Yesterday my daughter sat beside me and asked me what I was working on. She’s two, so instead of talking about the memory optimizations for the webgl compositor I’m working on at my job, I showed her a random little game. She was intrigued and tried to play, but it was too complicated and too fast for a 2-year-old.
So after she went to bed with her four - yes, four - penguin stuffies, I picked up $2 in itch assets then stayed up too late and built this little game for her:
It was awesome watching her play it today - the first time she’s clearly enjoyed a video game, and kept asking to play her “penguin show” again.
That’s nice, simple! I the penguin a Dynamic physic object?
I am too working on games for my kids (have 3 of 9,6 and 3 yo), but with art made by them!
But for now I have some scaling problems in the HTML5 mobile build
Tiny Games! will be a set of little games of all type (in french), first one Baveur Vert is a space shooter, next one Mochi Fight! will be some japanese food fighting game, and I have another idea for a third game…
When I fix my zoom problem I will do a dev journal maybe
I love the idea of using your kids’ artwork. I’ll have to try that later when my daughter’s pictures are recognizable hah!
The powerups kept me alive to get a decent score in your game, so apparently I’m only decent at shooters made for young children I ended up holding space bar constantly, I wonder if auto-fire might simplify it even further?
The penguin is a pretty simple object, no physics beyond triggers and tracking velocity/acceleration.
So glad you’ve tried it, the first stranger playing my first game
Yeah my kids are so happy to see their drawing in a game! I also play music so I will also use them for music and sound FX
What I like is even if this not great art (for grown up eyes) that’s kind of consistant, so it works!
yes I was thinking adding another weapon for button B like a bombing or missil stuff, one your using just sometime, nothing complicated. But autofire may sound good!
I’ll work on UI and levels, big boss and asteroids etc., and special FX too (missing some shaders).
It’s an actually relaxing flappy bird clone that doesn’t frustrate! 
I ended up holding space bar constantly, I wonder if auto-fire might simplify it even further?
