LINSHEN XIAO

This is a small and simple game I made in my spare time. I use RPG maker to make this project. When I was a member in “Duxing” workshop, a place for students to learn coding and related things, I was asked to make a project by the things I learnt in this group. I decided to make a game as this project, so I try to make it by myself by using an easy-to-use software: RPG maker, which is a really simple game making software for novices to use.

 

In RPG maker, many materials have been provided to users, but in order to achieve certain special effects some scripts still needed to be modified, like the lighting system, the enemies’ chasing, the sound system and so on. People have shared all kinds of scripts on the Internet for me to use, and it is also a great chance for me to learn and modify the code of these useful scripts in order to reach my wanted goal. What’s more, the logic and animation setting when making a game is also interesting and challenging. In order to make the animation steady and beautiful, certain waiting with 3~6 frames is important and useful. What’s more, different events’ status needs to be changed when some switches or variables are changed. Lots of testing needs to be done, but when the final job is done, you will feel a sense of achievement, especially when I invited my roommate to play the game I made. Their enjoyment when they are avoiding chasing ghosts to collect items makes me feel extremely pleasant, which greatly strengthen my determination to make more interesting and fun games for everyone in the future.

 

Sadly, this small demo disappeared when my computer is broken. I only got some screenshots of the game for now.

 

After this experience, I begin to have a better understanding of the game making process, which encourage me to try a more difficult and widely used game making engine: Unity. I’m now trying to learn to make a 2D platform shooting game according to a YouTube channel called Brackeys, which is another interesting experience for me.