Arcade Style Physics Monkey Game



Well here's a little progress report on what I am working on. Over the last few months, I have been playing with and learning all the Android quirks, while posting here (as you may see from my previous entries). While doing this I have been active in creating an Android game in my free moments with a pretty simple but fun premise.

  •  Throw projectiles at enemies and kill them 
  • Clear all enemies to end level or free Monkey friend
  • Perhaps avoid hitting some objects (evil monkey, some enemies that multiply if hit ;) )
  • Clear certain blocks to find hidden goodies
  • Obtain all objectives to earn all full credit for level (Bananas? Stars? Dentures? )











Projectiles will be stupid fun, like poop, numbchucks, bombs, kittens, skulls, shoes and anything else I can think up.  I'll make the physics different on each one and try to tie it to the level objectives. 




Angry Birds Clone?


No no, not really.  I really want to get back to the quick play arcade roots with this game.  I want fast paced objectives and decent challenge.  I find Angry birds and all that fun, but quickly too slow and I lose sight of the objectives since the stars don't really have any concreted meaning to me.  Why 2 instead of 3, why 1 what did I do to earn 1 star?  I really never have figured that out on Angry Birds.

This game will have CLEAR goals. The goals will be fast, challenging and I hope, very fun!

So far I have a working framework on Android, graphics and physics (I am leveraging Box2D) as well as some basic goals.  I have a good amount of art completed but still have many more things to create.

I still have a long way to go, many more features add and level editor to tighten up, but I am confident if I have fun playing it, you will too.  And that's my only goal  :)

Comments

  1. AnonymousJune 28, 2014 at 7:47 PM

    Hi. Can I used your graphics for a game that I'm making?

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  2. Kyle LuceJune 28, 2014 at 7:56 PM

    Hi Could you direct message me from Google plus or email? It should be OK, but I need to make sure it doesn't look exactly like the game I am coming out with called Hoarder Monkey (see on Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/hoardermonkey

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