Screen Mover Post-mortem

PLAY SCREEN MOVER

So I made a game this Ludum Dare called Screen Mover and this will be a short post about it.

Screen Mover is a game where you as the player must move the screen to see more the level and solve puzzles. The solving of the puzzles is mostly around the idea that only the objects in view are updated.

When I woke up on the first day and looked at the theme I couldn’t think of any game that I wanted to do with the theme “Entire Game on Single Screen”. I thought about to for some hours and gave up. I almost gave up on this Ludum Dare but later that day this idea came to mind, “You must move the screen” so I started coding so that you could move the screen to see more of the level and that was about the first day.

The next day I started to work on the level but soon found out that moving the screen did not exactly do anything to the gameplay except limiting the view. Then I came up with that only the things that are inside the screen at the time will update. With that I could build some kind of puzzles. So for rest of that day I fixed the level and then sent it in.

What went right

• I managed to create a game 😀
• The execution of the idea went well.

What went… less right

• I couldn’t figure out how to move the screen and the player at the same time until after the deadline (see my post compo version for that)
• The graphics, sounds, etc.
• The amount of actual game/gameplay. You can beat my game in about 1 minute.

And once again if you missed the giant link to my game. Play it HERE

Thanks!