PetalPop

Hi everyone, blackwidowink here again. Wow, that month flew by and the contest deadline is already here. I wish I could say that I finished everything I wanted to with this game, but life just has a way of, well, getting in the way. As a father of two, who works two different jobs, I worked on this game on my lunch breaks and in my spare time. As such, it was developed nearly 100% on mobile. I think it’s a fun experience and I hope everyone enjoys it. Feel free to send any criticisms or ideas my way, because the game isn’t quite done! To be added: - special flower types for arcade - all of the music and sound - possible other modes? I’m super stoked to be a part of this community and I feel like I grew a lot while developing PetalPop. Here’s to the future of AI game development here at Upit!

5d

PetalPop: Year of the Bee

A whimsical puzzle game where you control a bee to pollinate flowers across four seasons. Collect pollen, create hybrid colors, and match blooming flowers to progress. Master changing seasonal mechanics from spring pollinating to winter dance patterns.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

#puzzle#casual#flowers#garden#vibrant#UpitPuzzleContest

5d

PetalPop: Year of the Bee

blackwidowink

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Changes

If text color all of a sudden all changed to black and asset scale sizes get bigger or smaller on already published games should we just assume there’s things going on behind the scenes? 🤔

1mo

Adding UI elements

I’m not sure if this is the appropriate upit to have this discussion, but I’m just curious: why is it so much harder to add UI elements to your game near the end of the development, or after a lot of code has been added, as opposed to before adding much of the other systems? What I mean by this is: it seems like when there is already a large amount of code that the engine times out trying to add what should be a simple element. For example if I was to enter the prompt “Add a weapon level display for the player that uses the WeaponPowerUpIcon with a number beside it that represents current level. Add it to the bottom left of the screen on the UI layer.” I can watch Ava find the game code section and then sloowwly select some lines of an existing UI element before finally timing out before she can finish the new code addition. On the other hand she seems to zip through adding entirely new classes, even when adding much more complicated code. Also noticed a big slow down when having to deal with any update loops. Now I don’t understand how it all works exactly, so perhaps the answer is obvious, but it makes adding some final elements frustrating. Developing entirely on mobile for context.

1mo

The Binary Storm Has Arrived

Hi everyone, blackwidowink here again with my latest game, Binary Storm. In this game you battle robots in an alternate 80s timeline. Blast as many robots as you can using power ups such as weapon power, tactical drones and clone soldiers. Make sure to play with your sound on to get the full experience through the sound effects and music. Creating this game was a master class in persistence and frustration. I spent way too long on some things than I would have liked, but I took away a lot of lessons in game development as well. The game started as a fun little side project in between projects and went through many reinventions before it became what it is. Although I’m releasing it now, I still have plans for it in the future. I’d just like to focus all of my limited time on the puzzle game contest for now. Future plans include: - more weapon types for drone - more enemy variety - more levels? - Free flying bullet hell Bosses! - general polish In the mean time, please feel free to try the game and send all of your feedback my way. Thanks!

1mo

Binary Storm

Blast through an alternate 80s in Binary Storm! Battle relentless robots in this thrilling vertical shooter. Can you survive?

#arcade#retro#shootergame#robots#80s

1mo

Binary Storm

blackwidowink

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0

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Audio bugs making my game unplayable

I did some editing on a game that I’m working on this morning and everything was working fine before I went about my day. Just went to play my unreleased game and I’m getting a whole bunch of audio device type errors that are making the game both unplayable and every time Ava tries to “fix” the error it breaks something else. It seems to have to do with position and scale code, but beyond that I have no idea. For context I have added no sound effects or music to my game.

2mo