It’s almost 2017, so I decided to make a list of my 4 favorite Arduboy games/apps that have come out so far this year! (These are in no particular order.) Feel free to add in your own!
Very fun, endless game that’s easy to pick up and play. Has cute graphics as well as some simple sound effects. It has a high score system but also remembers how long you’ve played.
Very cool app that can turn your Arduboy into a gamepad or keyboard to connect to your PC or console with a USB cable. Very easy to set up a new layout and save it. I’ve used this to play some games on my PC.
Another Team A.R.G. game that, of course, has beautiful graphics, fun gameplay, as well a nostalgic feel. Many built-in levels and high scores make this game great.
Very simple reacreation of a 2048 game for the Arduboy. The graphics are scaled nicely and the animation is smooth. Some games take very long so a lot of time can be spent with this one!
I think it would be cool if we had a bank of random words/topics and your game has to creatively use at least one of those words/topics as a main part of its gameplay.
Hah, I like something based on that idea but it wouldn’t necessarily be a level playing field since I would imagine some users would get something easier or more fun to implement? Maybe if you were allowed to re-roll a few times?
Or maybe we could publish a certain set of like 3 to 5 ideas and people could chose one?
Or maybe just even one topic? Like, racing game?
But I like the idea. The Nyan Cat challenge was pretty awesome but nobody actually finished making a game!
My idea would be a bank of words than all devs could choose from. Each dev would be able to pick and choose from a seemingly random bank of words. We could encourage them to mix and match as many of them as they could.
For instance, an example word bank could be…
Stapler
Gnome
Crown
Coconut
Bowl
Eagle
Maybe they could make a bowling game where you knock over gnomes instead of bowling pins. Meanwhile, someone could make a game where you’re an eagle that has to dodge falling coconuts.
Meanwhile, someone could make a game where you’re an eagle that has to dodge falling coconuts.
