Post by kaesve in What was the hackiest thing you did during the game jam?

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I wanted to build my game from scratch, without engines or libraries. I ended up not using any assets either, mostly to save time looking for them and managing them. Instead of assets I just used emoji, which are really easy to work with (at least in the canvas API), since I can use the emoji directly in the code. The big downside is that the look of the game does change between different platforms.

There's a bunch more smaller hacks that I use to save time. If there's other plain html5 devs out there that are interested, I'm happy to share some of these.

The game is here:

https://kaesve.itch.io/pocket-rocket

Crime Dog5 years ago

Haha, the weird thing about having 'skins' of your game based on platform is it sort of mirrors reskin mods for traditional games.

Crime Dog5 years ago(+1)

Hey, just played your game! I really liked the UI you built around 'linking' the generator to boosters, rather than just hitting a switch or something like that. It really clearly communicated that you could only have one booster on at a time, as well as felt good to do.

We went through so many iterations of the 'No' indicator at the bottom of our dialogue boxes (it's supposed to double as a timer), it's nice to see the focus you put on having good UI.