Version 0.9 working game


The initial version of a playable game built in a couple of days for the Seaside Game Jam developed with TIC-80.

As per normal I struggled at first to come up with a game play idea, I am ok at coding and graphics but often don't enter a jam cos I can't think of basic game mechanic. This time I started by drawing some characters that would be at the seaside, drawing the crab gave me the idea of a parent crab trying to keep control of their babies and avoiding getting caught by a seagull.

Had some trouble with the balance of difficulty but once I thought of the baby crabs tunnelling away from the rock pool and appearing randomly along the beach rather than just jumping out of the rock pool it seemed to work.

I might add some others based on feedback but my to do list is currently:

add high score feature
add some animations
add sound 
show the seagull carrying a baby crab if it catches one
add the controls to the startup text
add the option to play again after game over

Files

crabs.zip Play in browser
Jun 11, 2022
crabs.tic 31 kB
Jun 11, 2022

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Awesome retro graphics! And so cute character!