![]() Then at the end of the 9 months imagine putting it out into the world for people to judge, rate, and pay money for. Well imagine spending 9 months on a game, and putting your thoughts, your likes, and your preferences into it. I invested so much time and energy into it, and for that reason it paid off. There was no better feeling in my youth than beating Super Mario World for the first time. There isn’t a strict separation between design mode and run mode, but the process is still there.Īlso, there’s the reward for finishing. You’re thinking up solutions and then implementing them. ![]() Maybe it’s throwing a couple grenades into the room first and closing the door. Maybe it’s taking it a bit slower and sniping the guy behind the 50 cal. For instance, when you die playing any FPS you’ll probably try to think of a way of getting past that part. This can also be applied to other games to a varying degree. Thinking about a solution, and incrementally improving your solution till you complete your goal. Playing Fantastic Contraption, and BombFace are enjoyable for the same reasons that programming is fun. I think I might have stumbled into it because I’m a programmer. What’s funny is I really didn’t set out to make a Fantastic Contraption-esque game. The concept of entering a run mode to see what how your design behaves is exactly the same. Well that’s exactly what I’ve been doing in writing this game for the last nine months, except instead of creating contraptions I’ve been writing code. You have a design mode in which you create contraptions (or place bombs in the case of BombFace), and then enter the run mode and watch the results, hoping that your design does what you’re designed it to do. What I mean is, take a puzzle game like Fantastic Contraption (or BombFace). ![]() What I wanted to talk about, and what I’m curious about is: does anyone else feel like writing a video game is the ultimate form of playing a video game? I’m like Mr Rogers swapping shoes, but with laptops. Once the clock strikes five o’clock I swap my work laptop for my personal laptop and continue to program. I also work a regular 8 to 5 Software Engineering job. I just submitted it to (the website where you can auction off flash games), and I’ve never felt so alive! You could describe it as Fantastic Contraption, but with bombs instead of contraptions. ![]()
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