No. 12

      

Make your bug collection or grow your garden.

      

Controls:

X to Move the Square

      

Postmortem:

This week is one of my favorite prompts, it is also the last in the series. One button games are usually very action packed and about executing one action, but I wanted to make a slower game with multiple verbs. I came up with a very simple UI system to track input. While I was thinking of contexts to use it in, I was listening to a song called Bug Collector, by Haley Heynderickx. So, I decided to make the game a simplified of the game I had imagined in my head. I decided to put the player inside to enhance the melancholy feeling. I think this is also one of my more successful prototypes, it invokes a feeling and the one button waiting slows the feeling of the game down to a pace that is almost meditative and not too slow. If I were to continue to work on this game I would bring it into another engine and continue to build on the systems I have outlined. This was the last prototype I made and my last takeaway is that it’s okay to make your games slow and without some larger stated goal.