I made a game!!!!! You can play it here: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1091414922/
This is the first time I’ve tried Scratch! It started because I was bored last month at work and decided to draw a little snowboarding cat in libresprite because I missed snowboarding so bad… And then it became the character in this Scratch project.
I’m pretty bad about finishing projects even though I’m very good at starting them so I wanted to challenge myself to try this and finish a whole project before the end of 2024 and I did it! I worked on it for a few minutes here on November weekends but did most of it in the last 3 days on my winter holiday.
It started with doing the sprites and figuring out how to change the frames to make animations, and then how to blend one animation to another (idling to jumping and back). After that I figured out parallaxing backgrounds, and random tree generation. Finally it was learning how to make a collision system that didn’t break everything, how to keep proper score, do UI, and display variable text (extremely stupidly).
Up until 3 days ago, this game was about avoiding obstacles… Until I tried to think of a name for the game and I landed on Stump Stomper, which implied… stomping on the obstacles instead of avoiding them, so I changed the entire objective and collisions system HAHA…
I’m not entirely new to writing code but I think in some ways, the limitations of Scratch blocks made it a little harder (but maybe also easier in other ways). As expected, it was very frustrating when nothing would be working, but also the high of something that DID work or a problem that did got solved… unbeatable god-like feeling, yippee!!!!
