art choice!
1 Like
This is a nicely done game. I enjoyed your art work very much. The start screen is just awesome. Your characters - attackers and defenders - are well designed and conceived.
As for the levels themselves, I thought the rhythm of the waves a little slow and I would have loved to have some more coins, especially at lvl 7 which I couldn’t finish because in the beginning of it I couldn’t get out enough defenders and then all the sudden the waves just were too big.
What I didn’t like is the shaking at the end (I thought the extra feature grand though) and the design of the barriers.
To sum it up - the game was totally worth the waiting!
1 Like
Thank you so much for your feedback - I appreciate it.
Yeah I found it quite difficult to balance the game difficulty - it’s hard when you keep playing the game yourself because it becomes very easy, and when I tried tweaking the difficulty then I made it too easy 
.
At the end of the day it is a type of strategy game, so I can tell you that level 7 and the levels there-after are definitely doable, but require a bit more strategy compared to the levels that came before.
That said, I know it’s an aspect of Game dev that needs a lot more time than I was willing to give and I will take your advice for sure.
As for the screenshake, I wanted to give it a try and I did want some sort of clear visual feedback that you had lost health - but I guess it might not be for everyone 
Thanks again for playing, and thanks a mil for your feedback!
1 Like
This looks really cool! Pixel art is the way to go!
I’m at the block breaker part of the course after 2-3 weeks. How long it take you to get this far into the course? What was the knowledge of creating games you had when starting the course?
1 Like
Thank you so much! I also love pixel art
It took me a good couple of months to get here, but there were some factors that slowed me down quite a bit. Stuff like:
-Creating the Pixel art all myself for this section made it take a loooot longer than it would have
-I participated in my first ever Game Jam in January (super fun!)
-Life happens 
-Working a full time job in the retail industry
-Being lazy some days\weeks and not doing what I should be
-and lastly, currently facing retrenchment due to the company I’ve worked for for the last 13 years going under… it couldn’t recover after the mess 2020 left.
So yeah, all reasons and some excuses as to why it took me so long - these last few weeks has been the worst because it’s hard to focus with what’s happening at work.
If you visit my “ShareMyGame” site you can actually see the time between my uploads, it gives a good idea: https://sharemygame.com/@BloodReave
Lastly - I had absolutely zero experience in creating games when I started with this course. I have never done coding before, I have never done pixel art before and I have never worked on any game engine before. I’m still a new born baby in this 
Good luck to you, let’s do this!
2 Likes
Wow! Thanks for your detailed reply
Your games all look very polished 
The course is also taking me a bit longer because of the asset creation 
But that really is the fun part for me!
It’s really reassuring to hear you also started from nothing with coding, that proves someone like me without any prior experience can also learn it 
You too the best of luck! Looking foward to seeing more of your games!
1 Like
That is really well done
1 Like