Pepper's Chicken Fiasco!

• Originality: What is original about your game? You play as a dog trying to grab bones and avoid chocolate (chocolate kills dogs) dropped by a "flying" chicken.
• Technical Merit: What is interesting about your game technology? Dynamic object spawning
• Prototype Postmortem: What did you learn from this prototype? What was the easiest or hardest part of making it? Easiest: thinking of the concept Hardest: implementing it - I was overthinking dynamic spawning
• Prototype Assets: Did you make your prototype assets from scratch? Did you borrow them? Cite your sources here.
  • Art by Anna Rose Chi - a student at RISD: Anna Rose portfolio
  • Music sampled from Masayoshi Takanaka ‎– An Insatiable High LP 1977
  • Tween example used for rotation: tween link
  • Space invaders example used for sprite groups and dynamic spawning: space invaders link
  • Bouncing example used to implement bouncing off world bounds: bouncing link
• Prototype Closest Other Game: It kind of resembles space invaders.
• High Concept: You play as a doggo named Pepper! There's a chicken above you and it's throwin' out bones and chocolates! Dodge the chocolates and grab the bones!!
• Theme: Non sequitur
• Mandated Variety: Input: keyboard Randomness: a lot of randomness Play styles: achiever Genre: side-scroller
• Prototype Goal: Multiple sprite spawning and sprite collision
• Player Experience Goals: Tomfoolery!
• Gameplay: Use the arrow keys to move! Dodge the chocolates; they kill dogs! Run into the bones!
• Strategies: Players would be wise to keep their eyes on the chicken and even tail it as items spawn from the chicken.
• Story/Setting/Premise: The game is pretty abstract. There is no real story or character development in any sense. It's however you interpret a chicken laying bones and chocolates that a dog has to intercept or avoid. Mayhaps you see the chicken as a villain, but is it really? There is no one story, and player perspective is key to the narrative of this game.
• Target Audience: Casual players that want to play an easy to pick up and put down game to kill time.
• Play Time: There is no (winning) end game, so it can be as long/short as you want.