I guess I haven’t posted in here in almost 2 years. I’ve released 2 games since then, though. I’ll recap briefly, as a weird part of me trying to get back more into the swing of gamemaking
The first one was pre-pandemic. It was for Sykel’s Australian Bushfire Charity Jam, back before the pandemic, which feels both like it was last month and 100 years ago.
Anyway, what I made was a very short thing called Fairy Penguin Parade
It came from doing some research about wildlife in Australia. These little fairy penguins are cute, and they have a thing people like to watch called a parade, so I adapted that in the most straightforward way possible. You play a little penguin that marches from the sea to its burrow, along with a bunch of other penguins.
I studied a lot of penguin footage to draw these sprites, which is maybe where most my time went in making it? I also really enjoyed making the environments and the nature effects (the sun sets as you play and the stars come out).