The Game

The Forest of Endings is a short puzzle game for windows. My main objective while making it was to make a game that was funny and cute, but also challenging. My main inspiration was Ending Simulator by Funnysounds. I wanted to make a similar game in a more pixel art style. I tried to also add some jokes, but I won’t spoil any (play the game). Overall, I am proud of the result. I had been sitting on it for a while before finally deciding to polish and publish it. It is my first full game on itch.io. My other games are a lot more simple, (but still fun). You can play them using the below links:

Retro Spaceship

Retro Racing

Retro Breakout

Development

This game was developed for a Computer Science class. It was done as my final project, for which we could do whatever we wanted. I decided to develop a game. I chose to use python, because I already wrote a top-down prototype I could re-use. So I began. We had six weeks to complete it, and that was hard. In the end, I had a roughed out version of a game. I got an A, and that was that. This taught me a lot about programming and the design process. But that was it. I ceased development.

Later, I came out with my Retro Games trilogy. I made it under a limited amount of time on an old computer, so it wasn’t that great. Later, I got access to a monitor. Now familiar with itch.io, I finished making the game.

Technique

Here is my design process for the game, step-by-step. First, I had to think of the components I would need:

• Animated Character
• Scrolling Background
• NPCs
• Speech Boxes
• Response Boxes
• Endings
• A Menu
• Saving
• Music

Now, I separated those things into smaller tasks. Here is an example for the player:

• Player class
• Rendering Texture
• Movement
• Changing Textures
• Adding a timer

That is all! Thanks for reading!

Homepage: Link

Other Devlog: Link