Alakajam is a relatively new game jam based on the Ludum Dare formula. You get one weekend to build a game from scratch, without using any premade assets.
This is the second part of this postmortem. Catch up on the first part here.
Sunday morning: controls and gameplay We have fire, we have buckets of water, we can get the buckets to the fire… now what?
This weekend was the third instalment of the Alakajam! game jam. I was really happy about the shortlist of potential themes, so I knew this was going to be a fun one.
As an indie game developer, I find that it’s important to invest time to get to know your tools really well, so you can make the most out of them with the least amount of time.
Mixium is a puzzle game in which you mix liquids to achieve a particular ratio. The trouble is: your beakers don’t have any scale on them, so you can only fill them to the brim or empty them into a larger beaker.