It’s August, time for a new game

Hello everyone, I hope that things are going well. We’re well into August now and it’s high time I share a little bit about my current project.

Once again, I’m trying to complete a game in a month. In July I created Petunk. One goal with that project was simply to prove I could make something decent in the timeframe. This time around I have a couple goals in mind:

1. Explore a component model design
2. Create more tests for each component of the game

I’d like to tell you more about my progress towards each of those goals in future posts. First, let me tell you a little bit more about the game I’m working on. The game is tentatively titled Colorfull and it’s a game about mixing colors together. In fact it’s something of a puzzle game which revolves around combining colors in different ways. Check out a mock up screen shot:

So far I’ve completed the core framework for the game and generated some ideas I think will lead to great levels. At this point I’m focusing on getting the level editor working. Once that’s finished I think I will be able to finish extending the gameplay and then turn to polishing the game.

So what do you think of the mock up? And what are you working on this month?

One more thing, this project is being written in C# and XNA for the Windows Phone. This might make it harder for some of you to play, but I hope you won’t mind. Additionally, a good friend from work, Matthias B., is joining me. So far he’s proven very useful :-)

Related posts:

1. August is over: time for show & tell
2. Adopting a Component Model for Game Development