After we had the basic story idea down, we all tried to get in on the details. Not all of this made it into the final product, because we only had so much time. Also, the deeper the character goes, the weirder the alien enemies get."įrom this, we spun a fanciful story about a genderless astronaut/miner getting trapped in a cave-in and having to search for supplies of oxygen while simultaneously rescuing their colleagues and trying to figure out what really happened, picking up some clues as they delved deeper and deeper searching for a way out.
We could implement a limited lighting system. Rachel: "Maybe the protagonist is part of a mining expedition and must rescue their colleagues after a cave-in. Enemies include any kind of strange-looking aliens we can dream up, and the goal could be to find four artifacts (or something similar) of the planet." " our character is in a cave on Mars or some other planet and is trying to do research there.
The goal is to find a way out and figure out what happened. There aren't many enemies, but it's a puzzle-platformer where he has to use his surroundings to escape. what are we doing in a cave? Who is our main character? Who are the enemies? What is our goal?"īen: "Our character has lost his memory and is stuck in a cave. Ryan: "We need a storyline, characters, etc. The idea of doing a pastiche of genre tropes got us started, and we started asking each other questions to get a more complete picture. perhaps even 16-bit music if possible." – Christian Cawley Perhaps riff on some classic 80s/90s shoot-'em-up tropes. "A spaceship, cyborg or character in an exo-suit would be my preference. We started with the idea of a "cave platformer," and the seed of the game's story came from Christian Cawley. The planning became very ambitious, and not everything we talked about is used in the final product.
But before he started putting together the nuts and bolts of the game, we had to do some of the on-paper planning that Bohed mentioned. The software comes with enough pre-built assets to be able to build a game without creating additional characters, backgrounds, or objects, but the MakeUseOf game does have a few assets hand-made by Bohed in Adobe Illustrator. "Its user-friendliness and no coding requirement can drive you crazy thinking about which game to create just because there are so many possibilities", says Bohed. While you may be able to indulge creative whims, it can make the process more arduous than it has to be. Bohed compared doing creative work within Buildbox – as opposed to with other resources before you start the building – to cooking with guesswork, as opposed to a recipe.
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