Fun fact about me, I suck at programming.
Back in school, I actually took a class on basic HTML programming with the use of a little Java I think. But that was about 3 years ago and I ended up spending my time in the class playing Cookie Clicker. I eventually got caught by my teacher but in my defense, it was an incredibly boring class.
The thing about coding is that if you get one thing wrong, the whole code is fucked. You have to scramble for ideas on how to fix that one tiny bug. And no, I’m not frustrated at all. What? I’m totally not sleep-deprived too.
Ahem. Anyways. I have 0 knowledge in coding things but even then, I decided to make a game because why the hell not. I ended up studying up on the basics of HTML on freecodecamp which I highly recommend. I didn’t finish the course yet but I figured out enough to start coding some extra stuff like implementing images into my game.
I used the engine(?) twine which is a text-based adventure game creator-thingy. I don’t know how to explain it but like picture those retro black and white text-adventures. It’s basically that but a base to create your own story.
It was honestly pretty easy to write the story into twine. It was more so the fancy stuffs that were difficult to figure out. For images I used the default : <img src= “Your link”> and sourced my images on this blog. Music was trickier. I literally burst out crying at 3am because I was so frustrated.
Eventually, I figured it out with the help of holy grail, lord and savior: https://twinelab.net/harlowe-audio/#/ and http://twinery.org/questions/60683/how-do-you-create-continuous-background-music-in-harlowe-3-0.
When in doubt, slap a chunk of code together and pray for the best.
Now, boring stuff aside, you’re probably wondering about the game I created. Honestly, I don’t think it’s a show stopper, particularly unique game. It’s very obviously amateurish and that’s fine. I’m learning along the way and to be fair, I wanted to try something similar to a dating sim.
Here it is! If you’re interested to play it, go ahead and click the link that will send you to my itch.io site. It runs on browser so if you’re on mobile, switch the chrome setting to desktop view.
https://mishatventures.itch.io/usagi
If you like it or want to support me to make more games, feel free to donate. I will be really grateful. Thanks for reading! :))
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