Click on the cookie! debut
Hi! Here is coffepixel and this is my newest project that I made in game maker studio 2!
I once saw on youtube that our first games are prototypes and that they are used for us to learn even more, which is true! I learned a lot from this project.
In the beginning, a serious car game similar to my first project, but I changed my mind and wanted to do something simpler, a lot of things I got wrong in this first project, like the menu and the score issue, in addition to the music that in a way interferes and I didn't have enough knowledge to do something that could enable or disable the music.
Click on the cookie in the beginning was just a small square that disappeared and destroyed and when you clicked you also destroyed it and gained points
First challenge
My first difficulty in this project was to check if the left mouse button was being clicked, I created two objects one would be the cookie and the other the area that could not be clicked, the problem was in the Left Pressed event, the Left Pressed of the cookie to win points and destroy the instance of this object and create another and the Left Pressed of the other object would be for the game to end but when I put game_restart() the game started, the object appeared and disappeared but if I click on the cookie, the game restarted. I went to a forum to ask for help and solve my first problem and the game itself was ready!
Menu
Fairy Touch has a visually pleasing menu in my opinion in terms of aesthetics, it was all drawn and it was just a sprite, because I didn't know how to make a menu that used the mouse and I didn't bother with that because I was more concerned with the look of the game than its practicality. In Click on the cookie I did something simpler without focusing so much on aesthetics and that was practical and used only the mouse.
Score
One of my disappointments with Fairy Touch was how to deal with the game's score, the player wouldn't know how many points he had at the end and would go back to the menu and start again and not have a final score, in Click on the cookie when you lose it will be directed to a new window with the final score and options to go back to the menu or play again!
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Music and Sound Effects
My biggest disappointment with Fairy Touch was the music, playing it again I saw that it's quite annoying, not that the music is bad but whenever you missed the music it started again and that caused me mad. In Click on the Cookie there is no music, just sound effects and here comes what I can't do. Not being able to make a button to turn on and off the sound effects and that will be my next challenge and I believe it is the only thing that was really missing in this project.
Final considerations
I learned a lot in this project and the main thing was that it doesn't have to be so beautiful, of course professional projects are beautiful and full of colors and effects and I'm not a professional (yet). I was in a hurry to do it Fairy Touch and I didn't mind the bugs, something I changed in Click on the cookie.
Click on the cookie is a simple game of making points and testing your speed, it doesn't have a fancy background but it's cute, it doesn't have music but it has sound effects, you don't need to use the keyboard to play, just ESC to pause the game! It was done very slowly and I must say that the code is a bit messy but I can understand it (laughs).
Play a little bit to pass the time while your favorite game doesn't load or whatever, challenge your friends to see who gets the most points and the best participate in the Destroy the cookie challenge at GX.games!
Thank you to everyone who has read this far and I promise to keep improving and learning more!
A Hug, coffepixel.