Starship shooter

Game submission for Flutter Flame Game Jam 2023.

Instructions

• Draw new cards from the pile
• Drag them to your 4 spot next to your player
• When both player is ready, end the turn
• Repeat until boredom hits

Description

This is the first time I actually make a game that is playable.

I been wanting to learn more Flutter and got insipired by the Game Jam to do something over the weekend. To challenge myself not to make everything good/perfect and instead try to push my own limits of simply making something playable that is also fun.

The game type has changed drastically over the course of this weekend, it started off as a Starship shooter game and ended up being a multiplayer turn based game where the game style is inspired by Hot & Cold.

The end result was inspired by a game we have at the office which is a multiplayer turn based card game where you control a robot and have to get to the end, but you are also two players so depending on what your opponent do and random events that can occur you have to think how to move the robot.

We play it on a large touch TV that is laying flat on a table, so my inspiration on the UI was something similar we you would stand on different sides of the TV and have your cards, player, health relative to where you are.

The biggest challenge of all this was just to get a playable game at the end of the Game Jam which I succeded. I tend to strive for quite a high standard when I program but I wanted to challenge myself to not get stuck in that a game has to be perfect.

There was also some Game Jam rules that I wanted to try and follow as much as possible, the theme of the Game Jam was Hot & Cold which I tried to interpret by having a Hot & Cold themed side.

The limitation however was harder, I was very focused on just getting things to work that I didn't really focus on the limitation part, but I tried to limit the amount of single button input, but it's a bit of stretch there is only 1 "button" but the game works by you clicking/dragging the cards which can still be interpreted as a input.

But it was very fun regardless.

Big thanks to https://cazwolf.itch.io/caz-pixel-free for providing a free pack that I could use towards the end to make the game a bit prettier.

Also want to throw a shoutout to Flutter Flame Engine https://flame-engine.org/ and also Very Good Ventures, I used their starter template to get a base to work from with Flutter.

The code is available on my github page if interested: https://github.com/tryy3/flutter-game-jam-2023