PotatoRun

The final project is finally over! This final project had a longer period than several previous elaboration projects, so I had more time to finish a slightly larger thing. I really liked the game mechanics of my project, it was simple and effective at the same time; in addition, because it was a game where players fought each other, it was highly replayable and could generate a lot of fun. In terms of development, this project was definitely a practical exercise of what I learned throughout the semester. I felt happy using most of the basic GameMaker content in this project, and I also experimented with rendering modes, color channels, and other things that change the graphics to create masks, filters, etc. Most of the graphics in the game were done manually with draw and draw_gui, and using these two functions allowed for more control over the drawing. I refactored the code once during the process of going from prototype to full game. These made the code much clearer and more efficient. The player join and character selection pages were also added during the refactoring process. The new code is now modular and can easily be moved to other games. Overall, this project was the perfect ending to the end of project with gamemaker studio. Although I did it all by myself, the game's graphics were effectively increased with the help of some tools and assets. Some juicy parts need to be improved: although there are already screen vibrations and particle effects now, I want to make it feel better in the future. Overall, I'm satisfied with this project and I'm looking forward to next semester's intermediate game dev course.