GameJam 1

Description of the project

Creation of a mini-game with two different puzzle games. It was made in a Campus ADN GameJam.

Across the Village

Requirements

Intentions

Make a game using our classmates as characters
Make two different kinds of puzzle:
- Exchange quest (text puzzle)
- Nonogram (Picross)

Members

Sorry, the game is in french

Exchange quest (text puzzle)

This part was mostly made by Jean-Michel Roy
The cat is controled by the player
The player can throw the cat's hat on a character's head to read its mind
The player then needs to figure out who wants a particular object and who has it
The characters are caricatures from everyone in our Level Design class

Nonogram (Picross)

This part was made by myself
Once the player finds the character with the object of the quest, the player must resolve a nonogram
The player can darken the squares, place X on them or make them white again
Once the player enter his answer, the program compares it with the solution to validate if only the right squares are in black
The squares and the numbers are code-generated

Ameliorations I'd like to make

Clean the code to compare the nonogram of the player to the solution. That code is way to long and complicated for nothing
Make the characters move. The sprites are ready, and I programmed a function to make them move, but we didn't have time to include it

Challenges and solutions

Making the nonograms was challenging. I had never worked with arrays before, and I had a tendancy to complicate my code a lot when I made this. At the time, I made a lot of research and talked with my teacher to find a solution. In the end, I found a way to make it work, even if it's not a graceful one. With my current knowledge, I could certainly improve it.