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Players that couldn’t beat the game before now could, and the ones that thought it was too easy found themselves gritting their teeth in frustration. That’s exactly what we wanted to see! 3l WILLINGNESS TO THROW OUT EVERYTHING (EVEN THE ENTIRE GAME). As mentioned before, the team ended up completely redesigning the game about halfway through the project. Around the eight-month mark, we finally got to a point where we could playtest the actual game experience we were going for while we were still working on the arena-based combat design.
We went through numerous ideas up front that involved things like balancing platforms and weightless physics puzzles, but they were all quickly thrown out. We didn’t come up with an idea that we really liked until we found our first concept of an arena-based combat game set inside a volcano. When we all liked the sound of it and decided to prototype it out, we never gave the design any more thought—we became consumed with our goal of prototyping a playable demo. The idea never got past the concept stage.
15l For actions, simply use the “Destroy the Instance” icon (it’s on the “main1” tab, also seen left). We’re going to add a score. Within the collision event between the meteorite and the bullet, add the “set a variable” icon (on the “control” tab, see the icon on the right). We’re going to increase the score when you destroy a meteorite. ” Make sure to tick the “Relative” box, so that the score adds up (as below). Otherwise, it will just reset to 100 each time the action is executed. 16l Run the game.